AICE Media Studies

Critical Creative Reflection Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YEDMvUEZyVl7bJGcsEnShlsHK1IWyDk9ncSf9Z7FIy8/edit 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? I chose to do my music video for the song Counting Stars by OneRepublic. I stuck to the conventions of the folk pop and pop rock genres with my video. In the video for “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction, the setting is the beach, and you see the band members hanging out on the beach and singing. Likewise, in the video for “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” by Shawn Mendes, one of the settings was him running outside through Paris. I also chose to use an outdoor setting for most of my video, but I chose to do mine in a park with lots of nature. I chose this park because it has a lot of vines in it, and I wanted that to go with the line of the song that said, “I see this life like a swinging vine”. In the videos that I researched, they moved between a few dif...

I chose to do my music video to the song Counting Stars by OneRepublic. I hope you like it!

Counting Stars by OneRepublic Today I finished editing my video. I started by converting the audio tracks from a video to just audio so that the video wouldn’t be too large of a file. Then I downloaded a copy of my video to review it. I went through it a few times and made notes about what needed to be fixed. I looked for places where the words didn’t quite line up with my lips. I also looked for places where there was a bad edit and I needed to make the video a little shorter or a little longer. I also looked for places where I needed to add transitions. Then I went back into Microsoft ClipChamp and started making those adjustments. The first thing I did was to add more time showing a sky full of stars to cover up some of the video that I really didn’t need because there weren’t any lyrics in that part. To do that, I had to cut the video that was there at the end of the lyrics, delete the extra video and then extend the photo to fill the space. The next thing I did, was to fix t...