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Lights camera action

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 Welcome back glad you could come back and join our ending stride. This weekend we made the homestretch. I finished filming. It's as plain and simple as that we have officially finished filming. We have yet to check over the footage but made quality takes this weekend. Spots all round the city for our best day of our lives. We didn't make it into a project type filming time, we put effort and fun into our videos. I got great quality and perfect shots to match the beats and rhythm of our video. It syncs perfect. I feel like it doesn't seem like a kid produced video it is professional and I love that. I used props and scenary to escalate our production. Our journey has changed significantly. We were planning on totally different outcomes and ways to even film in the first place. We now have great cameras good lighting good movement shots. We have the appearance down. I've learned even more about filming in this project. From begining to end has been a rollercoaster of lea...

Beauty of progress

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Welcome back to our beautiful project progression. Today we have done some extensive filming at mutliple scenes. I went wakeboarding with David to get good water shots for the video. It signifies a cool great day just like we want it to be. I looked into cool editing tricks for moving videos. Found plenty of cool things to do after we finish filming. But, other than that not much going on until I film with my team this weekend. My editing journey has been progressing and here is how its gone.   I undertook the journey of learning to edit my music video, and it was challenging but rewarding. As I dove into video editing, I became very entertained by using editing software, exploring its various tools and functions. Experimentation with transitions, effects, and color grading became a huge factor is my video. Maintaining consistency in the video's style and mood was a priority, and I learned to sync the visuals with the music, ensuring that every beat and lyric matched nicely. This p...

Path to perfection

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 My current engagement in the production of my music video has been strong recently. The journey has been given time and effort from me and I hope its paying off. However, like many creative projects, I've faced several bumps along the way. Unpredictable weather conditions threw a wrench into our outdoor shooting plans, requiring us to adapt on the spot to these unexpected challenges. To keep the project on track, I had to redo the shooting schedule, make backup plans with group, and finally rework our plan. Ive still been quite researched. We adapted by shifting our focus to shooting some scenes indoors, making the most of controlled environments. Achieving the right lighting setup became a critical aspect of the indoor shoots.Like in the grocery store a scene of our video had good lighting. A significant part of the process involved coordinating with the talented actors of my group mates, we discussed how each of us would role our scenes. Naturally, we encountered a few audio p...

In the making

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 Welcome back to my production in our music video project! These last few days have been a workload I have been researching how my group can work with this cold weather. I would still like to see cool views and a nice summer vibe. But, with this weather I may have to find an alternative. My original idea was beach, jetskies, and sunny days. Well right about now those aren't looking good. Outside it feels like a winter snowy day with snowboarding and snowball fights. Our song I chose for a reason to feel like an upbeat and great summer day story. I will find a way to work around it and keep my original idea. It felt fun outgoing and a cool production. It still will of course be one but, I have researched alternative ways. I think we should still stick with our theme. Sure waters cold suns not baking out. But the main goal is to have the "best day of my life." Smiles, sunsets, fun, and sun. A great theme for this song. I want cinematic and beautiful for a song perfectly cho...

Journey in our production

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 Welcome back to our beauitful blog. We have previously gave our storyboard on a sort of layed out simplified way of how are project will go. We gave 12 slides/boxes that each have a scene in it. Under we described what is going on and why its significant. This gives you guys good insight and my group great insight for how we will run the show. I personally have been very into and interested in our music video as iv'e researched well when we picked our songs and I have communicated well with my partners. We have already discussed scenes and props we will use in filming. Me and my group are already excited to get a head start on this music video. To me this is an important project it highlights our first music focussed video shoot where we will make a music video instead of more about our lives. I like the scenary aspect of what my group is doing and the ideas I have put together to accelerate our project. I took quite a bit of time looking for our song. Which sounds over doing it b...

Storyboard for my music video

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  In scene one, we establish our video with david waking up in the morning. Scene two we cut to conner waking up this is our introduction scenes it presents our actors and introduces what is about to go down. In scene three david makes his getting ready for our song the best day of their lives but in real life. scene four conner is getting up and ready for the day making his bed as well. Scene five they call each other about to set up our journey of a the best day of our lives. Scene six they start at the beach, Scene seven they go jetskiing these scenes highlight great times as it flows with the mood and tone of the song. They then in scene 8 explore galleria mall but have a big entrance shot scene to continue the fun. In scene 9 they run home as their day is coming to an end. In scene ten they are eating dinner rapping upthe ending of the song about to see the ending. In scene eleven they are climbing on the roof as the song slows down and in scene twelve they see the sun set on ...

Planning blog

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  Song Title  Central to every music video is the song. The heartbeat that gives life to the visuals. "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors is our muse, with the optimistic energy, and upbeat spirit. The song, which acts as a testament to seizing the day and making the most out of life's adventures, serves as our guiding star in this journey. Props Props can be the make or break of a music video, enhancing the storyline and amplifying the video's narrative. Drawing from the upbeat vibes of "Best Day of My Life", we plan on recreating "the perfect day". We plan on doing this by using props such as a phone, to represent getting text by your friend to hang out, a jet-ski to represent hanging out with that friend, and weights like dumbbells' and barbells to show us working out with that friend. All of these props are going to be used and aligned with the song to portray a "perfect day/weekend" with friends. Costumes Dressing the part ...

Research blog

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    When it came down to the choice of music, we had to analyze their video on its own and music that is similar to its theme and genre. 1. Best Day Of My Life - American Authors  Cams- wide shot, close up, over the shoulder, medium close up Editing- High use of cutaway between music playing and guys story, eye line match, jump cut Sound- non-diegetic sound while music is playing over story, dialogue at end of video, diegetic when guys are singing together Mis En Scene- prop of beer, normal man costume, monster bear costume, script of lyrics, tattoo, acting at bar, playing basketball 2. Scream & Shout ft. Britney Spears - will i am Cams- medium close up, medium long shot, zoom, tracking shot, close up, wide shot Editing- Fade in, fade out, eye line match, insert of britney, cross cutting for dancers Sound- non diegetic beats, diegetic singing, voiceover when voice is playing but not on screen,  Mis En Scene- costume of dresses/ party attire, costume of ...

Group blog

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 Hello and welcome back. Now that you know all about me we can get into my group and all about us and our journey. I am working with Conner cleary and David Ingber two students in my Aice Media studies class. I have been friends with them since elementry and all went to middle school and now highschool together. I choose to work with them because we all get along have good chemistry and live close. We chose between a top three songs, scream and shout, you belong with me, and best day of my life. We looked at scream and shout first. It has a reputable reputation as a very strong flowing song that suits well with a music video. Except It is explicit which was a heartbraker. So we went to you belong with me a song by taylor swift that is a very girlhood song. It is a very a chill vibe type of song that works well with many genres and our main idea of a video. But it just wasn't right for the group. We ended up choosing best day of my life because this beat goes beautifully with our th...

Intro Blog

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Hello, thanks for stopping by and reading my blog today we start a project and I am here to tell you a little bit about me. I love baseball, training, and hanging out with friends. I am very out going and play mutliple sports now and as I grew up. Im excited for my future and growth while learning to grow up. I have blonde hair, light blue eyes and a skinny but tall type of build. On school days I like keeping it chill while on weekends I like to get out and hangout with friends. I like doing homework at night it keeps my day productive for practices and personal time while also having no where else to go while doing homework at night. My hobbies are baseball, video games, sometimes playing football or pickup basketball. My family is a small inner circle with a lot of spiratic endings. It is just me and my mom and dad but a big outter family of 8 grandchildren. We like to have little gatherings most sundays like when we were all younger. School has progressivly gotten more difficult bu...