AICE Media Studies

  How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? - The music video my group and I produced coneys various different conventions compared to other films that commonly do not. The video used conventions such as a musical, family, and comedy. The video does not generally represent any issues but it does in fact show that during the holiday times people are able to come together and enjoy their time collectively.  2. How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real media text? -It engages with audiences by telling a joyous story of a holidays everyone knows and loves. The video would be able to be shown during holiday times when people would like a laugh and smile while also wanting to sing along to a song everyone once again knows and loves.  3.  How did your production skills develop throughout this project? - Compared to the last project and from the beginning of this project ...

Hey guys! It's me Anayah! This is the final product of our music video and I'm so excited to share it with you guys! We had so much fun filming and putting everything together. I would definitely work with this amazing group again. I hope it is as enjoyed by you guys as it was by us. 

 Hey guys! It’s Anayah and welcome back to my blog! My group and I’s music video is so close to being done! All it is missing is a few final touches. I along with the rest of the team want to make sure the video is perfect. I genuinely do believe everyone that watches it will have a fun time. Robert is the main person working very hard making sure that all the editing is the best it can be! From cool transitions to different angles it truly shows how much we enjoyed this whole process. Even though there were some stressful moments i’m happy to say we were able to get past them.  We were able to still get our work done while having fun! This music video truly does show happiness and the christmas spirit! I think that’s why I love this video so much! Like I said in my other blogs I am quite sad I couldn’t help more in the filming process.  Unfortunately I couldn’t but that’s okay. In the end it all came together amazing! I could not have asked for better people to take the ...

  Hey guys! It’s anayah and welcome back to another blog! The music video is almost done! I’m so excited for everyone to see it! This week has been pretty stressful. I have been trying to catch up with all my school work. Every time I think i’m done more work comes up! The main class I have been struggling in is math. I’ve been so focused on getting my math grade up that I didn’t realize I was missing work for a couple other classes. In english i’m not very caught up but i’m trying my best before midterms week. On Friday I have a test in my marine biology class and I’m pretty nervous. Although I know a lot of the information it’s a very big factor in whether I pass the class or not I think the only other class I feel not so confident in is European history. My original teacher left so we were left with no instruction for a while. Now that we have a new teacher there is a lot of work to be done. Usually I would be okay with that but since I haven’t learned much due to my previous te...

Hey guys! It's Anayah and welcome back to my blog! In todays blog there's not much that I have to talk about. After filming and sorting everything out it's really just a waiting game. At this point I am waiting for Robert to finish editing everything and putting the whole video together. Throughout these past couple days the only thing I have been focused on are my blogs! Our group has been keeping in touch making sure everybody is on top of their work. I have been working hard making sure I'm on top of all of my other work in order to ensure that I am able to produce the best blogs. It's kind of difficult doing the video and all of these blogs at this point in the year. That's because next week is midterms week. Midterms week is really stressful with all the tests that have to be taken. Filming last week and editing this week was the best idea because I really don't think the work would have gotten done if it was next week. After school I don't have the...

 Hey guys! It's Anayah and welcome back to my blog! In today's blog I'm going to give a little background information on the song we chose and why we chose it. The song my group and I chose is "Santa Clause is coming to town" by the Jackson 5. The group is no longer together but when they were they were amazing! The five members were all apart of the Jackson family. They were all brothers. The members were Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Marlon Jackson, and Jackie Jackson. The group started up in Indiana in the year 1964. The band was together for over 25 years. They broke up when Michael Jackson left the group and decided to pursue his solo career. They are an iconic group that made even more iconic music! My group and I chose "Santa Clause is coming to town" because it is a staple Christmas song that everybody loves. The song genuinely brings happy vibes and we wanted to show that in our music video. The actors made sure...

 Hey guys! It's Anayah and welcome back to my blog! Yesterday we filmed our music video! Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it while we were actually filming. I wasn't able to make it due to family issues, but I really wished I could be there! Since I wasn't able to be there we found a couple of people that were willing to help us film. Billy wasn't able to make it either so Hunter and Robert really made a lot of things happen. We brought in five extra people to help film. The extra people along with Hunter were the main actors while Robert filmed. Like I said in the last blog they were all supposed to meet at 1:30 but the time got pushed back. While they were filming they went to different parts of the mall. A lot of the filming took place in the middle of the mall in front of the big Christmas tree. A lot of parts were also recorded inside of Macy's. The vision from the storyboard we made really came to life! From all the videos I saw I could truly see that e...

 Hey guys! It’s Anayah and welcome back to my blog! Today is finally the day that we start filming our christmas music video. We’ve been planning on filming for a little while but the process got pushed back a couple of times. Due to Hunter’s sports schedule it makes it quite difficult to film during the week. With that, that limited us to only the weekends. The weekends were also a little tricky. Robert, our group’s videographer works long hours during the weekend so that also presented to be an issue. We all finally decided on this weekend and that we would go and film on Sunday. When we all decided on filming at Galleria mall we didn’t realize that it wasn’t the most convenient to everyone. Once it got closer to the filming day we realized that it’s kind of far from robert. In the end we figured it out and simply compromised on the filming time. We were supposed to start filming at 1:30 but it got pushed back to 2:15. We got a couple of extra actors to help out in our video. Eve...