Research part 2

So I researched the artists I was suggested to look up. One of them was LSD. Their music videos are just trippy and have a lot of advanced editing and animation in them and their genre isn't rap, it's more upbeat. Their content isn't really what i'm going for with my music video but here's a link to one of their music videos.

Amine, however does fit in with my genre. I watched some of his music videos and it is similar to what I'm wanting to do. Some of his songs are based on girls, his possessions and such and that's basically what i'm going for in my music video. Here's one of his music videos

I searched up Amine's website and I think it's really cute and simple. It's cool because it's basically in an iphone format and it when you click on the site the screen tells you to click and then all these app icons pop up and one of his songs starts playing and you get little message notifications as if you were on your iphone. All the apps icons take you to his content such as his sound cloud, Instagram, youtube, contact information, or tour dates. His website is super creative, I like it. 

Group Meeting

So today we all gathered around and talked about what we are doing for our portfolio projects and everyone was able to give advice and throw in ideas. Luis and Jake are doing a short film based in a virtual reality. Some advice that was given to them was to not have so much dialogue between so many characters and to just `have dialogue between two people. Since you only have five minutes for the short film it was said that in their competition scene with the teens that they should just do the scene with one round instead of multiple rounds of them competing. The next person who talked about their project was Ana. She said that she basically had no idea what she wanted to do but everyone in class helped her out with an idea for her short film. Since Ana immigrated to the U.S everyone gave her the idea to do the short film on the process of her moving her. But instead of the film focusing on how she adjusted in her new school, it would be focused on the legal attributes that affected her through the immigration process. She was talking about this one scene where she wants her character to scream while she rides her bike, so it was suggested that she could use shots of wheels on other vehicles as symbolism. Mariana was the next person to speak about her project. Her idea for her short film was about a women who's husband dies and she sees a random man in a public place and he has all the qualities her husband had and basically seems like her husband except he's dead. We talked about how this story line can go in different ways such as the woman ends up being with the man who may have reincarnated through another person or maybe towards the end you see that she's just making up all this stuff about the man seeming like her husband to cope with her husband's death. It was now up to Mariana to how she was going to execute this idea. Jonathan is also doing a short film and he's choosing to do it on a gay love story. We suggested that instead of the characters actually speaking, there can be an internal dialogue that basically shows what they're thinking in their heads. It was also said that maybe there shouldn't be a 'happy' ending since in the real world, relationships aren't perfect. I was the last one to talk about my music video project and I asked for some advice for the marketing part of my project. It was suggested I could do a audio interview of my artist talking about what his song means and I was also given names of other artists to look at that have something similar to the rap genre I'm doing such as Amine and LSD.

Research

So I started to watch different rap music videos and I realized I really enjoy watching music videos that have cool effects/montages in them. For example, Travis Scott - Butterfly Effect Music video.

This music video has a lot of effects, different colors, sound bites and it's just overall so visually appealing and it's just also so much fun to watch. The video is really fast, the clips are always changing and the colors and overlays just really pop. Most of the video contains Travis rapping in different locations as well as portraying a rich life style. A lot of rappers go the route of lip syncing and showing off their possessions but I just feel like this video is just edited very well and it's exactly the kind of style I'd like to go for when I'm editing my music video. Overall to achieve this type of music video, not only do you need to plan out your shots well but you need to get very creative in the editing process. It's a good thing for me that I LOVE editing. Editing is my favorite part of the process when creating content and I'm so excited to see what I'm going to end up creating.

My Artist

So, initially, I was going to do my music video project on my friend Brandon. He makes a rap music and said he would be able to do this music video with me. However, he lives in North Carolina now. He did first tell me that he'd be able to ask off from work to come down to Florida and film with me but, he ended up telling me that it was best that I found someone else for this project since he didn't want to get himself into something if there was a chance he wouldn't be able to come to Florida. I was stressing out because I wasn't really close with anyone who made music. I did know of people but it wasn't like I talked to them. Thankfully, my Holocaust History teacher knew about my project and told me about a guy named Koree a week prior to Brandon bailing. My teacher had told me that it's always good to have a back up and since she knew I was stressing about the situation with Brandon, she told me Koree would be willing replace him if I needed him to. I did know who Koree was but only because I went to middle school with him, other than that, I never spoke to him. Koree is actually quite known for his music among other people in our school so I did already know he made music. He also makes rap music as well which was the genre I was initially going to do my music video on because of Brandon which is great. So I ended up dming him on Instagram and asking if he could be the artist I promote for my music video project and he said yes! I was so happy and relieved that I finally found someone I could do my project on and he seems to be excited to be apart of it. He does have an album out and I told him I'd get back to him on which song I'd like to do. To listen to one of his songs from his album Heart breaker just click here

Here's the dm between Koree and I. So relieved I have an artist for my music video !

Intro/ portfolio 2

Hello!

So this year I  decided to work on my Aice media A level portfolio project myself. I was initially going to work with my friend Mariana and do a short film, but in 3rd quarter when were were given the option to change groups and topics, Mariana decided to work with someone else so instead of working with another group and doing a short film, I chose to do a music promotion package by myself. Working alone definitely has its pros. I will be having full control over the creative process and planning. I am quite nervous because this is a big project and I did work on it with a group last year. But I have made multiple music videos before for my TV production class so I feel like I'm really comfortable with the process of making a music video.  Music videos are so much fun to make. Editing is something I love to do and I have a lot of experience with it. I feel like editing is a big part of creating a music video. The editing techniques have the capability of pulling in the viewer. When I grow up, making music videos for artists is something I definitely want to do.

I'll be taking you throughout the whole process of creating this music video and I'm really excited for the final result