AICE Media Studies intro blog

 Making this commercial was definitely a learning experience. It was fun and interactive, yet I still learned. I was excited to make new friends too because I do not know anyone in my media class and I am really shy, so this project really pushed me out of of comfort zone. I like when I have to have a partner or be in a group for a class because it forces me to interact with my classmates and I always feel better after I have made friends. This honestly was not the best experience with my groupmates because two of them were not very nice, nor did they know how to cooperate with others or work in other people's creative ideas. I kind of just go with the flow so honestly I am not mad nor do I have hard feelings for those people and I forgive them for being like that to me because they were probably stressed but it is an essential skill to learn to cooperate with other people because no matter where you are, you will always need to work with a team. I believe that everything happens f

  1.      How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? My product challenges conventions because we used props such as pens and certain clothing to match our scenes and we had to think everything through to make it like a real movie, we even had to dress better on certain days or wear the same clothes to school so we could match and shoot the scenes. Each character had a job to do and if they weren’t there we had to either work with what we had or just film the scenes they were not included in. Spontaneous things happen and it makes you learn to improvise and be fast on your feet to think of solutions to your problems 2. How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real media text?   My product engages with audience because it has a little bit of humor while still getting the point across trying to sell the pen and show that it is smear proof. It demonstrates that everyone wants our pen

 For the last week I was sick so I was not in school. We have a group chat for our project where my group mates would tell me what was going on so I would not be completely clueless. I was not really on my phone because of how sick I was because I was like passing out and stuff so I was basically bed ridden. When I finally felt a bit better I tried to do some work but then I got sick again. Now I am finally better so I am writing my blog and my group is helping me. We were learning how to edit, all watching youtube videos on how to edit but we did not know how and it was not simple at all. We also tried many different apps and finally found a good one. I am thankful I did this project with a group because I would be clueless on my own. My group helped me so much. I do not know where I would be without them and every person is very smart. Being sick from school makes me feel as if I have been in a coma because I come back and everything has changed. I always miss important things so tha

 No one in my group knows how to edit which is extremely unfortunate. There is usually at least someone who knows how to do stuff with tech and I am never that person. I have tried to do stuff with tech but it is really confusing and miserable and hard. I hate my phone and internet and all things electronic as it is so the fact that I have to learn how to do all this pains me but maybe it will make me a tech person one day. I have never understood anything that has to do with electronics and it often takes a couple tries for me to understand. I still barely know how to use my social media apps and sometimes need guidance with those too. I really only use my phone for communication and music purposes which I think is better. My life becomes more simple when I only use it for those purposes plus it has been proven that social media is an extreme dopamine. My group and I are trying to watch youtube videos on editing to learn how and we are attempting but still do not really understand. I

 Today was an easy day to film because we did not have too much to film. We were just trying to clean some stuff up and film some other scenes again that needed to be perfected because our scenes looked good for the most part but then they were not the best that they could be. We wanted them to be at their full potential so we were trying to fix the little things that needed perfection. In some scenes the lighting or coloring would be off and in others we were accidentally making silly faces. Another flaw is that people would wear different outfits and they were supposed to be wearing the same ones to portray the same character. So we changed clothes and filmed them the way they should be. Today was relaxing because we did not have to be in the huge class of people and we got to go outside. We got to do our own thing while still getting work done. While we were filming, there was a bunch of other people who would walk passed us so I was making friends at the same time I was working. No

 Today we filmed and I did not have to be in any of the scenes. So I just helped film the scenes and came up with ideas on how to make it more creative. One of the security guards came out and helped us film some of our scenes too because he wanted to be in it. He was really funny and he helped us a lot by helping us think things through logically. It was so hot out and we were sweating. Some people in the group kept getting distracted or being bossy so that was really annoying. Especially the bossy part. Some people in my group were being mean too and they were complaining which was also annoying. I learned to not let it phase me and I kept going and tried not to say anything that would have started an argument. In the end we resolved most of the issues but my group is still kind of bossy and they are aggravated a lot. It is okay, this is teaching me to be cooperative and making me stronger and better at dealing with people. I cannot tell if they are joking or not when they are being