Conventions

            Some things I learned from the commercial was that I need to make more time to actually do the things I need to do. I learned that I am not the best editor, but I will try my hardest to make my music video one to remember (in a good way). Some things I want to learn is how to actually edit good on the editing app. Now that we have a new assignment, what I want to do better is editing. Shooting and dumping the footage is the easiest part. Although editing sounds fun and easy, it does get difficult and it was pretty difficult during our last project. But this time, I want to practice a lot with the different buttons that are on the actual app.
             The song I am doing is 7 rings by Ariana Grande. When I looked up the genre for her music, they gave me a lot of different genres. She releases a lot of different songs, so the genre for her music really varies on the song. The genres are, Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B/Soul, Teen pop, Soul music, Rhythm and blues, etc. The reason why I picked this song for my project, was because I could not really find anything else. Although there are a lot of songs out there, most of them have cuss words and talk about drugs and sex. But main reason why I picked this song, is because I like the beat and rhythm, and making a music video to this song will not be that hard.
            While looking for other videos like this one, they all are the same in a way. Most of them are just dance videos. Ariana's original video is kind of a music video, but she is in a mansion with her friends, and they are just chilling. Some angles they use are, close-up, high angles, and long shots. The camera that are used in the video are very good too. The movements that I see are tracking shots, tilt, and zoom. The shots that seem to be used in this video, is a crane shot, and a stock shot. The crane shot I believe is something they used because towards the beginning, the camera was very high, and facing downwards towards the people. When it comes to CLAMPS, C: the costumes used are very "skin revealing". They had furry coats and swimsuit like clothing on. L: The lighting throughout the video was dimmed, but had a pink light around the corners of the camera to make everything look pink. A: the actors throughout the video were boys and girls. They all knew the dance, although some were obviously just extras. M: the makeup was very dramatic and very pink. The whole video was just pink .P: The props throughout the video were champagne bottles and expensive items. S: The setting in the video was a mansion like I mentioned earlier. It seems like they were making themselves look rich and worth a lot of money with the costumes, and props and setting.