AICE Media Studies Blog

Over the Thanksgiving break me and my group decided it would be a good time to film. The original plan was to film the entire music video over the break throughout one day. However, there was a large change in plans. One of our group mates, Julie, was unable to film over the break. The reason she was unable to film was that she had practice with her JROTC in order to perform at the local Dolphins football game. Because of this we were down one group member and couldn't film half our shots. Julie was the one in charge of driving our group to the beach so without her I couldn't go there. Because of this, I could not film any of the beach scenes, which were around half our planed scenes. Another big change was that I had one less person to act with and one less person to help film. Luckily, I was able to adapt and come up with a new plan. I decided to film all the airport scenes as those are easier to get to. The next change I had to make was to have Sean's dad come with us to

  Scene 1:   In the first scene we will be showing Julie’s phone. This shot will feature a  close  up  on her phone showing  her putting   directions  to the airport. The music would have already started at the start of the scene.   Scene 2:    In the second scene  we will show the car  driving  into the airport. We will zoom into the airport sign here.   Scene 3:   Sean walks out of the airport and the c amera  shows him from the feet up to his head using a tilt. The camera  then  transitions to an eye-level shot showing S ean looking around for  us.   Scene 4:   The car pulls up  into the  pickup  zone and  everyone  hugs/greets  Sean and   Julie puts the bag into the trunk. Shows picnic  basket .   Scene 5:   As we drive away from the  airport,  we pass the  Hollywood  Florida sign. When we get to  it  we zoom into it as we drive to show we are in fact in Hollywood like in the song.   Scene 6:   Scene 6 is shot at a high  angle,  and it shows us eating lunch. It shows the top of our

After  finishing  the  research,  we  have  decided the best theme for our music video is a pop song theme .  We decided that plan A is to do the pop song  “ Party  in   the  USA ” .   This was sung by Miley Cyrus  when she was  younger,  and it was in 2009 .   For  now,  we have  a long list  of props we plan to use .   We plan to start with a scene at  the Fort  Lauderdale Executive Airport .  There we will  do  a scene  where we  pick  up Sean from the airport .  We will be using a car and a suitcase as our props .  When he exits the airport Julie will put his bag in the trunk and then we will  do  a group hug welcoming  him as if we have not seen him in a long time .  When Julie puts the bag in the  trunk,  we will show that we have a picnic basket for lunch in the trunk .   Then  while driving back fro m the airport we will  have a scene of the three of us partying in the car, jamming out to some m usic .   We will drive to the beach and  have lunch from the picnic basket that was