Music Video

The second project we had for our AICE Media Studies class was a music video. We could choose any song as long as it was appropriate and we could work with anyone we wanted to in groups of up to four. Of course, I worked with the same group I had worked with for the commercial. It took us a lot of thinking, but we finally decided to use Rock Lobster by the B-52's for our song. We realized we could incorporate a lobster into the song and thought it would provide some humor. The next step we took was to make our storyboard. This time, I did the drawing with one of the other team members, even though I'm not the best at drawing, but I think I did pretty good. After all of our planning it was done, it was time for the most important part: filming. This had also proved to be the most difficult part. At the time, all four us were super busy with school, extracurricular activities, and family life. For example, it felt like every night I had band practice and the other members of my group had swimming practice (the other three are all on the swim team). We realized we were running out of time to film, as the deadline was approaching sooner and sooner. Finally, we all decided to skip our practices and film after school one day. We made this decision because this is a school assignment, and school work should come before extracurricular activities. After settling this out, we agreed on our shooting location. We knew we wanted to film at a beach in order to really incorporate the lobster theme into the music video. We decided to film at the first life guard post at Fort Lauderdale beach since we all live close to that area and since it is a public beach. This is when we ran into another problem though. One of our team members had to go out of town with his family the day we were supposed to film. This was such a big problem because he had our camera, tripod, and SD card, which were essentials for filming. We decided to still film because we couldn't reschedule at that point. Now we had to improvise, so we used my iPhone 8 to film the entire thing. This was very unusual and we wondered if it would even work, however it thankfully did. We didn't incorporate that many new types of shots into the film this time. They were mostly the same as in the commercial. The editing was also very minimal as well. All we did in that department was add the song Rock Lobster to our footage.