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My Pitch

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 Hello there again. To come up with a pitch for my film was one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done. COVID really sucks because I don’t want to put my family at risk by working with anyone or getting any outside cast. I had to come up with an idea that my mom can execute since my two other siblings are too young to play a part. Another reason this was stressful was because my mom looks older than the movie pitch idea I had in mind at first. At first I wanted to do a movie about “The It girl who is adored by the boys and envied by the girls who ended up dead. Who killed her? The list is long.” As you can tell, a woman in her late 30s isn’t going to convince anyone that’s she’s a high schooler. That was the reason that idea got trashed but without COVID, it could have been perfectly executed. I had a plan before taking this class that a friend and I would create a movie like that but this taught me to never plan to far in advance. If this was made in the early 2000s along with me
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Starting The Final Task

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 Hey there how are you, I see you stumbled upon my blog. Well since you’re here let me tell you about myself so that we’re not strangers. My name is Amerie Fowler and I’m a 17 year old female with pronouns her/she. I was born on an island off the cape of Massachusetts named Nantucket. It’s right next to Martha’s Vineyard but Nantucket is 10x better.I currently live in West Palm Beach when there’s no school but go back to Broward County with my dad when there is school.  I have three siblings that came into my life that came into my life after I was 10 so the age gap is huge. Can you imagine being as old as I am and having to explain why I can’t bring them every time I am out. I had my first job this summer on Nantucket since everyone around me had one and I also decided to have 2 jobs instead of one. In my free time which I rarely have, I like to travel around the world, work on my business, mediate with my daily yoga, and work on my nonprofit. My nonprofit and business are my babies t
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Creative Critical Reflection

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Creative Critical R eflection 1.  How does your video  use or challenge conventions AND  how does it represent social groups or issues? My music video to the song “Lockdown” by Koffee uses Reggae conventions throughout the whole thing. The reggae genre was made in Jamaica and that was the setting for my video. The location for a reggae video is commonly recorded on the island (Jamaica) or a similar location that gives the same island vibes. Another way it challenges reggae conventions is by being surrounded by nature. After my actor woke up and got ready for the day, they were always outside. it is rare to watch a raggae video and see the main person staying in the house. From running to travleing to a known landmark, my music video made the audience feel as if they are always outside. The next way it challeneges raggae conventions is by giving off a feel good “irie”, calm vibe. The point of the reggae genre is to bring everyone together. The beat is always soft and mellow. Due to this
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Music Video

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  For this music video, I had to go through 30 minutes' worth of footage. For some of the footage, I realized slo-mo wasn't the best option for them because I had to end up speeding it up. When I sped them up, I added transitions to make sure it doesn't look choppy. When filming I made sure I had different camera angles and movements. In the beginning, I started with a birds-eye view by standing on top of the bed. My actor was sleeping and I was hoping to get the alarm ringing in the back of the music but it did not. Fast forward to the running shots this was to put in multiple angles and give off a calm vibe. Running is associated with having a good routine and being on track to wellness. The whole morning routine was to bring the audience along with me on my Jamaica morning routine during the lockdown. If there was no lockdown as stated in the song, you would've seen multiple people out enjoying the Jamaica sun every morning. (10) Next on the journey is the forest. Th
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Final Filiming Blog About Second Scene

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Today is the day I film the second part of my music video. I’m proud of how everything came out and how much footage I got. I know when I edit the video it will give off the calm and peaceful vibes I was hoping to go with. I had to take school off since the car ride to the country ( Saint Elizabeth) was going to be far. Since school started this was the earliest I had to wake up to go somewhere and it was 5 am. After piling into the car and going on to our 4-hour journey I finally reached the Bamboo forest. The Bamboo trees are as tall as 4 average height males maybe even taller and they bend to create a tunnel or arch over the wide road. I drive the road every time I come to Jamaica to visit my family in the country and every single time I’m taken away by how beautiful it is. This passage goes on for about 40 minutes and underneath it, you have vendors selling food such as coconuts, pepper shrimp, fruit, peanuts, etc. To get the beauty of Jamaica I decided to film at a coconut vendor
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Editing blog for music video

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  Today was my last day for creating the music video. I went to the Bamboo Forest and I got more photos than I even needed. You never occurred to me that five seconds it’s really short so I can’t like 20 seconds worth of footage driving down the forest. After that, I drove some more but this time I filmed in slow Mo. I stopped at a local merchant's where I found her chopping up Coconuts. I knew I needed to film her because when it came to editing this would be perfect for the video. I got a close-up of the locals drinking out of the coconut and while editing I thought about putting myself back to empathize with the taste of fresh water. I have yet to find a sound that didn’t sound too fake like a cartoon but more natural. The locals were nice enough to let me film them and they even got a film of mine. During the editing session that I did today, I had to brighten the lighting because some of the shots came out not as I expected. I got a 360 of the forest but since cars are coming
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Filming Blog Music Video,

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  Filming Blog   Over thanksgiving break I was complicating if I should film. Due to it being a holiday season, Jamaica curfew started earlier so if I was to go on the road and film, I might take awhile to come home. If you are caught out during curfew you have to pay a fine which was raised o $51 US dollars since it is the holiday time. My house was filled with family who stayed the week because we haven’t seen them at all during the two months we been here. My mom also took this break as an opportunity to bring us sight seeing in Jamaica since we didn’t have school. During break I came down with something. My throat was sore, nose was stuffy, and every time I talked I got a headache. I got tested for COVID since I was going to be around people and did not want to containment my family. This had been my fifth COVID test and it came back negative. Don’t worry all my COVID tests before this one were to get approved to travel and we kept having to go back and do a new one since something
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