AICE Media Studies

CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTIO How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?      Most people think skateboarding is a bad thing. Lots of people think that skateboarding is a hard thing to master. They think people who skateboard are lazy! However, I think differently. I think skateboarding reflects peace and adventure. Skateboarding reflects adventure because you can skate to wherever you like. I feel really independent, confident, and capable when I skateboard.      Skateboarding for me has helped me learn how to keep trying even when I failed at first. It was something I could do alone or with other people. It taught me to be willing to make mistakes in front of other people. Skateboarding is traditionally associated with punk or rock music. My music video is centered around getting people interested in skateboarding; but also in hip hop music. Lupe Fiasco was doing this too when he made this awesome song. It worked! Over time

  I enjoyed making this music video I hope you do too

FINISHING MY MUSIC VIDEO      I want to tell you that I enjoyed making this music video.  I wasn't finished yet!        It was pretty cool to go back through all of those old pictures and movies of me learning to skateboard when I was little.  I asked my family to go through their phones and make sure they had given me all of the videos that I might be able to put into the video.  I even texted a friend that used to go to the skateboard park with me and asked him to find out from his Mom if she had any more videos of us from back then.      I listened to the song, 'Kick Push,' I am using a few more times.  I slowed the song down and studied the lyrics.        I thought about which shots would go best with the lyrics.  I played all of the videos and looked at all the pictures and tried to figure out which ones would work best.      I had a friend come over and look at all of the pictures and videos to get her opinion about which videos were best with the song.      I cut som