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 Here is the creative critical reflection

Throughout the process of making this video, I learned many new techniques, and I also learned what I can work on for the future. Somethings that I learned while making the music video was how to use different filming techniques and camera shots to show the certain type of scene that we wanted to portray. For example, in the first shot where the character gets out of bed, we made sure to film it from being covered to it slowly filming up, to follow the characters movements. I also learned many different ways to edit a video that I will definitely use for future projects. This project has helped improve my filming skills and I hope to learn many more tips for filming.  I really enjoyed working on this project and it was really fun. I liked how we didn't have to pick a certain genre or specific song because I feel that it allowed us to be really creative on what how we wanted to do the music video on. My group and I all worked well together and I am really happy on how the video turn...

 During the editing process for my music video project, there where a couple things that I had to do in order to make the video look really. My group member Sofia did the majority of the editing, however, I still made some suggestions on editing. I feel like the best editing app, especially for using an iPhone to film, would be iMovie. iMovie has multiple ways you can put the videos together, and different ways to edit them. Sofia used cutie cuts to edit the video, but it still turned out good. I thought of the idea of meeting with my group during lunch so we could discuss how we wanted the music video to look. When I was filming the shots for the scene, I also made suggestions on ways we can cut the video or a certain spot that we can put it in. A good thing about our movie is while filming, my group was able to get most of the shots that we needed on the first try. This made it easy for the editing process because we wouldn't have to cut out too much. One problem that I ran into ...

 During the process of the creating the music video, I noticed that my group ran into a couple of problems. One issue is that it was hard to find a day that I was available to film. On Sunday December 5th, I had to plan to go over the one of my group members house, and the rest of the group would come over. However, one of the members could not make it, so the other person did not come either. I started to get worried that we where not going to be able to find another day to film, so I had the idea that me and my other group member would film the shots that we already took, but have me as the main character. This idea was more of a back up plan, just in case we ended up not having enough time to finish. I also wanted to make sure that the group member who is doing the majority of the editing will have enough time to edit the whole video. I ended up deciding that I did not want to film to whole video over again, and I just had to pray that we would be able to finish it on Tuesday. W...

 On Tuesday December 7th, I finished filming the remaining parts of the music video. Something that I found difficult during the filming project was finding the time that was available for everyone to film. I have dance on Mondays, work on Tuesdays, dance and piano on Wednesdays, and work on Thursday. Because I had something pretty much every day after school and so did my group members, it was very hard to find a day that I could film. Today was the only day that was going to work. Since I had work, I tried to get someone to cover for me so I wouldn't be running late and my group could have more time to film. However, no one was available to cover my shift, so I had to make everyone be really focused and not fool around so I wouldn't have to leave and not be finished filming. Luckily, I filmed all of the scenes that I needed to finish and I made it to work. I definitely enjoyed this day of filming a a bit better than the last one. The last day of filming, I found myself being ...

 On Wednesday November 24, I started filming for my music video. I met at my group members' house, and I started to get in my costume. My outfit for the video was a black shirt with a skirt, to go along with the preppy girl kind of look that I was going for. After I got ready, my group and I went to film the scenes that needed to be shot at a mall. I picked out the store that we need to go to to film the outfit scenes. This scene required fancier dresses and a nicer dressing room, and the store I picked out had all of those qualities. I made sure to pick out a nice dress that had a fluffy coat to match the typical "trying on outfits" scene that a lot of movies include. One of the dresses I picked out did not look good and didn't really fit me well either so I had to go find another dress that would work. After I filmed my scene, I was in a bit of a rush to get back home because I unfortunately had work after. I was unable to film all of the scenes that we needed, but ...