New project, new group member

 Recently, we have started a new project in my class. We are going to be filming a music video for a song. We were told to pick a group for this project consisting of at most 4 people. I decided to work with Aja M again from the commercial group project because we worked very well together. We chose to work together again because we had very good chemistry in the first project. She brings a more technological side to the project. While I bring more of an artistic side. One thing that has changed is we both decided to bring a new member in the group! Now we have become a group of 3 because we thought it would be very helpful to have more people working on this project. We brought in our mutual friend Ashley S. We thought that it would be useful to have another person acting for the music video and not just 2 people.  Ashley can help a lot with the production and she is good at editing. Although Aja is also good at editing, it would be useful to have another good editor because there will be more shots to edit than the commercial project. Next as a group we had to choose a song to shoot the music video on. Ashley gave many options with a different feel to each song. However, Aja and I opted to look for different songs as we thought the songs she chose would be difficult to film for. We searched through many options including some Doja Cat songs and Harry Styles, but it was difficult to find a filming idea for their songs. We narrowed it down to two songs that we thought we would do well with. These two songs were Cake By The Ocean by Dnce and Cheap Thrills by Sia featuring Sean Paul. As a group of 3 we decided to go with Cheap Thrills by Sia featuring Sean Paul because a filming idea for this song immediately appeared in our heads.  

Sia's remix of 'Cheap Thrills' is proof that Sean Paul improves everything


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