Blog reflection questions week 1

-My initial ideas for my portfolio, is to do something out of my comfort zone. My reason for this, is due to the fact i would like to explore another type of music genre that i can conform to based on contextual information. I particularly want to have a nuanced understanding regarding the codes and conventions needed to create a successful music video. Ideally, i have decided to do a grime/rap video, as it compliments the environment i am situated in as well as broadening my knowledge on other music genres.
Furthermore, i feel that working with Johnson and Cherly encourage the ideology on doing a grime music video, based on the fact that they are reliable, determined and hard working students who will help to bring the best of me. Working with them also helps me to take on constructive criticism as a ploy to develop and improve the final production. The implementation of these two other members promotes ideas that i may not have thought of which again, only helps to develop the music video positively.
My main hope, is to pull of a really successful music video that helps to encourage students that would be in my position in years to come. As well as encouraging them, i also hope to inspire them to create more music videos. Ideally, i would like to create the music video to get a high grade, but also to show that with limited resources a group of teenage media students can create something really good and relatable to those of the same age group.
However, there will always be fears and one major one is originality. I fear, that there is such little space in the market for something new and i fear that my media group may not be willing to put in the amount of research in order to create something really original. Furthermore, if we do manage to do something that hasn't been done before, we may have to deal with the problem of discontent all together from the audience. That is the major issue with originality, as it has the potential to work really well but at the same time to not work in general.
At the end of the music video, i hope to reflect on the work i have done with my partners finding both the positives and negatives within the chosen song. Of course, as a group we would still need to determine and understand what song we will be using within our groups. The decision would be made, through close analysis of all the songs that we had individually chosen. Through the analysis of the songs, we would be able to infer what one suits our groups the best. Particularly based on whether the genres differ from one another. Fortunately, we have two similar songs in our group, with the same genre meaning we could easily find positive and negative correlations between both of them.