Recording my music video

 Hi readers, I wanted to share the process of recording my videos and clips for the my music video. 

In constructing my music video, I deliberately utilised archival footage captured on my personal mobile phone to enhance the authenticity and emotional resonance of the narrative. By incorporating pre-existing, non-staged clips, I was able to employ a bricolage technique, assembling fragments of real memories to create a rich tapestry of nostalgia. This decision aligns with the conventions of postmodern media, particularly in the use of found footage to blur the boundaries between reality and representation. The mobile phone footage acts as a diegetic artefact within the text, grounding the narrative in lived experience and offering verisimilitude that staged re-enactments could not achieve. Moreover, the use of handheld, low-resolution visuals lends the product a documentary-style aesthetic, supporting the preferred reading that this music video is an intimate, personal reflection rather than a manufactured media construct. Thus, the intertextual reference to real-life documentation strengthens the polysemic nature of the text, allowing audiences to engage with the theme of memory and loss on a deeply personal level.

I used my phone and my friends phones are also in use as these are my old memories from the past. 

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