Learning about the CCR

 

        Last class, we were introduced to the concept of Creative Critical Reflection and learned a lot about what it will require of us. We'll have to answer four questions regarding our film opening and many specific aspects of it.

The four questions are:

1. How does your product use or challenge genre conventions and how does it represent social groups and issues?

2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

4. How did you integrate technologies (software, hardware, and online) technologies in this project?

        I've started to think about some of the answers to these questions already. For instance, I already know that the way we've integrated technology includes the use of our iPhones for filming, Google Docs as an organizational and research tool, Imovie, and potentially Capcut as our editing tools (we also plan to use sound databases when we get to the point of adding sound). Regarding representation, I would say that our opening could represent the unrealistic expectations placed on young women, regarding how they should look and act. Our character would be challenging these standards by changing her look to the opposite of what is expected of her and taking the unusual decision of faking her own death and leaving her hometown. 

        I still have to do some more research on genre and audience, but based on pre-existing knowledge I would say that my target audience would be teens and young adults due to that being the primary audience for drama and thrillers. Obviously, we haven't undergone a lot of development yet due to the short time we've been working on this project, but I could assume that the skills I will develop the most will definitely be editing and filming just because I have never been forced to do them on my own, or with just one other partner, which places more responsibility and therefore time to learn, on me. 

        Since we have to present the answers to these questions creatively, I've also started to consider how I will present my answers. I have two ideas so far. First, I was thinking of doing a podcast format. I (the director) would have been invited to a podcast where they asked me questions about my recently released film. This is a popular format of modern interviewing so I think that it would be engaging. My other idea consisted of being interviewed (again, as director) but this time on a movie set, in a kind of documentary-style format. It would give the sense that I'm on set working on this project and that there is a documentary crew on set documenting the process of creating this movie and letting me give some insight into it. 

        I'm looking forward to putting some more thought into this to come up with the best way to approach it, but for now, I'll include some of the notes I took during the lesson: