Beginning the CCR

Now that we finished the actual opening, there is still one more component of the portfolio left: the Creative Critical Reflection. In class, we learned about the CCR, what we need to include and what we should accomplish. We also saw some student samples, which really helped me envision what I needed to do. There are three main goals we should attain in a CCR:

• reflection on the production
• responding to the questions
• expression of your personality

The CCR should be no more than 8 minutes; we learned, that it is better for this component to be short and concise rather than prolonged and overly-detailed. Our teacher gave us notes on the four main questions we should answer in our video:

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

For this component, we should discuss genre conventions of both our production and other movies of the same genre (in general). We should discuss which conventions we chose to use and which we chose to establish. Then, we should end with a discussion on representation established in our opening. For us, we will delve into representation of the Deaf community, but we can also talk about representation of teenage girls, suburbia, etc.

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

This portion should begin with a discussion on target audience (age range + gender + overall interests of group). Then, we should discuss how production choices, content, etc work to engage with our intended audience. Lastly, we should address how we plan to make the film accessible; we must do so REALISTICALLY (not by international movie theaters).

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

We should reflect on how the process evolved throughout production: how we began with research and planning, and how we approached production. This portion should include specific details about the processes, and show how we adapted/changes aspects. Lastly, it should end with an overall reflection on where we started and ended.

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

The last portion should discuss any technologies used while producing the project. For instance, we should discuss hardware: camera, lighting, etc, and software: Blogger, editing tools, and Google Docs. We should also discuss HOW we used these technologies: obstacles, learning components.

The last part of the CCR is the ending with a final statement, discussion on what we learned and what we would do different/improve next time. 

Overall, I am excited to start the CCR, even though I feel like I don't have a lot of time for what I want to achieve. I plan to use my experience of graphics editing on After Effects to make an appealing video, and I plan to make the script tomorrow!