CCR Production

Now that the film opening is completed, it is time to reflect in my creative critical reflection (CCR). In this CCR I will analyze the processes and messages within my project. In total there are 4 questions in the CCR that I must answer. I created 2 videos each answering 2 of the questions. The 2 videos I created were of 2 different forms. I answered the first 2 question together in the form of a street interview and the last 2 in the form of a podcast.

CCR Questions:

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or 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 – in this project?

Street interview (Questions 1 & 2):

For this video I got the help of my mom to act as a blogger interesting in my film. In this persona she stopped me in the middle of my walk two ask me the two questions. I struggled to come up with a way to start the video in a way that didn't feel weird. In the end I made it so that is was a chance encounter while my moms persona was getting out of her car.

Unedited video:

Podcast (Questions 1& 2)

For this video I enlisted the help of my brother to act as podcast host by the name of Mike. The name I came up with for the podcast was "Midnight Mike". Unlike the street interview this was filmed in short clips each containing 1-2 lines each. There were a lot of bad takes because my brother couldn't remember his lines. To fix this I handed him a script to read off of.

1 Outtake:

Because my answers to the questions were so long, I had a very hard time remembering what to say and if I did remember I wasn't speaking fluently. For this reason, I had printed out scripts and placed them off camera so I could read off of them.