CCR LESSON - 3/3/23

      Hi, blog! Today my teacher decided to change up the schedule a little bit and tell us all about the CCR otherwise known as the creative critical reflection. She showed us the Nearpod about what it is as a whole, and how to do it, and she also showed us some examples. 

      She told us that we should take a week or two to just focus on the CCR so that we don’t feel like we’re rushing at the end and we also have more time to put some final touches on the rest of our project, the two-minute film opening. She told us there were four questions that we should reflect upon and that we need to create two media products. So one media product would have two questions and the other would have the other two questions. The two media products can be in the form of a talk show, podcast, a PowerPoint with sound over it, or anything else.

QUESTION 1

For the first question, she told us that we should discuss conventions and what they mean in our genre conventions. We should discuss what our genre is, what the conventions are, how we embrace them, and which genre conventions did you challenge. Which is basically going against what the genre would usually entail. we should add the discussion of representation in our film, and make sure that the video does not only include a talking head, which means no graphics.

QUESTION 2

For question two we should discuss how we arrived at the target audience, and how our product choice has to do with our target audience. Our target audience should be operationalized for example, age range, gender interests, and demographics, and we should discuss our realistic distribution methods as our films are being produced by amateur filmmakers. So that would basically mean YouTube and film festivals; and she made sure to include that we should state which film festivals, not just state that we will be at film festivals.

QUESTION 3

In question three we were told to reflect on how our process involved our research, our planning, and our production process along with a reflection on how we begin a project first and how we finished.

QUESTION 4

Question four is pretty lengthy. We should discuss techniques, and the hardware used along with the software. We should also state how we did it. How did the software solve problems? Did you need to learn new technologies? And did you run into any obstacles in general? 

      She told us to make it around seven minutes. Make sure to have some research cited in APA or MLA format. To end our CCR we should have a final reflection statement that discusses what you’ve learned and what you’ve done differently. 

      I’m excited about my CCR because it will help me reflect on everything that I’ve been doing in the past weeks and help it all come to a close. I will be able to see everything I’ve done, pick it apart, and state how I could’ve done it better, and if need be go back to my project and do it better.

I'll talk to you guys later. Signing off!

- Amanda Margulies