Creative Critical Reflection

    In class we went over the creative critical reflection that is to be completed after my film opening. This is when you reflect on the planning, process, production, and final product.  The CCR is when you respond to questions about your piece in your own creative way.

    There are many styles to do your CCR in, like direct commentary, a talk show, or even a podcast.

I am going to definitely do one of these as a direct commentary, where I speak to the camera in a creative way, answering the questions asked. My teacher taught me to incorporate fun visuals rather than just a Talking Head the entire time. It is also important to incorporate your research into your videos and I am definitely show examples from other shows.  

The first question I can answer is how does my piece use genre conventions to represent social groups or issues. For this answer I plan on talking about the many basic conventions of horror I used and also when I talk about how it represented certain groups, I can talk about how it represents people who are psychopaths and society needs to make sure they are all good and constantly check up on them or bad things can happen. 

The next question is asking how it engages the audience and can be distributed as real media. I plan to talk about how it engages the audience which are younger people ages 18-35 and both genders, but usually male all find psychopathic stories very interesting. Stories about twisted murder is very popular on platforms like TikTok and definitely YouTube which are heavily used by my audience. I plan to distribute on platforms like YouTube and show the film in parts on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. My teacher told me to not distribute through the movies because it is unrealistic.

The next question is how my production skills develop throughout he project. I plan to talk a lot about the fact that I have never edited something before and this was the first time I edited ever so I can easily show evolution in that department. I also need to talk about my research thinking and why I researched certain things, along with the planning like my storyboard and script which are going to be created soon. I also need to address obstacles I faced such as limited resources and lighting issues that might occur. End with reflection on the difference between the start and the end.

Additionally, the next question asks about how I integrated certain technologies, hardware, software and online sources into my film opening. This is when I need tot talk about documenting my progress on blogger along with the websites I used to find certain sounds along with what I used to edit my project. I need to address how these helped me in my project, and if I needed to learn a certain component like editing or how to incorporate sound into my film. I feel like I have a lot of components I can write about, which also includes the phone I will film on.

Finally, I need to end with a final statement to reflect on the project as a whole, like saying it was a tough road, but I persevered and succeeded anyways. Discuss on what I need to improve and did improve on during my process of making the film opening. I also need to address what I could do differently which I am not sure yet, but will be sure once I finish because there is always room for improvement no matter what.

Bye! This was a lot, but very important considering the amount of points the CCR is by itself. See you next time!