CCR Planning Part 2

In this post, I will be answering the last two questions of the CCR questions:

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

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

 1. Conventions for horror which my product uses a visual style of dark colors like dark reds, blues, and blacks. These colors through mise en scene link to evils and danger. Teenagers are represented in the typical horror manner as being immature. In this production, "immature" is represented by the relative ease of the dentist to make Logan the victim. Conventions which were challenged in the production were that the story follows a "hero" or protagonist. This story will follow the antihero who commits the acts of malpractice. 

The story represents social groups in that it represent an underrepresented group in the media world. From my research, I learned that only 5.3 percent of characters in movies produced by large media companies are Asian, even lacking the distinction to which type. This is an issue which is brought up by the main characters of the opening being both Indian with the majority of the cast being non-White. As well as this, in many productions, Asian characters have no lines, are nameless, faceless, and have no story. These characters are also given no motivation. This, is a trend which is challenged through my production. It gives the Asian characters a story, motivation, and follows their perspective throughout the story. 

2. My production skills developed so much throughout the course of this project. Not only, did I learn how to manage such a large project with many parts, my editing and filming skills improved. When I started the project, I was at first unsure how to proceed with the mountain of work that had to be done in order to successfully complete the video. For me, it began with planning so I did not fall behind, like I saw other students when they fell behind on blogs. This ensured that I did not stack work for the following weeks. As well as this, I learned what it meant to create a cohesive story. At the beginning of the school year, I tried to bunch abstract ideas into one video, but this made it so that my ideas were not conveyed as I had hoped. Therefore, I went for a much simpler concept which I could master. 

My production skills developed as I learned many new uses to Premiere Pro such as Color Replacement and how to make scenes look less overexposed. My filming skills also improved, learning how to frame my shots and ensure that there were no jarring jump shots. I learned how to make the most of the technology that I had and made shots appear as they were breathing. Prior to this, I would not dare to touch the blur feature and would have mostly still shots. In this, while the shots continued to be still, there was reason behind it. 

In my next post, I will be deciding what mediums to make my CCR.

Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/641132/ethnicity-film-characters/

https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2022/05/16/media-matters-why-asian-american-representation-in-media-is-a-social-justice-issue/