Learning About the CCR & Continuing Story

Today I learned more about the Creative Critical Reflection for after the project. For the CCR I will need to create two presentations which reflects on the entirety of the process for creating my two-minute opening. In these two presentations, I need to respond to the following questions:

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

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

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

• How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

For my two presentations, I am thinking of making an enhanced podcast and making a presentation with a voiceover. For the first two questions, I would do the presentation as these two questions require more visual responses. In the challenging conventions question I will be starting by discussing genre conventions, then which I decided to embrace or reject and why. I will end the answer with talks of how I implemented representation. For the second question, I will discuss how I arrived at the target audience, production choices, and how I plan to make the film available.

For the second two questions I will do the enhanced podcast. These answers will be less in depth as there is a ten minute total that I cannot go over for the two presentations. In the last two questions I will go into how I approached the project, where I started and how I ended, and discuss what technology I integrated and why. 

In the podcast, I will conclude about what I learned over the eight weeks, what I would have done differently, and how I could improve in a following project. 

After this research, I worked to solidifying my story. I acquired a needle for the shot scene. I am super excited on how this will pan out. As well as this, I found several teeth which can be used in the film. These will all be used to create an unnerving experience watching the dentist. I believe that the rest of the story should follow the path of the dentist opposed to its victim. This would lead the story to have more horror elements if it were to be fully created. 

I will be collecting more of the props. I need to get a handheld mirror for the last scene and need gloves for the dentist. When filming the shots, I will get three versions of every shot in order to have variations of the shots so I can pick and choose what to work with. 

In the next post, I will create a more encompassing shots list and discuss what I will be doing when I film.