CCR

 Good afternoon Blog,

Today I was just informed of what the CCR project is for the Film Opening Project. Basically, the CCR stands for creative critical reflection. This reflection will be done in different creative ways in order to fully illustrate how far we've come along with our projects and how well we can respond to the prompts. During the time we took to fully check the CCR Mrs.Stoklosa told us a few things.

The first being that the CCR was worth 20% of our grade. This is quite a big portion for something like this so it already got our heads turning on what exactly we should be doing. The CCR is important to the overall grade and we should keep this in mind the entire time.

Next we were told that there were 4 main questions to answer. Those four questions determined what exactly we would be responding with for our projects. The questions would be split up into two separate videos that would go over two of the two questions listed. Our teacher also gave us a multitude of options to do this in. The different forms of media gave us a lot of freedom into what exactly we wanted to do. The questions given to us were as follows:
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 through this project?
How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project?

For the first question I was thinking about the genre itself and how it represented certain groups of people. We were doing a military fantasy idea for our short film so maybe that represented an aduiance that were familiar or liked military related media but also people who prefer different takes on it or the different more fantastical ideas of it.

The second question had me thinking about who our specific targets were. It was fine to pander to the people who like those genres but genres are broad and it would be better to allocate the marketing of something to specific group. We haven't specifically found this group out yet so it is still something to think about.

Third question was easier. I have done a bunch of different things during the project. Some of them have made me improve and some of them have made me regress. I believe it's not good to stay stagnant for too long so being able to explain those different changes throughout the project shouldn't be too tough. Especially with the previous blog posts.

The last question is the easiest but I still shouldn't underestimate this. Software discussion isn't too hard because I just have to mention blogger, the places I took the music from and maybe my reasoning for using these specific things. It shouldn't be that hard.

Now as for the time frame of this event, i'll probably make and edit them all accordingly the start of next week and into spring break. I am moving with my family and won't be able to do much during break. We will see. Until next time!