Hello blog!
I'm starting the research for my CCR. I did miss this lesson while I was at STN so shout out to the amazing Lee for giving me her notes :)
A CCR is a creative critical reflection and what that is is a reflection of the process of making the video and everything that came along with it. there's four questions that we have to research and in this blog post I'm going to talk about the first one.
The first question is how does your project use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues. Well first of all our film is a Coming of Age movie which means that this is you going to aim to represent teenagers and young adults in the film. Our story focuses on one main character who is the hero of the story and his journey throughout the film as well as other two characters and their journeys as well. Our film focuses on themes of growing up and just finding yourself and it does include some romance that will be represented in the film but the most important thing are the characters in the film and that is where the representation comes in. I've talked about representation before in a previous blog post but I'm just going to do a quick recap of how our thumb opening represents age groups and people.
We have three main characters appearing in our film opening we have our protagonist Atticus who is a teenage boy who has a lot of trouble separating reality from the fantasy world in the movie he go through a self-discovery journey in which he not only learns what life is about, he learns how he fits into the real world. In our phone we also introduce the character Aurora who is a strong woman who starts out as playing the role of the love interest but eventually realizes that she doesn't need a boyfriend to know who she really is and she goes into a journey of self-discovery and self love. Finally our third character Kai is portrayed as some sort of building in the film however we don't want this to be a traditional coming of age where there's a clear bully we plan to humanize and keep them Humane through the film while showing their struggles.
Now that I know more about what I'm supposed to include in my first CCR I have to figure out exactly what I'm going to do. I plan to keep researching in order to figure out exactly what I'm going to do for my first CCR but at least I know exactly what I'm going to be talking about. An idea that seems pretty cool is doing an interview about the project. I'm going to go ahead and do more research on ccr's since I didn't miss the lesson and come back to the blog and explain exactly what I will be doing in the future. I will keep you updated on my progress and I will continue showing how the final project is looking.
P.S. I didn't really know what type of media to use for this so I attached this picture below.