CCR Planning

 While I began pondering on how I was going to do my project, I realized that there was one huge component that I hadn't even given any thought to: the Creative Critical Reflection. I think this is the aspect of the Portfolio that I am most anxious about. I don't mind the reflection part: the four reflection questions should be simple enough. It's the different forms of expressing the answer to those questions that is stressing me out. The CCR is like a whole separate project in itself. 

But instead of stressing over this, I decided I should make a plan for the reflection. This way, if any of the different formats require me to have content from throughout the process (like the Directors Commentary) then I am ready to start working on them. 

There are 4 questions:

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
4. How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online — in this project?

I have begun to plan on which media form I will use to answer each questions. So far, I have decided I will use a presentation with a voiceover for the first question. I believe this format is the best suited for the first question because I will easily be able to display my information on a presentation, and I can also use visually appealing graphics to make the presentation even more interesting. 

I believe I can use a podcast for the 2nd question, because I will be able to explain the content well using my voice, and the information that will be explained won't need backing visuals. 

I want to use something like a Directors Commentary for the third question because I think it would be perfect to display my growth throughout the project. However, I'm not sure how I will be able to accomplish that because I'm doing a magazine and not a film opening. I was thinking about doing a time lapse of me creating the project with commentary explaining how I learned and developed, but I would first have to get advice from my teacher on how that would work. 

For the fourth question, I'm not sure exactly what I want to do. The way our teacher presented the information on the CCR was through a slideshow where she provided some examples of different media formats that we could use. 

I've already thought of ways to use the presentation with voiceover, the podcast, and a variation of the directors commentary. I guess I could do a video essay for the fourth question, but I do want to search for some other unique formats. I will ask my teacher for advice on this when I see her next class.

For now, I will leave it at this. I will give further thought to this plan before doing research on how to prepare for each different format. Obviously I will need to finish my magazine itself before starting to work on this, but now that I have given it some thought, I think I am a little bit less anxious about the CCR. 

On a separate and completely unrelated note, it is my birthday today 🥳! Happy birthday to me, and best of luck to me on this project and on my 16th year of living!

Thanks so much for tuning in, catch you later!