Preparing my Critical Reflection

My goal is to finish the project by tonight. I am currently looking to write myself a little script for what I am going to talk about. I am obviously not going to do it word for word it is mostly to have a layout of what I want to say. There are four important questions I must answer in the video and this is how I will do so:

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

The cast in my film consists of a social group of teenage girls, the film focuses on issues would appeal to their personal lives and teenage mind. As teenagers have a lot of emotion towards things and situations, this would be portrayed in the film through personal obstacles that the audience would relate to where they can create personal connections with the characters and enjoy the film on a deeper level.

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

My product is advertised for teenage audiences. This is done through the main characters being high schools students. It creates a common reality and similar though process and understandings in which the audience will often feel identified throughout the film. When it comes to distribution, I feel like theatrical releases have diminished since the pandemic and movie theaters don't fill like they used to. My main source of distribution would be video on demand platforms and streaming services. 

 

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

I have previously created a short film. Comparing to this one I feel like I have improved in a variety of areas. I have learned to cooperate better with the cast members to help them understand the delivery I am looking for as the director. I used a better quality camera for this film which helped me develop more creative and elaborate shots. When it comes to post production, AICE media has taught me to edit sound and color as projects in class gave me room to play around with editing software's and learn to use them, for this film I was able to develop overall better sound production and I believe the end result looks as professional as it can with my limitations as a high school student. 

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

In this project I wanted to give the illusion that the audience was also with the characters but I felt that filming the whole film with a handheld camera and characters constantly breaking the fourth wall was going to lower the quality of the film. Therefore, I decided to add my digital camera footage in some scenes as to show what the characters are vlogging.