Critical Creative Reflection

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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?

1. The conventions that I did was different from the genre and I did something else. In the research blog, the video that I did was someone dancing and effects popping up in the video while he was dancing. There was also camera angles and lighting changes that were in the research blog video that I did not use in my video. I didn’t use them because it didn’t really fit in with the atmosphere my video was. The research blog conventions video was a different song and a different genre of what my video was on. The only conventions that were used was the acting and costume. I had to do acting in my video so that the audience can see what is going on and I wore a costume to portray that I was a celebrity at a party. The social groups that my video represents are the groups that go and party and have a good time. They also represent the groups that are interested with people at a club and wants to make connections with them. Our video has the issue of long distance so it isn’t a very fun loving song.

2. My product engages with the audience by letting them think one thing, but be let to another thing. It makes the audience interested and happy with the outcome of a girl coming to a party and getting a celebrity's number. It shows a blocking point in the product when the girl says that she’s from another state. The audience is misled and shocked by what is said by the girl in our product. Our video seems realistic which makes the people watching it more interested, rather than it being unrealistic and boring to watch. Other videos are predictable and the viewers can know what is going to happen before it happens. In our video, we have a turning point in it, so, the audience can’t predict the output and is more likely to enjoy and watch the video over other videos  Also, our video used many factors such as angles, and props. For example, the person I was playing in the video is a celebrity so I wore glasses to make it seem like I'm famous, trying to be incognito or mysterious. If this video was a real media text, it would be distributed on youtube. It is a whole video so I think that youtube would be a good place to be distributed on. It is an app where most videos are distributed and can be seen by a variety of people. They can comment and like it if they enjoy it and dislike it if they don’t. It could also be distributed on Tiktok, because there are options to post videos on there, where people can see it and interact with it. The only disadvantage is that you cannot post long videos on tiktok so you would have to post each video clip by clip which can be a struggle. It wouldn’t be very good on places such as Snapchat or Instagram because it isn’t capable of being seen by everybody and there is a limit of the time a video can be. 

3. Throughout the project, I have developed some experience as a video producer when it comes to editing, filming, or providing feedback to make my video better and easier to understand. I’ve learned the angles and where to use them better in filming. Clips such as the girl getting the guy's number, I knew that it would look good if the guy gave the girl the phone in an over the shoulder angle, so that the audience can see what is going on and feel engaged with what is going on. Also, in the part where the guy texts the girl after he gets home from the party, I knew the over the shoulder shot would be good because the audience would be seeing what the guy is saying to the girl and not just think that he is texting somebody random. This cleared up the confusion that we had while filming the video. Throughout the video I learned that patience is key within filming and editing. Each scene that we did, we tried to perfect it and they took many tries but we got them after hard work. I also learned how to act and not mess up. At the start of the filming process, I kept laughing during every scene or messing up and having to redo the scene again. Throughout the process I got comfortable with being filmed in the camera and felt better with acting.

4. In this project, we used multiple sources of technology. We used simple technology but it still worked and it was effective like advanced technology. To film we used an iphone 13. We used this instead of a camera because it is easier to function. All you have to do is click a button, aim a camera, and film. With a camera, you have to learn how to use it, hold the heavy camera to what you are trying to film, and transfer the camera footage to the computer or your cellular device. The phone was more convenient and easier to use. Maybe in the future we might use cameras to get better quality and a wider space to film our clips. But for now, we’ll stick to the simple camera to do the job easily. To edit, we used Capcut. It is an editing tool that we are more familiar with. I-movie is more complicated and harder to use, so we resorted to Capcut to do the editing. With Capcut, we can insert what we want and add text if we need to without any problems. It is the most convenient editing software that we could’ve used. I used blogger because it is more convenient than any other blogging apps. Also, i've used it in the past so I have more experience with it than using other ones where I have less or no experience with using it.