Creative Critical Reflection Notes BLOG

A quick break from the execution and progress to completing the 2-minute film opening, I will take advantage of my partners' short absence to discuss a major section of finalizing the AICE exam: The CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION. 25 out of 50, the cumulative points of the creative critical reflection consist of half the total grade! To say the least, this is serious. The purpose of the creative critical reflection is to contemplate and deliberate on the production progress, including planning, production outline, and final completion. Additionally, responding to the required question and articulating elaborative in-depth accurate answers while expressing personality and creativity are the basic necessities to successfully concluding the project. Providing with examples or ideas to expand, previous students have made presentations with voiceovers, enhanced podcasts, talk host shows where a subject interviews the director, etc. to discuss responses to questions, utilizing contextual sounds and maintaining continuous engagement. 

There are 4 questions CRUCIAL to answer. 

1. "How does product challenge genre conventions and represent social groups or issues?" This question is intended to express the conflicts and compelling situations and genres presented in the film opening. It is very important to include credible and accurate information from sources and cite their accountability. Contemplating and defining why or why not a topic is challenging conventions through in telling on representation including individuals, groups, events, and issues as illustrated within production.

2. "How does your product engage with the audience and how would it be distributed?" This question discusses the direct target audience and how to reach and allocate such a specific group of individuals. Additionally, elaborating on how to make the film available as a method of distribution has to be realistic. Most likely this would include streaming services or online platforms such as YouTube.

3. "How does your production skill develop throughout this project?" This third question is more simple and specific since I will reflect on the process of storyboarding, research, and approaches. Furthermore, I will dictate all the challenges and drawbacks from start to end and solutions. Initial struggles and future growth.

4. "How did you integrate technologies, software, hardware, and online in this project?" Being straight to the point, I will point out all the equipment used in fabricating the 2-minute film opening, including my phone and online platforms such as my blog. Additonal lighting, tripod, microphones, etc. will be answered in this question. Discussing on questions such as "How did you use such technologies to help solve problems?" and "What new techniques did you learn?". 

Ending: I will create a final statement reflecting the project as a whole. What have I learned? What would I do differently? Improvements for next time? It is recommended to write a script and avoid having a "talking head"! It is key I add and edit clips from my proper film opening as examples and external videos from researched film openings at the beginning of my production. Plus, finalizing the creative critical reflection, and adding a rolling credit of all the researched sources is a great idea! The creative critical reflection is a maximum of ten minutes where I answer the 4 questions and subject with two different executed media examples. I was thinking of doing a casual daily vlog combined with me answering the question and I also like the idea of a talk show host and making it comedic.