Creative Critical Reflection

 Introduction

Hello and welcome back to my blog, today I'm so excited to share my CCR's with you. This has taken long in the making and also required lots of effort and thought since I wanted them to be unique in their own way. So I hope you enjoy my CCR's.

CCR #1- 

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

Here is the  YouTube video for my CCR

For my first CCR I wanted to do something creative but also. connects me to the film opening and myself. This is why I picked a get ready with me but with a twist of me adding my gymnastic competition getting ready with me routine. This has a direct correlation with the film since it's a gymnastic film and also is informational since I'm a competitive gymnast and I know exactly how to do a competition makeup and hair routine. This also allowed me to connect myself better with the film especially sine the films message has a special place in my heart.

CCR #2- Magazine

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

For my second CCR I wanted to try to do something out of my comfort zone which is a magazine, although I did do a magazine cover at the beginning of the year I wasn't't the best at it and there was a bit of struggle. But on the other had I wanted to be as creative as possible and try something new instead of my original idea of doing a presentation with a voice over. Overall I am really proud of my self especially since I tried my best and put a lot of time and effort into this magazine. Enjoy my response to CCR question # 2!

CCR #3- 

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Here is link to the Youtube Short since it won't upload as a video since it's less than 3 minutes long.

For this question I wanted to do something that required a voice over so I can be clear while I talk, and it would also allow the  information/ my response to be cohesive. But on the other hand still wanted to do something useful and nice visually, that also had some relation to the film's theme. Thus this led me to making a tutorial of how to make a protein breakfast shake that I usual make before early morning gymnastic practices or competition. And this directly relates to the main character f our film since she is a gymnast and trains a lot for competition.

CCR #4- Podcast

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

For my last CCR I wanted to do something different where there wasn't a lot going on throughout the video, but I still wanted to show some small visuals. That led me to either an interview or a podcast. And I choose a podcast since I was familiar with the conventions of one and also it allowed me to just talk instead of reading off slides. This was one of the easier ones to edit together sine there wasn't a lot going on but I did put a lot of effort into making my script and memorizing it.

Conclusion

Overall, these CCR's have allowed me to reflect on my film opening and also allowed me to be creative when coming up with ideas for my CCR's in all these CCR's were a lot of work and a bit frustrating at times but in the end I am proud of what I made. In addition I can't believe that I have officially finished my portfolio, it took a long time in the making and was difficult at times but I really appreciated the experience since I learned a bunch of new things that I plan to use in the future someway or somehow. I hope you have enjoyed my journey of creating my portfolio.