Transitioning
I am rather excited to announce that I will officially be transitioning myself and this blog into focusing if not fully, mostly, on the one, the only, Cambridge AICE Media Studies Portfolio Project! This project will require me to use all of the savvy knowledge I have gained about different media techniques in order to construct a dazzling film opening! Alongside this soon-to-be fantastic opening will be a Creative Critical Reflection and this very Blog! Need more information? I bet! Let's get into it, shall we?
The Film Opening
The film opening is what I'm excited about the most! I believe I have the ability to create something great! To explain, the film opening demands me to make an opening to my very own fictional film! This sequence must be two minutes! No under, no over. Well, maybe the tiniest bit over. This opening also needs to include opening credits and a title! All content must be of my own creation and not stolen from another. To help prepare us, my teacher gave us great examples of real film openings that capture the use of the media techniques that we learned in class. It also helped me to understand how to structure a film opening and even ideas of what I should create. I'm still not fully sure what I want to do currently, but I know I want to focus on the character(s) of my film and their relationship with the world. I'd love to do the adventure genre, but I still need to do some more research before being fully decided (foreshadowing of next blog spotted?????). This is only the introduction of this massive project, so I do not have many plans nor concepts YET, but I am very excited to start! I will plan like no other!
I do fear that I will get too ambitious and fly too close to the sun, however; I am working with three other people who are just as, if not more, passionate than I am. So if I do too much, they'll be able to support me and I'll be able to support them! Although, because I have decided to work with others, I have to understand that I will have to give up some of my ideas for theirs, but that just means possibly something even greater and better! My group is so cool so I have full confidence that we will all be able to make a story and opening that we are all proud of!
Creative Critique Reflection
The creative critique reflection, CCR, will be a reflection on me and my work. This will be in the presentation form of a slideshow with the bells and whistles of audio files, pretty graphics, and whatever I find that will be able to convey deep reflection and criticism of the production I had done to create my opening. To achieve a successful CCR, I will have to be able to answer these simple four questions:
- "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
- How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
- How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
- How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?"
My Blog
My final piece is this. This blog! I will be documenting and analyzing my entire process. Here I will be able to give you insights on what I am thinking and the directions for me. I will be able to show off my process of creating hopefully both an amazing film opening and CCR. With this blog, I'll be able to plan more and be put in a well-balanced schedule seeing as I have a due date for each blog. It keeps me on track and keeps me thinking! I can't wait to update again, this time with more planning and more research! For now, you get my small concepts and my little transitioned. Hope you were entertained and continue to be entertained!
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