CCR Production Blog Post

    During the production of my Creative Critical Reflection videos, I managed to create a realistic environment where I would help to depict my plots for both in an engaging fashion.

    I made a couple of changes to my script to fix what I would actually say. I did this for both scripts because I thought that with these changes, the story would be improved significantly as well as my score on these assignments. 

    For the first one, I focused the story more on Asher wanting to talk about his experience, with the police officer wanting to talk more about the murder of Austin. In this way, it still keeps the comedic and engaging elements I originally planned for as well as more accurate as to what could more realistically happen.

    For my first video, as I said before, Asher would be interviewed by a police officer who is trying to find out more about his project through two Creative Critical Reflection questions. As you can see from the picture below, we had made the set a harsh and colorless area because of the seriousness of the situation. I had a lack of eye-catching things and there was a very bright light pointed at Asher's seat because it helps to show intensity in my scenes. This also helped to correctly depict both the seriousness of the situation and what an actual police interview room would look like.

    In these two videos, you can clearly see the footage of me and the officer, played by my mother, interviewing each other. We were out of frame for our own individual footage because it would allow for a seamless transition from the edited footage I will put in to the dialogue sequences of both of our characters. 

    When I first began to film, I had wanted to originally have different lighting on both of our characters. In doing this, it would help to accurately depict the feelings and emotions of the setting and character. However, when realizing that this could mess up my score by having inconsistent lighting, I had changed it in order to accurately show a police-like building. This feeling will then be accentuated during my editing process, which is when I would help to tint the footage to a more darker color. Overall, the filming of this CCR had gone extremely well, with little to no mistakes on either of our parts. This is because even though I changed the concepts of some of these videos, I kept my answers to the questions the same. This allowed me and my mother to have a firm grasp on what we would be talking about, which would also be the case for the video featuring myself and my dad.

    Thanks to the advice from Mrs. Stoklosa, I realized that I should change my original idea of having Asher escape his house while the police are there. She helped me realize that the first Creative Critical Reflection was too much like the second one, which could lead to a lower score. As a result, I will now have a podcast where I answer the next two CCR questions along with my co-host, which will be my dad. In this way, I can still add in different edited images while having the audio of a normal conversation between the two.

    For my second video, as you can see, we have created the set where the podcast will take place, with different film props coming into play to help set the scene for a podcast related to my project. With this set, I was able to create a calm and relaxed environment for the audience to then engage further into a normal and realistic conversation.

    In the video below, you can see the footage of the opening featuring me and my father, where we introduce the CCR podcast before we begin to start talking about it. With this introduction, we are able to entice and attract the audience to learn further about what me and my co-host will be talking about.

    I think that during our filming process, we were able to complete it in both an efficient and effective manner. This is because we had done it all in one take, allowing different sections to be cut out and replaced with the extra edited aspects of the project. In this way, I have a huge amount of footage that I will be able to have for the entire project, which I will then be able to cut out if I want to edit in something for a certain section.

    During this process, I have been able to obtain footage in the manner that I wanted in order to create two CCR videos that accurately describe me and my group's creative process. This will help me during my editing process, allowing me to not have to make many major changes towards my actual base footage and instead focus on supporting it.

Picture of the final script:

CCR Video #1:

CCR Video #2: