Aice Media Studies CCR Link

 Below you will find the link to my Aice Media Studies Creative Critical Reflection.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EhB2KeGfYwajZ1BTTlx7Lp0XRCrd0BaI/view?usp=sharing

Aice Media Studies Project Link

 Below you will find the link to my Aice Media Studies Project.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vhQ0iQQY5eP81URo473zMx9uoAR1ZdMl/view?usp=sharing

Group Discussion

 Two days during the time period the class had to work on the project, we met together in groups to discuss and give feedback about our project. We were given the opportunity to learn from each other and bounce thoughts and ideas off each other. 

I had some very interesting people in my group who were all working on different genres but gave very insightful and interesting thoughts when I gave forward my thought process and ideas. I was able to take what they said into consideration and build off of it.

I also gave my thoughts and ideas to them on how I thought they could take heir projects from great to better.

My project is a Romance genre film opening that goes into the surface level depths of teen romance. The views will learn and relate to how the main characters takes on "Love."

Genre Research

Blog #1- What am I doing?

What am I doing? Well that's a great question. I am planning on doing a romance genre opening. As someone who has never been in love you may be asking, what are your certifications for making a romance video? Well my answer to that is I have none, but that is what makes it so great. My film is about the life of a girl who has no idea what love is. As someone growing up in 2021, love is a very loosely used word that honestly no one really feels. How can I love someone when we spend majority of our time snapping and texting each other than spending time together? My goal is for my character to try to find love in 2021, but to do this she needs to figure out what love is. Is it the same love her grandparents felt when they met after the war at a café? Is it the same love her parents felt when they met at a disco and knew they were meant to be? Who knows? But the one thing my character does know is that whatever her generation defines love as, she yearns for it. I think this is the perfect idea for me because this is the story of my life. I don't necessarily feel that I am looking for love, but I am a teenage girl growing up in 2021 who wants to date and live the dream life in my brain. 

Cambridge Portfolio Project

I am starting my Cambridge Portfolio Project. The project entails me to do a  couple things. One, is a film opening video. The main task is the titles and opening of a new fiction film (to last a maximum of two minutes). Titles should follow the institutional conventions of commercial cinema. All images and text used in the main task must be original, and produced by the candidate(s). Sound should be predominantly original (dialogue and atmospheric sound), though music taken from an acknowledged source may be used as part of the soundtrack.

Key details of this task is that it's a maximum of two minutes, must be a NEW fiction film (no adaptations, no non-fiction), must include titles and opening, all images must be created by you, and no copyrighted music may be used unless you get permission from owner (written documentation is required-include in blog)

Next is the blog and creative critical reflection. I will be having an individual blog dedicated to the project. The process of research, planning and production, including refinement, changes and reflection on key moments, and any individual contribution to a task undertaken as a group, is to be evidenced by me on my blog. My blog will also contain evidence of any preliminary exercises, the finished product and the creative critical reflection and will comprise the complete evidence for the moderator at the end of each project.

Lastly is the creative critical reflection on my blog. On completion of my video, I will reflect upon their work, using digital formats such as director commentaries, slideshows with voiceover, or screencasts. The emphasis will be on creative use of such tools to critically reflect on the production, guided by the following compulsory 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?

Going forward my blogs will relate to this project and will evolve as my project evolves.