CCR script!!

I am almost done! All I need to do is to record my CCR and edit! :)

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

 

My short film " The Letters' is in the Teen/Romance genre. Though I definitely wanted it to be a unique piece of the film there are certain conventions or formulas that almost all Teen/Romance movies follow. Obviously, there has to be a compelling love conflict where one person is searching for the love of another. The characters have to be relatable so that the target audience will become emotionally attached and gave a rooting interest. The background has to also reflect the mood of the piece. My research included some of the better-known films in my genre. Movies such as a cinderella story, Stargirl, and Tall girl all followed certain conventions that audiences seem to receive well!

 I didn't really feel the need to do anything radical in my Teen/Romance film. There are such a huge amount of past films that kind of laid the groundwork for what I was trying to achieve that I knew if I actually followed conventions it would serve me, and more importantly my audience better!

My film is kind of representing the female character that has become stronger and more confident to take a chance in finding love. Normally it’s the men that tend to go out of their way to go to present themselves but in my film I wanted to show my female character  progressively getting stronger throughout my film. 

 

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

 

My target audience is geared to the young teen audience ages ,8-18 and primarily young girls. This is a dem that typically communicates via text and phone calls and is heavy into social media channels such as: Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube. They consume movies through streaming movie sources including YouTube streaming, Netflix, Hulu and Disney plus to name a few.

 

I decided to go with light airy colors and visually appealing props in my film opening because aesthetics are tending now a days. This is especially true on Tik Tok, an extremely popular social media app for my target audience. There are several videos that show this type of aesthetic.

 

I plan on making my film available to audiences by posting my film on Youtube, Instagram reels, and attending film festivals. 

 

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

I was fairly raw in how to put a film opening together. My evolution in the process came through understanding the editing process more, selecting the proper music to accompany the piece and learning what props would enhance the mood!

My research and planning for the short film was brainstorming different genres that appealed to me. After much consideration I found I kept coming back to the Teen/Romance category as I tend to be drawn to those storylines. I tapped into my memory of some the better Romance films I'd watched and ranked them on Canva as to which ones really tugged at me emotionally. I then laid out an action plan that would address what I needed to do make my film a reality.

My approach to production was to develop lists of tasks that needed to get done as the production process evolved.I ended up having to revise my schedule, change my fonts and even the name and design of my production company. These delays put a strain on the completion date I had given for my film.

At the beginning I didn't understand fully how important all the details were in making a quality film. As days progressed this became all the more real and I tried to insure that every shot had importance. The blogs we had written before really helped my writing abilities and allowed me to be more creative and the One Word film gave me some foundation for filming the right shots.

 

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

I decided to use my iPhone 13 to record the opening scenes of my film. As I've discussed in previous blogs, I love using Canva since it's a fantastic tool for quickly creating graphics for nearly anything. I also used Vont, Phonto, Premiere Rush, and Imovie to edit my film opening. 

The different technologies definitely helped me with my film making such as Canva making my blogs and film look more professional. It also can be a curse as when my computer wouldn't load vital information I needed for the production. Overall, most of the technology I was familiar with so there was no new tech stuff needed.

I have learned many things throughout the process of making my film opening such as working efficiently, staying organized, learning from past mistakes, and that details are important. If I could do something differently if provided the chance I would have left my self more time for editing so I wouldn’t have felt rushed during the process. 

Although I felt my process was efficient opon reflection I came to the realization I needed to delegate my tasks in order of most important to least important so that I wouldnt feel overwhelmed when somethinhs werent done in the timely manner that I expected.