Guess What I Learned in Class Today...

     HIIIIIIIII! What's up? Today I showed up to class and was wondering what I could blog about. I'm waiting on starting to film and honestly it's stressing me out. I feel like I am super behind and if I don't film soon i'll become so overwhelmed and have so much to do in such a short period of time. Today we got into class and honestly just added on to the stress in the back of my brain. But, it also helped me put together the things I need to make sure I incorporate so I have everything done. Anyways, the lesson we did today was all about the creative critical reflection, and let me tell you it was a handful. 

Here are my notes :)

The creative critical reflection is 20/50 points which is 40% of the project. That's actually insane! The whole point of this is to reflect on the project by answering the 4 questions all while showing my personality. How the heck am I suppose to show my personality, i'm so camera shy... We need to do 2 types of media productions. One of the types I was thinking of a talk show interview style or maybe a game show. I feel like a game show could be cool but I don't really know how it'd work, but it could be cool and is definitely creative. My other form could be more basic and structured just to make sure I cover all my bases. I realized I never really defined my target audience so stay tuned a blog post about that ;) I am also going to have to make a script but that shouldn't be too hard. I need a script to kinda just put my thoughts together you know. I also want to try and get all my sources together and maybe do some more research on representation and genre conventions, but I think I have a good about to be honest. 

 

I took a lot of little notes on the side of my paper kinda telling me like what I did for my project in terms of what the question is asking this will help me in the long run when i'm writing out the script for my creative critical reflection. Another big part is making sure my reflection is engaging. I can do this by incorporating clips from my film/research and adding background music/sound effects. I'm feeling pretty confident about this part of the project as i'm usually pretty good at answering questions and reflecting on my process. My teacher really helped to explain it in class and answer all questions which made me feel a lot more comfortable with this. She also showed examples which showed me what I want to do and not want to do as well as what I should and shouldn't do. 

I am still super stressed about getting the filming done but once I get over that hump I think it'll be smooth sailing. I want to hang out with my friends and stuff over the weekend but at the end of the day school comes first and i'll be a lot happier if I just get this done. Count down till spring break and no stress. 2 weeks and 6.5 more school days. Thank god!