Challenging conventions that actively represent social groups

Hello Emeralds, this is a step by step bake as I explain my CCR to you all. Stay royal green!

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Transcript:

For the final task, I integrated the idea of a thriller.  The theme was to not be made with horror but rather mystery. The environment was abandoned and weary.  I used those factors to make the area of film more suspicious. My video has one major social issue that causes the world to shift apart. That social issue is not following your gut, breaking away from close ones, and the outcome of breaking rules. The feeling of being lost from the group causes one to overthink about every action, thought, or breath they take. I thought it was very important to include what happens between doing activities alone and doing it with the people you have arrived with. Many agree that yes, it is important to spend time with yourself, however, it distracts you from making core memories of happiness. To refer back to the topic, my group member stressed that the group all wear black to appear as if the cast were sneaking in. I stressed that if the script does not look right with the footage, I can change the lines and tell the director a new range of plans. Each angle the camera person did made the video pop with different emotions, and I believed that it was unique to demonstrate to viewers.. From quickly changing scenes and transitions to making the border of the video have a camera effect, my product is the perfect version of what any audience expects a thriller film to be like. Overall, my film represented conventions and the separation of social groups to successfully create a thriller film. Thank you

Podcast "Engaging audience and real media text"

Hello Emeralds, above is a podcast discussing on "how does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as real media text?" I hope you all find this informative! 

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• My film flows smoothly and conveys a clear message. The Theme related to having a friend group that you arrive with and quickly separating. The audience also has room to evoke emotion seeing the  disappearance demonstrated on the cast members  faces from exploring the abandoned buildings. The cast selected were close friends who know each other in real life. This was chosen to have a relationship of trust in each other's presence. So to engage with the audience I did something risky.  I made my product be filled with suspense by adding music and context clues. However, those context clues were not predictable, but rather questionable. Why is a group of teens splitting up in a place that they don’t know about? And that was the question everyone asked when the product was reviewed. That is what I was looking for. Now the viewers want to know what is happening next.Other videos produced by directors boldly show that casts do not connect and they solely work together for profit gain. If this were a professional video, I would release it on TikTok. This is due to the fact that the TikTok platform engages a large audience who like to leave opinions on how to improve directors' crafts. However, in this current time, Tik-Tok is facing pressure to be banned in the U.S. unless sold. Therefore, I have eyes on other social platforms such as YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and AMC theaters. Other social platforms often like to limit viewers' opinions and try to make as much profit as possible with many irrelevant ads. That is why, the selected distributions listed above are a perfect fit, as the ads demonstrated does not take away from the films presented or are even limited for viewers comfort. I know from an audience point of view, my interest is lost immediately. Comparably, the platforms I would distribute my product are teams who work together to find the audience's interests.

Cold Case-Final Task

Greetings Emeralds! I now present to you "Cold Case." Hope you all enjoy!

Last thing to do

 Hey Emeralds, I am excited to tell you I am on the last part of the final task. I made sure to keep my promise and keep you guys up to date with my progress. The countless nights of editing, filming, and planning all came to good use for my film. Although my part was cut out, it was for the best, in order to produce quality. 

So I will now list the new things, done to complete my film. I organized a zoom meeting to meet with my team. Then I looked through everyone's progress and concluded that the film will be produced through CapCut. The other apps made the film look very weak.

After that was completed, it was time to add the title.  The title was the hardest thing since all platforms did not create what I had in mind. Therefore, I settled with artificial intelligence.  AI took me a long time since it barely understood what I was going for.  There was three results. The first one was too chunky and took away from the genre. The second one had a bad color scheme. Then the last one was perfect as it had great colors, matched the genre, and was appealing to look at. AI saved the title. Over and all, the film is finally complete.

That is all for the final task. Tomorrow is the big day. The day of the of the official final task.  Remember to stay royal green!

For quality, we must make sacrifices.

 Welcome back Emeralds! We are back into the final stages of this final task. To keep you guys up to date, here is what was done. First my team did some planning and got approved by parents. Then the location, time, and invitations was sent. To add on, then filming was conducted. Finally editing got complete. Upon editing I noticed, the time was way too long. It reached a timing of two minutes and fifteen seconds. Surely this would draw my audience away. I had an urgent meeting with my team about this. Agreeing, it was voted that my part gets cut out. I was not too sure of this since it was not apart of the plan. I went along anyway, doing what is best for the team. I just put in my mind that quality is best for the Emeralds.  I went back into editing and erased my part which consisted of suggesting that entering the building was a bad idea. Luckily, the final task still looked great and it met the time limit. I learned that I must make sacrifices to do what is best for the viewers. That is all for now. Remember to stay royal green!

This is a picture of the location picked that everyone attended to.