CCR production

Hey blog!

I have finished the production of my CCRs and have already started post-production. I'm almost done editing them. I'm just adding final touches. Anyways, I'm not writing this post to talk about the editing process. I'm going to tell you about the production process of my CCRs. I want to focus on the first video I did, which was for questions one and two and was a LOT of work.

For this CCR, I did a video where I got a phone call from "No Caller ID" and got asked questions about my project. The questions were the two CCR 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?

My biggest struggle

My biggest struggle while filming this CCR was memorizing my script. I’m not that great at remembering long things, and my script ended up being pretty long, so it made filming harder than I thought it would be. I had to go over it a lot of times, and I would still forget the script or mix up words. There were so many times when I was doing well, and then I would end up messing up and having to redo the shot. Honestly, it got annoying after a bit

To make it easier, I decided to film from different angles and used cuts instead of doing it all in one shot. That helped a lot because it gave me little breaks in between, so I didn’t have to say everything perfectly all at once. It also made the video look better and less boring than just one long clip of me talking.

In my final takes, I didn’t say everything exactly how it was written. I kind of went off script a little and changed some words without really noticing. At first, I thought that was a problem, but when I watched it back, it still sounded fine and natural. Since I decided to keep the clips, I went back and edited my original script posts to match what I actually said in the video so everything would be accurate.