Chess Film: CCR Planning

This is a brief overview of what I will include in my CCR, along with some ideas on how to present my information. 

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

-This question could be answered either in writing or a voiceover, which would use parts of the film to show where the conventions and representation occur. 

-Our film uses conventions of horror/thriller films (tension music, dark colors through clothing, close-ups showing emotion and montage editing) 

-Social issue: mental illness (psychosis) 

-Our film explores the discrimination against those with mental illness. Specifically, how many people fear engaging with those who have mental illnesses, often labeling them as "crazy" due to misunderstandings and stigma. 

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

-For this question I may have one of my peers watch the film and interview them afterwards.

-Some questions I may ask: 

1) What was your overall impression of the story? 

2) What do you think the film is trying to say about mental illness? 

3) Which shot stood out the most to you and why? 

4) Can you identify any symbolic elements in the film that support the genre (thriller)? 

-Distributed on social media (YouTube, TikTok, and/or Instagram) due to its length 

3) How did your production skills develop throughout this project? 

-I think I showed major improvement throughout this project. Learning about filmmaking is very different from actually making a film. My skills improved in every aspect: pre-production, production, and post-production. I will talk about things I will do again, but also things I will not do again when I create my next film. 

4) How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project?

-I will show the equipment we used, the editing software, and any app used for sounds. 

-This could be shown in a PowerPoint as I could easily organize the information by assigning each technology a slide.