Creative Critical Reflection – 1
1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? When it comes to my film opening, it did not follow the general conventions filmmakers use while making a film with Mystery and Thriller as the genre. The first convention that I did use was not showing or introducing any character in the film opening in order to create the feeling of being on edge. This convention is usually used in the similar genre to mine. The second convention was lowering the music…
Creative Critical Reflection – 2
2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? The audience is engaged in a way where they are inconspicuously forced to think. Throughout my journey of various researches about audiences, the one which I strongly agreed to was the Uses and Gratification Model. The theory suggests that audiences are a complex mixture of individuals who select media texts that best suits their needs. The users and gratifications model suggests that media audiences are active and make active decisions about what they consume in…
Creative Critical Reflection – 3
3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project? Initially when I took Media Studies as a subject I only had faint idea on how to operate a camera. Throughout my journey of AS, the first thing I learned was to understand a camera. How to operate a camera’s ISO, shutter speed, aperture and various lenses. Since I did not team up with anyone and I was working on my project alone, I had to learn editing, filming and the entire film making by myself. After the initial step, I…
Creative Critical Reflection – 4
How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project? Throughout my project, I integrated different technologies such as Premiere Pro as software, canon as hardware and different online pages as my source for information, which helped me combine and produce an acceptable product. For all of my editing, I used Premiere Pro CC 2018 as my main software. It was hard to grasp at first but I eventually got the hold of it by practicing on various prototypes. I stayed on basic editing like creating a…
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