Intro to CCR

 Creative Critical Reflection 

today in class we took notes on how we should do our creative critical reflection when it came down to finally doing it for our Cambridge portfolio project. The note-taking really got split up into two parts firstly it was the explanation of the topic and then it was certain tips and examples that our teacher gave us.

For the creative critical reflection to be considered adequate it has to contain these 4 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?

- How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

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

if the CCR video doesn't contain those 4 questions it would be considered incomplete and the point value given to the final grade would be significantly lower than if all questions were to be answered. general tips were given to us as a collective today in class one of the most emphasized tips given was to avoid the floating head and to incorporate movement to the camera meaning that the whole video shouldn't be your head and you talking and that in your video there should be variety on what the audience is seeing.

Another great tip given was to write a script and not just wing it since it will add needed structure to your video to make you seem way more knowledgeable on the topic than it would seem if one would wing the video. When dealing with a script though always make sure that the script isn't too far off-screen as that will make it way too obvious that you are reading off a script and will cause some points not to be given on the presentation aspect of the video. In our responses, we got taught to always incorporate our research well into the responses not be giving way too general of a response to the question and to always answer creatively as this is a creative critical reflection.