Thinking Ahead of the Game

 This week I've made good progress with my film opening and I have made some changes to my overall schedule. I was trying to think of people I know that would make a good cast for my opening, so I reached out to a couple of people and so far, my actress for Iris is confirmed! My friend Martina is really involved in Cypress Bay's theater program, so I knew she would definitely be comfortable on camera for my opening. Judging from her response when I texted her, she seemed elated that I spoke to her about the role. As I was speaking to Martina about my whole idea, one thing we had to establish was filming dates so that she could make herself available to film. I thought it would be possible to film by the end of this week, but it turns out that this week is gonna be one of the busiest weeks for me, so I made some changes to my filming schedule. 

Instead of filming throughout this week, I changed my filming dates to start next week and from March 22nd to March 26th, when I get back from my field trip. Before going on my trip, I want to have some footage to edit so I can discuss it in my blogs ahead of time. 

On another note, today we had a lesson on creative critical reflection that I'll need to start thinking about once I'm done editing my film opening. Considering that we need to divide our CCR into two separate media texts, I'm thinking about making a director commentary type of video where I answer the two challenging questions: "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?" and the other being, "How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?".  Although these questions provoke deeper thought than the other two, I think I could have fun with them by communicating my ideas in front of a camera and making my video's concept reflect my own personality. I have a couple ideas for the video part of my CCR, but on the other hand, I think I want to do a presentation for the other two questions left of the CCR: "How did your production skills develop throughout this project?" and "How did you integrate technologies -- software, hardware, and online -- in this project?". It would be easier to demonstrate the software and hardware I used through a means of visual presentation and briefly talk about the development of my skills after this project. I'm actually feeling more at ease now with our lesson because I'll know how I want to approach my CCR in the coming weeks following the post-production of my opening. The next order of business is finalizing my actors and getting all the props ready to film this upcoming week. I'll talk to you soon!