Skills That I Developed (CCR#3)

CCR Question #3

 Welcome again! Today I’ll be discussing the third question of the creative critical reflection. For this question and the next, it’ll be a separate video, so, I’m going to have the first two questions answered in one video, and then, this question and the next are going to be answered in a different video. To refresh your mind, the first three questions were:

Questions

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed asa real media text?
3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

And the fourth and last question, that I haven’t mentioned yet; is 

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

Production skills

If you want to see my answers to the other questions, go check out my blog, because they will be posted there. 

The question asks about my production skills, and to be honest, the skill that this project has challenged the most until now has been the editing… I just don’t feel comfortable editing, and it takes me a lot of time, and I don’t really know how to use the app 100%, and that makes it difficult. But, while I was trying to edit, I started to learn some things about Adobe Premiere, and slowly, I understood how it worked, and even though I’m not a pro using the program (yet), I was able to work on the editing, and feel comfortable with what I had done. 

Another skill that I developed during this project was that now I know the importance of a good storyboard, and a good script. I think that I haven’t talked about this yet, but while I was recording, I wasn’t shooting from a specific place, and had only like 5 shots that I planned to record in a specific way. This ended up doing the editing much more difficult than what it was supposed to be, because, for example, in a shot in where I was recording my car, my brother is behind it, and he got in the shot. This meant a lot of extra work, since I had to remove him from the shot, which meant more editing to do, and also more time. Also, while editing I realized that I should’ve done some shots differently, and with a really good storyboard, this wouldn’t have happened.

After editing

Before editing

Conclusion

In conclusion, this project helped me develop a lot of new skills, and also, to know what to do better for the next time. I used to hate editing, and I always postponed it as much as possible, because I really didn’t liked it at all, but with this project, I learned some new things about it, and now, I don’t hate it that much. Also, while I improved in some skills, I also learned what not to do, and learned the difference between poor planning and a good one. 

Bloggers… this blog came to an end, but don’t worry, because the next blog will be answering the LAST question, and soon I’ll talk about the production of the CCR’s, so STAY TUNED!!!