CCR Production

 Hello blog! 

After all of that research for my CCR’s, I am finally recording. I’ve spoken on a previous post that I wanted to answer my questions while baking, but I didn’t exactly know how I wanted to incorporate my questions into my video overall however, after some thinking, I decided that I would be writing my questions on flashcards and sticking them to a specific ingredient that I would need for baking. However, there are a lot of ingredients when it comes to baking, and I was not going to be able to answer a a lot of questions due to timing, so I just stuck the flashcards randomly to whatever ingredient I wanted to. I also wanted to make sure that my video was not only about answering questions and also provided a good explanation on how to bake chocolate chip cookies because the whole point of the reflection was to include something original and not be boring, so I’m hoping I did a good job on that. One of my biggest problems was remembering what I had to say because I didn’t want it to look like I was looking anywhere other than the camera. I wanted the video to feel human and like I was just giving an honest explanation to the questions being provided. The fact that I wasn’t able to read off of what I had written down did force me to make a lot of cuts during my filming meaning there were a lot of jump cuts. I didn’t think that this would be such a big problem due to the critical reflection being anything that you want, with some limits, of course. Therefore, I didn’t really go out of my way to hide the jump cuts. This video took me a couple of hours, although baking normally doesn’t, which was honestly a frustrating reminder, but I am just glad that I was able to finish it within the timeframe that I wished and in the best way that I knew how. 

My second CCR was a lot of fun because I got to draw. At first, I didn’t know what I wanted to do when answering this question, but I did know that I didn’t want neither of the videos in which I answered my CCR questions to be boring. Eventually I thought that visuals are actually a great way to understand a specific topic and that is where my idea fully came to life. Unfortunately, my visuals were not very good since I am not a very skilled drawer, but I tried my best and that is what matters. I had originally fabricated four questions to answer, and due to my limit on time, I had to cut one of the ones that I actually showed better drawing skills, which was very upsetting for me. This video also took a long time to film because either I didn’t like how I drew something, or I didn’t like how I answered a specific question. I had a script written for what I wanted to say, but I wasn’t able to look at it due to my eyes being focused on the drawing, so I had to remember everything, but this was a lot easier to remember since the questions were simpler, and I was very set on what I wanted to say.