CCR question #1 (research)

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 It's that time to discuss CCR ‘s. First, let me explain what that is. During the time that my teacher was giving the explanation as to what they are and how to do them I was writing an essay, so I was not able to pay attention during the time, meaning that I needed to borrow notes from somebody else in order to understand the concept of CCR’s. after doing so, I discovered that a CCR stands for creative, critical reflection, and it is exactly what it sounds like. Students are to create some sort of media form that expresses your creativity, so some sort of unique idea, well answering a couple questions. To my understanding, we are to make two individual videos that together time up to at most 11 minutes that answer 2 main questions per video, the overall number of questions being 4. I will provide the questions below: 

• 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?

The question that I am supposed to answer today is: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

 I believe that this question is all about representation theory, so how little things create bigger ideas in a specific group of people or specific issues. For example, my story represents a teenage girl that struggles with being social, which I personally believe is a really big problem for the social group of teenagers. The main character in my story represents that big issue that many teenagers unfortunately have to go through. In regard to how my product challenges conventions is that I believe that it is different when people normally see because for a long time it’s been frowned upon to show people struggles since it is a very intimate side. People may struggle with feeling exposed to that vulnerability and therefore it is not shown as often on TV. I intend for my piece to show that it is part of being human and not only show how disempowering you can feel, but also how good you can feel when you overcome that. Unfortunately, I have not been able to come up with a script, but that is just the main idea as to how I will be answering that question.