Starting my CCR...

     Now that I've finished my film opening, it's time to get started on my CCR. After my teacher had explained the general instructions for the CCR and showed us a few samples, I began to wonder how I can showcase my creativity while also answering the questions. Right from the start, I knew that I wanted to implement a presentation from Canva in some way, because as I've mentioned, I love Canva. I believe that through Canva, I'd be able to make a few slides that are both visually engaging and will contribute some media and graphs/text to my CCR. Since the CCRs will be in a video format and I will most likely have to create two separate videos (2 questions per video), I wanted to think of another idea as well. Thinking about what to do as my teacher was showing us some samples, it hit me. Harry Potter! No, I won't do a quidditch theme CCR, but there's a scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets where Harry writes questions into a notebook and the magical notebook answers back with a flashback. I thought this could be a very cool idea and add an entertaining aspect to the project. I would most likely answer the first two questions, as they require more thought and depth, through this method.

Link: https://youtu.be/poZ3Zc8oJTg?si=Wp_KvZBPzeEja1KS

    So, knowing that I want to tackle these first two questions with the inspiration from the Harry Potter scene, I think I'm going to first film scenes of myself writing the questions into a notebook, and rather than the notebook writing back, there will be an effect to transition into the explanations of the questions. I don't want to be talking to the camera the entire time, so maybe I'll add some acting scenes of confusion as well as media examples for more of a visually engaging video. As these will be longer answers, I'll have to create a script and practice more ahead of time to have seamless answers. I'm going to also create a script for the second set of questions, but I don't have to practice as much since I'm planning to do it in a presentation format.

    In order to make the presentation videos more entertaining, I want to make it more like I'm pitching an important project to a company. I think this aspect of acting and embodying a character will make the video more entertaining, and it will make more sense with the formal templates that are available on Canva. I think it's also amusing that the two videos are very contrasting, one being about whimsical magic and the other being about a serious business pitch. This will show two sides to my creativity and will hopefully appeal to different aspects of viewership, seeking both logic and fun. Since I have my ideas down, the next steps are to create my scripts, create the Canva slides, and gather the materials I need. It's crazy to think that I'll soon be completely done with this project... Can't wait to see how everything turns out!