After the wonderfully impromptu interview with the paparazzi, I present to you my official, formal statement:
1) How do your products use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
Conventions are a way in which something is usually done, especially within a movie. In order to determine the generic conventions of our type of film, I had to do extended research on the different genres. By using the romantic tragedy as a genre, we had to follow the conventions of the genre (i.e. the couple dying at the end). This film is about the longing of another while being stuck in a heteronormative relationship. While it is dramatized, this movie brings attention to the phenomenon that is gay people repressing their love/desires for a more socially acceptable relationship. Which is tragic.
2) How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
I would distribute the full film on YouTube for practical and technical reasons. YouTube is a site that mostly deals with long form videos that are in landscape mode, making it the perfect place for our minute film. I would engage with our audience by using tiktok and twitter. I would post tiny clips of the film to tiktok to incentivize the audience to go see the full movie on YouTube. For twitter, I would post funny memes about the film and the YouTube link.
3) How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
My overall skills have undoubtedly improved throughout the project. This is because I've learned how to manage my time, improved my communication and collaboration skills, and improved my research and planning abilities. Also, I feel as though I have become more experienced with software such as Premier Rush as I now understand how to put clips together on the timeline, edit mistakes out, make transitions and add audio.
4) How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project?
The hardware that I integrated into this project is tripods, iPhone 12, super high-tech laptops, and headphones. As for software, I only used premier rush. I had to research many articles for this project and used websites like google and film blogs to be able to find what I needed.