CCR 1

We are officially in the CCR making!! While we are still editing our film opening, we can start moving on to our CCR's. CCR stand for creative critical reflection. It's basically media forms where you present your overall reflection in a creative manner that suits you to show the overall post project thoughts. It contains of 4 different questions, 2 being more complicated and 2 more simplistic. This means we will be creating 2 different media pieces, 1 for every 2 questions. Today we will be focusing on the 1 question on genre conventions and societal issues included in our project.

Genre Conventions:

Our film is sports drama meaning when researching genre characteristics, drama played a huge role into that process. Some drama characteristics we portrayed include:

Conflict

Clear Plot

Mise-en-scene

Intense relatable characters

 Connection with audience

Pressure on main character

In our film, conflict is a huge deal since it tells a story on a teenage girl, Gianna. who's in need of a scholarship from gymnastics due to her poor grades. When the moment she is able to receive exactly that at competition, she is unable to compete. Her injury and need of the scholarship are huge conflicts through the whole film. Like any good film, a plot is necessary and has to be noticeable. Has mentioned in previous blogs, our plot is the Un expectancy of her ruining her knee at competition causing her to not be able to play gymnastics which then leads to her recovery and overcoming. Creating a relatable character did take us a good amount of time since we wanted Gianna to be relatable for teenagers in specifically. We came up with her being a sneaky, poor grades, dedicated to her sport teenage girl. This character is extremely relatable to teens in a society as the one we live in and can allow the audience to have sympathy for her and understand her situation. This leads to a connection with the audience. Lastly, mise-en-scene was something we truly tried to emphasize and used props such as a calendar, medals, knee wrap, etc. This all added to the creation of not only the character but the film as a whole. We stayed away with characteristics like emotionally driven characters since with such a short time span we wanted to make sure those whole 2 minutes were given to Gianna and herself a character. This then didn't allow us to develop other characters in our film opening. We also avoided exploring different topics since we wanted to emphasize her passion for gymnastics and for the audience to be able to understand her dedication which took away from her interest in school.

Sport film characteristics:

Focus on singular sport, sport setting, shows hardship

With our film being a sport drama, all these characteristics were met. Our film was filmed in TAG USA, a gymnastics gym where Gianna is able to show her skills and commitment which would fall under sport setting. For focusing on only one sport, we made sure to focus on Gymnastics and gymnastics only to emphasize her "obsession" with the sport which is where the films name comes from. We then showed Gianna's imperfections with schoolwork as well as with her injuries to make the film seem more realistic. 

Social Groups/Issues:

The characteristics used in the film all emphasize different social groups as the main one being Gianna's rebellion. This issue is on many teenagers experience in our society which we thought would go well with making the film seem more relatable. Gianna goes against her coaches and mothers' orders to follow what she thinks is right even though she knows there can be consequences and knows she shouldn't be doing that. This is highly represented in today's lives by going behind elderly's backs foreshadowing her consequences once done so. Our second social issue is on the athlete side of facing an injury. This represents the struggles athletes face when recovering from an injury in doing what best in choosing health or what their heart desires when choosing passion. 

Characteristics of dramas

Genre Conventions