Starting my CCR

We have finally reached the point in our project where we're wrapping up and can begin working on our individual Critical Creative Reflection. Although I'm excited to being so close to done, I can't believe how much time has passed and how much our group has accomplished in the last six weeks. With only two weeks left to work on this portfolio project, I've begun brainstorming some ideas for how I want to present my CCR. Although I do already have some ideas, I feel like they're a little ambitious for the time we have left to work on the CCR, so I might have to go back to brainstorming so I can create something doable with my time limit. My original idea was to do some sort of talk show where I played both the host and interviewee to create something more fun and creative.

The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Again, not sure how I plan to execute this and the idea might change completely if I can come up with something more feasible,  but for now I wanted to create a script so I could have the question answered at least and make brainstorming easier.

Script for first CCR, "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?" :

"Our film is a Coming-of-Age film which follows pretty much the same themes of the genre. We wanted to utilize characteristics shared in other coming-of-age films like themes of personal growth and change, as well as characters facing some sort of challenge for the first time in their life where they have to make a choice that highlights how far they've come. Our main character Jordyn, is a teenage girl who wants to make something of her last year in high school, to make lifelong memories before she's fully grown up, and in that desperation she loses sight of what is most important, her best friend Amelia. Although we embraced a lot of the coming-of-age genre conventions, we really wanted to avoid showing Jordyn in a negative light throughout her journey. We wanted to step away from the stereotypical portrayal of teenagers in media and not create characters that real teenagers couldn't relate to. I can't speak for all teenagers when I say this, but nothing is less engaging than seeing media constantly show us as moody, disinterested, and using outdated slang. We wanted to keep our dialogue as realistic as possible, and wanted our audience to be able to see themselves in Jordyn and sympathize with her through all the mistakes she makes. Jordyn is flawed, she's stubborn and impulsive and the plot is driven by her constant misdirection. But she is also compassionate and adventurous, she's a well rounded character which allows teenagers to see themselves in her."