CCR production

 For my first CCR, I did an interview setting with my sister. This is how we set the camera up. We used a glass vase and a napkin holder. For other shots, we put my phone on the CD shelf and on the smaller vases. 

I printed out 2 copies of my script for my sister and me. My sister asked me the questions, and I answered. I had to print it out at my friend's house and bring it because our printer doesn't work. 

I first greeted her and started the interview. I'm guessing it's going to be around 5 or 6 minutes after I finish editing. My sisters and my chairs are facing each other, and we get an over-the-shoulder shot of me answering the first paragraph of questions (refer to script).

The full script:

Question 1# Interviewer: How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?

Answer: Common sci-fi genre conventions are

High-tech gear, Space travel, and Aliens 

We choose to challenge the genre conventions of having aliens, space travel, or extensive world-building. The reason being we want to portray a dystopian world in the future that has not changed that drastically from right now, because they live in poverty. It explores that because Owen is not as well off as the settings she lives in are dated. 

For this opening, we wanted to portray poverty and what that might look like in the future. Owen is currently in 2037, yet her world doesn't look like it's changed drastically because it's in the future. The reason being we intentionally wanted it not to look different from currently to show that people who live in poverty tend to live in more dated houses and communities. We wanted Owen to have a gender neutral name leaning towards masculine to show that she is in a male-dominated industry. Currently, 43.1% of all scientists are women and 56.9% are men. In 2037, the ratio is still more males than females, and not just in her field, but stem jobs in general.

Question 2# Interviewer: How does your product engage with audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

Answer: The sci-fi genre is most commonly enjoyed by males aged 15-26, but because our main character is a girl, I'm hoping our film will garner a larger female fanbase than typical sci-fi films. That's how I arrived at our target audience, females aged 13-24. Because our main character is younger than most (18), I concluded I wanted our target audience to be young teens to adults.

I added a blue film over a scene to portray it as 5 days into the future. It adds to the sci-fi atmosphere and engages the audience. The close-up of the post-it notes at the beginning works to provide context to the character's situation and mindset. They reveal that the scientist is planning to present her invention to Ford Lebestine, the motivation behind her making the invention being that she needs money, and the name of her invention is "quantum viewing". 

We plan to promote our film at film festivals, specifically the AmAuteur Film Festival. We also plan to post it on YouTube on the official Headspace Studios channel.