Keeping Up With CCR - Part 2

“Dearest gentle reader,” - Bridgerton 

After giving it some thought into the questions that I have to respond to, I have gotten the answers. Like I previously mentioned, throughout my two CCRs I have to answer in some way the four questions of: 

• Question 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
• Question 2: How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
• Question 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
• Question 4: How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online in this project? 

In today's blog, I want to focus primarily on the answer for question 2. Answering these questions was no easy task, as I have taken time to reflect on every step of the way. And especially question 2 has two questions in one. Let's break it down...

1. How "Ataraxia" engages with audiences?
2. How would we distribute it?

So you might wonder how we engage with audiences...Well, first and foremost, our targeted audience is teenagers, we got to this as my group and I decided to have a teenager be the star of the show. Although our film has a sci-fi factor, the drama aspect of it all has a bigger part and tends to resonate with the younger generations on a deeper level. In Ataraxia, our girl Halley is going through a truly devastating time, which she just feels lost, alone, and is careless. Events like this happen often in teens' lives more than we think. In fact, since our film included the depression factor we took our time to do a bit of research about it and:

(3.1 million with major depression)

Being this said, we want to give audiences awareness of what can happen to individuals going through hard times and that no matter who they are, you should always give out a hand, especially when you see someone acting the way that is seen in Ataraxia. Our film opening engages with the side of the individual as the star, and our purpose was to share her way of acting, so that those going through something similar (without the planet part) can connect and feel seen. 

Moreover, the other question "how would we distribute it?", our film will be available on platforms like YouTube movies, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime. Besides being on the online platform, it would be shown at the Cypress Bay Lighting Festival, which is a film festival done by our school. Also, it was submitted to a Broward County program called Shortcuts, they accept student films, and if chosen, could be shown in their social media and other platforms. 

This is it for now, there were the answers for these specific questions. Stay tuned for the other questions and the final script for the two CCRs. My first CCR will be question 2 and question 4, so stay on the lookout for the script. 

Sources: 

Depression