Research Question #1 of CCR

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

To begin research for my CCR, I utilized my resources that my teacher provided us with, like sample CCR posts we could watch and learn from. Ever since my teacher showed us a couple different CCRs in class and how they should be done, I haven't been able to stop thinking about them once because of how inspired I am. I can't wait to get creative, and integrate modern trends into my CCR. For one of my ideas, I wanted to create a CCR inspired by WIRED's infamous autocomplete interviews on YouTube. I thought this would be a cute and fun way to combine my task with fun viral trends.

Another idea that Andres from my group meeting earlier this week presented me with, was a CCR inspired by Vanity Fair's lie detector tests. We both agreed this was a super smart idea that still keeps a similar theme to my film opening.

For the actual research portion of this blog, I went back to my notes I had taken during our class discussion. The topic of genre conventions can get a bit tricky in our film opening. One one hand we decide not to challenge typical genre conventions for a female in high school. At the beginning of our film opening, Camila is presented as the typical poplar high school cheerleader who has a boyfriend on the basketball team and is a star player. But by the end of the opening, that genre convention is sort of challenged when we realize, not everything is as it seems. Camila is seen with drugs and seems to be as if she is getting caught up with some real heavy stuff. While not directly presented in the film opening, the theory of Gender Performativity by Judith Butler will be represented later on in the film. The beginning of the film is "stylized acts" performed by Camila, but as the film goes on it reveals her true actions and how they are out of line to what aligns with her suggested gender appearance.