Cooking up a CCR

Okay so with the deadline approaching, and after viewing projects from older media students, I realized that my "bedtime story" idea was good, but my poetry idea wasn't very strong and would be quite difficult. Poetry would likely restrain my answers from being as clear as they need to be, which is very important for the answers. The whole point is to tell a story of reflection and show the amount of thought and effort that was put into this whole nine-week process, in a creative way of course. TStok said to keep it under 10 minutes, and that 7 minutes is the sweet spot, meaning each CCR would have to be around 3 minutes. Thinking of it at first, the spoken word poems I write for the competition are actually 3 minutes long in length, so I wouldn't be a stranger to the challenge; however, the current spoken word I'm using to compete in Louder Than a Bomb took me about 2 months to write... and I don't have 2 months to write a poem as a CCR as there's only about a week before all these elements are due. 

Therefore, the spoken word CCR idea: scrapped.

Luckily though, through utter coincidence, I was scrolling through the chat history of a conversation between my best friends and I caught myself saying 

"you guys are like my little angels debating with the devils on my shoulders." 

The gears started turning, and an idea popped out of whatever little machine I had running up there in that brain of mine: it would be a skit of myself arguing with myself. Starring me as me, and me as the devil on my shoulder, and me as the angel on my shoulder. How? Well, this would take a little bit of green screen magic of course.

I mean it it when I say everything happens for a reason, because recently my long-time friend sent me a video of myself back from 2020, because she was clearing up some storage from her phone and stumbled upon the funny vid. In the video, strewn up on the wall, was a green blanket. 

I had completely forgotten about it, but in 2020 when all our classes were moved to Zoom, I totally made a makeshift greenscreen in my bedroom to use for my middle school TV production class. With this memory fresh in my mind, I was able to craft the idea for the new CCR; I could totally pull off homemade greenscreen because if I'd done it before, I could do it again!

Problem: I couldn't find the green blanket.

I have no clue where it went, however, I did find a solid-colored deep-blue blanket that simply was screaming "USE ME, PICK ME!" so I guess bluescreen it is!

Said Blue Blanket. See how it's perfect?

I've worked with Chromakey before in premiere, as I've mentioned before, meaning I know that really all that's needed to key out a background is a solid color, that contrasts what you don't want to key out, and even lighting. I don't have my ring light back from Faye yet, but I have a pretty strong desk lamp that will have to do the job (which is giving major deja vu because that's exactly what I used to do in middle school). All that matters now is that I don't wear blue. So I looked in my closet for some costume design, and I seriously think this is the best idea I've had yet because everything was right there.

I had an angel's halo from Halloween which I paired with this white romper.

And I paired these red bunny ears I had as a souvenir from homecoming with a red shirt. Mischievous.

I'm already imagining these mini versions of me arguing on my shoulder, a conversation something like:

Normal me: Did I improve my skills throughout this project?

Devil me: Are you kidding? You still suck and you didn't learn anything!

Angel me: Don't listen to her! Of course, you did! You studied genre and audiences and learned what it takes to develop a film idea, as well as what the word mise-en-scene means, prop creation, and set design!

Or something like that.

My "bedtime story" idea would be me telling the viewer a bedtime story, and at the end, I reveal that it was me Nyxed Media, all along. A little bit corny but in my head it parodies of some sort of program made for kids. I'm thinking of wearing my most "pajama" looking pajamas and filming it with low lighting while sitting on my bed, lit by some of the cute lamps I have above my bedframe. It'll be cute I think. 

Anyway, I'm gonna start writing down my answers to the questions so I can record, because I don't have a lot of time left, and I need time to edit. Peace out.