CCR

 

Creative Critical Reflection

Questions

How do your products represent social groups or issues?

How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of branding?

How do your product engage with the audience?

How do your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?

Summary points

• As in a real-life scenario, people who are not fulfilled within themselves look for partners to complete the missing part.
• People end up settling for something that is familiar rather than with someone that is safe.
• We planned on engaging with people through social media posts.
• This leads to the audience getting hooked.
• Our project resonates with people in a devastating way.
• As they rush into love sometimes and end up with a wrong partner.
• We focused on mood and atmosphere.
• Played with the colors mentioned in the song and gave it a meaning.

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Salvatore is an Italian word meaning saviour. As in a real-life scenario, people who are not fulfilled within themselves look for partners to complete the missing part. Then they end up choosing complicated partners to validate themselves and their emotional mess. Now, for our main character, she realised her mistake and can be seen sitting in a beautiful park surrounded by lively things, but in the shot, she was seen in an isolated land, indicating maybe how beautiful an illusion her marriage is for her.

 It does not fill the void inside her. When she was lost, she tried finding herself and ended up betraying her husband. Which she was wrong for,r but maybe if she did not. She would have betrayed herself. By being with someone who is emotionally intense, almost obsseisive where one can feel trapped. They say Even if the cage is made of gold, the bird is still trapped. Referring to her having a luxurious life, a husband who seemingly loved her. Somehow, she felt a lot isolated, even suffocated. This shows that when people rush into love, they end up choosing unstable partners. He did not know about her afair when he found the pill, he got angry. 

Although it was her body, and she had reproductive rights. It was never revealed if the baby was afair baby or his. which shows that she never trusted him enough to let him have her autonomy over her body. let choose between keeping the baby.  indicating how still in our society, even if a man claims to love the woman, they get mad when they make a choice. 

In real life, abortions are being banned by male politicians domestic abuse is being legalised with little to no punishment. Her husband did not even know about the aaffairbut he got so mad, his emotions got so out of his hand that he could not control himself and without listening to her side. He just killed her because he thought she had killed the baby, which was merely a fetus. We showed him getting his karma, getting killed by his own rage, and she appeared peaceful in front of him.

Now that we were done with the filming, shooting, and editing of the blog It was time to give it an identity online. Where people can live the production process with us, whether it is about getting to know our cinematographer, writer, or our actors. Everyone was recognised equally because all of us worked behind the scenes before the shooting days and in front of the camera.

Now, social media platforms were divided within the group. We are using TikTok, X,  Instagram, and Facebook.  Posting edits of behind the scenes engaing audience using music to portray different emotions. 

To make the audience feel connected and to make them feel what the character is feeling. Digi Pack illustrated the mood and intensity of what we present or perform. It gives an idea to the audience about what could potentially be in the music video.

We can say our music video is reality-oriented. People do choose wrong partners just to feel loved, or to make sense out of the chaos inside them. Maybe if the other person is just as messed up, they connect like a puzzle and become perfect partners. Maybe being a perfect partner is just an illusion, and our viewers would connect and engage past that illusion. Lana Del Rey's music often portrays her in a complicated relationship with herself or her partner. If we look at ultraviolence, there is this particular

 line being. “HE HIT ME, AND IT FELT LIKE A KISS”

It's not her romanticizing it; rather, explaining the complexity and intensity of partner emotions feels normal. They are used to their partner being a certain way. As if this is the only way they know to be loved, and when they figure out how messed up things actually are, they sneak around, and the consequences alway are never the best or in their favour.

My product was a short cinematic music video inspired by Lana Del Rey’s Salvatore, focusing on dream pop conventions such as atmospheric visuals, symbolic colours, and slow, immersive pacing. My research involved analysing Lana Del Rey’s videos and songs, particularly her use of ruby, green, and blue neon to convey passion, illusion, and melancholy, as well as her cinematic storytelling and dreamy aesthetic.

This research directly informed my creative choices. For example, I used green neon lighting to reflect artificial glamour and fleeting desire, ruby tones to represent passion and intensity, and soft blue light to create a sense of emotional distance. I also structured the narrative visually to reflect the music rather than using dialogue, emphasising mood and atmosphere in line with dream pop conventions.

While I used many established conventions, I also challenged them by telling the story entirely through visuals and music, without dialogue. This allowed the audience to experience the emotional journey intuitively, relying on symbolic imagery and the song itself as the narrative, which created a unique, immersive interpretation of the genre.