This is my weekly progress and plan for the music video project.
Week 1
This week I started getting the blogs ready such as setting up the brief, team weekly progress, and all the types of research blogs (preliminary, industry, audience, and genre). Me and my team are still not sure what genre to choose as there are many options and choosing the right genre would helps us do less work as changing would mean that we all have to restart our research progress.
Week 2
This week, me and my group choose Indie as our music video genre ,for the project, because we thought it would be simple to replicate since it requires a small budget. We brainstormed the conventions of Indie music videos and wrote it down in the form of a mind map to help us clearly identify it. I then started researching for the genre conventions and noted down the technical elements used - which I have to research a total of 8 media texts (2 big, 6 small).
To-do list:
+ Finish research
+ Finish research
Week 3
This week I finalized my research of music videos in the Indie genre. However, me and my team haven't decided on a specific music video to based the project on, but we have a few ideas such as Niscaya.
Week 4
This week me and my team created and finish our statement of intent that includes our song choice, target audience, and divided the roles between the team. I also learned the theory of stardom which would prove useful as I can use it on how I want to represent the star in the music video.
Week 5
This week me and my team made a moodboard to guide us for how we want our music video to look like. We then divided parts of the lyrics and plan what scene would take place as well as, started on the storyboard to help visualise the projects' end result.
Week 6
This week was full of project lessons and is the 2nd to last week before submission for the pre-production of the project (brief, team, weekly progress, etc). With this said, me and my team are trying to finish up everything and plan to continue it during the weekends. My teacher also gave us a checklist for all the blog posts that needs to be completed by the end of the term and this helped me to stay on task to finish the unfinished.
To-do list:
+ Do reflections for all blog posts
+ Team photo
+ Put moodboard, lyric sheet, storyboard, classwork, location scount, song research, and filming schedule into my blog
Week 7
This week is the last week for submission for the pre-production part of this project (specifically on Thursday). So I finished every blog post which is in that category in order to get a score this term. This week started hectic since there were many worksheets and unit assesments from other subjects so I felt slightly overwhelmed, but I finished it either way.
This is a list of tasks that I had to finish, with its checkboxes, that my teacher gave us so that I can easily track what I finished and what I didn't so that everything is organized.
Self Reflection:
Throughout the making of this project, this weekly progress + plan blog helped me to stay organized and keep me on track to finish the pre-production part of the project. The to-do list was beneficial for me because it acts as a reminder so that I do my tasks as soon as possible and I won't feel as burdened in the future. The weekly progress was also a place to note down the activities I did each week so I could refer back to it if I needed to remember what I did in the past. Problems I sometimes encounter was forgeting the activities that I did, so a solution to this was to ask my group and we reminded each other. This act of journaling the activities I completed each week, helps to me to reflect back on what I learned (active recalling), thus making me further understand the materials (such as understanding the theory of Stardom), and lastly tests my memorizing skills. In the future, I would make more to-do lists so that I'll know more specifically what tasks are due in the next few days, and then would complete them, so that I won't be doing as much work when the project is near the submission period.
Semester 2
Week 1
This week, I got a mini project from my teacher which was to create a short clip of a music video. My teacher gave us a chorus for the 'Here comes the Sun' song and me and my team made a storyboard and the video about it. My teacher gave us a tip which was to actually sing the song while recording, eventhough it might feel weird, because the lip syncing would actually fit the song better rather than just mimeing the song. This mini project helped me avoid futher mistakes so that my final project would turn to be a finer piece.
Week 2
This week, I learn how to do multicam editing as my teacher showed us how to do it step by step. This type of editing is basically continuity editing and shows a variety of shots of a subject while they are doing an action. I could use this for the my music video project so that it doesn't look static and boring. In class, I practice to do multicam editing by recording my friend, gathering all recording from my teamates and then edit it in an app called CapCut. Also, my teacher told us to finish the filming schedule so that me and my teamates know when and where to shoot the scenes and to make everything more organized.
To-do List:
+ Finish filming schedule
+ Start recording scenes
Week 3
This week, I was introduced to branding as my teacher explained to us that branding is important for an artist so that they can be differentiated from others. He also told us to have a specific branding for our star and was tasked to make a mindmap about it. The mind map included our star's persona, core values, how our star's social media presence would be and his audience. This helped me to specifically identified our star's branding so that me and my team can match the ideas to produce our final music video.
To-do list:
+ Finish artist persona self reflection
+ Start social media research and development
Week 4
This week, there was a 3 day holiday so me and my team didn't get much work done for the project. However there was a project lesson on Friday which my teacher tasked us to make more blog posts about file organisation, behind the scenes and editing. My role was to make the behind the scenes blog post with Nicho, while Bagus worked on the branding blog post and Bagas did the file organisation post. We all delegated the tasks so we all don't feel overwhelmed.
To-do list:
+ Start social media research and development
Week 5
This week, me and my team created the questions for the screen test audience feedback for our music video, album cover and social media draft. We did this to gain suggestion from people in order to improve our project.
+ Send the google forms (about audience feedback) to people
Week 6
This week, I only had one class for media studies and it was through online meeting. This is because there was heavy and windy rain that made it dangerous to come to school and on Wednesday, there was a religious holiday. During the online meetings, my teacher introduced us to the critical reflection essay and I started making the plan and am halfway done. Also, this week, we gain feedback on our music video, album cover, and social media page then we collect the suggestions from the audience and improve our project with it.
To-do List:
+ Finish the Critical Reflection essay
Week 7
This week, I continued the social media research and development and did abit of editing for the music video. There was a mock test on Wednesday so me and my team didn't have much time to continue filming additional scenes, as we need to study to prepare for the test.
To-do List:
+ Film the b rolls for the music video
+ Shoot the sad scenes in school
+ Finish Social Media research and development
Week 8
This week, there was a camping field trip and there was a mock exam so time was limited time during this period. On tuesday me and my group continued our digipack, social media research and development. We're still trying to figure out what typfont and colours we should use to represent
our star and to do that, we're doing trial and errors.
our star and to do that, we're doing trial and errors.
To-do List:
+ Finish filming
+ Finish Digipack
+ Finish Social Media
+ Finish editing final video
Week 9
This week, I continued making more drafts for the digipak (front and back cover) and film more sad/angry scenes with Bagus on Friday. However, half of my team was busy with either competition or family matters so it was just me and Bagus that was shooting the scenes. There was a problem on that day because Bagas forgot his camera at his house and because of this, we had to go to his house and pick it up since our phone camera doesn't produce as high quality videos as Bagas's camera. We then film the scenes and upload it to our whatsapp group so Bagas can later edit it.
To-do List:
+ Finish filming
+ Finalize Digipak
+ Finish filming
+ Finalize Digipak
+ Finalize Social Media
+ Finish editing final video
Week 10
In this week, me and my team finished everything in this project since the due date is on Wednesday. I feel relieved as this is the last project of the media studies syllabus, I'm free from completing blogs and chasing deadlines. On Tuesday, it was the last day for us to get feedback from our teacher so me and my team tried to ask for his opinion of our video, digipack, and social media so that we can make any last minute changes. Also, we asked feedback from our friends in class, as their advice might not have been said by our teacher.
Self Reflection
This project was fun and stressful at the same time. While this project made me and my team creative during the productin of the music video, I felt overwhemled at the last stretch since my time management was bad as I kept procrastinating. This led me to stay awake until 5 am just to finish everything. One of my main problems is that I kept avoiding work until the day before the deadline which ruined my sleeping schedule, made me sleep deprived, and result in negatively affecting my health. Next time, I will divide the tasks into smaller, easy to complete assignments so I don't feel as overwhelmed and thus I wouldn't have to sacrifice as much sleep to complete this project.
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