Weekly Progress + Plan

This is my weekly progress and plan for the music video project.

Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W1	30 September	Pre Production	Research	1	Brief
				2	Team
				3	Weekly Progress
				4	Preliminary Research	Broad genre research	W3
W2	7 October		Research	5	Research: Industry	Who makes music videos?	W3
W3	14 October		Research	6	Research: Genre	Codes and Conventions of your genre	W4
W4	21 October		Plan	7	Statement of Intent	Your initial proposal	W5
				8	Theory of Stardom: Richard Dyer	A summary of the class, plus your example	W7
W5	28 October		Plan	9	Moodboard	Your visual style	W7
				10	Lyric Sheet	Breakdown your song into scenes	W7
				11	Storyboard	Shot by shot plan	W7
W6	4 November		Plan	12	Song Research	Background of your song	W7
				13	Screen Test	star auditions	W7
				14	Classwork	How to: Camera, MeS, Sound, Edit	W7
W7	11 November		Plan	15	Location scout & Risk Assessment		W7
				16	Filming Schedule	Film over the break?	W7
							W7

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 

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.