This is my weekly progress for the documentary project. This progress report will allow me to evaluate and reflect what I did as well as what I could improve throughout the weeks. I also made a plan as a reminder on what tasks I should complete according to plan.
SEMESTER 1 - PRE PRODUCTION
Week 1
In week 1, we did a preliminary research on different genres of music videos. This will help me to understand and analyse what makes different music genres distinct from one another. The teacher also explained us briefly regarding what are we going to learn throughout the term as well as the brief for the music video project that we are going to make. Furthermore, my teacher also explained about the timeframe of the lesson and the syllabus, this helped me to understand and expect the things that I will learn throughout the term and familiarise with it. We were also told to form our groups, which took some time due to difficulties in securing members of the group or the different paths we intend to take. Finally, I decided to join my former group, and I'm very excited to work with them because I know they're all hard workers and we frequently share similar ideas. We then started to research on industries that create our intended music genre at the moment, pop. However, this genre selection is still not fixed yet and so we will try to finalise the genre by next week.
Week 2
During week 2, we have started our research on our genre, which consists of 2 big research and 8 small research on music videos. The research has always been one of the most time consuming task especially when I tend to overanalyse. Hence, I need to manage my time wisely so that I can finish it on time by working on them overtime so that I don't need to cram before the due date. My group and I had been contemplating whether choosing the genre indie pop was a good idea because pop is too broad for us and indie is too niche. It was a little confusing when we did our research on indie pop music videos, so at the end of this week, we ultimately settled on pop genre. Other than that, we created a document to write our rough ideas individually for the music video so that next week it will be easier for our to brainstorm and discuss the final concept.
Week 3
In week 3, the approaching deadline for genre research heightens my awareness, especially since I have so many other responsibilities and busyness outside of media studies class, so I need to better organise these various tasks. As I know there will be more upcoming tasks, I know I need to keep track of my work, so I created a planner schedule that allows me to see how much I've done and which ones I need to complete as soon as possible. Aside from that, I needed to boost my motivation to complete my genre study, so I tried to convince myself that this is a fun task, and after all, I enjoyed the process.
Week 4
This week, we started on our statement of intent. Because we have already have our initial concepts on our music video, this eases us in finishing the statement of intent. Additionally, we were introduced by our teacher to the Theory of Stardom by Richard Dyer as a classwork, this will help us in creating our star persona later on and I learned many valuable knowledge regarding how celebrities are intentionally constructed to target their audience and promote their product, hence I hope that me and my group can build our star persona carefully and with consideration so that we can achieve so.
Week 5
During week 5, we began creating a moodboard for our music video and started working on the lyric sheet. Creating a moodboard is enjoyable because we can arrange images that correspond to our vision into a collage; nevertheless, it appears cluttered and quite messy in the moment, and we intend to fix this later. We started annotating the lyric sheet on paper but decided to transfer it digitally because it is more effective and easier to collaborate and annotate our ideas and notes. We don't have a final clear plan for how our music video will run from start to finish, but we do have a vision concept, therefore we'll use our free time to discuss it.
Week 6
Week 6 was a full project class, so we tried to use our time wisely to complete our lyric sheet, which took so long due to changing concepts and ideas. I also attempted to finalise and complete other blogposts so that I would have less work to do the following week and could avoid stress and burnout. Furthermore, as a class, we held a screen test to determine the suitability of the actors for our music video; although we did not find anyone for our main star, we used some of the screen test participants as side or supporting characters in our narrative. The screen test made it more enjoyable and temporarily distracted me from my hectic and stressful schedule.
Week 7
For our final week of term 2 (pre-production deadline), we have to finalise all of our blogposts in the pre-production stage. Since we are almost finished with our lyric sheet, we asked for our teacher's ideas to our narrative, and he gave us really good ideas and references that we could use. Because we took longer than expected to finalise our lyric sheet, I needed to finish the storyboard quickly (which I did faster than I had anticipated), as well as my teammates' location scout and risk assessment. This week has been pretty hectic because I have tests every day of the week, so time management is critical in completing all of my work on time while also producing high-quality content. We also had different actors in mind for our music video cast, so we planned to conduct screen tests as soon as possible and then move on to creating the filming schedule to organise all of our schedules so we could shoot immediately; possibly over the holidays, and I hope everything will run smoothly.
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Creating a weekly progress and plan is immensely beneficial for me as it ensures that my progress throughout my pre-production is on track and as a reminder on what tasks I should complete according to plan. For each week, I included what I've done, what problems I've encountered, solutions to overcome the problem, and what I needed to finish or do for the following week. Throughout the term, I discovered that making a weekly progress and plan and consistently filling them up every week has increased my accountability to complete tasks on time especially in a group and evaluating how well I performed in completing the tasks. I gradually came to understand how important this blog page is as it keeps an eye on everything I've done and what I should accomplish, especially when a deadline is approaching. Nevertheless, I would like to improve my weekly progress and plan for next semester by separating the to-do list (in bullet points or checklists) among the others so that it is easier for me to go back to it again without having to read everything from the beginning of the paragraph.
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HOLIDAY BREAK - POST PRODUCTION
SEMESTER 2 - POST PRODUCTION
Week 1
In this first week of the semester, there was one session of classwork where students must create a shooting video practice. I wasn't there that time hence I need to ask my teammates to catch up with the things I missed. Since holiday break has already passed, me and my teammates will catch up with the shooting process.
Week 2
This week, we created changes and edits for our filming schedule to be finalised. We also had another classwork in class regarding multi-editing practice, since I didn't finish the final video in class due to the short amount of time given, I will continue to finish this at home. I will refrain myself from procrastinating and get the blog done so I can focus on more important blogs in the future.
Week 3
During this week, we started on brainstorming and planning our social media, branding as well as the digipak. As a group, we collectively agree to split tasks where me (Chelsea) and Kalista will be in charge of social media research and development, while Audrey and Rara will be responsible of digipak research and development. We also had to finalise and think of our artist name. We will continue our shooting this weekend and I hoped it will go smoothly with no external factors (such as weather, traffic) that will get in the way of our filming.
Week 4
This week, we did more shooting for more scenes (beach & my home) during the national holiday. Since most of the clips are shoot, I started on editing on some of the scenes with the clips I have now.
To-do: Complete last day shooting on Sunday (karaoke) and shoot any extra scenes if needed.
Week 5
During this week we started on our critical reflection plan. Since me and my group had already planned briefly at the start of our project, it become much easier for us to develop our points for our critical reflection which saves us much plan. Although a problem for me is that the final project, whether its music video, digipak or social media are not finished yet, it also create challenges for us to include some points in our reflection since it may change during our editing process (not fixed). This week we also finished creating our audience feedback which is ready to be sent to our target audience.
Week 6
In week 6, we started on collecting responses for our audience feedback form, since our project is still on progress, it is essential for us to receive feedbacks and comments for our project so that we could improve for the better. There are still so many unfinished blogs I haven't finished thus I need to finish there as soon as possible so that later on I can move on onto another blogs and not worrying about the unfinished blogs I have.
Week 7
In this week, we continued on finishing all of the works for our projects that needed to be done. One of my biggest role is to edit the music video and create the artist's social media page, hence I need to focus on that part first and make sure to finish everything on time, then I can move on to help my teammates or finish the rest of the blogposts, especially the critical self reflection.
Week 8
During this week, we only had time for only one Media Studies class due to school camping that lasted for 2 days. For this one class I continued with the project to finish the tasks I need to finish, I need to prioritise on my main projects (music video and social media) as soon as possible. However, there were so many mock exams this week which prevents me from continuing much of my media project. I have to balance all of my schoolwork and decide which needs to be done first in order to efficiently manage my time because I am rather concerned because I know the deadline is really tight.
Week 9
This week, we continued with the project. Me and my teammate (Kalista) focused on the social media while Rara & Audrey focused on researching and developing the digipak. This week we planned to conduct a photo shoot in a studio near school, since the ideas were already there I hoped that it will become more efficient and easier for us to conduct the shooting later on.
- Target for this week: Finish social media planning (in Google Spreadsheet), catch up with music video editing
Week 10
For our final week, my group concentrated on behind-the scenes, final music video, post all social media posts, final digipak, and - above - all - the most time consuming task, the critical reflection.
- Problem: Time management has grown in importance for us to complete everything on time but also producing quality work at the same time.
- Solution: I had to sacrifice my sleeping time and other leisure activities in order to finish all of the tasks I need to finish before the deadline.
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Post-production was undoubtly one of the most enjoyable but stressful times throughout our media project as a team due to the tighy deadlines, bad weather, and conflicting schedules, as well as the nearly weekly mock exams that took up my time instead of finishing the project. Our shooting plans were also delayed as a result, and since the music video, digipak, and social media are all connected, we ultimately had to rush through everything to finish them. Nevertheless, even though it was exhausting at times especially when the shooting took the entire day, I had a fun time with my teammates and the cast because we were both productive and having a good time. I am also grateful of my teammates for putting in their best effort and trying their hardest to get a best outcome.
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don't forget to add pics of ur planner too !!! this makes it easier to catch up with deadline (since my gsheets no due date on when to submit thats why i use this planner for daily todo lists & etc etc bcs other school works also plays a role into my organisation and my time management)
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