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.
⌕ Week 1 ༝
This week the teacher explained us briefly regarding what are we going to learn throughout the term as well as the preview for the 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.
⌕ Week 2 ༝
During week 2, the teacher introduced us with the project brief. We have to create an intro of a crime documentary with a group, I feel so excited to plan and start making the project, hoping me and my group will be able to finish them on time with satisfactory result. Next, we viewed and researched several crime documentaries to analyse the similar conventions that they have. This helped me a lot especially for brainstorming my crime documentary ideas as I have the knowledge needed on what a crime documentary should have look like. I have also learned the importance of technical elements usage (camera, mise-en-scene, sound & edit) in a crime documentary to generate suspense and target their intended audience.
⌕ Week 3 ༝
In week 3, me and my group started on brainstorming ideas on our crime documentary project. Each of us proposed any ideas in mind individually in a word document, then we discussed our final ideas together. We do this to ensure that everyone has part to give their opinions to be heard and seen, enhancing our collaboration and communication skills. We then move on to developing our statement of intent for our project to determine the plot or story of our crime documentary as well as our suitable target audience. For next week, we planned to start searching for cast members who are interested to play the characters role for our video project, as well as conducting location scouting.
⌕ Week 4 ༝
In week 4, there was a day where the teacher was absent. We were instructed to starting working on our script writing, location scout and storyboard. Me and my group have divided tasks on who do in which me and Audrey will be working on the storyboard, location scout by Kalista and Rara and we will do our script together in a collaborative document. We are still unsure on who to cast for the roles, hence we still need more time to decide. The characters in our crime documentary plot have lots of bond and will spend a lot of time together on and off screen, so we also need to make sure that the people we cast have strong chemistry to avoid awkward situations during filming.
⌕ Week 5 ༝
During week 5, we continued finishing the location scout and risk assessment, finalising the whole script as well as starting to create the storyboard for some scenes. Since we've already made a filming schedule beforehand it saves us much time in class, not needing to create a new one as we already have everything planned out. We also started on shooting the interrogation scene this Friday after school in an empty classroom; it took a little more time than expected but everything went smoothly. For theory lesson, the class watched a crime documentary called, "Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wong) to identify the representation used. This enables me and my group to represent and portraying our intended characters accurately. The teacher also showed us crime documentaries spoofs that we could use as an inspiration. Our to-do next week is to continue shooting other scenes, especially the beach scene on Saturday.
⌕ Week 6 ༝
This week the teacher introduced us to the critical reflection. Compared to last year's component 1 project, this reflection is relatively different in terms of questions needing to be answered, and it also requires to be written in an essay format instead of creative presentation, which I found more challenging because I tend to communicate better with visuals. Still, I'll give it my best shot. Then, he gave us a plan outline for us to fill in so that it would be easier for us to write the important main points that are needed. Although each member of the group must do their own reflection, my group and I decided to compile our main ideas onto a single document and then write the critical reflection together to make the writing process easier.
⌕ Week 7 ༝
During week 7, we started on editing the crime documentary by using the application called Capcut from our laptops. While doing this throughout the subject session, we encountered a major problem. Collaborative editing can only invite up to 1 person so my other teammates couldn't edit on the same page. My teammate whom I invited first, tried on editing in this file, unfortunately it doesn't sync well with mine. Hence, our solution is for me to edit the main video while the others will continuously give me input and suggestions, we will do this through face-to-face or through online zoom. Specifically for the CCTV footage (which needs a filter), my teammates will edit the clip then I will add them together in the same editing file at the end. We have to finish everything by next Friday thus it is important for us to manage our time well for our crime documentary final video, thumbnail, reflection as well as the whole blog to be finished and submitted on time.
⌕ Week 8 ༝
For our final week, my group and I concentrated on completing our behind-the-scenes, editing, thumbnail research & development, and - above - all - the most time consuming task, the critical reflection. Time management has grown in importance since it is important for us to complete everything on time but also producing quality work at the same time. Another burden that I had to endure myself is to finish my research, especially when I have my own additional research that I need to analyse individually as well, therefore I must work on that quickly. To overcome this, I had to spare most of my free time finishing my media work as well as conducting a call with my teammates at home for inputs and suggestions on the editing. All in all, this week was busy and hectic but I'm glad I can finally managed to complete all of the tasks at hand.
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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, production and post 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 project. 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 next time 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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