Weekly Progress & Plan

Here is the plan for my project, as well as weekly updates tracking my progress.

Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W1	22 July
W2	29 July	Pre Production	Research	1	Brief	Description of the brief, embed PowerPoint	W2
				2	Plan & Weekly Progress	Plan for the whole project, Weekly diary	W2
				3	Team	Your team + Links to their blogs	W2
				4	Research	Research into documentary openings of the same genre	W4
W3	5 August		Plan	5	Statement of Intent	Plan for the product	W4
				6	Storyboard	Scene by scene storyboard	W5
				7	Location Scout & Risk Assessment	Possible shooting locations, risk assessment table	W5
W4	12 August
W5	19 August	Production	Produce	8	Behind the Scenes	Images of the shoot	W8
W6	26 August
W7	2 September	Post Production	Edit/Reflection	10	Editing Process	How did you edit? Challenges, solutions	W9
				11	Self Reflection	Self Reflection Presentation	W9
W8	9 September		Edit
W9	16 September		Submission	12	Final	Final ad	W9

My Week 1 Progress
Basic Introduction to Media Studies.

My Week 2 Progress
This week we learned a lot of semiotics such as camera works, miss en scene and many others. I think this will be useful for the project because it helps us attract the audience if we perform well. The problem I have in learning semiotics is that there are different types of semiotics and it would probably be difficult to insert them into some scenes.

My Week 3 Progress
In this week we learn more about types of camera movements and angles. Many of them need to be memorized but I can do it. We also did some work for the project such as the statement of intent.

My Week 4  Progress
This week we learned again more about camera angles and movements but now we have an extra topic which is about sound. We also did some project work such as the location scout and risk assessment when the teacher wasn't here. 

My Week 5 Progress
This week we learned about miss-on-scene and reviewed more about camera angles and movements. Miss-en-scene is a French term which creates a visual presentation of a film or a play. This would be helpful for our tourism project because it expresses the scene by creating a sense of time and space, and setting a sense of time and space, and setting a mood. This week I missed one Media studies lesson about video editing. 

My Week 6 Progress
This week, we learned about different Genre theories from different genre theorists such as:
- Steve Neale
- David Buckingham
We would try to apply those theories that we have learnt into the final ad video.

My Week 7 Progress
Narrative Theory
- Barthes

- Levi Strauss

My Week 8 Progress

This week we mostly continued our project and added some parts to our blog such as the CCR and the self-reflection that we needed to add on every blog. I think the self-reflection helps us to identify the problems that we have run into and how would tackle or improve ourselves if we encountered that problem again. The CCR also has the same purpose as the self-reflection but it is more in-depth.

Self-Reflection: This blog shows the weekly progress that I have made over 9 weeks. I learned a lot of useful knowledge such as camera work and sound work which proved to be really helpful and crucial when doing the travel advertisement. The plan kept my team schedule on track and finished most of our tasks before reaching the deadlines.