Weekly progress, Plan

This is my weekly progress for Component 1 (Semester 1 Term 2):

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
W5	28 October		Plan	8	Storyboard	Shot by shot plan	W7
				9	Script / Screenplay		W7
							W7
W6	4 November		Plan	10	Screen Test	Actor auditions	W7
				11	Classwork	How to: Camera, MeS, Sound, Edit	W7
							W7
W7	11 November		Plan	12	Location scout & Risk Assessment		W7
				14	Filming Schedule	Film over the break?	W7
							W7

Week 1
This week, we learned about the media industry, including production, distribution, and exhibition. We also set up our blog and started creating a new group for our new media project. I am eager to see how this group will improve over my last term 1 group. 

Week 2
Today I learned genre more details and researched more in-depth about how convention subverts and conforms our movie research. We also researched companies and industries that do action/thriller genres to see how they would convey that genre to the audience so we could use it in our final video.

Week 3
This week we did two big researches and 6 small researches on the genre that we are aiming for. This helps us to further understand the technical elements we are aiming for to finish our final project.

Week 4
On this week we did our statement of intent for our project before progressing to the next stage. We worked as a group and created the initial ideas where we finalised our genre and audience for our final project. That week we also assigned roles to each of our groups so we have an organized and easier project.

Week 5
This week we worked on the storyboard and learned how to properly work on our storyboard. It has become my task to draw the storyboard as my other group mates would work on the technical elements needed for the scenes. This week proved to be useful as it helped us to plan ahead before doing our final project filming on set.

Week 6
This week we worked fully on our project film and finished the storyboard along with the risk assessments, and statement of intent. We also did a screen test where everyone was given a line and tried to act them in front of the class. I am very confident of my teammate and I think we will finish this project on time.

Making weekly progress allows me to keep track of what I have learned so far and goals that I needed to achieve within that week for Semester 1 (Term 2).

This is my weekly progress for Component 1 (Semester 2 Term 3):

BREAK
Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W8	8 January	Production	Shoot		Editing Mini Project	A short recreation of a scene from your genre	W10
					Behind the scenes	Images of your filming shoot	W10
					Filming Schedule
W9	15 January		Shoot		File Organisation	My system of storing video files
W10	22 January	Post-Production	Editing		Editing Process	A description (including screen shots) of how you edited your post	W12
W11	29 January		Editing		Audience Feedback	A review from your target audience	W12
W12	5 February		Editing
W13	12 February		Self Reflection		Self Reflection: CCR1		W16
					Self Reflection: CCR2		W16
W14	19 February		Self Reflection		Self Reflection: CCR3		W16
					Self Reflection CCR4		W16
W15	26 February		Self Reflection
W16	4 March		Finalise
W17	11 March		Finalise		Final Film Opening		W17
					Final CCR

Week 1
This week we recreated a scene from John Wick as our practice from a long holiday to refresh our filming skills. We learned a lot from this week as we now can decide who in our group has the capabilities to edit videos, film, etc.

Week 2
This week we learned about different skills in editing such as cuts, fade etc. The teacher gave us different clips that needed editing to make it into one film that made sense. We had an overall good experience as we now have a basic understanding of editing.

Week 3
This week we learned theorist and their theory such as Laura Mulvey where she states "Sex is biological, gender is behavioural." We learned about representation and gender theory. A new post has been added to our blog called "Behind the scenes", this is where tasks will be given to our members during shooting. We also made progress on our filming task where we started filming on the chosen location. However, we have not finished recording 100% and we would need to visit our location again to continue our filming. There might be a few changes on the storyboard due to the environmental issues of our location.

Week 4
During this week we only had one lesson because school has 3 days of holidays and we were supposed to have a media study lesson. During the lesson, we learn different typefaces and fonts that are suitable for our genre of film opening and how they can attract different types of audiences. We also had to reconsider and shoot our film opening scene because it wasn't according to the storyboard and it is not what we planned and wanted.

Week 5

On this week, we had a long national holiday so the school was shut down. The progress was minimal during this week as I couldn't meet my groupmates at school. 

Week 6

This week we also gathered responses from our audience and their suggestion about our film. We also had online lessons during this week as the school was shut down again due to the harsh condition of weather. The progress was yet again minimal.

Week 7

On this week we went back to offline school and learned about CCR. The CCR helped us to create the reflection of our final film. This week we also gathered audience feedback about our film to find any flaws in our film from their suggestion. It appears like we had to re-shoot our film and fast as the deadline is coming close. 

Week 8
This week we had a mock test of this week and in the next few meetings, we had to start early for our CCR 3 and 4. I did a little work with all the CCRs and hopefully, I finish all the CCRs before next week.

Week 9
This week we finished all the mock tests so now all we have to worry about is our final film opening result. This week I worked with the typeface and font that would be suitable for our film opening's credits and title. The film opening we had was not according to the storyboard so this week I had to rework the storyboard and hopefully finish it before next week. I did not finish my CCR and so I need to finish it A.S.A.P.

Week 10
This week is the deadline week for our film opening. This week was the most work that I have ever done. The reason is that I had poor management time and organising so I stayed up until 12 AM a day before the submission date to finish all the blogposts that I hadn't finished. Luckily, I managed to finish everything before 10 AM (which is the submission date).

Reflection:
This whole project was a blast! Maybe next time I will need to fix my time management skills and organizing skills so I can finish my task much more quickly. But overall, I improved a lot of skills from this project which I can bring later on to real life/in the future.