Weekly progress & plan

Here is my weekly progress & plan for this 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

FIRST PHASE - RESEARCH AND PLANNING 

Week 1

We were introduced to our new brief for our component 3 music video project. As we haven't made a final group we started our preliminary research for different genres (conventions, audience, etc) in order to get a brief overview of what music videos we would like to do. So in the mean time I continued researching on different music video's that fit the genre I choose (pop/indie) such as the conventions, industry, audience, and others. 

To-do list: Finalise my group in order to get a fixed genre to research on 

Week 2

Had our finalised grouping which Im very pleased about, we continued with our research about our genre which is pop. However I gotten confused on genre and hybrid genre as the music vidoes we picked has multiple genres in them. Thus why we picked different music video's to research in order to get an overall overview of what we should do and avoid in our music video. We picked and found out the distribution and production company our main genre (pop) focuses on. 

Problem : Gotten confused on genre and hybrid genre as typical MV's have multiple genres 

Solution : Asked our teacher about the difference of the genres and sub genres in this case I learned that our team would use pop as our main genre but could have the sub genre indie-pop

To-Do list : Continuing my research on typical genre conventions 

Week 3

This week was pretty boring as we simply continued our research however, our teacher gave us a warning that we will be starting our planning by next week so it is a must to complete my reasearch by this week. So we focused on researching; preliminary industry, and in dept research of our chosen genre convention. 

Problem : Many upcoming tasks to plan and finish 

Solution : Created a note on my laptop and google calendar so that I can keep up with deadlines that are going to come

To-Do list : Finish my research on typical genre conventions and industry research 

Week 4 

This week we started on our statement of intent. As we already have a overall overview of our initial plan and idea this task was finished easily. Furthermore, we were introduced with a new theory which is the Theory of Stardom by Richard Dyer as it helps us determine our artists persona. As this helps me gain insight of how celebrities are initially constructed in order to relate to audiences and sell products such as films or music. 

Problem : As a team we had many ideas on how we want our artists to be so we had a hard time to figure out our statement of intent. 

Solution : Spent more time as a group discussing how we want our artists to percieve and how we will target our main audience to be intrigued with our artist

To-Do list : Finalise our statement of intent

Week 5

We had our final song choice which is "the weekend" by BIBI & 88Rising, then we started to create our moodboard for our music video and lyric sheet. Creating our moodboard was quite fun because it was as if were making collages however it seemed quite messy which we will fix later on, this just gives us an overall visual aspect of how we want our music videos aesthetic to be so that it stays constant. As for our lyric sheet we started brainstorming ideas on what scenes to use at first we used a piece of paper but Chelsea & Audrey decided to change it to a digital version so that we can all annotate easier in our own time.

Problem : Had a hard time starting off with our lyric sheet as we all had no idea how to start it off, as at first we wanted to keep the narrative straight forward but we wanted to subvert it by having a little twist in the middle

Solution : Spent even more time with our lyric sheet so that we at least have a general idea on how our narrative will play out in our MV

To-Do list : Continue team discussions as we still don't have a fixed narrative to follow 

Week 6

This week was fully project lesson so we tried to use our time effectively as our group wasn't done with our lyric sheet. Since our deadline was next week I tried to use this time to try and finish my other blog posts as I had some that were still empty so that I had less work to avoid cramming last minute. Furthermore, as a class we held a screen test to determine a suitable star for our music video although we didn't find anyone that fit the role, we did find our supporting actors from this screen test as some fit our narrative. This allowed me to have a tiny break so that I wasn't overwhelmed with all the tasks due. 

Problem : Many deadlines and our team had a creative stuck as we still had missing parts in our lyric sheet but then again we didn't know what to put as our narrative was quite complex

Solution : Tried to finish blog posts that were east to accomplish while watching more music videos to find inspiration of what scenes we can add to our lyric sheet 

To-Do list : Finish lyric sheet and new blog posts (classwork, screen test, location scout & risk assessment)

Week 7 

DEADLINE WEEK!! We had one final project lesson as we needed to focus on our exam revision. This is when we had to finish our pre-production stage which in my case for my group was very hectic. We finished our lyric sheet this week which took longer than expected, but our teacher was able to give us many new ideas on what to add since we had a hard time picking out some scenes. Our team was able to finish our location scout & risk assessment this week with our storyboard still on-going which had to be done quickly. We also finalised on who we want our artist and side characters to be and thankfully most of them agreed to do the role. 

Problem : Had many other deadlines this week so I had to manage my time effectively which was harder than expected. Hadn't finish some blog posts and storyboard 

Solution : Finish everything quickly by delegating tasks and letting everyone do their own work as most of our group tasks were accomplished. Even though this was done by rushing everything within the last 5 days

To-Do list : Finish storyboard, every unfinished blogposts, reflection

Pre-production reflection: Having this weekly progress & plan was really beneficial for me to track my project throughout the first half of this project and remind me of what I needed to finish for each week. This leaves me with goals I need to accomplish by the end of each week, which holds me accountable for each task that hasn't been done on time. Additionally, the checklist provided by Mr. Nick really helped me to track what blog posts were missing or weren't finished, allowing me to be a bit more organized. However, I believe I and the team could have worked more effectively, as we left 3 tasks to be done by deadline week, which left all of us panicked due to everyone having their own busy schedule from other lessons. In the future we should have a clear goal set from the start and have a specific deadline in mind because the one task that took us the longest was our lyric sheet, but I'm happy that ours was very detailed, which will probably give us more time to shoot each scene as we have the inspiration in our document as well. Nevertheless, I'm happy we got everything done on time, as now term break is getting nearer. 

SECOND PHASE - POST PRODUCTION AND FINALISING