Weekly Progress and Plan

This will be my weekly progress and plan for my component 3

Week 1:

- We learned about media ecology and what is the meaning of it. We also learned about medium and media and the common differences between them. Medium is the platform where media is transferred while media is the information spread. 

Week 2:

We did a project lesson and took notes on their general conventions. Today, the struggle was finding the music within the genre we chose, as there were so many options. But the solution was to talk to my teammates, and so finally, we chose an Indonesian indie song to recreate.  

Things to do:

- 5 general research

- 2 detailed research 

Week 3:

This week we continued our music video research about the genre and broke down some music videos of our chosen genre. We also watched a podcast of how Elon Musk changed Twitter which could be linked with power in the media.  The only problem I faced was trying to finish all the research which needed time management skills that I didn't have. 

To do:

EVRYTHING

Week 4:

We started our statement of intent finishing all the necessary details inside of the statement of intent. This will help us make the final statement of intent as all the details such as the target audience, conventions, and how to appeal to these audiences are done briefly. We also discussed the stardom theory: how producers can represent our stars to connect with the song. 

Week 5:

We made our mood board on how we wanted our music video to look. This will help us in the filming process for our music video ensuring that we will keep track of how our music video should look like. We started breaking down scenes of our music video and connecting them with the lyrics of our chosen music. 

Week 6:

This week was full of project lessons we continued our tasks and were given a to-do list to help us stay on track and make sure everything was done by the deadline. I focused more on the moldboard this week as we had to change it which was quite time-consuming as I'm trying to make it look aesthetic and pleasing which can help us make sure our music video will match the mood board. 

To do: 

- Complete the to-do list

- Finish planning the filming schedule

Week 7:

This week is the last submission for the pre-production blogposts such as the brief,team, and others. This means that we have no more time to procrastinate and should start finishing up our blog posts. This week we did a review for the semestral and practised a question paper that would help us with the graduation.

We were also given a tracker:

To help us with ensuring everything is complete.

To-do

- Finish everything

- Stay up all night

The weekly progress helped me a lot, as it kept me on track. Adding to-do lists helped remind me of what I should do for the next week and what I should finish. The weekly progress is not done every week which is mostly my fault as procrastination is always my main problem. We were also given a to-do list to help us with tracking our remaining tasks. This would help us with increasing productivity as we needed to recap and write what we do every week. For this time i barely added any details on each week which made me a little difficult now with remember what the class did during that week. 

Term 3 / Semester 2

Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W8	6 January	Production	Shoot		Mini-project: Lip Sync and Editing	How to edit	W10
					Behind-the-scenes	Images from your filming (all members)	W11
W9	13 January		Shoot		Social Media: Research & Development	The creative process for your stars	W15
						social media page
W10	20 January		Shoot		Digipak: Research & Development	The creative process for your Digipak	W15
W11	27 January	Production	Edit		Editing	Your editing process, including	W16
						screenshots
W12	3 February		Edit
W13	10 February		Self Reflection		Self Reflection	(1000-1500 words)	W16
W14	17 February		Self Reflection		Audience Feedback	Feedback from your target audience	W15
						which you will use to make improvements
W15	24 February		Self Reflection
W16	2 March		Finalise
W17	8 March		Finalise		Final Promotional Package
					Final Self Reflection

Week 1 

This week we made a small music video where the whole class participated and each clip from each group are combined by our teacher. We also started learning about the global village and how the media is related to that.
To do: 

- Finish the editing

- Make the blogpost

Week 2

This week we did a multicam editing on the day i was absent so i didn't know what it was but my group told me about it. We also made a filming schedule to help us keep track of the project. We also discussed about post-colonialism which was the study of what happened after colonialism and how it is shown and affecting the media now. 

To do:

- Ask what is needed to be done

- Create the multicam video

Week 3

This week we learned about branding that will help us manage the project's social media art, where we are needed to promote our star and show how we want the audience to view them. This took some time and was challenging because we didn't think of this at all last term. We also struggle to finalise how we want our star to look as it is quite hard to make him unique. 

To do:

- Finalise what our Star's image should be

- Figure out how to create that image

Week 4

This week there was only 1 lesson as we had a 3-day holiday. Today we showed our teacher the raw clip of our music video and our first draft. We got some feedback like having to change the lightning of some scene as it was to dark, and add some more performance scenes. Remaking the scenes wont be a problem but having to find the day where we can all film will be quite difficult as we all have our own schedule aside from media studies.  

To do:

- Change the editing using the feedback given

- Reshoot some scenes

Week 5:

This week we created our audience feedback which has the feedback for our social media and music video draft. This is done to get feedback for when our music video is over to realise what is lacking in our music video and what is unique about it. 

To do: 

- Find people to answer our feedback

- Change our video to mee their expectations

Week 6:

This week, there was terrible weather so we did online school, which was pretty annoying as it was hard to focus, but we started our CCR planning for our final draft. The main focus was to finish the planning of our CCR which would help us when making the final document. 

To do:  

- Finish planning the CCR

- Start CCR

Week 7:

This week there were no problems aside from having a mock test on wednesday. We didnt have much time doing a project lesson due to that but we did manage to get a theory lesson. We also reviewed how to answer the questions that were going to appear in the exam basically practicing for the mock and the A level exam for those who takes it,

To do:

- Study for the next mock

- Review theory lesson

Week 8:

This week there were mocks and we continued to do our project and had a project lesson about it. We skipped 1 lesson this week as there was a camping trip with our school. This week i couldn't join the mock so i needed to catch up but i was there for the project lesson. There are still quite a few blog posts we need to finish like the digipak and social media but other than that we should be fine. 

To do:

- Finish up the social media account

- Complete digipak research

Week 9:

This week i did the mock i couldn't do last time and on Wednesday did our third and final mock. Today, Friday we continued with a project lesson and continued our digipak social media and branding. Today i finished the digipak research on other indie genres artists. 

To do:

- Hope i pass the third mock

- Finish digipak, social media and branding

Week 10:

This week is the deadline for our project. We have to finish our CCR, digipack R&D, social media R&D, and branding which is very challenging as we are clashing with mocks of other subjects but i will complete in anyways. Maybe if i started earlier it wouldn't have ruined my sleep schedule but other than time management the project is overall still challenging

To do:

- Finish it

The weekly progress is made to keep us on track on which tasks are needed to be done by each week and it acts as a review of what we did in that week. The weekly progress also shows how i solve problems and what problems i encounter when trying to complete this component 3 project. Although useful the weekly progress is not done regularly each week which makes it challenging when completing the weekly progress as sometimes i tend to forget what i did for that week. But with the help of the teacher and other media students when i forget what i did that week others will remind me.