Weekly progress & plan

 Here is my weekly progress & plan for my documentary project.

 

Stage	Week	No.	Blogpost Name	Description of Blogpost
Pre-Production	W1	1	Brief	Description of the brief, embed PowerPoint
	W2	2	Plan & Weekly Progress	A weekly journal that is updated at the end pf each week. Contains a list of what you do, problems, solutions, and a to-do list
		3	Team	Your team + Links to their blogs
		4	Research	Research into relevant documentary openings of the same genre (crime)
	W3	5	Statement of Intent	Proposal for the details of your project. Final product, target audience etc.
		6	Storyboard & Script/Screenplay	Scene by scene storyboard
	W4	7	Location Scout & Risk Assessment	Possible shooting locations, risk assessment table
		8	Filming Schedule	Schedule of when you will film, what locations, and what you need to prepare
Production	W5	9	Behind the Scenes	Images of the shoot. What problems did you face in the shooting day, how did you overcome them? What was everyone's role on the day?
Post-Production	W6	10	Thumbnail (Research & Development)	Research into similar thumbnails. Development of own ideas.
	W7	11	Editing Process	How did you edit? Challenges, solutions
		12	Critical Reflection	Self Reflection Essay
	W8	13	Final (Submission)	Final doc, thumbnail

Week 2: This week we decided what our new groups were going to be for the crime documentary project, as Mr. Nick wanted to change it up so we'd have new people to work with. We got familiar with Blogger.com again and created our first four blogposts. This week was mostly for organizing and getting introduced to what we're going to complete this term. we got started on our brief and began to do some research. We analyzed a few documentaries and looked into the general tropes that were in them. After watching and paying attention to about 5 different documentaries, we found that they were all very similar and we got a lot of inspiration to follow for our projects. 

Week 3: This week, we continued to do more research, as well as starting our statement of intent. My team and I were overflowed with different ideas of what we wanted to do. The research that we did gave us lots of inspiration and we were struggling to choose one story to go with. In the end we all agreed to a murder crime documentary. Our statement of intent is unfinished but it helped us finalize our ideas. We're all very excited to execute our plan. 

Week 4: This week my team and I got started on our storyboard. We talked about the concept of our project and made a draft of what we might want some of the scenes to look like. Maxine is our artist for our storyboard because she's very skilled in drawing/sketching. We also talked about possibilities for where we're going to shoot our scenes and put everything into a location scout + risk template. This helped give us a better idea for our content as well because we know more now about where and what we're working with. Lastly, we started brainstorming dialogues for our script. This was the most tricky task because as we're still trying to finalize our idea, we don't know what we want our actors to say just yet. We decided to just make a rough draft and get it started, so later on we have something to work with during the beginning, but we can make changes along the way. We got a lot done this week and we're closer to being ready for the shooting stage in the project.