Weekly progress + plan

 Here is my weekly progress and plan.

Music Video Project
Stage	Week	Blogpost No.	Blogpost Name	Description of Blogpost
Pre-Production	W1	1	Brief	Description of the brief, embed PowerPoint
		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
	W2	4	Classwork	Can be carried over from last project
		5	Preliminary Research	Research into variety of music genres
		6	Genre Research	Research into relevant music videos within your genre
	W3		Genre Research (cont.)
				Deadline for Research (end of Week 3)
	W4	8	Statement of Intent	Proposal for the details of your project. Final product, target audience, Star Persona, etc.
		9	Storyboard	Scene by scene storyboard
				Deadline for Statement of Intent (end of Week 4)
	W5	10	Location Scout & Risk Assessment	Possible shooting locations, risk assessment table
		11	Filming Schedule	Schedule of when you will film, what locations, and what you need to prepare
	W6		Finish Pre-Production
Production	Break	Term Break Use your Term Break to Film 12 Behind the scenes What did you do on shooting days, your roles
Post-Production	W1	13	Thumbnail (Research & Development)	Research into similar thumbnails. Development of own ideas.
		14	Social Media (Research & Development)	Research into similar Social Media Accounts. Development of own ideas.
		15	Editing Process	How did you edit? Challenges, solutions
	W2	16	Research: Production Company	Who is a big producer of your genre. Who is an independent distributor of your genre
		17	Test Screening	Audience Feedback
	W3		Continue Work
	W4
		20	Production Deadline	Final Music Video, Thumbnail, Social Media Account
	W5	18	Movie analysis	Text analysis of your film opening
		19	Critical Reflection	Self Reflection Essay
	W6		Continue Critical Reflection
	W7		Continue Critical Reflection
			Final (Submission)	Full Blog

Week 1

This week we discussed our brief and completed our preliminary research.

Problems: 

Solutions:

To Do: 

Week 2

This week we started our genre research and learnt more about media ecology. 

Problems: My group and I were a bit nervous about getting all of our research done before the deadline.

Solutions: Since this was more of a procrastination and effort issue, we all kept each other in line by asking one another if our research is almost done, or if it's going well. 

To Do: Complete all 6 genre research

Week 3

This week we continued our genre research 

Problems: We were still facing the same problem this week with the deadline for research.

Solutions: We continued to keep each other in check and motivate one another. 

To Do: Complete genre research before the 23rd of October. 

Week 4

This week we started our statement of intent and completed more research for our music video.

Problems: 

Solutions:

To Do:

Week 5

This week we started the process of creating our artists persona and got a lot of blogposts done before the deadline (mood board, storyboard, classwork, location scout/risk, extra research). We also had an exam on media ecology.

Problems:

Solutions:

To Do:

Week 6

This week we continued to finish our blogposts, especially focusing on our storyboard because we wanted to do both an online and hand drawn version. We also started preparing to film because we had a plan to do our first scene over the weekend. 

Problems:

Solutions:

To Do:

Reflection:

Pre production went very smoothly with the group that I have. We successfully split different tasks to one another and since we were all very excited about our ideas, doing the work was less stressful than other previous projects. We did face a few problems like time management; getting things done before deadlines and planning our schedule for filming since some people will be away. To fix this, we just kept our communication skills strong and worked around the issues.