This is my weekly progress and plan
Above is the project plan that our teacher had created
Week 1
- This week, we started discussing the groups for our project as well as start on the preliminary research. We also finished the brief for it. We had a difficult time selecting people for our group as some were absent and we had to decide our teammates by the end of the lesson. We were also introduced to media ecology, which is about how the media affects the human environment. I think that this could be very useful in our upcoming project!
Week 2
- Our teacher was absent for some of the days this week, so during those days, I finished up my preliminary research and started planning on me and my team's target audience for the music video. In addition, we made a list of song choices and finally decided on Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish. So far, I have encountered almost no problem, where the only one problem I had was
Week 3
- In this week, we mostly did lessons on media regulation and ownership. For the project, we continued and finalized our preliminary research and started on the research into our genre. All of this will be submitted on next week Monday.
Week 4
- In this week, we started on our statement of intent and learned about the Theory of Stardom, made by Richard Dyer, where it states that celebrities are made to represent 'real people' experiencing real emotions in order to relate to audiences and sell products such as films or music. We applied this theory onto our statement of intent, to make our artists. However, I wasn't present on the day where we had to fill in a table about theory of stardom, so I decided to just do it on my own free time in order to catch up. I found this to be very useful for our project as it helped me track down the things that I should do to create a persona for my artists.
Week 5
- This week, we finalized our statement of intent and started on our moodboard, storyboard, as well as planned out our scenes on a lyric sheet. We spent about 20 minutes each and finished with the moodboard. Moreover, we also had lessons about media regulation and ownership. These lessons has really helped me understand how media companies and government regulate the content they distribute to the audience. I will keep this in mind while continuing with the project. Additionally, we continued and finalized our preliminary research and started on the research into our genre. All of this will be submitted on next week Monday. Some difficulties that me and my team faced was that it took us quite a long time to think of ideas to put and whether it matched with our theme. However, we overcame this problem by brainstorming everything as well as discussing it in our whatsapp group. In the end, it was easier this way as we got to communicate outside school hours too, making it more efficient.
Week 6
- This week was entirely project lessons. I honestly really liked how this entire week of media is just project lessons as I find theory lessons very boring. I enjoyed making the storyboard, as well as planning our star persona. However, I did have some difficulties trying to juggle between several tasks at once since the due date for all of this is on week 7, especially since there has been loads of exams. I do think that it's a part of my fault for not managing my time that well. I have improved a lot since the past though, because I used to only start working on my part a week before, for this, I did everything step by step, still not good enough though. In order to improve my time management, I made a to-do list on my notes app as well as created a little schedule for me to look at after school so that I don't lose track of my tasks.
SEMESTER 2
Below is the plan that we have for the next 10 weeks for the 2nd semester.
Week 8
- This week was easier on us since it's still the beginning of a new semester. Our teacher gave us a mini project where we had to lipsync to the song 'Here Comes The Sun'. This was done in order to help us practice lip syncing. I found this lesson very useful as he gave us feedback after we lip synced, he suggested that instead of just mouthing the lyrics, its better to sing it out loud since only mouthing it can result in the lip syncing being unnatural and looking forced. This will definitely help me in my project as I might need to lipsync for some of the scenes.
Week 9
- This week, we continued on most of our blog posts. For me, I finished up the file organization blog post, location scout and risk assessment, as well as started on making the digipak for our music video album. I did most of these at home as I was sick for some of the days. At home, I started sketching out several options for the back cover and CD cover of the album on paper then shared it to my teammates to review as well as get feedback.
Week 10
- I had to add in new locations for the location scout and risk assessment as me and my team came to the conclusion that it would be better to film in nearby places instead of Bedugul Asri or any other places to save time and money. I realize that my storyboard's duration may be too long, which means I have to remake it in order to give my team mates a better vision of what to film and how the scenes are supposed to turn out. I will start revising on this issue.
Week 11
- In this week, we only had one lesson to work on our project due to holidays. During the holidays, I decided to continue my digipak research. I found the digipak research really entertaining as I got to see the different ways various artists create their albums, and how I can implement those aspects into the digipak later on. In class, our teacher told us to add two additional blogs onto our blogpost, which were 'Production: File Organization' and 'Production: Behind-the-scene'. I am responsible for the file organization blog post, I will be starting this once I finish my digipak research. Some improvements that I think could be made is by working on my tasks more efficiently. I should try and do things more quickly instead of taking it slow as we are approaching the deadline.
Week 12
- This week we filmed our field scenes in Lapangan Renon. The day before, I had to buy some birds from the market to release for the scenes. During the day, we faced multiple problems such as the birds biting and scratching us, as well as flying away before being recorded. Despite these, I'm very happy that we got to film and release those birds. Furthermore, it was constantly raining this entire week so the field got really muddy to the point where my shoes got wet because I kept running into puddles when shooting the scenes. I do think that the scenes we filmed here has good lighting and would work out really well in the music video later on. Next time, I do think that we should stop procrastinating and start being more productive in filming and any other work so that we don't have to rush everything once its near the deadline.
Week 13
- This week is the final week before due date of our entire project. I realize that we're very behind in many aspects such as filming, digipak, and many other things. We started recording as many as we could but due to the packed exam schedule, it was difficult to find a time where everyone could join the filming sessions. Moreover, I was sick almost half of the week, which further postponed our filming sessions. During the filming session a few days before the due date, me and my team had filmed in the street in front of my house, we faced many problems such as passing vehicles, as well as wandering neighbours which disrupted the filming session as we had to retake the scenes multiple times due to those disruptions. However, we managed to solve this issue by filming near the area where the neighbours don't go too often.
Reflection
I enjoyed writing this weekly progress and plan as it helps me keep track of my progress and reminds me of things I need to do and what to improve for next time. The difficulties I faced when doing this was that I was sometimes inconsistent where the recap for that week may be shorter compared to others, especially on weeks where I feel overwhelmed with tasks. Moreover, I had a hard time trying to prioritize which tasks I should do first as well as managing my time to do those tasks. For next time, I do think that I should set more realistic goals instead of just shoving everything's finish goal to be on one single date. I should do them one by one instead of procrastinating too. I would also want to reward myself with something small every time i finish a task so that I stay motivated and don't get burnt out. Overall, making this weekly progress and plan was time consuming but it helped me stay on track with my tasks.
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