Weekly Progress + Plan

 Here is my Weekly Progress and Plan for my Music Video 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

WEEK 1

This week we're diving into a new project, music video. I have set up my brief, decide my team, and starting my research on the music video industries that are producing music videos like Sony Music Entertainment. My team has chosen the topic RnB and INdie theme

To do list: 

• Wrap the research
• understand my genre (RnB, Indie)

WEEK 2:

This week we're continuing our research on the genre of our music video. For the moment we have decided going for RnB genre and yet here is my understanding of what the music genre is. Simply to put, RnB is the combination of Jazz and HipHop, where it took the steady-smooth rhythm of Jazz and expressing genuine feelings towards a social issues from HipHop. 

To-do list: 

• Continuing 2 big researches and 6 small researches
• Add more researches if u find an interesting MVs

WEEK 3:

Our teacher didn't come at Tuesday so we just continue our researches on the music video genre. On Thursday, we discuss an interesting case study about Elon Musk taking over Twitter and rebranding it as X. Later on, he made a changes to the regulation leaning more to freedom of speeches and unbanning some controversials figure like Donald Trump. We also made a poster about it and continue the posters and research on Friday. 

to-do list:

• Finalising the Genre researches
• Start Statement of Intent if possible
  

WEEK 4:

This week we learn about celebrity persona and get to know the Theory of Stardom, discussing on celebrity that has multiple personality on how the act infront of the camera as well as how they behave behind the scenes as in their personal life.

to-do list:

• Finishing statement of Intent.

WEEK 5:

Today we started our moodboard and decide on the mood, atmosphere, and the tone of our music video. We also started our storyboard so that we have a visual idea of the scene that we want to shoots in the future.

to-do list:

• Continue storyboard
• If have new idea of atmosphere, continue moodboard
  

WEEK 6:

This week we don't have any lesson, we just focus on project lesson. I've completed some works that requires less efforts to prevent any overdues, since next week is the deadline for everything and I want to focus the bigger works that needs more efforts at home. This week is super busy for me, I also have some other projects to do outside Media, and Redbull is still my besties.

to-do list:

• Finish the checklist
• complete any unfinished assignment
• fill in reflections.
  

WEEK 7:

This week is our final project lesson before the semestral break. On Wednesday is our project period, where we're finishing every pre-production post due in Thursday midnight. On Thursday, we practice a media exam-question spontaneously and our teacher told us to give ourself a review to which it is very useful to know your flaws and pros.

Self Reflections: This weekly progress really helped me tracked down my progresses as well as what we just learn in class at the time. If I can be honest, I rarely check my weekly progress if I have assignments and instead I can just ask my friend or I've prepared separate notes that is much more reachable. Yes, I am still clumsy enough to have overdues, thus making me submitting things later than being told.