Thursday, October 3, 2024

Weekly Progress + Plan

 



This is our Weekly Progress and Plan!

WeekStart DateTaskBlogpost TitleContent
Deadline
W1
30 September
Pre Production
Research
1Brief
2Team
3Weekly Progress
4Preliminary ResearchBroad genre researchW3
W2
7 October
Research
5Research: IndustryWho makes music videos?W3
W3
14 October
Research
6Research: GenreCodes and Conventions of your genreW4
W4
21 October
Plan
7Statement of IntentYour initial proposalW5
W5
28 October
Plan
8StoryboardShot by shot planW7
9Script / ScreenplayW7
W7
W6
4 November
Plan
10Screen TestActor auditionsW7
11ClassworkHow to: Camera, MeS, Sound, EditW7
W7
W7
11 November
Plan
12
Location scout & Risk Assessment
W7
14Filming ScheduleFilm over the break?W7
W7
BREAK
WeekStart DateTaskBlogpost TitleContent
Deadline
W8
8 January
Production
Shoot
Editing Mini ProjectA short recreation of a scene from your genreW10
Behind the scenesImages of your filming shootW10
Filming Schedule
W9
15 January
Shoot
File OrganisationMy system of storing video files
W10
22 January
Post-Production
Editing
Editing ProcessA description (including screen shots) of how you edited your postW12
W11
29 January
Editing
Audience FeedbackA review from your target audienceW12
W12
5 February
Editing
W13
12 February
Self Reflection
Self Reflection: CCR1W16
Self Reflection: CCR2W16
W14
19 February
Self Reflection
Self Reflection: CCR3W16
Self Reflection CCR4W16
W15
26 February
Self Reflection
W16
4 March
Finalise
W17
11 March
Finalise
Final Film OpeningW17
Final CCR

Week 1
In this first week, we made new blog posts about our upcoming project about a film opening. We also did research on multiple genres which was the preliminary research. In addition to the research, we also researched about different industries that is corresponding to our film opening genre such as, Blumhouse Productions, A24, Haxan Films and many more.

Week 2
In the second week, I looked further more into our horror genre and we did research about the film, I picked which was " The Exorcist : Believer ", and we did research questions based of the film we picked out and we find out even more what conforms within that certain genre and what subverts. We also know about the usual typical conventions used in the horror genre, the technical elements used to give the representations a meaning. The analysing part for the research was still a bit confusing to explain on how it conforms and subverts, so I'm still learning how to explain it in a way that can be understandable.

Week 3
In the third week, we learned about media consolidation, vertical and horizontal integration. Media consolidation is the ownership of other media companies in the industry. Vertical integration is when a company owns multiple companies in different types of sectors ( production, distribution, exhibition ). Horizontal integration is ownership of multiple companies in the same type of sector.

Week 4
In the fourth week, our research about our genre we picked for our Comp 1 was getting graded by the Teacher although, I didn't finish it. I got a decent score to be proud with. In addition to that, we also did the Statement Of Intent for our project to know our overall information for the project that were doing and the roles of each member in our team. Furthermore, me and my team has different kinds of ideas for the movie opening but personally, I think we should conform to most of the things within a horror genre. Our film will subvert the isolation feature and psychological harm instead of physical. Including with that, we learned about passive and active audiences. For passive which is, hypodermic needle and two step flow. Active is diversion, personal identity, social relationships, and surveillance.

Week 
5
In the fifth week, we created our initial idea for our scenes which was the storyboard, script and the screen play. We also watched a video how to create a storyboard to really visualize how the scenes will go through in the movie opening, it was helpful as there were things we didn't know how to put within a storyboard such as how the camera should be moved in the storyboard and how the characters has to be shown to get a specific idea on what the camera angle should be. 

Week 6
In the sixth week, the entire week we were mainly focused on our blogs for our project and we were given a piece of paper to track our work and fully complete it. We also did auditions for screen test with everyone in the class. 

Reflection : The 2nd term was good, I'm understanding more better with the concepts, technical elements and the theories that the teacher taught us in class. The teacher also taught us how to write the essays for future unit assessments and it was really helpful as he explained it very well. 

Week 1
We went back to Week 1 as we started a new semester, we learned about New Media ( any type of media that uses the internet or computers, smartphones to deliver information or entertainment and Technological Convergence ( it is when two medias combined into one media that has multifunctional purposes ) and we did the shooting practice to help us with filming in the future for our projects and we recreated the Jennifer's body scene when they were in school. The teacher also gave us video clips to practice on about continuity editing and we made a whole video from it to know how all the different editing techniques are used.

Week 2 
At week 2, we learned about more theories on media which are cultivation theory, desensitisation theory, social learning theory, reception theory. We also learned about dominant reading, oppositional reading and negotiated reading which is made by a person named Stuart Hall on the representation theory.

Week 3
At week 3, we started the editing process on our movie opening. We also learned about the Gender Theory and the Reception theory. The reception theory has 3 readings, which are dominant reading, negotiated reading, and negative reading : Dominant reading is when the audience gets the message on what the producer wants the message to be, negotiated reading is when the audience gets a slightly different message on what the producer wants it to be either a bit intended to the actual message or not, negative reading is when the audience gets the completely different message of what the producer intended it to be. The gender theory which there are three are : Butler's theory, Mulvey's theory, and Van Zoonen's theory.

Week 4
At this week, we did the project blogs such as including the dominant reading, behind the scenes, how we organize our footage, the post production with editing, and knowing about typeface development and how different styles of fonts can give different meanings to the actual word.

Week 5
National holiday for half the week but, we did most of our projects such as the editing and the teacher assigned us with the audience feedback.

Week 6
This week we started with our CCR 1 and 2, we had a discussion with what questions we should have in each CCR and how all the templates are going to be as and in the middle of the week, school closed due to extreme weather conditions so we had to do online and did further work on our audience feedback.

Week 7
For week 7,  we started with or CCR 3 and 4, where we can overall reflect on ourselves with each skills from the start of the term and till now. For CCR 4, is the tools we used to help us in the project such as the organizing part, the editing part, the recording to develop our project more as the weeks go on. We also did exams so, it was more difficult to do the projects as a lot of other subject exams has been preventing us to do the project and develop it with the editing to make it suited to the horror genre mainly.

Week 8
For week 8, we had our second mock test for Media Studies. We are also continuing and tracking our improvements to the edit of our project. We also finished on the audience feedback from using Google Forms. I continued on my CCR 3 and 4 with the 1 and 2 aswell.

Week 9
In this week, we finished our last mock test for this semester and now we continued on our CCRs. In addition to that, we also finished up our unfinished blogposts. We are also finishing up with our Final Film Opening thus, we only have a few more lessons to finish up everything as the deadline is coming closer.

Week 10
This is the last week, I finished all of my blog posts including with my CCRs. I'm proud with how I improved overtime with my team members. Kenneth gave us a late update to the video which made us a bit stressed due to the deadline being the next day after. Although, he finished it ontime and he finished the blog post on time thus, everyone in the team completed their blogposts and CCRs.

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