Weekly Progress & Plan

 This is our Weekly Progress

Week 2

This week, we made the blog post on brief, team, weekly progress and the research posts. We also watched a few documentaries to research on to get hang of what the conventions or tropes of what crime documentary is like or a documentary. In this week, I have a more wide idea of creating a documentary with my brand new team that the Media Teacher made for us. 

Week 3

This week, we made the Statement of Intent and the blogpost with our team and we discussed what will be the main idea of the whole documentary we will be making in the next few days or weeks. The main idea was a finance crime documentary between two businesses and we have yet not fully confirmed either that will be the main idea or it will be something more simpler. In addition, we learnt a new theory which is Livingstone & Lunt. The teacher made a very good explanation on the theory which made it more simpler to understand about media regulation and how big companies can easily avoid regulations. Also, we watched a few news on the internet about misinformation, but we also learnt about disinformation aswell. ( misinformation is when the people does not know about either if its false or true, whileas disinformation is there is an intent on posting that false information )

Week 4
In this week, we did storyboard on our team to get a idea on what the scenes should be in for our crime documentary project. The person that is in charge of the storyboard is Mila. We are also finding locations that are suitable for our plot/setting and we haven't found the exact location for the 2nd location but for some scenes the locations would be in our school as the plot is about a murder on a teacher by a student. The person in charge of that task would be Kimora, and I'm the person in charge of the script and it would be dialogues on the interviews. Lastly, there are new terms in the media which is the power in the media which there are 3 groups that can have power within the media which are the companies, individuals and the governments. In this case, we used Twitter in our case study to study of this topic.

Week 5

In this week, we did more work on our storyboard with my team and we finally have the main idea and plot finally figured out and we are going to start filming this week on Friday. This means that we would have made a filming schedule for when we are going to film the other scenes for our crime documentary. The whole class also researched upon the Jessica Wongso case, which we learnt with new topic on how the media represent people fully. Furthermore, the teacher told us to use AI in some of our classworks to get a more understanding to make AI a more useful source and not to "copy and paste" instantly. Instead have more prompts and make a more better answer with all the theories we've learnt and others such as representation, audience and industry from media contexts. We also learnt more about Power in the Media and why, how and who are the people that have power within the media. 

Week 6

In this week, we are starting to do our CR ( Critical Reflection ), there are 4 critical reflections which are essays. Our team has also started into filming our crime documentary and has started with the intro and several interviews with the actors. We had to retake some couple of shots as some shots were rushed and it wasn't up to our preferences, it is fun to have some different members in our team as it is more diverse and people have different skills on each tasks. Which can make this documentary more simpler and communicative to do which could improve the quality and plot of the whole crime plot, we are going for. Next week, we are going to start learning about Media Ecology and how technology advanced relating with movies that are dystopian fiction. Overall, this week had been very fun and full of topics to talk about relating with media regulation, CR, and our filming.

Week 7

In this week, we are starting to finish up our video clips for our documentary while Alex starts to edit the documentary. Also, we need to retake some of our clips as it was a bit rushed and the audio was a mess and there was wind blocking the actor's voice. Although, next week we will be taught how to make a thumbnail or the features of a thumbnail, I will be the one in charge for making the thumbnail.

Week 8

In this week, this is the deadline for our crime documentary project and we are finishing up all the blogs, thumbnail and the main documentary. This was the busiest week for the media class. I also finished up the critical reflection with the questions that the teacher gave. It was very stressful making the thumbnail as it was very rushed although, it was good enough to conform to the video documentary.

Week 9