Location Scout + Risk Assessment

 This is my Location Scout + Risk Assessment blog for the Comp 3 Project.

(This was primarily done by me, but my group members gave additional inputs.)

Location Scout & Risk Assessment Table .docx by Gusde_ Dabs

Self Reflection:
- Compared to the other tasks my group members had to do this one was without a doubt the easiest one in terms time taken and overall complexity as it was straightforward and is largely based on deductions and common sense, so this task didn't take too much time or brain juice for me to do. Although the few difficult things with this task was choosing and deciding on a location since my group wasn't fully set on specific locations yet and it took some time to think of, and in some cases I don't know the locations all too well, thankfully this was quickly resolved by asking my group members for their input and making general deductions.

Classwork

 This is my Classwork blog for the Comp 3 Project.

Classwork by Sagara Awatara

Self Reflection:
- This was somewhat easy, it really generally was just a recap of everything (or most) technical elements we've learnt in media so far and considering how important and prevalent they are in our projects, it's not that hard to explain or remember them, what really was hardest about this was just how much time it took to make, but even that wasn't all that bad relatively. I think this serves some importance in the context of our project, listing down technical elements really made me and remember them and what purpose they serve, and allowed me to reflect on how these might be used for our project.

Classwork: Persona

 This is my Classwork: Persona blog for the Comp 3 Project.

Cream Colorful The Impact of Technology on Modern Music Production Presentation 

Self Reflection:
- This was a pretty easy and interesting task, it was great that we got to choose our own artists and so I chose the one I thought had a pretty interesting and well known character. I think it was pretty easy becuase my artist had very easily seen differing personas between reel and candid "real" moments, albeit in most cases they're pretty much only different in how exaggerated the persona is. This task gave us a cool but useful introduction of how and why artists may have differing personas, and encouraged me and my group to really think what and why of our artist's persona.

Moodboard

 This is my Moodboard blog for the Comp 3 Project.

(This was done by Maisie, but the rest of the group gave occasional feedback and help with ideas.)

Comp 3 Media Moodboard by Maisie Halomoan

WHY:
- Our team decided to go for a bleak, oppressive and dark mood. This is because such coloring scheme and mood will represent the suppression imposed by the politician upon the journalist, and in the larger scheme, the people. 

Self Reflection:
- I only gave occasional feedbacks and ideas but the full credit goes to Maisie for this task. I think this task was somewhat easy, however it did take some time to find pictures from various sources that fit with out desired atmosphere, and it was also the first time we (Or I) had to try and make or aid in making a moodboard so it was a new experience. Thankfully our issues were solved by consulting eachother and giving constant feedback, and we already had a general theme and idea in our heads so we weren't going in fully blind either when trying to find pictures for the moodboard. In the end I think this ended up pretty well and managed to capture our intended mood and atmosphere.

Lyrics + Storyboard

 This Is My Lyrics + Storyboard blog For the Comp 3 Project

(The lyrics sheet was done by Maisie and Gusde while the storyboard was done by Maxine and Gusde, I only gave occasional inputs.)

Design by Max W

Self Reflection:

- I didn't do much at all in this part of the project so all credit goes to the rest of my group. This part generally looked and felt more difficult as there were constant clashes of visions between those who did it which caused occasional pauses in progress, and it was also difficult to come up with scenes considering how much we needed and our goal of making a representation and meaning heavy MV, overall these tasks required a considerable amount of creativity and effort. Despite the difficulties I'm glad to see that we were able to come up with compromises, understandings, and ideas we liked after discussions, and the Statement of Intent also aided us in setting the tone and theme of each scenes. I think these are done well and I'm glad that I managed to help even just a tiny bit with my opinions.

Statement of Intent

 This is the Statement of Intent blog for the Comp 3 Project.

ALT rock G12_Statement of Intent_Comp 3_Template.docx by Gusde_ Dabs

Self Reflection: 

Initially getting the statement of intent was a great challenge as I had anticipated. Although we had already decided what genre we wanted, everything else such as the choice of song and artists were only still whispers and half baked ideas we threw around for the sake of getting something in the table, it was pretty confusing to narrow things down due to a difference in choices, the year limit, among other things which somewhat set us back abit. However fortunately afterwards, when we had decided on a concrete song and idea, things got much easier and smoother since Gusde already had somewhat developed visions for it and all we needed to do was expand and refine it. I'm not sure how much we'll use this statement of intent, however considering the teachers soon to come efforts to have it on our table every project lesson, I'll probably at the very least remember our general goal, though I'm not sure how much of this I'll follow throughout the project.

Pre-Production: Genre Research

 This is my Pre-Production: Genre Research blog for the Comp 3 project.

Red Yellow and Blue Retro Music Club Trivia Night Game Presentation by Sagara Awatara

Self Reflection:

    I believe I made this research much much harder than it's supposed to be. Although we were given a rather generous timespan to do it, I kept pushing back when I will actually try to complete the research, aside from that there were other activities that hindered my ability to actually focus on the research like assessments or classwork for other classes. As a result I felt very rushed trying to do this, and have been somewhat unable to really look back through all 6 researches in depth, I think I could've done better, and I wish I continued the momentum of doing and prioritizing tasks as I did for the last project, but what's happened has happened. 

    I think I went overboard with my writing, it has alot of words, is dense, and I believe riddled with unecessary words, which at this point is no surprise to me. As such I might've spent far too much energy and time in some research, all for it to contribute nothing to my research and its meanings, thus having no benefit on my grades. 

    Finally, this whole analysis of music videos is very similar to what we've been doing with film openings and such, but music videos have abit more to unpack in a shorter video, it was hard to spot out editing and sound/audio aspects in depth since I rarely do in my research. I do however felt somewhat more comfortable when having to decode meanings and representations, it felt abit more natural and has more liberty to some extent.