Branding Research

 This is the Branding Research blog for the Comp 3 project.

This was made by Me (Sagara)

Branding 

Self Reflection:
- I was in charge of making the branding reasearch although I was given occasional help by my group members.

- Some of the biggest issues I had were struggling with describing and wording out things and making things make sense, I'd assume this is because I haven't done something like this in quite a while and because of the difficulties I faced I ended up procrastinating and delaying the task and doing it bit by bit.

- There wasn't really anything specific I did to fix my issues, I did look through the examples Mr. Nick gave us to give me some sort of idea regarding how this should be written, but aside from that I just forced myself to do and finish it.

Screen Test

 This is the Screen Test blog for the Comp 3 Project.

The form was made by Max, but was passed around by Maisie.

    Gathering feedback from people of our target audience can be beneficial as it'll help us improve and make tweaks to the MV by giving feedback and criticisms from people who actually care and like the genre and won't be entirely alien to it, meaning the feedback will be related and helpful, getting feedback will also be beneficial as it offers outsider opinions compared to media students which may offer unexpected ideas.

 

QUESTIONS

FEEDBACK

Most of the feedbacks have very minimal complaints regarding our MV, this likely stems from the fact that it was still undone and lacked our entire narrative, meaning we won't have much feedback to work with for now. A criticism is one where we lacked preperation, this likely comes from the vocalist as it was a very sudden and unprepared substitute we had to get.

Self Reflection:

- I didn't do much aside from helping coming up with questions to use in the feedback.

- The primary problem we faced with this task was coming up with questions that weren't too specific and too broad, we had to really consider our wording and put into mind how the audience who reads this might feel/think. We also ended up doing this and giving them away the day they were due, before media class.

- We solved the question issue by trial and error with the group, as in we would try one question and discuss whether it was good enough/made sense, and if it didn't we would try to come up with new ones by altering them. Our group member also had free time during one of the periods before media, meaning they were able to pass them around quickly in the chillout room which consisted of multiple students at once.

Classwork: Persona + Brand

 This is the Classwork: Persona + Brand blog for the Comp 3 project.

We were tasked by Mr. Nick to create a mind map revolving our artist, it involved things about our persona, personality, identity, behaviours, etc. 

(This was done by Maisie with help from the group)

Self Reflection:

- This task was primarily done by Maisie, however me (like the rest of the group) helped by giving input and ideas on what to write.

- The primary difficulty came from Maisie herself, Maisie needed help from the group to really solidify on her ideas and what to write, meaning when we were unable to be present and help, the task would come into a abrupt halt. Furthermore, coming up with ideas on what to write and solidifying our artist's image itself was also pretty difficult since we didn't really word things up until this point, it was made harder sicne Mr. Nick reccomended us to fill up as much of the paper as possible which gave us extra pressure to write more.

- We ended up utilizing as much free time we have at school to finish this task, we also looked into our artist inspirations to get more ideas which really helped us generate ideas.

Classwork: Theory of Stardom

 This is the Classwork: Theory of Stardom blog for the Comp 3 project.

Media 

Self Reflection:

- I think this classwork was somewhat useful as it helped us apply a new theory into a case study of our choice, it gave me alot of useful insight on how essentially all aspects of an artist shown on screen is constructed which may even also account for those who try to appear as grounded or lowkey. It also taught me how these things can influence an artists relationship with the public and thier fans, and even their music works too.

- Furthermore, this classwork also made us really think on what aspects we aspects of our artists we want to show, why we want to, and how to do so. Previously we only ever considered what we want to show simply because it'll make them look favourable, now we are able to consider how it may affect the brand image, and also how to actively tie it back to our statement of intent and visions through applying it in our music video, social media, and possibly digipak.

Behind the Scenes

 This is the Behind The Scenes blog for the Comp 3 Project

BTS Comp 3 

This was made by Maisie.

Self Reflection:
- The shooting in my opinion was pretty fun despite how embarassing it felt imitating and pretending to play an instrument I'm not familiar with.

- The shooting faced multiple issues. A good chunk of the group was stuck in traffic far from the shooting location, resulting in those who were there to wait, we also lost 30 minutes of the 1 hour time limit we had on renting the studio because of it. Our initial planned vocalist also unfortunately backed off very suddenly and resulted in us having to quickly find a replacement who ended up not knowing our song. 

- Fortunately these issues managed to be solved. We decided to extend the rent period for another hour which gave us more time but also meant we had to pay more for it. The vocalist although was slow and at times felt uncertain due to not being familiar to the song, ended up doing it pretty well since we did it in chunks and was given guidance by the group.

Filming Schedule

This is my Filming Schedule for the Comp 3 Project

Design 

This was done by me (Sagara) with assistance from the group.

Self Reflection: 

- The filming schedule in terms of locations diverted pretty significantly from what we had planned in mind and also what we wrote down in our loc scout + risk assessment due to logistical and time limitations, many of our planned loccations simply didn't make sense and did not fit our capabilities. This became a significant issue to the group as we had to reevaluate our MeS, theories, and locations which dealt a significant blow to the morale and motivations. 

- Thankfully, we as a group managed to meet a few compromises. We managed to replace a good amount of our planned locations (band scene specifically) and manged to meet a few compromises. We managed to replace a good amount of our planned locations (band scene specifically) and manged to shoot them within the allocated timespan, the location also ended up becoming very beneficial and easy to use as it was a studio.

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.