This Is My Weekly Progress + Plan for my Comp 1 Project.
Week 1:
- Throughout this week we were introduced to the media industry, mainly things like funding, ownership, distribution, charters and agendas, and so on. Charters are basically strict rules that film producers must adhere to and all media text they publish follow those said rules, agendas are bascially based on the funders or owners personal belief and values, which also may affect what media text is being published. Alongside that I finally learnt how confusing this whole media ownership and world is since everything overlaps, owns and owns something else, and so on.
- Following that on Friday, we finally got into our groups and started deciding on what type of film we would want to make and whether it'd be niche or mainstream, I managed to get very little research to the industry as I found it hard to decide on what group we want our movie to be in, and what producer we'd expect to make our typs of movies, in the end though we managed to decide on Lionsgate and Niche/Independent.
Week 2:
- On tuesday we did a more in depth and big research towards our genre, we chose a movie that we wanted to research and had to write things about conventions, and representation which is simillar to what we did last term, I will admit I don't know too much about the movie I'm doing to go very in depth, but I think it's my best shot when I have to consider the genre I'm trying to go for and having to choose a movie that also follows it. I still struggle trying to put in techincal elements especially when it comes to things like editing and camera so I'll have to catch up on that. I also probably need to watch a bit of movie intros to get my mind marinated to this genre I wanna do.
Week 3:
- On week 3, we did a collection of researches both big and small to find more inspirations that could hopefully influence and aid us in making our film, and deciding on what overall aesthetic and emotions we want to envoke and show within our opening.
Week 4:
- On week 4 we learnt further in depth about media consolidation, we learnt about things like vertical and horizontal integration, cross-media convergence, and synergy as well was how those things beenfit the audience and the media companies themselves, then we did a classwork in where we had to research our own case study about which 2 companies did synergy together and how it benefited them and the audience.
- On Tuesday we went into our statement of intent, here we were hit like a truck and decided to move away from the whole mafia genre and aesthetic and decided that we wanted to go for teenage criminals and stuff, aside from that we also drafted and planned the roles of our group, we also chose pur final genres and to what demographic and psycographic we want to aim our opening to.
Week 5:
- On Tuesday we finally began on learning and working on our storyboarding, script, and a little bit of screenplay as well. We first did a rough "bad" draft of what we wanted our storyboard to look like, after which we watched a 13 minute video of how to draw them well before we went on and made another storyboard that is more detailed and in some way better, we also had a long discussion about how exactly we wanted the opening to look like and alot of ideas were brought it, thrown out, and planned to be used.
Week 6:
- This whole week was filled with project lessons and was where we did a majority of our work, I also began to fill up my blogs and ticked a few things on my to-do list. We began to fully go in depth with things like our script/screenplay however our storyboard is still waiting on the script to be somewhat finished or to be further done. I still have a few gaps in my blog such as the script/screenplay post, storyboard post and what not. I'm quite nervous and stressed out since now it's daunting on me with the fact that I still have a lot of work to do and can't just wait things out till the shooting day comes up.
- Next week is sorta gonna be the same thing but I do believe we're gonna start reviewing and learning for our semestral exam which I'm nervous for.
Week 7:
- This week only had one project lesson on Tuesday but that was where we had to pretty much wrap everything up and submit and do everything on our blog, I only managed to get some of them done that day but I kept doing them bit by bit throughout the week, it was kinda confusing since I sometimes didn't know what exactly to put in the blogs and if the things I need to put is exactly finished and enough, but for now all I can do is hope it's enough.
- Aside from that the rest of the week was used for us to review and practice for the semestral exam next week, we practiced both text analysis and writing an essay, the first one in particular was very hard for me since I'm not really used or comfortable writing things like this.
Self Reflection:I think this term went on pretty well, there wasn't much that we did project and shooting wise however I do think i learn much more and could possibly be important and helpful for me in some case.
(Semester 2)
Week 1
- One of the activities that we got from our teach was shooting and editing practice. The teacher told us to choose a section of a clip from a movie that fits with our chsoen genre for our project and recreate and edit it. My group chose to do a clip from Fight Club, me and Panji acted in it while Arnold edited and did the camera work, Alex helped in camera positioning and taking behind the scene pictures. I think this was helpful since it really helped get our engines running again after a long long break, it also helped us spot what things we need and how we could possibly solve issues we may face.
Week 2
- This week for our project lesson our teacher gave us the task to practice continuity editing and the importance of it, me and my partner had to practice editing while ensuring we have continuity by using pre recorded clips that were provided by the teacher.
- For our theory lesson we learnt about 4 new audience theories which are Cultivation theory, desensitisation theory, social learning theory, and reception theory.
Week 3:
- This week we learnt a large amount of theory. We learnt about representation theory, reception theory, and 3 gender theories from Butler, Murvay,Van Zoonen, and one other person that I forgot, in general thes theories state things like how sex and gender are different and can change from time to time, how men dominate the media indsutry and about male gaze.
- This week on thursday we did a good bit of our project, we did a dominant reading blog where we discussed the readings of our project within things like its events, people, and social groups. The editor of our group also started on a small bit of his editing. We finished our shooting, though we may have to reshoot some scenes since some of them look shaky and we don't have 2 minutes worth of footages.
Week 4:
- More than half of this weeks school week was taken up by chiense new years meaning we only had the opportunity for one media lesson which was used for our project. I started writing about the movie openings typeface development which we plan to use for our title and credits, despite this me andd my group are still struggling to find a proper title that would fit the theme of our movie and won't sound too corny, we tried using chatGPT but it went nowhere since they all sounded generic, corny, and similar to preexsiting films.
- The groups editor FINALLY had the will to edit, because of this we're quite far behind and have to catch up quite abit, thanks to the teacher though for giving us scolding which kickstarted our engines, especially for our editor.
- Me and my group still has a lot to catch up on, and our roles and tasks in doing the blogs aren't all too defined, I'm trying to do what I can most to help.
Week 5:
- National holiday, school closed.
Week 6:
- This week we had to take online schools since our actual school was closed due to extreme weathers, it was abit of a throwback to quarantine but it felt odd and was dificult for me since my school was very slow with having to handle zoom and other softwares that Id have to use.
- Aside from that, we finalised our audience feedback and also were introudced with CCR 1 and CCR which I only started abit with, if there's anything I hate most in media it'd probably be having to make a ccr, it really makes me wonder why I decided to stick around, but at the end I'll still have to make it anyways.
Week 7:
- For this week we returned to offline school. We started off with our CCR 3 and 4, both of which I've only done a bit about but atleast I have a hang of it now, I hope to finish all 4 CCR's in the next few weeks. My group also plans to shoot one last scene this week.
- Throughout this week we also had to face a few mock exams which made progressing with our project.
Week 8:
- This week was no different from the previous one. On Tuesdsay we had a review lesson regarding our previous mock test and discussed the questions and answers we had on it, I must say that I think I did pretty well considering that it was the firsts mock in a while but there's definetely room for improvement there, we also got help and tips from our teacher for our next mock on wednesday which I believe would be beneficial and could help me a lot.
- On wednesday we had another mock exam and this time I think I did a lot well as compared to the previous one I did, I felt more confident with my writing and I hope I can continue doing well in my future mocks and actual exams for media.
- On Thursday we had a project lesson with the teacher absent so a substitution teacher took care of the class instead, the editor finally got done with most of the editing so that means we can finally start with doing a bulk of our CCR.
Week 9:
- This was a very turbulent week, we had a mock test in media and other subjects, and biggest problem of them all being that we need to reshoot a nd effectively restructure our film project that was deemed to make no sense at all and was poorly done, we need to do this within the span of 6 days, in between that we have to study for more mocks and prepare our slcs, I blame this on our inconistensies of communications and work ethics, god help us all.
Week 10: (DEADLINE WEEK!!!!!)
- This was the final week for our media project submission. We managed to finalize on our video and did all of our editing so now hopefully our video is acceptable and makes sense to the point where we can gain some points and a good grade, we did things like adding a voice over to make our story make sense, fixed the typeface so it fits our genre more.
- I also managed to complete and wrap up my CCR's and blogs the night before the submisson day (Wednesday) and thankfully I did it with minor inconveniences and difficulties. I think I did more work regarding my blog and CCR's in this last 3 days as compared to this whole semester, I'm happy with how my things ended up especially considering how long I didn't do them and how little time we had left to finish everything.
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