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.

Pre-Production: Preliminary Research

 This is my Pre-Production: Preliminary Research blog for the Comp 3 Project.

Preliminary Research - Sagara 12B by Sagara Awatara

Team

 This is my Team blog for the Comp 3 Project.

Sagara (Me)

Gusde: https://gus-regentsmedia.blogspot.com

Maisie: https://mai-regentsmedia.blogspot.com

Maxine: https://maxine-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/

Weekly Progress + Plan

 This is my Weekly Progress + Plan blog for the Comp 3 Project.

Week 1:

- This week was our first week back into school, and more importantly media. We were placed into our randomized groups in tuesday, though that became a point of friction and reconsideration due to disagreements with members and genre chosen for each groups, I ended up moving to a different group and unanimously agreed on rock/alt rock as our genre, we started our early dive and prelimnary research into MVs where we are introduced to the different genres and its conventions. We also got back into studying media theory, in this case we got into Media Ecology, which is a study of how media interacts, influences, and evolves eachother, society, and culture.

Week 2:

- This week we began to do our larger scale genre research, in which we had to resarch and analyze 6 music videos that relates to our intended genres with great depth and detail, as usual these kind of tasks are daunting to me as there's a lot to do and I tend to do poorly with this and with time management, but we are given a generous amount of time so it should be fine for me, However it's been made more difficult since we had to put aside time for yearbook and graduation photoshoots. I'll have to manage my time well and do this quickly before the deadline, but not too much where I get burntout and result in a dip of quality in my writing.

Week 3:

- This week we continued with our genre research in class, the deadline is fast approaching by this week and I am very far behind with only having done 2 out of 6 so I'll have to set aside a lot more time to finish it, I faced quite abit of diffculty trying to find a song I like and relating to my intended genre so It'll take much more time than I'd like it to. This week we returned to audience values and discussed how it has changed throughout the years, particularly in areas of representation.

Week 4:

- This week we were given much more tasks for our MV project, particularly the statement of intent and storyboarding + lyrics. Doing the statement of intent took quite a long time since we had difficulties finalizng our music and artist choices, determining the representations, conventions, audiences, and also supporting them, it was especially difficult in determining our artists persona since it's something new but after a short lesson relating to it we managed to complete it with relative ease. The storyboard + lyrics was also pretty difficult as it took a lot of creativity and at times we didn't know the speicifc details of what will happen in each scene, but after further discussions the members responsible for it managed to do it just fine. For theory we returned to gender theories (Judith Butler, Laura Mulvey, Van Zoonen), we also had to practice university level text anaalysis where we had to read an article and analyze it claims, research, and challenge it with our own opinions.

Week 5:

- This week we continued with more project tasks of moodboards, storyboard + lyrics, and location scout + risk assessment which is what I'm responsible with, the location scout was very straightforward as it just relied on deductions and common sense but it was somewhat difficult to choose our locations, I didn't really actively participate with the other tasks but I did give occasional inputs. We also had a short preperation lesson for our upcoming assessment next week where we had to analyze our previous writings which relates to media ecology, I felt like the lesson wasn't too helpful, I still feel lost and unconfident for it so I'll have to study more on my own.

Week 6:

- This week we spent pretty much every lesson doing theory work, every pre-production related tasks are due next week on monday but considering we have pretty much everything done it shouldn't be too big of an issue, we've largely finished things like the Loc Scout + Risk Assessment, Moodboard, Storyboard, Lyrics, and I also finished an individual classwork where we had to analyze the real and reel personas of our chosen artists, I chose Liam Gallagher of Oasis. We also also finished our UA, s expected I didn't feel too confident about it and felt like my writing lacked everything possible to score good marks, but as it turns out I got a very good score, though now I fear I've wasted all my luck on this single assessment, which is worrying considering we have exams coming up real soon. This week we had our last media lesson on thursday since next week every day which has a media lesson is taken up by galungan holidays, I'll have to prepare and study for the exams on my own, and my group will have to complete everything in our own time.