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.