Weekly Progress

 THIS IS MY WEEKLY PROGRESS

WEEK 1

With all of us rolling back to school as our second term starts, we are officially introduced to the music video project, where we have to pick a group to be with to create video projet that imitates to that of a music video. Everyone who was in my group last time for the crime documentary (Including me) decided to stick with this group again once more. We then obviously started to do some research on the industry, taking notes/blogs of them. Feels a little bit overwhelming, as we only have seven weeks to get the research and blogwork done, and although that looks long, the 9 weeks of the first term of our final school year felt short - so there's no doubt that finishing everything we have in this term will feel fast, really quick. I am, however, quite excited at the prospect of making a music video, as there's much potential for it.

WEEK 2

Today, my group hastily had to pick a genre, cause we had to even though we didn't do it on time because we wanted to wait for one of our teammates (Gio) who was all the way in Australia and has been there for almost 2 weeks! But Mr told us to pick one anyway cause of the time. We picked pop as it was the easiest option, though RnB is also another good option we considered. We did research for about 30 minutes or so of music videos but I haven't wrote much, but I'll have to do it on my own.

WEEK 3

We continued our Music Video research, and also we finally agreed on a popular song, or at least the musician: Bruno Mars - Leave The Door Open. However, we disagreed at first about what music video and genre to do, particularly KSI - Thick Of IT, but unfortunately (for me) it was a vote of 3-1 againts KSI's new song, which was a funny song in the context of the internet that I wanted to do for my final year here. But Leave The Door Open is a good song regardless, actually I've been listening to it more and more... even if I lost the vote however, the experience of doing it was fun.

WEEK 4

This week we started our Statement of Intent, in which we also, in turn, had to narrow down and finally pick a song; and sadly we didn't get to pick Thick of It by KSI which wouperfect for our last year here, but Bruno Mars' 'Leave The Door Open' was the final option we chose, which is not a bad idea honestly (KSI's song is one I still vastly prefer, however). We also learned about Richard Dyer's Theory of Stardom during class work and theory lessons. We struggled at first on trying to get ideas as to what to put in our Statement of Intent, but we were able to look to our past, concrete examples for Statement of Intents. We also had a problem I trying to get a persona for the music video, but we fixed It regardless by studying/learning more details about the star though some quick research. We also made a cool moodboard to get a general idea of the 'vibe' of our music video, along with starting and making some shot ideas for our storyboard. Now, all we have to do is finish the research.

WEEK 5

We created a moodboard for our music video, to help give a general idea of the 'vibe' of the music video in which we wanted to capture. We then also started our discussion & annotation of the story board. It was fun discussing the moodboard, but the storyboard... man I wish I could be involved more but my teammates wouldn't let me for some reason. I will try to help more with lyrics-scene ideas. Also, we did a screen test with our whole class where we would all line up to sing a kareoke of "Don't Stop Me Now", while our teacher recorded us. This was used for our screen test blog, to evaluate the quality of the actors involved. It was both a fun experience, singing with my classamtes, and also an eye opener to a new song I would obsess over and sing about for days.

WEEK 6

We have started progress on the storyboard. We have also made a film schedule. Also, the screen test was completed. It was quite fun looking back, maybe a bit uncomfortable, too. We completedd the annotations needed o the lyric sheet, mostly. I was tasked to note down the seconds required for each lyric, but it took way too long to do it, more than I thought, then my friend gave me a practical suggestion that helped make things more efficient. The location scout and risk assessment is almost done... all I needed to do was send my classmate a picture of my hosue, both in and out. I don't know how will my parents feel about my friends having to record inside my house, but we'll see, we have plenty of locations anyways so it should be fine. I have made good progress with my bloglist, but with exams coming up and so many tasks piling up, internship being something I have to worry about, it gets easy to lose track of it all, so I gotta stay sharp these next few days & weeks...

Self-Reflection: I'm gonna be dry and honest; Writing weekly Progress is tedious. I was planning beforehand to write everything for the weekly Progress as I go instead of having to add more things later on, all at once, but procrastination got the best of me. I'm not an enjoyer of having to write big long tedious texts (most of the time) but I hope the weekly Progress I made was detailed enough or had good enough information.