Weekly Progress & Plan

This is my weekly progress & plan for this academic year of media studies G12

Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W1	22 July
W2	29 July	Pre Production	Research	1	Brief	Description of the brief, embed powerpoint	W2
				2	Plan & Weekly Progress	Plan for the whole project, Weekly diary	W2
				3	Team	Your team + Links ot their blogs	W2
				4	Research	Research into documentary openings of the same genre	W4
W3	5 August		Plan	5	Statement of Intent	Plan for the product	W4
				6	Storyboard	Scene by scene storyboard	W5
				7	Location Scout & Risk Assessment	Possible shooting locations, risk assessment table	W5
W4	12 August
W5	19 August	Production	Produce	8	Behind the Scenes	Images of the shoot	W8
				9	Social Media (Research & Development)	Research into similar social media pages. Development of own ideas.	W9
				10	Thumbnail (Research & Development)	Research into similar thumbnails. Development of own ideas.	W9
W6	26 August
W7	2 September	Post Production	Edit/Reflection	10	Editing Process	How did you edit? Challenges, solutions	W9
				11	Self Reflection	Self Reflection Essay	W9
W8	9 September		Edit
W9	16 September		Submission	12	Final	Final doc, social media page, thumbnail	W9

Week 1

Back to school again, very excited to excel the class this time around. I reviewed this year's academic schedule for media studies and I am confident to ace it.

Week 2

The class and I discussed in depth about power of media and media regulation, also reviewing crime documentaries for insights of what it's like. Me and my group made two posters about social media regulations.

Week 3

My team and I finished our statement of intent for the crime documentary project, and we have planned the possible locations of the shoot, also the plot of our crime documentary has been made set. The class went in depth about media regulation, which include a new theory, the livingstone and lunt theory, casestudies like TikTok regulation, and how the law or the government iinterven.

To-Do:

- Location Scout with team

- Create storyboard(s)

Week 4

This week we finalize our storyboard and finish the risk assesment and location scouting. The class starts to learn about the media and power. 

To-Do:

- Shooting documentary 

Week 5

My group and I started a script + storyboard blog post, as well as a filming schedule for throughout the project timeline. 

To-Do:

- Shooting documentary

- Video edit documentary 

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Self-Reflection:

The weekly progress & plan is only useful when used correctly, and I happen to not focus that much on the writing the progress and plan, so it wasn't as useful to me. I was still able to keep track on my work and progress, without fully utilizing this tracker.