Weekly Progress and Plan

Here is the weekly progress and plan for my documentary project.

Here's a plan my teacher made for us to keep track of where we should be.

Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W1	30 September	Pre Production	Research	1	Brief
				2	Team
				3	Weekly Progress
				4	Preliminary Research	Broad genre research	W3
W2	7 October		Research	5	Research: Industry	Who makes music videos?	W3
W3	14 October		Research	6	Research: Genre	Codes and Conventions of your genre	W4
W4	21 October		Plan	7	Statement of Intent	Your initial proposal	W5
				8	Theory of Stardom: Richard Dyer	A summary of the class, plus your example	W7
W5	28 October		Plan	9	Moodboard	Your visual style	W7
				10	Lyric Sheet	Breakdown your song into scenes	W7
				11	Storyboard	Shot by shot plan	W7
W6	4 November		Plan	12	Song Research	Background of your song	W7
				13	Screen Test	star auditions	W7
				14	Classwork	How to: Camera, MeS, Sound, Edit	W7
W7	11 November		Plan	15	Location scout & Risk Assessment		W7
				16	Filming Schedule	Film over the break?	W7
							W7
BREAK
Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W8	6 January	Production
W9	13 January
W10	20 January
W11	27 January
W12	3 February
W13	10 February
W14	17 February

WEEK 1

• Introduced to the music video project
• Chose team
• Started research into the industry

Problems: I am absent (overseas)

Solutions: I worked online

To-Do: Continue researching the industry and preliminary research.

I'm enjoying myself in Adelaide, well it is actually for church fellowship. I try my best to keep myself updated with my team and school work by asking questions and starting projects earlier than everybody in class.

WEEK 2

• Started Genre research

Problems: I am still absent (overseas)

Solutions: I contacted and communicate with my friend online via Whatsapp

To-Do: Continue my previous research and plan with the team what music we're doing.

I'm still doing the same strategy as in week one, but a lot more communicating with the team.

WEEK 3

• Continued genre research with team
• Discussed different genres of music and which song to choose

Problems: Agreeing on a genre of music and a song

Solutions: Came to an agreement by discussing the pros and cons of each genre and proposed songs with all team members.

To-Do: Continue music research 

I have returned back to school and we finally was able to discussed in detail head-on about the our music video. A lot of heated debate but we were able to agree on the same basis. 

Week 4

• We did the mood board for our music video
• We started our storyboard

Problems: Took time to come up with ideas to put into the statement of intent and choosing a persona on the star of the music video

Solutions: We refer back to previous work of our own to help make the statement of intent, and we research more about the star through some quick references online. 

To-Do: Finish the statement of intent.

I decided that I will lead the making of the storyboard, as I am quite experienced and I was also the one who made the storyboard for our previous project together. We have a lot in hand and a lot more tasks to complete. There was a problem that we had to go through as a team, we almost split up, but we manage to pull it through and sticked together. I believe we became stronger as a team more than ever; everyone started to work more seriously. 

WeeK 5

• Started screen test
• Started lyric sheet
• Started moodboard
• Started location scout and risk assessment

Problems: We try to find people to be part of our screen test

Solutions: Casting everyone in our class in a screen test that we all did together as a class

To-Do: Completing all the unfinished work for the week based on the schedule the teacher gave before deadline

I'm very happy this week, as we are on track with the schedule. I might even say that we are going faster than intended, however to not get overwhelmed by trying to fit in so much in just a few weeks we will postpone any filming in mind to after the exams. 

WEEK 6

• Started progress on the storyboard
• Started film schedule
• Completed screen test
• Completed lyric sheet
• Completed moodboard
• Completed location scout and risk assessment
• Learnt about camera, mise-en-scene, sounds, and edits through classwork and theory lessons

Problems: Finding time to do all the remaining tasks

Solutions: Creating a priority tasks list and also delegating work to other members.

To-Do: Finishing the storyboard, filming schedule and genre research. 

This week was quite the busy week for me, as I have the bigger tasks in the team alongside with one other member. We worked very extra for the team and managed to get a lot of the minor tasks done. Our major tasks isn't done yet but everything is close to finish. I believe we'll finish it early next week. 

WEEK 7 - DEADLINE

• Completed storyboard
• Completed film schedule
• Completed genre research

Problems: Finisihing individual work on the blog post before the deadline

Solutions: We make sure all project work is done so all that is left to do is individual work like blog writing and layouting. 

To-Do: Finish blog post.

I'm all done with the blog work, and I hope for the best. I pray for a good score so that this graded project will hopefully cover my lost grades on one project I did.