Weekly Progress and Plan

 Here is my weekly progress for the magazine project and also a rough plan.

Week	Term 2	Week	Term 3
1 (2 Oct)	Brief, Research	8 ( 8 Jan)	Development
2	Research	9	Shoot
3	Research	10	Shoot, Self Reflection
4	Proposal	11	Post Production
5	Development	12	Post Production
6	Development	13 (12 Feb)	Deadline (Monday 12th February)
7	Development	14

Week 1

- Our teacher introduced us to the magazine brief and so far it is really interesting

- we learned terminologies and keywords to identify all the parts and features of a magazine

- using the terminologies we had learnt, we labelled the front page of our magazine with said terminologies

Week 2

- I started looking at other types of car magazines from friends and seatmates. I analysed other ways magazines could be designed and learnt from that.

- We went over representation theory and I could input a few things I learnt from it to my magazine project

Week 3:

- analysed two front covers in detail

- started on the less detailed analysis on 4 other magazines

problems: had too little examples of magazines irl so not so much to actually research on

solution: a picture of all the magazines from all the students in the class will be uploaded to a shared google slides.

Week 4:

- our teacher set us up with a new post to plan out our magazine in more detail

- throughout the week we did genre theory and mostly just magazine progress

problems: im still struggling on a title and coverlines for the magazine as i am very indecisive
solution: i chose the one that sounds best

Week 5

- we did media theories and a gallery walk activity with the class, presenting the multiple theories we've done

- our teacher instructed us to do a research and development on our double pages in a magazine

problems: the statement of intent format is still not enlarged

solutions: our teacher told us of a youtube video on how to fix the format

Week 6

- we did our first attempt on section A, where we fully watched a scene 4 times instead of the usual 2 times.

- we practiced on how to write up a proper section A (in pairs) and how to plan it

problems: ss i still struggled abit on target audiences 

solutions: after the section A practice we did, with how every mise-en-scen, sound, edit, and camera work could affect the audience, it helped me realize that it could also be applied to my magazine where every design i do and choices i make could affect how and what audience im targetting

Week 7

- we did checklist to make sure we have everything in the blog set up

- this is the last week im having, going into term break

problems: i have a bunch of blogs where I have to put a reflection on

solutions: i'll be finishing up my blog over the holidays/whenever i have that free time

Semester 2

Week 1

- we started on the location scout and the risk assesment for it

- went through the feedback that our teacher gave us individually about our project scores from last term

problems: the blog title (whilst editing) stayed as a black box instead of the title that it should be set as

solutions: went through the layout settings and eventually found a way to change it

Week 3

- we started to really focus on magazine development

- i started uploading all my photos and designing drafts of the front cover 

problems: could not find a picture i had taken for the front cover months back

solutions: i'll look through my gallery after school

Week 6

- we worked on the contents page and double page this week

- mainly focused on designing them

problems: our class got cut in half because our school was closed in the morning due to a traffic issue

solutions: we do everything we need to at home