Weekly progress and plan

 This is where I keep my weekly progress and plans for the documentary project.

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

First few days of media class, excited for the semester

- final project was introduced (we're making a crime documentary !!)

Week 2

Together with the class, we went through multiple crime documentary intros. We researched on aspects of crime documentary like what makes it suspenseful, what type of sounds or edits are put in, and things like the characters getting interviewed. We also learned about what conforms and subverts to conventions. So far, everything has been smooth.

Week 3

 This week we confirmed on our groupings and started on the statement of intent for the crime documentary. It was pretty fun working together to come up with the plot and story of our crime doc, we also went and asked our friends outside of class to see if they would be interested in acting for our documentary.

To do list

- finish statement of intent

- confirm where we want the setting of the crime to be at

- ask around to see if more friends would be interested in acting for us

Week 4

This week we did the topic of power and media and when our teacher wasn't in class due to school competitions, we did our script and storyboard for the documentary. The location scout and risk assessment is still ongoing, we might just take a few pictures and play around with the camera this weekend. We had asked a friend outside of this class if he wanted to help us with acting and he has already confirmed he can, which should help with our struggle of who's acting as who.

to do list

- get started on location scout

- start practicing and playing around with the camera and acting (get used to filming/acting)

Week 5

This week me and my team worked on our documentary even more, we made a filming schedule that we will be using to plan out when we're doing certain scenes. This saturday (24th aug) we have confirmed on our first day of meeting up for the documentary, however one of our teammates Rachelle sadly can't come. We will just be playing around with the camera and test out audios just so we can start properly filming scenes the next time we meet. Our storyboard and script are still a work in progress, but so far things aren't going badly.

to do list

- continue on the storyboard and script (for the team)

- mess around with camera settings until the quality is to the team's liking (for me, since we're using my camera)

Week 7

This week we had two project days (wednesday and friday, instead of only on wednesday). We developed the script even more and started editing and planning out how the scenes would actually play out. We have a schedule to meet up at my house on sunday to film the rest of the scenes, and hopefully get some editing done afterwards.

to do list

- film !!!

Week 8

This week we started filming every scene we had and started writing up reflections. The editing process is taking longer than expected, but since our teacher postponed the submission to monday it gave us more time to finish up on things we haven't finished

Self Reflection: The weekly progress wasn't of much use to me, but it was really helpful when I needed to go back on what I did the previous week. I had my own version of the to-do list in a seperate document and in my phone so I didn't use this for it, but back reading to look back on what I did and accomplished the previous week did help when it came to having to look back on my progress so far.