Weekly Progress + plan

 This blogpost shows my weekly progress during the whole music video project process.

week 1: this week our teacher mr nick introduced us to our music video project and put us into groups. my original group placement was with my friends kristine, gusde and maisie. we had a disagreement about our genre because kristine and I were leaning towards pop but gusde and maisie werent. so we decided to bring this matter to mr nick and decided to switch groups with some of our other friends. my group now is kristine, mila and I. we decided on pop for our genre and watched multiple music videos 

week 2: This week we were introduced to media ecology. we also did our media research and continued it. I worked on my research and so did my group. we finally confirmed our genre which is pop and started brainstorming. my teammate kristine and i already had our ideas in our head and we just need to choose a song. we were debating on either Lorde, Addison Rae, or Charli xcx.

week 3: This week we still continued our genre research and i was a bit behind because i procrastinated during the weekend so i had to use a lot of my time this week to finish it because the deadline was approaching. my group and i finally decided on a song and we picked "shapeshifter" by Lorde. I was very happy with this decision because that was actually the song i picked out. the three of us picked two songs each and did spin the wheel. and the end we didnt really agree to what the spinning wheel decided so we just did a vote. 

week 4: This week we did the statement of intent and had a deadline for 2 days because Mr Nick really wanted us to take statement of intent seriously which we all did because there was a short deadline. we also got the papers for storyboard and my group decided that it would be my task. I'm actually a little bit scared of this workload because i've never done storyboard before and I don't think i'm able to do it as great because i'm not good at drawing either. anyhow, i will take upon this challenge because this year i really want to step outside my comfort zone.

week 5: this week we did Location scout and risk assessment, this task is going to be easy to complete because my group and I already have a clear idea on the scenes so we just need to find places in Bali that match those scenes. my group continued with our mood board as well. i love doing mood board because it makes it easier for us to see the vision brought to life. mood boarding is very fun to make too because we get new ideas everytime we go on pinterest.

week 6: this was the last week before deadline on monday. my group and i decided to meet up at starbucks in icon mall to finish up with all the group assignments. we all got it done but i was still not finished with storyboard. my goal for before monday is to complete it. i already know storyboarding was going to be hard but i know i can do it. i hope my drawing skills get better.

reflection: I do not like doing weekly progress because it's so time consuming for no reason. i'll admit it does help set goals and i only hate it because i procrastinated all the other weeks so i hope next term i can stop like actually stop procrastinating on doing weekly progress because it makes me waste so much time when it's near the deadline. This whole pre-production stage i felt was one of the greatest moments in media for me because for the first time ever i didn't have to stay awake with kristine until 4am doing our media. we actually didn't procrastinated at all only a little. the storyboard and lyric sheet was a bit time consuming though, it took up most of my time because i did 5 pages. the lyric sheet was easier but it was still hard to take all these ideas from my group and combine it so that its a compromise and everyone's happy and okay with  the decision. genre research was the most time -consuming because i procrastinated so i had to stay up until 5am for two whole days and got little to no sleep. my teammates are really great as well we all help eachother and there is no conflict at all. I think i just need to work on practicing with past papers and read a little bit more about the theories so that i can fully understand them and apply it during the exam.