Weekly Progress & Plan

This is my weekly progress & plan of my 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:
This week, I had my first media studies class and I'm nervous on how I'll do in my upcoming crime documentary project that has just been introduced. 

Week 2:
This week, I started to watch crime documentary openings that was projected in class and analyzing their similarities and their genre conventions. I had also started on my research blog where I had to think about how producers created suspense with camera, mis-en-scene, sound, and edit. This gave me ideas on how I can start my own crime documentary opening and what genre conventions I want to follow. 

Week 3

This week, I have finalized my team members and we started to brainstorm ideas on what type of crime documentary we want to create. We organized our ideas by filling a statement of intent our teacher gave us where we had to think about the genre, topic, target audience, characters, and representation. It was a fun process to me as we were trying to come up with multiple creative ideas, create fictional characters and their behavior as well. 

Week 4

This week, in my team, I was tasked to plan the script of our crime documentary. It was quite difficult as everyone had ideas of their own and we had to compromise and come up with one that can be done with the resources we have. In addition to that, to make the operation smoother, my team have assigned tasks to each members. 2 people, Jasmine and Rachelle, will be doing the storyboard as they have good quality drawings, Jocelyn and I will be shooting and doing the filming processes, and we all will be doing the location scout and risk assessment together. 

Week 5

This week, me and my team continued writing on our script and organized the amount of scenes we have for the opening of our crime documentary. We plan to start on our storyboard when we finalize the draft of our script. In addition to that, we made a filming schedule to organize when we want to shoot the scenes so we can finish everything before the deadline. Below is the link to my team's filming schedule. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GP6YwpxcqXVCxKz5BSc2nDMR5u5dd1qiLAkB5GmUXss/edit?usp=sharing

Week 6

This week my teacher told the class to start on the critical self-reflection where I started by answering the question prompts he provided. They are guideline questions to what we have to include for the main questions and this was really helpful for me as now I clearly know what to include in my essay compared to last year's critical self-reflection where my answers were quite lacking because I just wrote what I thought should be included in those questions. 

Week 7

This week I continued and added to my location scout and risk assessment and did adjustments to the script as my teacher gave feedbacks and suggestions on what we could change to improve it further and it really helped cleared up some confusions I had on the plot. In addition to that, me and my team started working on editing the clips we have gathered so far and it was quite difficult as we realized we were lacking a few clips in certain scenes. 

Self-reflection:

This weekly progress and plan helped me track the progress of my crime documentary where each week I can reflect on what I have been doing and whether or not I am falling behind the timeline of what needs to be done each week from the brief. However, upon reading it back, I would like to add a clear to-do list, problems, and solutions section after every summary of what I did that week so that whenever I encounter the same problem in the future, I can find the solution that worked out for me in this blogpost instead of searching for it all over again.