Weekly Progress + Plan

Here is the weekly progress+plan for my tourism ad 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
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 Presentation	W9
W8	9 September		Edit
W9	16 September		Submission	12	Final	Final ad	W9

Weekly Progress

Week 2

This week we learnt about genre and semiotics. Genre is types or groups based on characteristics. Semiotics is a study of signs.

They both will help in our project by setting a clearer target audience and basing our codes on it such as sound and music choices, camera angles, and editing. I'm a little confused of the labels of genres such as sub genres, hybrid genre and genre conventions but that's okay i'll figure it out. I did my research hw early so now i have time to study other things

Week 3

This week we analyzed and began our research for our tourism project. We also learnt about camera angles such as long shot, closeups, over the shoulder, and dutch angles. We learnt about the uses and importance of those angles being used in films or ads such as how high angles make the subject look weak and vulnerable and how it affects the audience's perspective and emotions.

Week 4

This week we learnt about types of camera shots such as fixed, pan, tilt, dolly, handheld, and crane. After knowing this information and its effects on the audience, it's much easier to insert one or more of the effects to create a specific atmosphere or effect that we want on the audience. We also learnt about diegetic, nondiegetic and transdiegetic sounds. diegetic is sounds that can be heard by both audience and characters, nondiegetic are sounds that can only be heard by audience, and transdiegetic is the transition of diegetic and nondiegetic, from one to another. ive learnt the effects of these sounds combined with different types of camera angles and shots. This is great for our project so that we can create the effect that we want to.

Week 5

This week we learned about mise-en-scene, editing and we planned our filming schedule.

https://maxine-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/2024/08/filming-schedule.html

We planned to film in 2 locations. Our first location, the hidden canyon, will be filmed on Saturday, 24 August. We planned our props and equipment and other necessary things and divided tasks amongst our group members so that the filming process will be easier.

Week 6

This week we relearnt about genre theory, steve neeles and david buckinghams theory about films. We did the CCR. during our filming time, we faced challenges and setbacks such as our destination being pricey and closed which led us to go to a learby cafe and film an intro alternative. we also had to reschedule our filming

Week 7

This week we learnt about narrative theory, barthes and levi strauss. We learnt about the 5 different types of codes and their purpose. we also started editing on our tourism project. during this week's filming, we managed to film quite a lot of scenes for our ad project.

Week 8

This week we just continued doing our project and editing in class. Mr nick gave us feedback to further improve our editing project and gave criticism on the things that didn't make sense in our project

Week 9

This week is the last week before submission, we really focused on getting our works done, completing the storyboard and CCR. We had to change the intro several times so that it becomes better and fits what mr nick has advised.

Project plan

inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxMfo2xSIX8

https://youtu.be/GDv8Iei3h4Y?si=905vKVe0cENCODG2

song choices (so far)

• hot rod - day glow
• its only right -wallows (ending fits for end of intro)
• man of war -radiohead (ye
• longview -greenday

overview. there will be raw clips of handheld footage, as if it were a short found footage film. but half to most will be fixed shots with a more cinematic view.

(camera shot switch sound)=~

blank black

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shot 1: nature (not decided yet, probably empty rice fields or grass. wide longshot fixed. video)

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blank black

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shot 2; intro with music

camera moves to the top. the plan is to use drone

alt: cam tilts from ground towards view, title fades in with bold font. 

SCRAP 

[i havent decided what the intro clip should be. stuck between empty plain nature or blur to unblur video of actors before or during trip]script 1 (idk yet im supposed to say something here prolly director lines or sumn)(aaand (music starts) action)

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intro with music as usual

as music goes on, multiple fixed cinematic shots are shown

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handheld shot

we did not go with the plan at all but its fine. i am hopeful that our project will turn out fine