This is my weekly progress and plan for this year
Week 1
This week we learned about industry and audience. We learnt about the producer of the films, which are companies who makes them, then the distributor which are companies who help spread the films to the exhibitors, which are platforms or places that people go to in order to consume the media provided such as the cinema, netflix, HBO+ and Disney+. We also planned a bit and gathered ideas on what genre we want our film to be for this project. I am doomed.
Week 2
This week we began our research into the genre of our film. We used examples from the opening of horror movies and analyzed it according to what we like, dislike, its conformity and what it subverts against. We looked more into horror genre and discussed and contemplated a lot of things.
Week 3
This week we talked about media consolidation, vertical and horizontal integration. Media consolidation is the ownership of other media companies. Vertical integration is the ownership of multiple companies in different sectors (production, distribution, and exhibition). Horizontal integration is the ownership of multiple companies from the same sector whether its production distribution or exhibition.
Week 4
This week i finished and polished my 2 big research and 6 small researches in genre. I got a 95 which im very satisfied with bc i did know (a little too late) that i wasn't using enough media technical terms and was too lazy to polish all 8 so i only inputted a few. Me and my team has different ideas on the movie. I think we should conform to most of the tropes, but not entirely. Our film will subvert the isolation feature and probably more features such as psychological harm instead of physical (paranoia, schizophrenia) We also did statement of intent.
Week 5
This week, we are going to be doing storyboard and script. My group has to think of the location scout because we plan to do it in the forest, and it isn't easy finding a place to shoot in Bali, especially because we're doing the horror genre. Me and shannon did the storyboard. First, it's going to be fire crackling, then a shadow will zoom past it making the fire dim a little. It then cuts to 3 teens (1 girl and 2 boys) inside the tent playing board games. One of the boys will then get out to retrieve food in the car, this is where the killer will inch closer and closer to him. By the time he sees the killer in the reflection it is far too late, and it cuts to black with a slashing sound. Then it cuts to the girl alone panting and running, chased by the killer. I really like this plot so i hope we find a good location for the camping area that won't disturb other people especially because we'll have a screaming scene.
Week 6
This week we're going to be focusing on the project (finishing up some blogposts, and making all the blog posts needed). I changed positions with kenneth on the script (which i will be doing now), and Behind the Scenes (which he will be doing now). We were given a sheet of paper with checklists on all the blogposts needed to be done. Shannon is doing the storyboard. im going to do the screenplay as well as the location scout. for the location, i chose taman festival bali because it is abandoned and creepy.
Week 7
This week is review and exams. Media studies exam is next week and this week we're just focusing on completing our work and planning for our filming scenes. We've already planned the spot and created as well as altered the storyboard accordingly to our likings. These media classes are also for people who hasn't completed any part of their blog or has missing assignments. For most my team though, we finished with everything and basically have free time.
This term went well. Although the final project could've been better, we did our best and learned from our mistakes. I hope term 3 will be better with practice and a deeper understanding of film making.
Term 3
Week 1
This week we learnt about new media and technological convergence. New media is media that requires internet such as smartphones, laptops, computers. Old media are TVs, radios and newspaper. Technological convergence is the combination of multiple functions to be made into one device to improve efficiency, such as smartphones and social medias. This week we also did a horror movie scene recreation although the scene we were recreating was only a speech scene. This practice helps us improve our filming skills as well as putting the acting skills to the test. We had some trouble getting the timing of the speech right, but it wasn't a bad try.
Week 2
This week we learnt about editing, we tried to edit a simple scene that our teacher has recorded the scenes for. We revised some editing techniques, did some media text analysis, reviewed some theories we've learnt such as hypodermic needle, uses and gratification and also two step flow. We also learnt about social learning, cultivation theory, desensitization, dominant oppositional and negotiated reading. This saturday we are going to film our project scene so i hope we can do a good job.
Week 3
This week we learnt many theories including reception and representation theory by stuart hall. Reception theory is how audience can choose to accept certain parts of the media. There are three types of readings which are dominant reading, oppositional reading and negotiated reading. Representation theory states thar media does not reflect meaning, it creates meaning. Any object in real life has no fixed meaning as it constantly changes. However the media gives it meaning. We also learnt about 3 feminism media theories which are judith butler, laura mulvey and van zoonen. They all have similar ideas about how the media is created by men for men therefor the male representation is more accurate than female. More male characters are active characters and female characters are more commonly passive. Active characters have an influence in decisions and the plot of the movie while passive characters mostly serve as the purpose of being looked at. (such as female characters seductive poses or camera angles). We also had time to continue our project. We shot our film on monday and got most of the scenes. Kenneth will try to manipulate the lighting to make it appear darker but if it doesn't work we will plan to reshoot at a more darker time.
Week 4
This week is limited due to the cny holiday. we mostly focused on our projects, completing 5 blogposts which includes dominant reading, production behind the scenes and organizing footage, post production editing and typeface development. We discussed the meanings behind different typefaces and fonts, and we will use what we know in order to find a suitable typeface and font, to create a good meaning.
Week 5
This week had national holidays and i did some of the work at home. We started editing and our teachers assigned audience feedback for us to handout to other people for feedback on what to improve along with opinions on which title our group should pick for our film project.
Week 6
This week we studied online as the weather was bad. We started with CCR1 and discussed briefly over CCR2. CCR1 consists of how our product conform or subvert against stereotypical features of our genre. it also talks about the social groups that we represent.
Week 7
This week we reviewed, had mock exams then started on CCR3 and CCR4. It consists of our reflection on our skills, a comparison between last semesters project and this semesters project. CCR4 consists of softwares, hardwares and online platform we used for the project such as editing softwares, cameras, phones and whatsapp and google.
Week 8
This week we had our second mock exam. I did quite terrible on my first so i think i hopefully did better this exam. We then continued with our audience feedback blogposts and finishing other things that we havent finished. We already had 3 people for our audience feedback so now we just have to wait for shannons summary.
Week 9
This week we had our last mock exam and finished up some unfinished blogposts. We only have several lessons left to complete all our CCR and editing. We are done with the audience feedback and i just have to finish my CCR 4 and start on my CCR 2.
Week 10
This week we finished up on our blogposts and posted our final product. Kenneth gave us a little scare as he was offline on the last few hours before final submission. But we finished the blogpost on time and we finished on all our CCR.
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