Weekly Progress + Plan

 This is the weekly progress + plan for my 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

Week 2

- Do?

In this week, we have learned about Tourism ads, Genre, and Semiotics. 

- Problems

Understanding signs can be challenging as there are many meanings which makes it difficult to chose an answer but, other than that,  for me problems are still less likely to face.

- Solutions

For my problem, the only way I can understand signs is watch scenes with multiple signs and research deep down about the signs they've used to present in the scenes. 

- To do 

-HW-Research

Week 3

- What progress have you made on your project? 

Statement of intent: So far we've manage to discover the target audience and the planning of our tourism ad.

Research: So far I've only finished finding tourism ads and some questioned answer for the analysis.

Week 4

- We learned about making storyboards and creating location scouts for our project. So far we've managed to find places but it will take a lot of days to get these footages

- We also learned few more things like different types of camera shots and sounds for building suspense and meaning to the media footage. 

Week 5

- We learned about  different types of sounds, mise-en-scene and editing in a film. This was really fun to learn but i still need to understand further into the effects and how they are used. By the end of the quiz we had a mini quiz on camera shots, sounds, and camera movement. We also got a short explanation about how clappers work for filming.

- In the end of the week, we've managed to create a filming schedule to help us guide through our tourism project. But because we like to procrastinate, our project is quit off. 

To do:

- Start finishing the project's worksheets (Statement of Intent, Filming Schedule, Location Scout.)

Week 6

Genre Theory:

- Steve Neale: The genre needs to be similar but in order to gain more entertainment and attraction, it has to be different.

- David Buckingham: The agrees with Steve Neale but he adds his own conclusion by making it different, it needs to line up with the changes around the society and the timelines.

Week 7

Narrative Theory: 

- Barthes: In a narrative story, there needs to a least have 5 codes in order to get a good story such as, Hermeneutic Codes, Proairetic Codes, Semantic Codes, Symbolic Codes, Cultural Codes.

- Levi Strauss: His theory was called Binary Opposites which means that in order to get a good ending, it needs a conflict of two opposites.

Reflection: Having to do this was easy and fast. There were no problems with this because we just have to summaries what we did in that week but sometimes when the teacher tells us to write in our weekly progress, we get confused with the weekly diary that the teacher has gave us to write on. So from now on, listening carefully will help make this blog efficient.