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Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)

Mon W/B 02/09/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Established working group in class. Gave each person various roles, discussed casting choosing ourselves for convenience.

Brainstorm ideas for song and video

Mon W/B 8/09/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Brainstormed couple ideas for video. Research different songs, choose a couple as individuals then re-group and decide between them.

Mon W/B 15/09/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Chose song for music video: Sweet Disposition – Temper Trap Start thinking about what we want to do with the video, decide on style of the video.

Mon W/B 22/09/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Decided on various ideas for music video, a rough idea of where we want to go with it. Decided on style for video: Narrative/Conceptual

Analyse music video in class, help us get some ideas for our own video.

Mon W/B 29/09/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Analysed Kanye Wests “Homecoming” music video. Practice with the camera, get familiar with the equipment.

Mon W/B 6/10/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Went out with the cameras to record some test footages, getting ourselves familiar with the equipment and the different shot types.

Upload footage onto computer, practice editing skills.

Mon W/B 13/10/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Practiced editing a few clips together in lesson using Adobe Premier, quick introduction to the software.

Create mind map of music video ideas

Mon W/B 20/10/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Brainstormed ideas for video in mind map; theme, style, setting, characters and iconography

Film some shots of scenery out of a car window

Mon W/B 27/10/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Handheld shoot from car window coming home from London in half term

Film over weekend and next week – fair ground and fireworks/bonfire at Irlam

Mon W/B 3/11/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Began to film the firework display and fair ground shots Film some more footage

Mon W/B 10/11/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Filmed some candid shots in Three Sisters whilst at college Practice editing using adobe Premier

A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary Mon W/B 17/11/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Practiced piecing some of the firework clips together on Premier. Conduct market research survey on digipaks and magazines on Survey Monkey, send link to group of people

Wait for response to market research survey, gather the results and write up a report

Mon W/B 8/11/14 (Detailed Week Summary)

Finish off market research by collecting results and writing up market research report

Mon W/B 15/12/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 22/12/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 29/12/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Continue with draft edit

Mon W/B 5/01/14 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Work on draft edit of video on Premier Arrange time to film after college at Trafford centre

Mon W/B 12/01/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Film shots of bowling at the Trafford Centre on Wednesday night, arcade shots

Mon W/B 19/01/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Start ancillary one, layout designs and ideas

Mon W/B 26/01/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Worked on digipak design and created sample lay outs for ancillary one

Start taking photographs to use for cd digipak

Mon W/B 2/02/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Gathered images for digipak design to sample editing

Mon W/B 09/02/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Film over week off, train journey to somewhere

Mon W/B 16/02/15 Visited Leeds to shot some clips use of train journey

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Mon W/B 23/02/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 2/03/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 09/03/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 16/03/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 23/03/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Continuing editing draft edit of music video. Finish editing draft edit ready to upload to YouTube.

Mon W/B 30/03/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Uploaded draft edit to YouTube ready for focus group. Set up focus group over two weeks off

Mon W/B 6/04/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Set up focus group on facebook with link to draft edit video, asked people to comment on what they liked, disliked and ways we could improve.

Wait for feedback from focus group.

Mon W/B 13/04/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Looked at our audience feedback, mainly at improvements.

Mon W/B 20/04/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

Mon W/B 27/04/15 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible

A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary

Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)