Weekly Progress + Plan

 Here is my weekly progress and plan for the documentary project

Week 2: In this week we had a brief on our timeline of our project and we figure out how to manage our time in order to be able to do the plan. We also made a team which my team consist of 4 people, where these people are new people that I have never work with and I am excited to be able to work on the project and get to understand other opinions as well. In class we were given a documentary to watch to have an idea on what kind of genre and how a documentary is usually made. At the end of the day, my team and I had a discussion on our own ideas of what documentary that we have in mind. Which this allows us to understand everyones opinion and figure out a way to put all the ideas together. 

Week 3: In this week we continue to do our research about documentary that we wanted to do and watch a couple more documentary and analyze them to understand what conventions do they usually use / add in a documentary. My group and I decided we wanted to do a mass murder documentary so we continue to talk about our idea in detail and think about what kind of mass murder we wanted to make, with an addition to what kind of characters and the storyline of the documentary that we want to do. We created our statement of intent and only added the ideas that is agreed by the group. We plan on continuing the statement of intent and finishing it before next week so we can start on our storyboard, script, and location scout. 

Week 4: In this week we started working on our storyboard which it will be my part to do in the group, where the storyline of our documentary has been well planned and agreed by everyone. But we are working on our script along the way as it helps to match up with the storyboard as well. We also started on our location scout and we have picked a place for the location that we will do our shooting in, we've taken into consideration of our risk in the location and picked out someone who is responsible while shooting. We divided the thing that we have to do so we can finish the planning in a week so that we will be able to start on recording our documentary to get a head start. My part as of right now is to finish the storyboard and help our with the script as well so it matches with our storyline. I helped out in the location scout and risk assessment which it has finished. 

Week 5: In this week I was able to finish the storyboard and started to finish off the script. My group and I had new ideas in changing how the story line so we decided to have the changes as it will create our documentary more longer than our original plan in the storyboard. This week as well we get to learn theories and the case of Jessica Wongso. We watch the case on Netflix, where this documentary gave us an idea on presenting the chats that we wanted to add on the documentary. By the end of this week we are planning on starting to record everything and finish off the filming schedule. 

Week 6: In this week me and my group started recruiting people as actors especially with our documentary needing a teacher so we have asked several teachers to be the actors. We have started filming for the audio recording of the 911 call where we use several students and even teachers to be the one who is calling and the operator. We have also started doing film blocking where the actors are being told about what they have to do before the shoot so we are able to do the real shoot the next following day. We have also started researching on how to use AI as a help to create the bomb effect, not only does AI would be replacing the job to create the effects in the video it self we get to learn about how to edit things in that way. We will continue shooting our interview scene the next week as the teachers who will be interviewed are only able on that week. 

Week 7: In this week we try to finish off our filming so we can start with the editing as our group is way behind on schedule because of everyone in the team are not available at the same specific time. In this week i edited the 911 calls by adding voice changer to make it sound realistic as well as creating the behind the scene post where I decided to make it all in a presentation as it would be easier to make it. I research a lot of tutorial in order to create effects on the audio as well as starting to research about the documentary title font as the font is needed to match with the overall setting of the environment. 

Week 8: In this week I decided to take over editing where I added the edited the narrator voice and audio call into the scene. During this as well I work on my editing blog post. 

Week 9: In this week it was the most hectic week, as there was a lot of things needed to be done.