This is the moodboard that is gonna be used in our scenes
This is our lyrics sheet and storyboard, the storyboard was mostly done by me and Alex but the location scout was done by me and Maha
Here is my classwork for technical elements and what we overall did in class for the past semesters.
This is our location scout and risk assesment , me and Maha made it
In this blog, there is a statement of intent which contains target audience, demographic and psychographic.
Reflection: This task was done by me bamz and alex mainly, we all did seperate sections and we worked together as a team to figure out all the given questions in the statement of intent, such as psychographic, demographic and target audience. Since the song is very commonly targetted to a certain group of age, me and my group easily found the perfect target audience and although maha did not cooperate as much and he was absent one time when we were doing our statetent of intent, but im glad that my group compromised and get it done on time
This is my Genre research that was made in canva
Here is my classwork persona that i did individually
this is my weekly progress for our music video project
Week 1 : So in this week we started organizing the groups for our music video and our teacher told us the main idea and what the rules are for making the videos, my group is Bams and Maha although we only have 3 people, im sure we will work well as a team because we have chemistry
Week 2: In this week we learned about media ecology and 5 types of convergences and we also continued our music research and so far I've only did 2 so its a problem because i need to be more efficient with my time and not procrastinate since the due date is on thursday.
Week 3: In this week we were attacked by the genre research homework where we had to continue and there were many homeworks from other subjects too so this made me very stressed and i had to stay up late at night doing this challenging task
Week 4: this is the week where we actually started making progress on our project such as doing statement of intent, luckily all of my group was participating and putting effort into this so we got it done really fast, we also imagined all the scenes that were gonna be in the music video, this was the most fun part of our week where we get to vision each and every scene
Week 5: We started to learn about persona where we discussed about how artists creats a public persona to kind of create another identity of them which can attract more audience and tells a story. this week we also created a canva slide about persona where were gonna put in our blogs. i think that this week was a bit more calm since there was no disturbance from other subjects and i could put more focus on media studies and complete my work effortlessly.
Week 6: This week we only mostly did project lessons which are my favorite because i love imagining scenes. we started with our location scout and storyboards which we split that work between our members. and i was very happy that all of my group members were working hard and putting effort into our project and no one was slacking. We also did a unit assessment about Media ecology which i fortunately passed so i am very satisfied with that although my scores were not as good as the others.
Reflection: Overall i am pretty satsified with all the background work that me and my group was working on, we worked efficiently and we did all tasks on time which is very to look at since i had a very sloppy group previously but i think this group is perfect. we did all the pre production on time and we seperated the tasks equally. Although we had difficulties communicating with eachother because Bamz is in japan so its kind of frustrating. Luckily, Me, Maha and alex compromised and worked as hard as we can to get the work done
this is my critical reflection my whole media studies project
We as students of media studies were told to create a 5 minute documentary based off crime genre. Me and my group decided to title it Final Bell : Thirteen Seconds, this was about a troubled student who got left out in a group and decided to terrorize her classmate and best friends
Branding helps people expect the things that they are about to see in our documentary video, its important to use branding and for example in our video, our group created two things such as the thumbnail which had most of the important actors who were shown in black and white and face blurred out, this is in fact called a hermeneutic code, this makes an expectation to the audience that something is going to happen to them, since they were portrayed this way Our video really focuses on the dangers of bullying and how such little things such as just simply mocking one another can lead to something big and dangerous, and according to stuart halls reception theory people will perceive media differently based on how they experienced it but in this case we tried to show the dominant reading, showing that bullying can be deadly if it affects the wrong person.
My group and I researched deeply into crime documentaries and most of them have some common conventions or features, for example real footage, police involved, interviews. In our project documentary we decided that we follow those conventions but also subvert the actors. In a normal conforming documentary, they always show the criminals or bad guys as this evil, masculine, no sympathy person. In our documentary we decided to subvert and to make the criminal more of an innocent popular girl who is deeply hurt and troubled. It challenges the usual stereotype of “only men can bomb and terrorize other people” and this shows that the girl are always weak and have no power or control. In our documentary it shows that girls are also capable of this.
Our target audience for our documentary is most definitely teenagers ranging from the age of 15 to 18 plus, teachers preferably high school teachers and parents. We chose this as our target audience because our main focus in our documentary is a group of teenage girls and it is in a school environment which would explain why teachers and students are our target audience, bullying is also a common incident that happens these days among teenagers. Secondly, why we chose parents as a target audience is because the whole message of this documentary was about keeping your children away from toxic environments that involve bullying, so that it won't turn into something worse.
In our documentary there are mainly teachers and students. The victims of the poison gas were shown as friendly, loving and innocent people, they were friends with the suspect and they seemed like a family, very caring towards each other. In this documentary they were portrayed as a happy group of friends which shows the audience that they have a strong bond, However the suspect remains a mystery and only known as the troubled girl. The teachers that were interviewed was shown at a professional manner but Ms Vina which is one of the teachers that was close to the suspect was shown as a more emotional more open character showing empathy for the victims and confusion towards the suspect, because Ms Vina always thought that the suspect is a sweet loving girl and that she would never do that. This makes the audience feel empathy for the teacher and the victims that were involved but also feel skeptical towards who was to blame for the cause of the incident.
this canva about thumbnail (research & development) which was done by Tisha and Kristine
Here is a presentation about the thumbnails.