This is my preliminary research for the music video project
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Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Creative Reflection
This is my creative reflection for the documentary
CR 1 - How do your products represent social groups or issues?
CR 2 - How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of ‘branding’?
CR 3 - How do your products engage with the audience?
CR 4 - How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?
Classwork
This is a mind map of things I've learnt throughout media studies, primarily technical elements. Made By Gusde
Editing
This is our editing process and improvement
To edit this documentary, Im using capcut and I bought the pro version. To help me editing in more advanced way and access all effect and tools.
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Thumbnail (Research & Development)
This is our research & development for our thumbnail crime documentary. This post is primarily written by Kenzo, although I (Lamiya) made a last minute change towards the whole thumbnail.
RESEARCH
Even though the thumbnails below are not from a crime documentary, these designs most likely fit with our documentary theme:
Here are the three chosen thumbnails that will most likely going to be a combination in our final thumbnail:
For the "In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal" documentary, the thumbnail uses a typewriter-style font, which makes it journalistic and instantly gives an impression of a real-life investigation. The title highlighted the word "God" in red, which shows the danger and corruption. The colour red might also connotate blood, which may imply there might be murder or a bloodbath in the documentary. The pinned photograph connected by a red string on a detective investigation board is a common way for most crime documentaries to make the audience feel that they are piecing the evidence together as they view the thumbnail. Unlike Blair's Witch silhouette, in this thumbnail, we see the real faces of the cult leaders, which suggests that this event actually occurred in reality. We are probably going to add this to give our thumbnail a sense of realism.
From these three chosen thumbnails, "Blair Witch" gives a greater sense of horror and less documentary from the use of the cult symbols and the disturbing colour scheme. "In the Name of God" gives off a more investigative crime evidence and documents. Highlighting the word "God" in red draws attention to the audience that there might be religion being twisted, which could probably be a good feature for our documentary thumbnail. "Escaping Evil" gives off a documentary of the survivor's story of personal trauma.
Here are the six ideas that I have sketched:
I decided to develop idea 4 because the corkboard instantly makes the audience feel that they are part of the crime investigation. The red strings connected to pictures of people show that there may be a hidden relationship or bigger scheme behind the scenes. The censored faces or the documents imply there is some hidden information within the investigation that the audience may want to solve.
Below is the research on our typefaces:
Here is my first attempt at creating the thumbnail:
This will be the starting baseline of the thumbnail. Further improvements will be added. For now, I will use idea#4 as my reference for the thumbnail.
Here is the second attempt at creating the thumbnail:
We decided to go with Lamiya's thumbnail as the majority of the group agrees.
Below is the reason why we changed the thumbnail idea. This is taken from Lamiya's Post
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first draft |
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Final draft |
When the two thumbnails are compared side by side, their differences show how the project developed. The first one communicates the theme of crime through investigation imagery, but it gives off a lighter tone. The new one focuses on mystery and fear, using simplicity and darkness to create suspense. Both designs have clear links to crime conventions, but the second matches more closely with the style and atmosphere of our documentary. This shows how our thumbnail design developed from being genre linked where it's just being creative with it to becoming genre accurate and emotionally effective towards the audience.
Behind The Scenes
This is our behind-the-scenes for our crime documentary. Kenzo made all the presentations however, there are some pictures taken by the other group members.
Media Studies BTS by Kenzo Susanto
Monday, 8 September 2025
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Filming schedule
This is our filming schedule for the documentary
Filming Schedule | ||||||
Scene | Time and Date | Location | Cast and crew | Props | Equiptment | Other |
1 Cult Infiltration | Friday 29 August 2025, 7:00 PM | Naga Eight and surrouding areas | All Member + 10 actors | Cult outfits (robes + masks) + candles | Body Cam + microphone | Cancelled: Members unavalible |
2 Interviews | Wednesday 27 August, 3:00 PM | Gusde's house | All member | business casual attire, tables chairs, decorations | MicroPhone SM57 + camera | Went well but footage is a bit grainy |
3 Drone Shot | Friday 29 August 3:00 PM | Lamiya's House | Gusde | Drone | Cancelled: Members unavalible | |
1 Cult infiltration | Friday 5 September 2025 | Zalfas House (field) | 10 actors + Gusde and maha | Cult outfits (robes + masks) + candles | Body Cam + microphone | Cancelled: Props unavalible + group member sick |
1 Cult infiltration | Thursday 11 September 2025 | Zalfas House | 10 actors + Gusde and maha | Cult Outfits ( normal everyday outfits/ missionary outfits with cloth over eyes or other such face coverings) | Body Cam + microphone | |
3 Drone Shot | Thursday 11 September | Zalfas House | Gusde + cult leader | drone | ||