Day 35

Before i start with today's events, i've got an announcement to make...this post is going to be the last one in this blog!!! Ahah yea you won't have to see anymore of my boring posts. :b

In the morning when we wanted to transfer our video to tape and CD (the video couldn't be burnt into CD in Jen's laptop either when she took it home to try yesterday), it took us over and hour just to get it transferred! We tried to transfer with 2 different video cameras, 5 fire wires, burn it to a CD again (but we later heard that we cannot burn videos to CDs in the lab's computers :O) and at least 3 different computers but it still wouldn't work! But finally after using another video camera (i think it's Yi Chuin's one), we were able to transfer the video to tape. :] We were all pretty damn worried as the deadline was at 12 and we've overshot the time. luckily, the lecturers extended the time to 1pm and so we were able to submit our tape a few minutes after 1pm.

Anyway, after that we went to the lecturer theater, and most of the groups were there already. There was a screening of all the videos done by the different groups in MOI. i must say that I'm super impressed with some of the videos!! i could see that there were alot of effort put into every group's video but the two that stood out the most to me has to be Tri's and Raj's group videos! i just never got bored watching hose two videos and the animations for both videos are absolutely wonderful! i love how raj's video flow...the transitions were really good and man...the 3D animation for that video was stunning. Literally stunned me. Some of the videos are really funny and entertaining as well. I thought Apple's group video is very lighthearted and funny and i enjoyed that video alot. :]

During the screening of our video, I felt pretty nervous...I was worried that the content might bore some people. Hopefully everyone somewhat enjoyed the video! But after it was screened, I felt kinda relieved and happy because finally our P1 is over!! Since the production package is done, all we've left to do is to complete our blogs and print out our entries for submission. :]

From this module, I've learn that its very important to plan!! so that the work load will be spread out over the duration of the project, instead of it being concentrated at the end. That pretty much happened to us. We did plan out our schedule but we didn't anticipate certain things that might crop up...like not being able to transfer our video etcetc. So i've learn that i should at least leave a couple of days empty, so that in case such things do pop up, we will be ahead of schedule. ;] i also have to pay more attention to details like the lighting and all.

Once again, huge huge THANKS to those who have helped out with the video! Alvin, Germaine, those who have helped in someway or another (lecturers and classmates) when we were faced with any sort of difficulties and of course, last but not least, Alfie! :] And how can i ever forget...MY GROUP MEMBERS!!! It's been fun working with you guys. :] Even though we may face some problems along the way, we were able to overcome them together and come up with a completed video which i can safely say that i'm satisfied with. Soo...thank you SHUSHU, JENNYFULOPEZ, ADEBRUDDER and KALA!! :] We can finally all enjoy the upcoming hols. :]

And now...i bid you farewell!!

Day 34

Today we all met in the 3D lab and we were able to finish doing our video!!!! :D:D WOOT WOOOOOT!!! Yaya! Thank you many many to all my group mates...we're finally done with our video! Time to relax!! :D

We did a hell lot of things today!

We finally got all the footages we needed and so we can complile everything together. :] After that, we did a lot of editing work. We added the audio i did yesterday to the video. We also used audio transitions like fade in fade out etcetc. We also soften the audio when the people are speaking to minimise distraction from speech.

We had quite a number of jump cuts during the interview as we took out certain parts of the interview to shorten the time. But we solved the problem by putting the module processes over those areas. We also used video transtions to make the video flow better. Did some more colour corrections and stuff to the videos but for some, we couldn't get what we wanted and so the video lighting and colour are not that consistent throughout the video. Shu shu also added the subtitles for the 3D fundamentals module.

Couldn't burn the video to the cd in the school and so jen is going to bring home the footage to burn it! hopefully it works...if not we'll have to do the transferring tomorrow. But well at least we've done our video finish!! :D Now all that's left is to compile our blog enteries and print them for submission! And...Adeline is done with the production package too! :]

tomorrow, there's going to be a screening of all the P1 videos. Can't wait to see what the others have produced. Overall, i'm pretty happy with how the video have turned out. ..could be better but i'm satisfied. :]

Day 33

aha talk about a lack in sense of urgency. i'm feeling the strain now.

a large part of today was spent on transferring the videos and all from jen's laptop to a computer in the 3D lab. a few problems cropped up, such as jen's com not being able to put any data into shu's hard disk (we tried on about another 3 more hard disks and it all turn out the same). apparently it was because the hard disk is in the wrong format...or not mac compatible or something. aha just a few days ago i was writing about hoping that no problems like having the "wrong format" or something pops up...but man it did. -.-

Luckily when we tried apple/sarah's hard disk (they could use it with their mac), it could work!! :D but it took us over 2 hours just to transfer everything to the computer. i felt really bad that apple had to wait for us to transfer the videos (we only finished transferring at 7.30pm!) before she could go off. so really...thank you many many apple and jing yuan for waiting!!

while transferring, the whole group picked out 3 songs from our list of song selections. one for opening, one for the content (i'm removing the singing part to minimise distraction from our speech), and lastly one for the ending. we also picked out the footages we wanted (the earlier footage which we shot back in pre-production stage) so that we won't waste time...which we already are wasting with all these stupid transferrings. :[ shu had a problem with the animated words on the fast-motion boards but she managed to get it done by today and so i got that and the credits from her. jen's "still-picture video" (aha contradicting much) had pictures in the wrong size, and it was only noticed after it was exported. so she has to resize all the pictures! :O kala left at around 8 or 9pm and then shu left after that. jen stayed till pretty late at around 10plus but adebrudder and me stayed till 11plus to try and piece whatever we have at the moment together. there are still several footages left out of the video but we have no choice but to leave it for tomorrow.

another problem we had was the length of the video...all our footage are not even included yet but we realised that it was over 13 minutes already!! so we had to cut several parts of the interview out...and we probably have to fast forward several parts as well.

Afer that, i brought home the audio (speech) from the videos. We cannot use the separated audio which we recorded using the compressor mic after all! :[ there's almost an hour's worth of audio clips to go through and i dunno which part of the audio track goes with the selected video footage!
we currently don't have enough time to check which audio portion would be in sync with the video! so in the end, i had to take audio from the video. :[ it has more buzzing noise and this high pitched humming...i don't know how to get rid of the hummmm unfortunately...ahh well...

there's a lot to be accomplished tomorrow. hopefully we can get it done in time for the transferring...which i somehow doubt we would be able to. rendering would already take up a huge amount of time...ahh man i guess we'll just have to "make it work"!! *suddenly thinks of project runway* oorigh i gotta go sleep man...damn tired. aha man this have got to be my longest post to date! *is amazed with self*

Day 32

today, my group mates (except kala) came to my house!!most of us aren't done with our work yet and so we all continued to work on what we have to do. shu continued to work on her animated words for the boards, jen did after effects (she didn't get all the pictures especially for photography), ade's not done with the "hard-copy booklet" and i went to export the flash into avi format for the animated words i did yesterday. did quite alot of transferring here and there. i installed premier pro 2.0 on my computer but when we wanted to transfer the footages we took to my com, it couldn't work!! :[ booo...so we've to leave all the piecing together and final editing for tomorrow...hopefully we can get everything done by tomorrow! cos on tuesday we have to transfer our video to tape and dvd already!! ahhh....don't know why but we kinda lack this sense of urgency? ahah we tend to digress a lot. :b

ordered KFC for lunch and really half the time we really weren't doing anything that constructive. Xb camwhore, played guitar etcetc...well, it was fun. aha but we are now lacking in time IMO. quite afraid we can't finish for the transferring by tuesday...

Day 31

Today kala came in the morning to pass us the animated words for the fast-motion video which she worked on yesterday. she had something on in the afternoon and till sunday and so she had to leave.

We split up the jobs to maximise our time. jen worked on the after effects for the edited pictures, shu shu edited the font for the "holding board" video which kala just passed us, as the font was wrong...shu had to do quite alot of changes as when the font is different, the placement and size of it is a little different. Ade and i did selection of the clip we wanted from all the footages we've got. there were a lot to pick from. luckily, kala already did some of the editing a few days ago and so we don't have to do that much. we just had to sit through quite alot of footage to pick the best take. i looked through it first and took out all the takes that we're definitely not going to use. then i sliced up the clips into individual takes so that jen and ade can pick which one they wanted. :] but we haven't got to edit the footage we shot back during the pre-production stage. :S anyway, we pieced whatever we had then and ten we found that we could actually adjust the brightness of the video in premier! aha didn't know that...too bad we didn't really get to do that much cos a large part of the time, we were trying to backup all the footage into jen's laptop and shu's hard disk...

the group (except kala) is going to meet up this sunday at my house! so we later planned out what each of us have to accomplish by sunday. adeline is going to typed out our new ideas (to be included for submission with the blog entries) , jen is going to continue working on the after effects, shu is going to finish editing the animated words which kala gave us and i'm going to animate the words for the parts that introduces the different modules. and everyone is going to update our blogs (so glad we can just change the date of when we post to give the impression like we've updated almost everyday. lol.) so that the workload won't be that great next week...i predict that it's going to be pretty hectic...especially if anything goes wrong during the rendering and all...or wrong format...or something. :S hope none of that shit pops up...and hopefully we can get all that we've planned done by sunday...

Day 30

All the pictures we took have been edited in Photoshop, and so we passed all the edited pictures to jen so that she can put them together the way we want it in after effects. but she haven't got hold of the program yet and so we'll have to leave that to tomorrow...kala continued to work on the animated words for the boards...unfortunately she cannot be with us tomorrow and over the weekends as she has a family function on and so she's going to take it back and work on it overnight and hopefully pass it to us tomorrow.

can't really remember what we did...but if i'm not wrong, shu and jen worked on the credits! its a very simple ending but i like it. :D and ad and me picked out some more music i think! ahhh we haven't really done anything for audio yet!! :S i know it's important and all but we can't started on it yet when the video isn't even complete yet...and i don't really know what i can do about the audio...i mean what can we do besides selecting music for the background? and maybe cleaning up the noise and buzz in the speech audio a little here and there but what else? i'm interested in audio engineering but i'm unsure about how and what needs to be done. aha. man.

we went for the diploma show at around four plus. i like some of the works! especially this animation called "the bad nut" or something like that. :] didn't get to see everything but i don't know why, but instead of feeling motivated to do better, i actually felt a tad discouraged. :S and i really felt like we should have put in more effort for our video...cause really after seeing the difference in standard...ahh well...hopefully we can pull it off and present something that i am happy with. and hopefully by year 3, i can be as good or even better.

Day 29

we had our presentation today...or rather should i say it was like another interim assessment. we showed alfie our animation and he told us to make the "stickman production" words a little more exciting...and so we decided to add colour to the words. most of our videos and stuff were in the 3d lab and so he later went there to view one of our videos (the holding board one) and hopefully he likes it. :b turns out we don't even need to submit any scripts/schedule/storyboards and so since we've already done it, we don't have to do them later! :D butbutbut...we aren't too happy with the quality of the storyboard and so we're probably going to redo that one.

after he left, we all continued with editing the stickman works and adding animated words to the boards. we also selected some more songs which we thought would go well with our video!

we didn't finish adding colours to the works in each frame (it's really a pain to have to make changes to the animation especially since there were so many friggin keyframes...luckily they have the "convert to symbol" option...phew.), shu shu brought back the animation to work on the colouring and kala brought back the fast motion boards one home.

Day 28

The group didn't meet up today...but we all have stuff to do for the presentation tomorrow. all the footage and all are saved in shu's hard disk and we've got a another back up in jen's new laptop. :] lucky arse...got a new macbook pro. Xb

Day 27

Last friday, germ and me went to watch the concert!! damn it was FREAKING AWESOME!!! especially incubus!! i'm a bigger fan of saosin actually but really, both bands are in different leagues from each other...incubus's music playing is better than saosin (esp the singing, could hardly hear cove), though saosin's energy is really good and their crowd interaction was better. then again, the sound could be due to where we stood. for saosin we were front row!! thanks to our friends. :] but during incubus's set, the pushing and squeezing were so bad (to the extent that my shirt can even rub off rust from the barricades) we had to be pulled out by the security guys in front. but it was still really really rad though!! wanna go again. :]

anyway, today we went to the 3d lab and transferred the other footages as well as the one from the 2D lab to a computer in the 3D lab. Shu continued to improve on her flash, i typed out the schedule for presentation tomorrow, kala uploaded the video to the com and the rest are going to redraw the storyboard to make it more presentable. ;] so yea thats what we did!! i took back the stickman animation so that i could work on the dragging part. man it's pretty tedious...shu's gonna finish editing the pictures of our work in photoshop! gonna take a break tomorrow...so the group's not meeting up!

Day 26

today we finally shot all our "interview" parts. couldn't wait for alfie anymore and so we decided to just go ahead and film it...if not we'll be behind schedule. edited the scripts on our own and i was the first to go, cause i had to leave earlier for the SAOSIN & INCUBUS CONCERT!!! :D our friends are waiting first in line! they went to the venue at like 8am to queue...nutters. i'll feel bad if we turn up too late...

soooo, i took me about 3-4 tries and i was done! :] i sometimes i tend to forget my lines and so we flashed the words on the screen behind using the visualiser and paste my script so i can peep when i can't remember. :b hopefully i was convincing enough...it's hard not to look like your reading from a script. XD we used the condenser microphone again and the same system we used the other time. after that, kala and me left first while the rest continued to film!! yea!!

Day 25

today i brought my camera to school and jen, kala and i went to take pics of our 2D works and all...can't remember what we did...urgh i'm having a headache now. feel like i'm in this daze...must have stared at the com for way too long. writing several posts in one day is no joke...especially if you have short-term memory loss, which i unfortunately seem to have acquired. :X

ohoh i think i remembered now! hmm...we uploaded all the pictures we took and we edited it in photoshop. some of my groups mates managed to upload some videos to a computer in the 2D lab. :] but then we saved everything in shu shu's hard disk as a backup. don't wanna waste another few hours trying to upload the videos again.

Day 24

still couldn't use the computers in the 2d and 3d labs and so we tried out the macs on the sixth floor. but it doesn't have premier. shu brought her laptop but unfortunately, we couldn't upload the video because of the cable...sooo we ended up not doing anything today! :S plus we haven't even got our scripts back yet so we couldn't do any filming...

Day 23

We changed our fixed meeting time to 11am and everyone was more or less punctual after shu and i talked to the group about our punctuality yesterday. :] i ended up being the latest actually. *shifty eyes* anyway, we could only film the "interview" part for kala since she's the only one who got her script.

i brought my home's condenser microphone so that the audio for the speech would sound clearer, but we're still going to to record the audio in the video camera though, in case we can't get the audio to be in sync. Then someone controlled the recording for the audio and another one for the video. overtime, we sort of developed a "system" so that we can know which audio goes with which part of the video. we might not even use the audio though...it took us quite a number of takes before we were happy with the take and by then, when we wanted to get a computer to upload the footage, all the computers in the 2d lab were occupied and the 3d lab was closed...so we just ended early. actually we mostly end early. :b

still waiting for the scripts...hopefully it'll be edited soon...

Day 22

As usual, we were all suppose meet at 10.30am (it's our fixed meeting time)...but kala could only come at 1pm cause she had some meeting...

anyways, i finished my part of the animating over the weekends!! took me a couple of hours...it's oorigh to me i guess but i haven't add the shadows...but i'll let the rest do that. :] passed shu shu the animation for her to continue to work on it and since the rest haven't come yet, we went to the library and had the time to type our blogs and edit and publish the rest of the posts.

then at 1.30pm, after everyone has arrived, we went to the classroom and looked for Alfie cause we needed the edited scripts. But so far he has only finished kala's part. But kala haven't memorised her script yet, so we ended up staying in the class while Alfie talked to us about some stuff.

after that, we filmed the animation and 2d art fun process. and yea thats today!

Day 21

Today we couldn't do our "interviews" cause we sent our scripts to alfie to be edited/approved. so we went to bedok reservior and shot the process for photography...:] but before that, in the morn, i started on the animating of the stickman in flash, jen and shu did the ending credits and kala and ad uploaded all the footage to the com.

anyhoo, we also shot shu shu doing the demonstration for coiling. yea so thats what we did! over the weekend, i have to complete my part of the animating and then later pass it over to shu shu. hopefully it'll turn out well...

germ and me went to get our saosin/incubus tics today!! :D can't believe it's in a week! dunno why but it hasn't really hit me yet...lol.

Day 20

today we all uploaded whatever we've filmed the past few days to the computer and we went to "interview" Alfie. fanks Alfie for helping out!! :] we also filmed the scene we were suppose to do today...and alvin helped us! fanks to alvin too! :]

after that, we were all hungry and so we went to eat and ended up chatting and chilling there till 3.30pm! i really enjoy just sitting and chatting with my group mates and all but i think we're lagging behind...germ just told me that she's done with her filming and that made me feel a tad stressed. :[

i've got the last frame of the video for the flipbook...so i can start on the animating! i think we're going to do quite some filming tomorrow...

Day 19

We were suppose to shoot a scene today and so we met at 10 plus to make our props! jen, shu shu and i went to the workshop to cut up the foam boards and then we wrapped them in paper. after that, kala and ad (wow brudder can cook!) came and we went to a classroom to shoot our scene. but then we later had a change in idea for that scene and since we didn't have all the props required, we ended up just sitting and talking till 3. ;] jen showed us the opening for the movie "Juno" and it looks great! wanna watch it. :D

yea so thats all we did for our project today...didn't really do what we intended to do but hopefully it can all be done tomorrow. we're going to "interview" alfie on ideation!

Day 18

We finished filming our opening today! :D the battery for the video cam was very litttle, but it was all good cause we borrowed Hanis's group's video camera for the shoot. fanks a lot! :]

anyway, it was pretty time consuming as we had to stand and hold up wooden boards for a very long time (which was pretty tiring!), and when we speed up the footage, it'll look like other people are walking really quickly, while we look like we're standing at one spot. i know the idea isn't phrased very well but hopefully you (if there's even anybody reading this) got my drift. it looked pretty good when we played it back, though i was very figity and looked like i was having pretty bad and frequent spasms...:b

oh yea! germ came to help out a little with our video. she handled the video camera for us cos all of us had to be in the shot, and we wanted to do this short stop-motion thing. so she helped. fanks ma twin. ;]

Day 17

1st day of the production block! We met at 12 plus and i showed them the flip book "animation" that i did over the weekends. i think they all liked it. :D we discussed about a couple of other things, made some improvements to the flip book, rented the video camera (only a few left! :S) and then we proceeded to film the flip book. took quite a number of takes...it was hard to keep the flipping at a consistent speed...but finally shu shu did a great job in just one take! *applauds* ahah...and i flipped so many times but couldn't get it right. *hears jeering in the background* :X

tomorrow, we're going to finish filming our opening! and hopefully get our scripts finalised. :] and select the works we wanna show in the video. suppose to do that today but ad and i forgot to take pictures of our work for selection. aha soz guys...or rather girls. :S we might do selection of audio tracks as well! i picked out a couple of songs that i thought might work with our video but we haven't found the time to really sit at a computer and listen and visualise if it'll work yet.

anyhoo, germ and i found a thread on soft.com.sg and someone was gathering 10 people for the saosin/incubus concert package deal! so we and two other friends signed up for it and now, there's 10 people and so we can pay only $95! :D yayayay! oh man can't wait can't wait! :D:D

Day 16

oops...can't remember what we did. :X...oh wait we didn't do anything today!! ahaha...cos we're all doing work for our final assignment for our Des H&C module. at least from next week onwards, all of us will only have 1 module (which is MOI P1) so yay! got more time to shoot and edit and what not. don't have to worry about another module. :]

over the weekends, i gotta do a flipbook "animation" thingy...hopefully it'll turn out oorigh...if not better!

Day 15

Today's the interim thingy. very informal presentation as alfie wasn't going to judge us on the way we present, but rather on the content. woot. :D so did a very brief presentation and yea thats today!

oh yea we also planned out a schedule today!! :D but it's only for next week cos the storyboarding for the process of the modules we are doing on aren't done yet...so we'll just cover what we have!!

And oh yea!! great news....SAOSIN IS OPENING FOR INCUBUS on march 7th!!! YAYAYAYA!! i realllllyyyy wanna go...:D actually contemplated going for incubus when the early bird ticket price was $95...but now the tickets are $125...pricey man. However, SAOSIN (love them!) are now playing as well and there's a package deal! if 10 or more people buy together, everyone only have to pay $95! yea it's still a lot...but if i can save $30, why not? ;] and since both bands are playing full sets (heard saosin's playing for an hour), it's even more worth it. :D now just gotta gather 10 people to get the package deal...

Day 14

Went to the mac lab today and we wrote out really brief ideas for the script, and we took a look at some fonts on the net and settled on a couple of fonts for our project! and we all each have to talk about a module and so we got that figured out...and now we just have to write our own scripts for our parts!

Tomorrow there's some interim thingy. :S not much to show so far but at least we sorta got our storyboards done and the finalised idea for the video. when i was leaving school with shu shu, we saw some groups that has already done alot! they've gotten some of their animation done and some have even completed their opening. :X gahh hope we'll be able to finish doing everything next month! we should really really do up a schedule...in that way, we'll have better time management and at least have an idea when our filming and all will be done. i'd rather work harder now and slack later...

oh well, hopefully we'll pick up the pace after our other module, Des H&C, is over. only another two more days to the end of the block!

Day 13

Today we met at the tables at design entrance and did our storyboarding there! We shared our new idea with kala and i think everyone's happy with it so yea. :] we finished our storyboards already!! woot! tomorrow we're probably going to plan our schedule for next block and do some scripting.

thats all we did today! yea super short entry eh?

Day 12

kala didn't come today cause she's sick!! :[ get well soon!

anyway, we went to the mac lab to discuss more about the content. i know i've said that we've settled on an idea on day 10...but...we changed the idea again. :X lol. are we fickle or what? but anyway, i feel that the new idea will enable our content to flow better...and can probably meet our objectives better...so...:] we're sticking to the opening and ending, just that we tweak it a little to make it join with the content better.

so yea...thats today! i hope we'll stick to this new idea and stop changing it so many times. :]
we must finish our storyboarding by tomorrow!

Day 11

Day 11! geez time pasts so fast eh? just one more week and it will be the end of the block...and then we'll have to start on doing the animation and editing and all that shiz...

we were suppose to complete our storyboard by today! when i got to class, only shu shu was there and so we did the storyboarding for the opening and then the rest came and alfie did a whole lot of talking and then, we went to the mac lab and...you know end up digressing half the time. :X so the storyboard's incomplete...and so our schedule can't but planned out. damn we seriously need to get on with the storyboarding and scripts and all...just one more week for pre-production only!! :S

Day 10

We didn't have to do filming today as we felt like we already had enough footage...and partly cause we felt like we didn't know exactly how we're going to lay out our content...and how to merge the opening with the content and to the ending. well and also because of a certain little problem that cropped up. ;b So, we spent the afternoon thinking up new ideas for our content and the theme and style and what not. so we finally settled on this idea by jen!! :D i like it better since we finally know how the content might flow.

Decided to change the opening cause its just too tedious for us to do all that animation. kinda worried that we can't finish everything in time, so we changed it to something shorter. we shared our idea with alfie and he said he like it better than our initial idea! :] so woot!! tomorrow we're going to do our storyboard! so yea...thats today...

Day 9

we had filming today again! so at 12+, we followed the year 2s around again and took some more footage. today's footage is better than yesterdays. :] they did a couple of scenes and so there were some changes in location...and so more stuff for us to shoot! :D used up one whole tape already...(90mins...so fast...)...and so we had to buy another one from the TP bookshop. but when we're about to wrap up at 3, Alfie came and gave us 2 empty 60min tapes. :/ turns out we could borrow from him. damn wasted $ on those tapes...asdlfkjslkdf.

it's been more productive today...i think there's still filming tomorrow...hopefully we'll get to use a lot of the footage! don't want all our time and effort be for nothing...:S

Day 8

Today we went to film the year 2's video production process! i went to sch in the morning to loan equipment (luckily there was enough for us! though there are only a few left...) and then met up with kala and jen at 11am at bugis and then finally shu shu at Bras Basah. ad's not joining us today cause she has something on...we didn't have to go to class today cause we were filming! :b

anyhoo, the shooting location's outside swee lee on the 3rd level (my eyes got to feast on the many instruments. :b) and so we shoot the year 2s doing their production. watching them do their production made me realise how much time is needed just to film a scene...and it can be pretty repetitive. when i was doing my video fundamentals module a couple of months back (ad and shermin was in my group then. :D), i wasn't too aware about that fact cause we're doing the video production itself at that time. But now that i got to see other people do the production, it's really time consuming and can honestly get pretty dull if you're just watching the crew work. ;b we didn't have an earlier plan of how our shots would look like, cause we didn't know what the years 2s were going to shoot and all. so basically, we are now going to get as much footage as we can...and then we'll have more to choose from. and luckily this time we didn't have to do in camera editing. phew. that was quite a bitch to do the last time. ;]

everything finished at about 2pm and then jen and me went back to school for Des H&C...yea so thats today! we might be doing some more filming tomorrow...but it will be in sch so we don't have to travel too much. :D

Day 7

the CNY break is over. :[ booo i really wish it was longer!! got lesser ang bao $ this year compared to the last...oh well but it was still pretty good, got to gamble (ahhh but lost $ again...always!), eat new year goodies like nobody's business (but i'm sure a couple more pimples will appear on my already pimple ridden face...damn the pimples!), hang out with relatives and friends and all. :b AND don't have to update this blog for 5 days!! :D oh but those CNY songs were a pain (esp when the bloody cd is played few times over and over). xS

anyhoo, today we went to class, alfie talked again for a pretty long time and then we finally had some more time discuss. we are going to start our video shooting tomorrow...couldn't really plan our schedule in detail cos the filming really depends on the schedule of the second years. kala managed to get permission from a couple of second years (:]) and tomorrow we're going to film them film their video! yea...i gotta go get the video cam from school in the morning cos i live nearest to TP. :S hopefully there are still enough video cameras for us to use...the second and third years got priority on the camera loaning...

so after that we left and i went to work with ma twin! (no des H&C yay)

yea sooooo...thats all...my eyes are about to shut already...ta!

Day 6

it's day 6 as you can see in the title and today is presentation day! we were the last group to present and after seeing the other three group's presentation, i felt like we're are pretty unprepared. we didn't even have our schedule down. :x i presented the opening...not much to say really, so i didn't say much. we have quite a lot of animation to do for our project and so, after we finished our presentation, we decided to cut down on the opening animation and so we changed the some of the ideas for the opening.

We also came up with our production name and it would be called "stickman productions" cos we're going to use the stickman alot in our video...we decided on using a stickman as it'll be easier to animate yea? ;D

and yay and now on to CNY hols!! :D:D ang baos. $) woot woot!!

Day 5

oorigh so it's day 5! we've got quite a good idea how the opening would look like, and how the animation would transition to video. :D we came up with a couple of ideas for the content...but we'll most likely not go with the harry potter idea anymore, but go for shooting the process of a video/animation production...cause the harry potter idea would require loads of time...i like it though. anyway, we've also decided how the ending is going to be like...so...yay. :]

tomorrow's the first presentation and luckily Alfie's not going to grade us on how well we present. phew. :] we decide to present using powerpoint slides and so we all chose areas we wanna type on. i'm doing the opening. after we all type, we're going to send it to kala and she'll compile all the text and put them into slides. thanks kala!! :D

yea so thats today!! can't wait for the chinese new year break. ;]

Day 4

As the title states, it's day 4 of our MOI project 1. Today my group got some time to discuss more about our project...after Alfie talked more about what we should include for our content (interviews, interviewees, visual overlay, opening and closing), as well as the style (theme, look, graphics, text, audio and script) and the objective.

we decided to have the opening and the closing as animations, the opening will transition into real live, something similar to "Hostage". :] came up with a lot of ideas and i think we tried to fit too many ideas into the video that it will become too complicated. so we'll have another meeting soon and hopefully we'll be able to finalise what we want in the video. Having identified the target audience, we are trying to find ways to attract them by having things they like and want to know. so we asked each other this question: why did you pick TP? why MOI over other courses? since we were once the "target audience" ourselves (students deciding on where they want to study at), we asked ourselves as the answers would probably the content we should be working on. if we went to TP because of the factors found in the answers to those questions, then our target audience most likely will.

anyhoo, we're all going to research on more documentaries and hopefully it'll give us some more ideas. i think we might stick to the harry potter idea (the moving images part of it)...but the story idea is pretty much scrapped. we might actually do a "before and after" kind of thing...still unsure...gotta discuss more on day 4 (next monday)! woot at least i don't have to update this blog tomorrow, saturday and on sunday. :]

Day 3

Day 3. There was a joint "lecture" for all three classes of MOI project 1 in LT 25. We were shown several videos from all three lecturers. The first one we saw by Alfie was the making of LOTR by national geographic. love LOTR!! :D i remember going to this LOTR exhibition in Singapore a couple years back. it was hella cool with all the costumes, swords and all. *has flashbacks*

ANYWAY, the documentary was well-filmed. there was proper lighting, set designs, audio and overall it looked professionally made. unlike this video about some dudes going to climb Mt.Everest (can't really remember what it was about). the opening was kinda promising and then as it progressed, i felt it was such a letdown. it looked like a tourist video, it was really shaky, plus the music at the background was loud to the point it was quite hard to hear the people's dialogues. that's for the style only though, i can't say much about the content since i'm no mountain climber. Maybe the producers are more interested in showing the content and thus didn't really pay much attention to how it would look...

After that, we also saw a part of the making of the film "gangs of new york"! i thought it looked like a pretty good film and i have heard that it's good too, so germs (my twin) and i went to borrow the movie from our dad's video rental shop.
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Ooorigh back to the lesson. After that, we were shown some openings and closings from Ronald to several films like Monster Inc., Shoot them up, Hostage, etc.They were all really interesting. But the opening for Hostage stayed in my mind the most! i like how it transitioned from animation to video. then Wahidah showed us some documentary...can't really remember what it was about. :X something about war i think. it was pretty boring to be honest.

So overall, some of the videos shown today inspired and made me want to do a really good video for the project, cause i won't enjoy seeing crappy work being put up for show. i also saw the importance of having appropriate audio and set design. the theme and quality of the video should also be consistent, i don't want it to be like the documentary about the mountain climbers. there's no point in having quite a good start and then let it be ruined by other parts of the video.

yea so thats all for today!

Day 2

So...on to day two! Today my group got to discuss more about our project. Jen's got a bad stomach ache during discussion...*pats back* Ahh it's only the second post but I don't know why but I am finding it quite a pain to type in this blog (uh oh sloth)...can't imagine doing it for the rest of the block. Oh wait, it's for two entire blocks! :S Hopefully I can type something more interesting as we go on through the project.

Anyway, we generated a couple of ideas and eventually settled on one cause the rest seemed too cliché...you know the usual news casting stuff and all. :] So we ended up deciding to make it into a "Harry Potter-ish" kind of style. :D Yay love Harry Potter. I feel that the books are better than the movies though. And nope, we're not going to pretend that TP is like Hogwarts or something, but rather we'll have like a moving scene within a picture. For example, to show the photography module, we'll have a scene of us going out to shoot and this will be shown on something that represents photography...like a film roll or something. I don't know yet. Aha. Well we've got the general idea but haven't got the details down yet...we'll probably add more to that as well, like some sort of story going throughout the video.

We shared our idea with Alfie and i think he liked the style. But we weren't really focusing on the content but more concerned about how the video would look. So we've got to discuss more about the content, target audience etc.

Tomorrow we're going to the lecture room and we'll get to see some good and bad videos, so we'll know what to do and what not to. :]

Anyway discussions can get kinda dull and so we goofed of a little bit. :] Took pictures of some my group members wearing Alfie's Harry-potter-looking-glasses. :D















Brudder!! :D















Jen looking very unglam. lawl! :]

...oorigh...erm. yea so...bye!

Day 1

Hey people! This is my first blog ever...well I've always enjoyed reading other people's blogs (oorigh well some...) and not too long ago, I thought of setting up one with my twin and best friend, but we were too lazy. :b Partly cause I already keep a dairy and so it's kinda lame to type it in a blog again yea? But now I HAVE to for our school project, MOI project 1, and so here's a blog of my own! But i predict it's going to be pretty boring, it's just going to be about our progress during the project...so, if you are some random visitor, you've been warned. *anticipates yawns*

Sooo, here's the update about day 1. Today is the first lesson and all the MOIers gathered in the lecture room for a briefing on our project. We are suppose to create a video presentation on works we've done for the past 10 months and apply what we've learn on the video. We also got the schedule for the teaching days, when is our presentations and such. And we got from Wednesday to Friday off next week! Woot chinese new year! :D

we later went to our own classes (mine's Alfie's class) and we grouped ourselves onto groups. My group has 5 people and they are Adeline (brudder!!), Kala, Jen and Shushu!! :D We got briefed further by Alfie and then our class ended so yea. Thats for today's lesson. The end. :]