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. ;]