Well... What can i say for today? It's our last day! The only thing left were the video package and this blog. And i be coming back on monday to submit this journal in hardcopy.
All i can say for now, is that to summarise the whole thing that i've gone through, its something that all of us can learn from by doing it and observing others as well. Like i've mention in the other day.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Day030 - [Wed190308] Submission day!
We made a rush compiling everything and managed to complete the video, despite what happen the other day. We finally manage to transfer the video to tape and we all had to present our videos at LT with the rest of the Moving Images students.
We do know our mistakes in our video. Our voice volume were not constant and there were noises in the background, while our intro fast shoot was too fast and weren't much of a plan out and it wasn't taken smoothly, unlike HuiQin's part, which was good.
After the presentation of everyones video, i think that we could have done better if we would have follow strictly to our schedule and avoid changing of plans consistantly.
Raj group was the best, and i think that everyone agrees. It was creative to set a theme of a life as a Moving Images student as an adventure, and they really covered all the details, from the noises to colour correction, from filming to animation.
I think the problem that most of us were always having, are the mindset that we always have time and decided to rush everything in the last week, which i don't think that we should do it at all. Another problem is the consistency of changing and making new ideas that we never really decide on the main idea to work on. But sticking to the schedule is one of the most important thing that we should take note of, and make an effort to cover all areas in the production, like Raj group did.
It is something to be learnt, and by looking at raj group, there shouldn't be any reason why we finished the video later than them. They managed to get the videos done a few days before the submission, and also with such quality and works that were done to make such video, while some of the rest took a longer time for the videos and still didn't produce a much "wow" work.
Well, maybe an output and the measure of the quality of the video depends on the theme of the video such as documentaries and sketch. There are other groups that the videos were interesting and good too. But to do an unexpecting work is another thing. Raj group is certainly one that went over my expectations.
We do know our mistakes in our video. Our voice volume were not constant and there were noises in the background, while our intro fast shoot was too fast and weren't much of a plan out and it wasn't taken smoothly, unlike HuiQin's part, which was good.
After the presentation of everyones video, i think that we could have done better if we would have follow strictly to our schedule and avoid changing of plans consistantly.
Raj group was the best, and i think that everyone agrees. It was creative to set a theme of a life as a Moving Images student as an adventure, and they really covered all the details, from the noises to colour correction, from filming to animation.
I think the problem that most of us were always having, are the mindset that we always have time and decided to rush everything in the last week, which i don't think that we should do it at all. Another problem is the consistency of changing and making new ideas that we never really decide on the main idea to work on. But sticking to the schedule is one of the most important thing that we should take note of, and make an effort to cover all areas in the production, like Raj group did.
It is something to be learnt, and by looking at raj group, there shouldn't be any reason why we finished the video later than them. They managed to get the videos done a few days before the submission, and also with such quality and works that were done to make such video, while some of the rest took a longer time for the videos and still didn't produce a much "wow" work.
Well, maybe an output and the measure of the quality of the video depends on the theme of the video such as documentaries and sketch. There are other groups that the videos were interesting and good too. But to do an unexpecting work is another thing. Raj group is certainly one that went over my expectations.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Day029 - [Tues180308] Animation Jam
What's the worst thing can happen? When the virus attack my computer and i was not able to open the flash files and did the colourings. Unfortunately Laurie had to do the colourings last night, and some of us were feeling stress out and frustrated the last night. So i finally came to school and tried to do what i can with the animation. I had a few problems with the theme title animation merging with the video, but finally got it done at 1040pm in school. And i am writing all these in school now. Alot of things happened and we got a little worried. We also did some voice overs earlier this evening, where i brought along a microphone and we used the audacity to record. Now im not sure if we could get all of the things done. We havent even convert the chibi characters animation to the video, except for the theme title due to the problem about our video, because the timeline on the program went missing, so we were not able to edit the time line. The only good thing we know is that we got all the videos done and save.
Peng! He was our lecturers for video fundamental. He came a few seconds ago before i type this sentence out. hopefully he's able to help about the disappearance of the timeline. And now the security guard came to chase us out. Looks like we really have to rush everything tomorrow morning before noon. *sigh
I'm still thinking about how we could get things done, especially converting the chibi animations to the video, since the video program now is missing out the timeline and we cant convert the video to flash. and its submission tomorrow at noon! im feeling dead.
to be continued...
yey! peng just fix it! back to edit!
Peng! He was our lecturers for video fundamental. He came a few seconds ago before i type this sentence out. hopefully he's able to help about the disappearance of the timeline. And now the security guard came to chase us out. Looks like we really have to rush everything tomorrow morning before noon. *sigh
I'm still thinking about how we could get things done, especially converting the chibi animations to the video, since the video program now is missing out the timeline and we cant convert the video to flash. and its submission tomorrow at noon! im feeling dead.
to be continued...
yey! peng just fix it! back to edit!
Day028 - [Mon170308] Animation Video
Laurie is still working on the animations and left a few more characters, while the rest are still editting a few parts of the videos. After laurie finally got the animation done, we transferred the file to my harddrive so i could do the colour edits. Meanwhile she also did some colour pallettes for the characters to make things easy. And its 2days to submission!
To be continued..
To be continued..
Day??? - [Fri140308] Animation!
Well, we made some changes for animations and decided to make it simple. We made somechibi characters for each one of us of the group members for our name introduction for the intro video, but we still keep with one of our ideas of animating the theme word "Seeds of Aspiration" in the intros. So now i have to wait for Laurie to do the animating, while i have to do the colourings and the theme title animation.
Day025-027 - [Tues110308-Thurs130308] Video edits
So we are finally working on all of the video shootings, which are the intros, contents and endings. So far, everything went well, except for the part that the animations date have to be delayed due to the video. If we ran out of time for animations, i guessed we have to change a few more things on the animations.
To be continued...
Well.. that's all for the last few days. It's all editting.
To be continued...
Well.. that's all for the last few days. It's all editting.
Day024 - [Mon100308] Video Finale
We finally managed to finish our intro and ending shoots at ampitheatre. laurie was alright, but was still a little injured due to the last friday fall. and the shootings went well and good, and we also took a few random videos of us doing random things, which is also good. And finally we are now able to start with the edittings on the intro and endings! hopefully we could get it all done by wednesday or thursday, so that the animation crew could start with the animation
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