Thursday, January 31, 2008

Day004 - Revamp Ideas 02

Today, Wahida showed us a few more video clips on some documentaries to give us a few more ideas. But i think the group kind of get an idea of what they wanted to do. And the video we watched are more like background base documentary. So... I don't think we'll have much of an influence of the video we recently watched. I don't want to be more confused, but the video was a warm up i guess. It set my mind in place. Okay, back to description on our group progress.

Yup. Like i said before, i had a huge feeling we were going to re-discuss and re-edit our ideas. That was what we did today other than watching videos. This would be our 3rd draft idea on the videos and we now had to include our very first draft ideas back. We changed a few things for our intros, contents and we finally came up for the ideas on our endings. So here's what we got so far.


* not decided yet

1. Intro: (1min)

1.1 Fast run of images/videos (with voice overs)
- Animation + Videos
- Animation = High Contrast and thick line art
- Images/Videos = Footage on the modules we did
- Voice Overs = "I am"...designer/daughter/mother etc. (a few number of voices)

1.2 Transitions=Intro/Content
- Introducing group members
- Still filming with fast play *(maybe include the "hobbies/interest")
= At TP bustop: Still filming of the group members with fast moving traffics and people.
= Fast motion move to a group member. During self-introduction (voice over), slow motion play.
* = I'm "name", i play/do ... "hobbies/interest" (show footage of the person doing his/her "hobbies/interest".
* = After one's introduction, move to another member (fast motion). Self-introduction (voice over with slow motion play). Repeat to other members.

1.3 Overview of varies role
- Videos: Sholleh, Betty, Hui Qin
= to be viewed later
- Anims: Hanis, Laurie
= OCs/mascots design = Laurie
= Graphic animations = Hanis

2. Content: (10mins)

2.1 Caption "Different lifestyles, Same Goals"
2.2 Style/format
- Not in order of 2mins per member
- taking turns of members interviewing
- Set aside a number of questions for members to answer (so that it would be in the order of taking turns)
* - Include the bloopers (no cut unless necessary), but cover it with a flash cut and a beep sound after the blooper before continuing the conversation/interview.
- Cuts between members, include flash cut w/o beep sound
- Video/Animation interaction
= OCs/little mascot quick animation frame (pulling headings/subheadings)
= Interviewed person may "interact" with the animation, such as if the mascot made mistake on the subheadings (spelling mistake/ proportions, etc.)


3. End: (1min)

3.1 Silhouette shots on the members ending with a "big bang"
- Freeze frame on the jumps/pose
* 3.2 Credits with footage
- behind the scenes
- MOI Vid-Anim work/project/production
- other bloopers

Day003 - Intro/effect video footage

I think im going to post about this the next morning. Just got back from a meeting and late supper. So yeah..

To be continued...

Okay.. Where was i? Oh yeah. We were shown some clips to give us some ideas on what to do and what we should not do for our video project. We watched a few intros from documentary film and the makings of some movie, and i guessed my group and i have a few more new ideas to include in our video. I'm having a huge feeling that we are going to re-discuss about our video filming lines and re-edit our ideas on the intros, contents and ending. So that's all for now.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Day002 - Revamp Ideas

We had to renew our ideas today and got it finalized. We decided to make it seemed partly documentary with the interviews and filming on behind the scenes of what we did as MOI students.
So we had to take 4 MOI students for the interview and we had YJ and Demp so far. Others will be viewed later during the process.

So here's what we got so far..

Intro:
Shoot01:Random shots and images of MOI works
(with voice over)
voices- telling what they want to be

Shoot02:vid records of the 4 people for intro for the middle content.
(with voice over, they introduce themselves)
type of vid shots: record them observing the things around them while their surroundings move fast/slow.

Middle Contents:
Interviews with
2 animation students
2 video students

Shots:
Records of their school assignment/project and their production process
Show what MOI students do basically in school
Show what they do during spare times
Interviews of students are not in order. Take turns.
Show interactions between 2 groups of MOI students.

Some interview shots will be overlap with other shots.

Ending:
have not been finalized yet, until we have our first meeting with the students we're interviewing.


To be continued...


Day001- Discussion over lunch at JupiterCafe

Ok. now for the real write ups. its 1221am right now and i think i'll be continuing this journal tomorrow morning if im half-way done here. At the meantime, this is what i have to say.

At 1215pm or should i say yesterday, we were briefed about the things that we have to do for MOI (Moving Images) Project1. All about the objectives, target audience, assesments, productions, etc.

The first few things that we had to do was to form a group of 4 to 5 members and i got betty, hui qin, sholleh and laurie. We were told to produce a video presentation that illustrates our journey through our first year in MOI and our target audience were the students or the new incoming freshmen during the orientation, students-visitors at Open House and our parents. Yup. Our parents. ^^;

After the briefing and the forming of groups, my group decided to discuss about the project during lunch at Jupiter Cafe, where there are less noises. So we made some rough ideas about how the video going to turn out.

Betty came up with an idea of making the video MTVish (yeah i know there's no such word), in another words MTV style. Well, thats interesting. Man, this music video idea reminds me of one competition i didn't manage to start. I'm not going to say more about it cos' its out of the topic.

Other things that we came up with was to include a tagline in the video and show the things that we love doing, other than Moving Images (Filming and animation). It tells that although we have different background, hobbies and interest, we are still the same in the end. Other ideas that we came up about the video effects and stuffs is to animate some characters moving objects in the screen and do some fast/flicking images.


To be continued...

Monday, January 28, 2008

Day001- Rambling 280108

1015am - got up to get ready for the first day of school.
( first day?? yeah.. okay. its always the 1st day of school for me at every beginning/end of the month, due to the different modules/subjects at every month. isn't that great? ^^)

1115am - light breakfast at home
( just in case you're wondering. i had a hand full of rice with fresh water fish [bought in JB wet market last night] cooked in some sought of curry)

1140am - left home (i know that it's kinda late for lesson at 12, but it takes 10-15mins of travel; depends which bus stop that i take and whether if the bus comes on time/late/early or i miss it)

1200pm - reached school and off to LT for project briefing.

0145pm - moved my 1m paint board and the aisle down to the space for exhibition and off to lunch with mates at JC (Jupiter Cafe)

0205pm - discussion over lunch at Jupiter Cafe, with group mates about the project. (and while eating JC's top listed food-Chicken Leg Pasta. yummy! don't talk while your mouth is full guys! :p)

0245pm - off to help my friend kala with her 1m paint and aisle, and off to 3pm class.

0315pm - Design History Culture class starts ( guess what we did.. all we did is talk about hady mirza asian idol and watch some ape film. isn't that fun? XD yeah..ok. its inspirational to start off with.)

0430pm- released from class early ( and i went straight to the lab to find hui qin as usual, staring at her lovely drama actors on youtube by the monitor screen. lol. how lovingly. ^^ while she continued with her dramas, i play RPG horsies for 15mins before starting out the blog for the project, which is this blog, and while watching Gackt's concert video ^^)

0600pm - my dad fetch me from school right after his stuff at the police academy for some course or training i think. (it was classified :p and yeah, i left my dad wait for me for 7 mins before i get to the car cos' i was watching Gackt. XD oh. and another 3mins for traveling/walking time :p sowie..)

0630pm - reached home, rest and clean myself up before dinner at 7.

e rest of the time is on the monitor screen.. ^^

(note.. this is done for filling out the blanks.. some random fun/boring part for the blog rather than just journal entry. peace out ya! ^^)