Day018 - [Wed270208] VidFund @ TV Studio

It's Wednesday!!! It's the day where Shol would be taking his shots and we'll be seeing our cast acting at the back of a romantic scene.

The group met up early at about 330pm,so that we could start setting up the scene and check on the things that we might not have and need. We got the table and chairs from the Bistro Cafe and bought a white and red table cloth. After making sure that we had everything, we set up the positions for the table, chairs and the lightings, then we had lunch before waiting for our back crew cast, that are Caleb and Lydia.

To be Continued...

Day017 - [Tues260208] AnimFund @ 2D Lab

It was now Laurie's turn to be interviewed, and things did not turn out what we wanted to. Our original idea was to have Laurie sitting at the front with a screen playing some of our animation works at the back. But unfortunately, we only managed to collect a few animations from ourselves and our seniors. Some of the seniors afraid about the copyrighted issue, and other than that, we had a little miscommunication within the group and had a "small fire" going on.

Sholleh was very upset with the animation collage we did as it wasnt as bright coloured and fast as he wanted it to. I think he wasn't thinking about the fact that our school animation works that was done in class are usually plain as it was like a "beginner" level, so it was most likely impossible. Laurie and I got a little frustrated as well because of Sholleh, as he was not clear of what he suggested to us earlier about the animation collage before we did it. Oh well.. Things like this are bound to happen. We can't always expect the day to be perfect. That's life.

After the fuss, we finally managed to think about the other backdrops that we could use for Laurie's interview. We thought about our first few/old ideas that we came up before we decided on the animation collage, and we finally decided to use the 2D lab lightbox and the noteboard, so that we could put up some animation characters on the board, that were orginally drawn by Laurie herself.

Later that evening, we started our shootings and set up the lightings to make the scene brighter, and everythingwent well after that. Then we did our short briefing to discuss about the day and also planned on the next day. That's all..

Day016 - [Mon250208] Prop preparation

The group came and a few of us brought along the props we needed. I brought along some candles with a candle holder while Laurie brought along an empty bottle for the "wine" later.


To be continued...

Where was i? Oh yeah. On that same day, we asked our senior Tom to give us a tutorial on lightings to use for filming. So he taught us the different lightings and gave us some tips that was useful for our shootings.

I'll considered that we had a class lesson today, but without a lecturer, just ourselves and the seniors. Self asked lesson. ^^

Day??? - [Sun 240208] @Boat Quay 2

Back to Boat Quay to shoot for our interview and finished up our storyboards and discussions with our group mates. But we end up not doing the shooting due to the haze and the lack of lightings. So we end up staying in MacDonald for briefing, discussion and re-editing our storyboards. We also managed to finalise our group production name to "Three:Eighteen" and came up with the logo and the transition effects for the logo. I'll post the image soon.

The next thing we got, was that we decided to bring our props for the tv studio video fund scene on Monday to make sure that the sets is alright and well prepared. That's all for now.

Day??? - [Fri 220208] @ Boat Quay

The group went to meet up in the morning at Raffles Place MRT while i had to meet up my friend at Bedok interchange first to get the DSLR camera. Then i went to meet up with the rest at Boat Quay MacDonald for breakfast and later carried on for our shootings. We made a few shots but didn't managed to have all the shots we need as we had to rush back to school for our other module. So we decided to carry on the shooting on the weekends.

Day015 - [Thurs 210208] @ TP

Nothing much was done today. Again, we had our usual briefing and discussions on the previous shootings and the upcoming shootings. Then later in the evening after we all finished our lessons, we went to the 2D lab to upload our footages of the shots we got to Laurie's hard drive, so that we could reuse our tapes for the next shootings.

We also decided to use a DSLR camera for our shootings the next day. So I managed to ask my friend for his camera and had to collect it in the next morning.

Day014 - [Wed 200208] @Stamford House

It's day 3 for shooting and we went to Stamford House to have our interview for Hui QIn there on Drawing Essentials and other stuffs. We went there in the afternoon and prepare the sets by bringing some of the clay works from school to be placed on the shelves. After preparing the set, we shot a video of the person sketching a portrait of Hui Qin in a few different mediums such as pencils and pastels. After the shot, we went to shoot Hui Qin being interviewed and also a shot of us setting up the scene in the place by helping arranging the chairs for the life drawings later and also removing our clay pots on the shelfs and placing back the items.

There are somethings that i forgot to mention. We had a few problems with the cameras and tapes as we found a faulty tape and had a shortage of number of tapes. The faulty tape also resulted in faulty cameras, so we end up shooting with one camera. Later in the evening, we went to take a shot on the life drawings. It was enough, and as usual, we had a short briefing after the shoots and commented on the day and the next day. This time, we would have to bring a cleaning cassette along with us, just in case such things bound to happen again.

Day013 - [Tues 190208] DMFun @ Mac lab

We had our intro shot yesterday and now its my turn to be interviewed. Actually, i was the first one to be interviewed. The interview was carried out at the mac lab and we got our sets ready and i displayed a few of my DM Fund work on the screen while the others work at the back. We were all assigned to different role. The roles are camera person, director, set person, photography person, etc. So i was asked to answer the sets of questions that we have already planned out and i had to keep retaking my shots to get my words right on cam.

We also had a few breaks and that was when we went cam-whore and took a few crazy pictures of us with the mac cam. I wonder if we got that randomness on the video cam. After the short break, we carried on the interview and it all went well. But some of us had to leave early as it was about 9pm. So a few of us left while a few others stayed for a short briefing.

You could watched some of our random shots here. LINK

Day012 - [Mon 180208] @MindsCafe

It's day 1 for our video shootings. We came to school early and Betty made an arrangement call to the main person in charge of the Minds Cafe and manage to get approval to have our video shot at the place.
We went to the Minds cafe at Dhoby Ghaut area and shoot a video of us walking on our way there and had some shots of us doing random things. When we finally got there, we order some food and played some games while waiting for the food and shooting us playing as well.

We had an awesome fun loving time together and beating the crap out of us with some whacky games such as UglyUgly. We shot ourselves playing that game and fight for the ownership of the cards and stuffs. Ouch! I got hit by Sholleh a couple of times.

That was we did for today. Shot us playing and having fun and then we had a short briefing on the way back home and talked about how was the day and what to do on the next day.

Day011 - [Fri 150208] Next week preparation

We had some light discussions and briefing to finalize and confirm about the things that we had to do the next week, which is the production week on the shootings.
And confirming on the things that we have to bring for that day.

Here's the schedule.

Monday: Intro shooting of us MOI students playing at MindsCafe.
Tuesday: Me in Mac lab being interviewed for DM Fund module and other questions.
Wednesday: HuiQin at Stamford House, interviewed for Drawing Essentials. And shooting for live drawing.
Thursday: Briefing for the past few shoots and the next few days shoots.
Friday: Betty's shooting for Digital Photography Essentials at Boat Quay.
Weekends: Reserved for any retaking just incase.

Day010 - [Thurs 140208] Valentines Day

It's Valentines' Day!! And Friendship Day!!

We didn't do much for today. We had another briefing about our projects again and set up the schedule for next week shootings and planned out the things that we might considered for the shootings such as props, materials, time and lightings, etc.

So we made a list of the things for each backdrop and especially the video fundamentals scene. We had to make a few arrangement with the lecturers for the usage of rooms and had to talk to some of our friends, in search of a crew for the video fundamentals backdrop scene.

For the backdrop in Video Fundamentals, we thought of a production scene being carried out and they were making a romantic scene where a couple had a candle light dinner and had some actors and "directors" and the "production crew" at the backdrop while Sholleh is being interviewed at the front.

Day009 - [Wed 130208] Raccee Day

We came and met up during our class periods to shortlist the places to raccee. The first few locations to cover are the ones in school. So we raccee the places again and went to ask permission to book the rooms from one of our lecturer Vani. Right after we finished covering the areas in our school, we went for a quick lunch and set off at 330pm and took a bus to City Hall area.

We went to a hotel at Stamford Road to a place where they do potraits and other things essential to drawings and paintings. The backdrop was meant for drawing essential module.

So we raccee the place and ask for the permission of the owner and asked a few favours liked if she could sketch a portrait of Hui Qin while we interview her and also take a few shoots on the things they do there.

The next stop we went is the Subway station where some of the artworks by students from different school are being displayed and also where some other art exhibitions are being held.

Right after that, we went to 9 Shanton Way to raccee a place belonged to an animation company called 77star. We had a few difficulties communicating with the Japanese person, but it was all alright and Hui Qin tried speaking Japanese to him. *laugh out loud* It helps actually, because one thing i knew was that, he doesn't really understand numbers in english, due to some incident where i had to say nana instead of seven not too long ago, so Hui Qin said it in Japanese when he asked how old we were. (I know this is not relevant much, but i cant help thinking of both efforts trying to communicate to one another)

But after taking a look at the place, we decided to use our animation studio at school instead for our Animation Fundamental, because their new studio is only available in March.

Next in our list is Clarke Quay/Boat Quay, a place for digital photography essential.

To be continued...

We took a look at the place and decided on the possible shots and lightings. There wasn't much to talk about though. But we had fun walking and sight seeing.

The next place was Orchard Road. During the recce, we had another idea for our video fundamental backdrop and decided on a play or act for the backdrop in a tv studio. So we began to think about the number of crew we need for the scene. After an exhausting and fun walk, we had dinner at Long John Silver and continued the discussion the next day.

Day008 - [Tues 120208] Plan Raccee

Another process of finalising our ideas. We noted down places that we might thought of using as backdrops for our interview and we also recap on other few things that we have talked about for the past few days such as the questions to be asked in the interview, backdrops and the contents of the videos.

We planned to raccee the next day in school and outside the school areas. And we all have to come up with about 2 places for backdrops of the different modules we listed.

The modules we chose to show are, Video fundamental, Animation fundamental, Digital Media Fundamental, Digital Photography Essentials and Drawing Essentials.

Day007 - [Mon 110208] Flow of ideas and Raccee

I think my group kept giving out ideas that we were not able to decide or finalised our video ideas. But in a way its good to make improvements on our video.

To be continued...

Shol made a few more ideas that day and we all agreed on one same thing that was, our idea was not something to be "wow" about. It was too common and ordinary. So we made a few more discussion and tried finalising our ideas and thoughts of places for backdrops for our interviews.

So we raccee a few number of places in our school such as the TV studio, Gallery, Design Space, Sound room, 2d animation lab, etc.

Day??? - [Wed 060208] Discussion at BUS school

Its the eve of Chinese New Year. My group decided to do another discussion in the morning at Business School. So we all turned up except for Laurie who wasn't feeling well on that day if im not mistaken.

We all tried to make things clear and improve on our current ideas. Due to the comment give by our lecturer Ronald, we decided to change our intro and we watched a few intro video on youtube and got a new idea that was completely different from our previous intro idea. We decided to do something simple and fun that could go together with the concept of our animation mascots for our middle content so that we wont have the gap between the intro and the content, such as the intro is tense while the content is fun and simple (for example).

At the same time, we made draft 2 or plan B, just in case we are allowed to showcase about the year2s and year3s.

So here's what we got.

Intro

Video footage of the things we did during our spare time and behind the scenes of the main content interview. There would be a few pauses to introduce the name of the people that will be interviewed.

Content

Still the same

End

About the same with credits.

Day006 - [Tuesday 050208] Presentation 1

Day 06 is here! Ronald came into the class and asked if anyone would want to volunteer to present, but no one did. So he had to ask someone to call a number from 1 to4, and someone chose 3. So my group was the one to present first. (We didn't know that we were numbered)

Okay. Back to the subject. We presented our work and i think we did quite alright but i do agree that we were not clear about the things we explained. Especially on our introduction part, because Ronald made a few points about it. Meanwhile, i think my group members or the least me were a little confuse ourselves since Alan was pretty much alright with our ideas when we explained it to him a few days back. (Alan took over while Ronald was absent)

After when everyone finally finished their presentation, Ronald gave us a few lectures about how "not out of the box" we are. Such that we all focus our videos on the year ones and not the other year levels in the course.

To be continued...


Ok. Where was i? Ah yes. My group DID include the idea of showing a few productions of the year 2s and 3s, but due to other comments and instructions given by other lecturers that we were to do about our lives as year 1 students,therefore we decided to do the project about us instead. I told Ronald about what the other lecturers have said, and he asked us if we had ever asked them about it. Well, no. But i don't think that there's a need of asking if there have clearly stated that we have to do the video regarding about us as the year1 students in MOI. I think the problem was the communications between the lecturers here. My classmates were filled with confusions. A moment we were settled and knew what we had to do, and in another moment, we are back to ground zero of confusion, and back again to understanding and there goes the cycle. We are still waiting for confirmations. At the mean time, my group will just make another draft or plan B and work out on our current ideas and make some improvements/suggestions for the current idea due to the comments given by our lecturer.

Day005 - [Monday 040208] Talk with Alfie

On Monday morning, my group and i met up at the library project room for our project. We made things clear of what we gonna do for the video and we discussed a few other things, such as the presentation. After our group's meeting, we head straight for brunch, and class after that.

During our class period, our lecturer Ronald didn't turn up for that day. Instead, Alfie came to our class to give a few helps and some briefing on the projects and told ask that he'll be in the other class if we would want to ask any questions.

But while he was in class, our course/class mate Raymond asked him a few questions about the limitation of the number of minutes we have to take for our interview and some other questions. So Alfie explained that the 2minutes per person was like a guideline or the maximum number of minutes that we have to take per person, therefore we could do lesser then 2minutes if we want to.

After the briefing, my group and I left the class and went straight to the 2D lab to use the PC for our presentation slides and more discussions. That was all for that day. After the discussions, i went for lunch with some other friends, while some of my group members gone for work and others continue with their own stuffs.

Day??? - Discussion on Saturday at 0415am-0530am

Refer to "Day004 - Revamp Ideas" for the video content list

We all would have to make a presentation slides for the first presentation on Day006 which is this coming Tuesday. However on Friday and Saturday, all of our group members (excluding Laurie), were involved in the DOTC1 (Design Orientation Training Camp 1), yet we were fortunate because those that were participating for the DOTC1 were all in the main comm group. Therefore, we were still able to discuss about our projects during the lights-off period where all the sub-comm and GLs have their night rest while the main comm have their night patrols. So we finally managed to get our ideas finalized and noted down the number of things that we wanted to include in our slides and the things for the content of our videos that night/early morning. We informed Laurie to draw up a character/mascots for the slide show to show as the few examples for the video animations.


* not confirmed

So here are the details on the things we have discussed for the videos that night/early morning:


Intro:
Change of theme to "Seeds of Uniqueness/Aspiration" *
= Every person starts out as a seed but we grow into different kinds of flowers and some even may bear fruits.

Contents:
Developed questions for the interviews so that the video will not be in the order of 2mins interview per member.

= Questions:
- What is MOI to you?
- What is your most memorable modules/subjects in MOI?
- What is the first thing that you remembered about being part of MOI?
- Why should they choose MOI?

= Modules examples:
- Video Fund
- Animation Fund
- Digital Media Fund
- Photography
- Drawing Essential

= Backdrop Scene:
- Isel with some 2D art painting (animation)
- Hereafter Studio (video/animation)
- TV Studio (video)
- Sound Room (animation)
- Gallery (video/animation)
- 2D Anim Lab; lightbox (animation)
- Design Space (video)