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
Day??? - [Fri070308] AmpiTheatre
We went shooting at the ampitheatre for our intro, and we were quite happy with the layout and planning, but unfortunately, one of our group member, Laurie had a fall on the stairs and fall on her tail bone. ouch. So we ended up postponing the shootings to monday instead.
Oh.. and back to video edits! and looks like that our animation is going to be brought back due to our unfinished shootings on our intro and ending.
Oh.. and back to video edits! and looks like that our animation is going to be brought back due to our unfinished shootings on our intro and ending.
Day023 - [Thurs060308] Intro shoots!
We were off to intro shooting, but we had a little complication since one of our group members have a morning class which is me, and the other have an afternoon class which is hui qin. So we tried to finish up both intro and ending shooting by 3pm. We made a few shootings at the design ramp, but it wasn't as good as we expected. The exposure was dark, and it had been raining for the past few hours, and we kept retaking the shoots that we didnt manage to get what we wanted and hui qin had to go for her afternoon class.
So for the day, we went on editting and made a change of the venue for the intro and ending shooting to the Ampitheatre.
So for the day, we went on editting and made a change of the venue for the intro and ending shooting to the Ampitheatre.
Day020-022 [Mon030308-Wed050308] Editin week!
Its now the editting week! We are now on to edits, butwe still have a few more shootings to do, which are out intro and ending. So for the next few days, we would be doing edittings on the contents of the videos and would be having discussion on our left over shootings which are our intros and endings.
Day019 - [Thurs280208] Logistics for e Day!
It's the day after the tv studio shoot, and for now, we were left with betty's shooting at boat quay. The group went to Boat Quay in the morning while i went for my morning class, and guess what. I'm the logistic for the day! It's a good experience by the way. *laughing out loud*
After class, i got a call from Betty that YiJie is coming late to school, so he cant help us out with shifting back the tables to the cafe, instead i had to ask for a friend to help me out with carrying the table and chairs. But on the other hand, i think i'm short of time to look for people to help out with the carrying since my class got released early and most of my friends are either in class or not in school. So i made an effort to carry 2 chairs and a table from design school all the way to the cafe next to the TP bookstore, and later i went to pass a camera to Zaihan at the level 5 studio so that the camera could be passed on to the group that owns the cam, at the same time i took a box of clay works from zaihan. After all the moving and carrying, i made my way with the box of clay to raffles place to meet my group mates at Boat Quay. Yeah.. i got tired out from the ravelling and carrying when i came. *laughing out loud*
After that, we continued a few shootings and moved to Minds' Cafe at Boat Quay for lunch and break, and of course, while i was there for my P1, i also did my other module assignment, where i had to take pictures regarding on lightings of architechture.
And yey! We are finally done with our content shooting.
After class, i got a call from Betty that YiJie is coming late to school, so he cant help us out with shifting back the tables to the cafe, instead i had to ask for a friend to help me out with carrying the table and chairs. But on the other hand, i think i'm short of time to look for people to help out with the carrying since my class got released early and most of my friends are either in class or not in school. So i made an effort to carry 2 chairs and a table from design school all the way to the cafe next to the TP bookstore, and later i went to pass a camera to Zaihan at the level 5 studio so that the camera could be passed on to the group that owns the cam, at the same time i took a box of clay works from zaihan. After all the moving and carrying, i made my way with the box of clay to raffles place to meet my group mates at Boat Quay. Yeah.. i got tired out from the ravelling and carrying when i came. *laughing out loud*
After that, we continued a few shootings and moved to Minds' Cafe at Boat Quay for lunch and break, and of course, while i was there for my P1, i also did my other module assignment, where i had to take pictures regarding on lightings of architechture.
And yey! We are finally done with our content shooting.
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