On Thursday March 20, which is also today. I came to school early to do my blog because 5pm is the deadline for the online blog and later i have something on, i am afraid i cannot finish it on time. I am now doing the last post in the blog. Ya, i forgot to talk about the videos i watched yesterday. There were two videos i watched yesterday that gave me an deep impression. The first video was done by Lionel's group. What i am impressed about their video was the graphics and music they used in the video. I think it was very good.
The second video was Raj's group. The way they make the video was fantastic man! The way they do the video is like those Hollywood movies. The combination of 2D and 3D animation was perfect and excellent. I also liked their way of doing the video and credits. After the presentation ends, Sholleh shown our video to other people and asked for critic. They said that our introduction was nice but the second part of the introduction was not good. They said it was too fast and they felt dizzy after watching it. After the critic, we all left to do our own things and this module Moving Images Project 1 ENDS!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Presentation Day Day 30
On Wednesday March 19, was our presentation and submission day for the video. My group and i came early in the morning to continue doing our video. We still left some parts need to edit and we had to merge the animation with the video. Sholleh continued doing editing, Betty continued doing the credits, Hanis do the animation of the characters. She had to merge the animation with the video. Then, Laurie came and helped Hanis to do the animation. I helped Sholleh to see the video if there is any problems.
Hanis told me that initially she thought that doing the animation and merging them with the video will take a long time, but she said it was quite easy and she finished it quite fast. As time goes by, the time for presentation was near and our video was still uncomplete. Everyone started to get panic, trying to finsh the video on time. Around 12.30pm, Wahida came to the lab to rush us down to the LT for presentation, but we were still waiting for the video to render. Then, she came and told us by 1pm all of us must go down to the LT. If not, we will fail.
My group and i started to get more panic because we haven save the video in the tape and we don't have a camera with us. Betty told me she managed to borrow a camera from her friend and i went to level 5 to get from her friend. After i got the camera, the video was still rendering, so we lend the camera to another group to use first. It was going to be 1pm and we haven saved our video in the tape. After rendering, it was about 1pm, so we thought of saving the video in two ways and see which one is faster. We saved it in the tape and in a dvd disc.
Ronald came to called us go down and Betty brought her laptop down to the LT while waiting for the video to be saved in the disc. Hanis, Laurie and i also went down to the LT and Sholleh stayed in the lab to wait for the video to be saved in the tape. After that, we all sat in the LT to watch the videos...
Hanis told me that initially she thought that doing the animation and merging them with the video will take a long time, but she said it was quite easy and she finished it quite fast. As time goes by, the time for presentation was near and our video was still uncomplete. Everyone started to get panic, trying to finsh the video on time. Around 12.30pm, Wahida came to the lab to rush us down to the LT for presentation, but we were still waiting for the video to render. Then, she came and told us by 1pm all of us must go down to the LT. If not, we will fail.
My group and i started to get more panic because we haven save the video in the tape and we don't have a camera with us. Betty told me she managed to borrow a camera from her friend and i went to level 5 to get from her friend. After i got the camera, the video was still rendering, so we lend the camera to another group to use first. It was going to be 1pm and we haven saved our video in the tape. After rendering, it was about 1pm, so we thought of saving the video in two ways and see which one is faster. We saved it in the tape and in a dvd disc.
Ronald came to called us go down and Betty brought her laptop down to the LT while waiting for the video to be saved in the disc. Hanis, Laurie and i also went down to the LT and Sholleh stayed in the lab to wait for the video to be saved in the tape. After that, we all sat in the LT to watch the videos...
Problems Day Day 29
On Tuesday March 18, my group met problems while we were doing project 1. The first problem was last night Hanis wanted to do the colourings for the characters, but her computer got problem. She couldn't opened the flash files and end up Laurie had to do all the colourings by herself. Hanis came to the 3D Lab early to do the animation for the video. She first do the animation of the theme "Seeds of Aspiration" and she had the problem of merging the animation of the theme with the video. But she managed to solve it in the end. While she was doing the animation, i was resizing the photos of MOI students and lecturer with photoshop.
I stopped doing my work for a while and followed Hanis to one of the 3-10 classrooms to do audio recording for the video. Sholleh and Betty also joined us after i have finished with my recording. After the recording had finished, we had a break and ate cup noodles.
After eating, we continued to do the video. But problem happened again. Sholleh accidentally delete the timeline and we can't reopen it. All of us started to get worried. If we can't reopen the timeline, our work would be gone. But luckily, we got Peng to come down to help us and he managed to reopen the timeline. We are so grateful to him, Peng you are the best man! Then, Hanis and i went back home. Sholleh stayed back to do a bit more of editing....
I stopped doing my work for a while and followed Hanis to one of the 3-10 classrooms to do audio recording for the video. Sholleh and Betty also joined us after i have finished with my recording. After the recording had finished, we had a break and ate cup noodles.
After eating, we continued to do the video. But problem happened again. Sholleh accidentally delete the timeline and we can't reopen it. All of us started to get worried. If we can't reopen the timeline, our work would be gone. But luckily, we got Peng to come down to help us and he managed to reopen the timeline. We are so grateful to him, Peng you are the best man! Then, Hanis and i went back home. Sholleh stayed back to do a bit more of editing....
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Animation & Video Day 28
On Monday March 17, we continued to do the editing and Laurie continued to do the animation. Sholleh asked me to looked for another piece of music to match with the introduction of each of us doing things in fast moving motion. I went to the same website freeplaymusic.com to search for the music. This time i searched for music that are aggressive feel, upbeat and rhythmic. The music piece i found called 'Punk Life'.
After Laurie finished the animation, Hanis save the animation in her harddrive so she can coloured them. Laurie also did some colour pallettes for the characters to make things easier for Hanis.
After Laurie finished the animation, Hanis save the animation in her harddrive so she can coloured them. Laurie also did some colour pallettes for the characters to make things easier for Hanis.
Discussion on Animation
On Friday March 14, we discussed about the animation for the video and we decided to make some changes to it. Laurie drew chibi characters to represent each of us. The character will appear during the starting of our own interview to introduce ourselves to the audience. An example on how the character introduces us is the character will push a whiteboard in with the person name on it when they appear. The only thing we didn't changed was the animating of the theme "Seeds of Aspiration". Laurie will do the drawing and animating the characters, while Hanis will do the colourings for the characters.
Editing days Day 25-27
From Tuesday March 11 to Thursday March 13, we continued with the editing of the video. So far everything went well. Sholleh continued doing the editing and he told me to go find music for the video. I went to the website freeplaymusic.com to search for instrumental music. For the next few hours, i just sat in front of the computer and listened to different pieces of music. I looked into different ranges of music like upbeat feel, inspired feel, motivational feel and others.
After that, i came out with a list of 12 instrumentals music. I asked my group members to listen to each of them and wrote down their views of the music for our video. Lastly, all of us chose the music called 'Clearing A'. But Sholleh said some parts of the music doesn't fit the video. So he edited the music and loop it inside the video. I myself do like the music too, it gives me a Irish feeling....
After that, i came out with a list of 12 instrumentals music. I asked my group members to listen to each of them and wrote down their views of the music for our video. Lastly, all of us chose the music called 'Clearing A'. But Sholleh said some parts of the music doesn't fit the video. So he edited the music and loop it inside the video. I myself do like the music too, it gives me a Irish feeling....
End of Shooting Day 24
On Monday March 10, we finally finished our shooting of the introduction and the ending. The shooting went well and Laurie was also starting to recover. For the introduction, we took shots of us doing different poses and all of us had a lot of fun during the shooting. After that, we started with our editing of the introduction and ending.
I really hope that we can finished our editing on time so that we have the time to do the animation....
I really hope that we can finished our editing on time so that we have the time to do the animation....
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