Last post to do! i can print out soon! ye....
On Sunday February 24, we met up in the Boat Quay MacDonald first to discuss about the storyboard then continued with the shooting. But then on that day, the lightings was not good and there was haze. So we cancelled the shooting but just do discussions, briefing and re-editing our storyboards in the mac. We also came up with our production name called "Three:Eighteen" . There is logo for our production name and transition effects for the logo.
After the discussion, 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 the end.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Shooting at Boat Quay
2 more posts to go....
On Friday February 22, was the day to shoot the interview for the Photography module. The person being interviewed was Betty. We first met up in the Raffles MRT Station except Hanis. Hanis had to go get the camera from her friend first, then meet up with us. We went to the Boat Quay MacDonald for breakfast and Hanis meet us at there. After the meal, we went to do the shooting. We did quite a few retakes for the interview and we didn't finished it in time. We decided to continue the shooting in the weekend and all of us rushed back school for lessons in the afternoon.
On Friday February 22, was the day to shoot the interview for the Photography module. The person being interviewed was Betty. We first met up in the Raffles MRT Station except Hanis. Hanis had to go get the camera from her friend first, then meet up with us. We went to the Boat Quay MacDonald for breakfast and Hanis meet us at there. After the meal, we went to do the shooting. We did quite a few retakes for the interview and we didn't finished it in time. We decided to continue the shooting in the weekend and all of us rushed back school for lessons in the afternoon.
Uploading of video footages Day 15
3 more posts to go....
On Thursday February 21, we didn't had any shootings but just had discussions and briefing on the previous shootings and the upcoming shootings. Around 6 pm, we all went to the 2D lab to upload our video footages and saved it in Laurie's hard drive.
We also decided to use a DSLR camera for the photography module shooting the next day. So Hanis called his friend Noel to ask for his camera and had to collect it in the next morning.
On Thursday February 21, we didn't had any shootings but just had discussions and briefing on the previous shootings and the upcoming shootings. Around 6 pm, we all went to the 2D lab to upload our video footages and saved it in Laurie's hard drive.
We also decided to use a DSLR camera for the photography module shooting the next day. So Hanis called his friend Noel to ask for his camera and had to collect it in the next morning.
Shooting at Stamford House Day 14
4 more posts to go....On Wednesday Fabruary 20, was the day to shoot the interview for the Drawing Essentials module. The person being interviewed was me. We went there in the afternoon to do preparation before the shooting. We displayed clay works that we brought from the school on the shelves and i practiced my script with Laurie. After that, we shot Mrs Glenn sketching a potrait of me in different mediums like pencils and pastels. During the sketching, my eyes were in pain that i had to take breaks to let my eyes rest. We then started shooting my interview. During the shooting, we encountered some problems like had a shortage of tapes and others. But we managed to solve the problems at the end.
After the shooting, we took video of us setting up the scene like help to arrange the chairs for the life drawings later and also removing our clay works on the shelfs and placed back the original items.
In the evening, Laurie and Hanis went back to the studio again to shoot the life drawings. When everything ends, we sat down to have a short briefing on the shooting and we all went back home.....
Shooting at Mac Lab Day 13
5 more posts to go ....On Tuesday February 19, was the day to shoot the interview for the Digital Media Fundamentals module. The person being interviewed was Hanis. When we reached the Mac Lab, we first arranged the chairs and computers nicely before the shooting. Hanis displayed a few of her DM Fund works on the computer screen while the others work at the back. We were all assigned to different roles. Sholleh shot the interview, Betty took photographs of the interview, Laurie and i act as students using the computers in the lab. We do take turns to do different roles during the video shooting. Hanis answered the questions that we had already planned out for the interview and we retake her interview for a few times because there were some problems like her voice was not loud enough.
In between the shooting, we had breaks and 4 of us except Laurie played with the photo booth. We made crazy expressions, did funny poses and other stuffs. Laurie stood at one corner and laughed at us loudly. After the break, we continued with the shooting and managed to finish it. We had a short briefing on the shooting. Betty, Sholleh and me stayed back to discuss about what i going to wear for my shooting on the next day.....
Shooting at MindsCafe Day 12
6 more posts to go b4 i have to pass up! Add Oil (speak in chinese)
On Monday February 18, was our first day of shooting in production week. We met up in school first and Betty called the main person in charge of the Minds Cafe and managed to get approval to have our video shot at the place. We went to the Minds cafe which was located at Dhoby Ghaut area. Along the way, we shot video of us walking on our way there and had some shots of us doing random things like singing, talking and other stuffs. When we got there, we ordered foods and played some games while waiting for the food and had video shooting of us playing as well.
We had an awesome fun loving time together at the Minds Cafe. We played many different games and one game that i remembered the most was the whacky game UglyUgly. In that game, we had to act fast and snatched similar cards before others. But i was always slower than others and got hit on my hand for a few times.
After we had played and eaten, we had a short briefing on the shooting just now and briefed on the next day shooting.....
On Monday February 18, was our first day of shooting in production week. We met up in school first and Betty called the main person in charge of the Minds Cafe and managed to get approval to have our video shot at the place. We went to the Minds cafe which was located at Dhoby Ghaut area. Along the way, we shot video of us walking on our way there and had some shots of us doing random things like singing, talking and other stuffs. When we got there, we ordered foods and played some games while waiting for the food and had video shooting of us playing as well.
We had an awesome fun loving time together at the Minds Cafe. We played many different games and one game that i remembered the most was the whacky game UglyUgly. In that game, we had to act fast and snatched similar cards before others. But i was always slower than others and got hit on my hand for a few times.
After we had played and eaten, we had a short briefing on the shooting just now and briefed on the next day shooting.....
Discussion for production week Day 11
Hai, i got so many posts to do.... Can i finsh it in time? I think i can haha....
On Friday February 15, my group and i had discussions and briefing to finalize on things that we had to do next week. Which is so called the "Production Week" for the shootings. We also confirmed the things we need to bring for each shooting day.
This is the schedule.
Monday: Introduction shooting of us as MOI students playing at MindsCafe.
Tuesday: Shooting of Hanis's interview in Mac Lab for DM Fund module and discussed about the next shooting.
Wednesday: Shooting of my interview at Stamford House for Drawing Essentials and shooting for live drawing.
Thursday: Briefing for the past few days shoots and the next few days shoots.
Friday: Betty's shooting for Digital Photography Essentials at Boat Quay.
Weekends: Reserved for any retaking shootings just incase.
On Friday February 15, my group and i had discussions and briefing to finalize on things that we had to do next week. Which is so called the "Production Week" for the shootings. We also confirmed the things we need to bring for each shooting day.
This is the schedule.
Monday: Introduction shooting of us as MOI students playing at MindsCafe.
Tuesday: Shooting of Hanis's interview in Mac Lab for DM Fund module and discussed about the next shooting.
Wednesday: Shooting of my interview at Stamford House for Drawing Essentials and shooting for live drawing.
Thursday: Briefing for the past few days shoots and the next few days shoots.
Friday: Betty's shooting for Digital Photography Essentials at Boat Quay.
Weekends: Reserved for any retaking shootings just incase.
Discussion on Valentines Day Day 10
On Thursday February 24, we had another briefing on our project again then we gathered around to discuss about some things. The things we discussed like set up the schedule for next week shootings, thought of things we needed and might considered during the shooting such as props, materials, time, lightings and other stuffs.
We came out with a list of things we needed for each backdrop. For the backdrop scene of Video Fundamentals, we had to ask our lecturers to help us book the TV Studio and searched for friends to act as the crew.
Our idea was to use a production scene being carried out at the back as the backdrop while the interview was held at the front. The scene we thought of was a romantic scene where a couple were having a candle light dinner and outside we had some actors acted as the "production crew" at the backdrop preparing for the scene while Sholleh is being interviewed at the front.
We came out with a list of things we needed for each backdrop. For the backdrop scene of Video Fundamentals, we had to ask our lecturers to help us book the TV Studio and searched for friends to act as the crew.
Our idea was to use a production scene being carried out at the back as the backdrop while the interview was held at the front. The scene we thought of was a romantic scene where a couple were having a candle light dinner and outside we had some actors acted as the "production crew" at the backdrop preparing for the scene while Sholleh is being interviewed at the front.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Raccee Day Day 9
On Wednesday February 13, was the day for us to raccee the places we were going to use for the interview. We met in class and wrote down the places to raccee. Some of the places were in school, so we went to raccee them again and asked Vani, one of the lecturers to help us book the Design Space. After we had finished raccee in school, we went down to canteen for lunch and went to the place outside the school to raccee. The place was near City Hall area.We went to a drawing studio in Stamford House whereby the studio allows people to do potraits, drawings and paintings. The place was meant as the backdrop for Drawing Essentials.
We raccee the place and asked the owner Mrs Glenn whether we could used the place for shooting. We also asked her was she willing to sketch a potrait of me while we are doing the interview and took some photos of the studio.
Next, we went to the Subway Station whereby the place displayed different schools students' artworks and some art exhibitions held there too.
We then went to raccee an animation company called 77star at 9 Shenton Way. Actually on the way to the company, i was quite nervous and happy about it. Before we left the school, i talked with the person in charge (A Japanese Guy) on the phone to ask were we allow to go to the company to have a look. I had this problem talking with him because his English was not good and my Jap was neither better. He asked for my name and i gave him a name which i thought was lousy after we ended the conversation. Hence along the way, Hanis and i thought of a name that suits me and easier for him to pronouce. The name we thought of was Kin.We raccee the place thought that the place was not suitable for us to use as the backdrop for Animation Fundamentals. Therefore, we decided to use the 2D Animation Lab in school as the backdrop.
The last stop we went to raccee was Boat Quay. The place was chose to use as the backdrop for photography. We went there to have a look and took some photographs too. Finally, we end our raccee day and all of us went back home.....
Planning Raccee Day 8
On Tuesday February 12, we continued to finalize our idea. We noted down places we might used as backdrops for the interview and recap on other things that we had discussed for the past few days such as the interview's questions, backdrops and contents of the video.
We decided to raccee the next day. The places were school areas and outside school areas. We also came up with 2 places as backdrops for each modules we listed.
The modules we chose were Video Fundamentals, Animation Fundamentals, Digital Media Fundamentals, Photography and Drawing Essentials.
We decided to raccee the next day. The places were school areas and outside school areas. We also came up with 2 places as backdrops for each modules we listed.
The modules we chose were Video Fundamentals, Animation Fundamentals, Digital Media Fundamentals, Photography and Drawing Essentials.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Discussion of idea and raccee Day 7
On Monday February 11, my group and i sat down to do discussion. We always got new ideas that we cannot get things finalized. But we were all trying to improve our idea to make the video looks good....Sholleh thought of a few more ideas that day and we all came to a conclusion that our idea doesn't stands out at all. It was too common and ordinary. So all of us had more discussion and tried to finalize our idea. We also thought of places as the backdrops for our interviews.
After that, we went to raccee a few places in design school like the TV Studio, Design Gallery, Design Space, Sound Room and 2D Animation Lab.
Discussion at Business School
On Wednesday February 6, is the Chinese New Year eve. My group and i except Laurie (sick cannot come) decided to have another discussion at Business School in the morning.
We tried to make things clear and improve on our current idea. After listening to what Mr Ronald said about our video, we decided to change our introduction. We went to youtube to watch a few intro videos and thought of a new idea for our introduction. We decided to do something simple and fun that could work with the concept of the animation mascots appears in the middle of the video. By doing this, there won't be a big twist between the introduction and the content. Example like the introduction is tense while the content is simple and fun. At the same time, we thought of plan B in case we were allowed to showcase our seniors' works.
This is what we discuss....
Introduction
We tried to make things clear and improve on our current idea. After listening to what Mr Ronald said about our video, we decided to change our introduction. We went to youtube to watch a few intro videos and thought of a new idea for our introduction. We decided to do something simple and fun that could work with the concept of the animation mascots appears in the middle of the video. By doing this, there won't be a big twist between the introduction and the content. Example like the introduction is tense while the content is simple and fun. At the same time, we thought of plan B in case we were allowed to showcase our seniors' works.
This is what we discuss....
Introduction
- Video footage of the things we did during our leisure time
- Video footage of behind the scenes of the interview
- Include a few pauses to introduce the name of the people that will be interviewed
Presentation 1 Day 6
So lonely ! I sit in front of the com to do the blog with me alone. There is no one i can talk tooooo.... BUT i will still do my blog !!! HaHa....
On Tuesday February 5, was the day for presentation 1. My group was the first group to present. We present our idea to Mr Ronald and the class. During presentation, Mr Ronald asked questions about our video's introduction. The pointers he state on our group's video made us a bit confused. Few days back in class, Alan took over Mr Ronald and we present our idea to him. He thought that the idea was good but Mr Ronald doesn't think so. I think is because different people have different thinking.
When all the groups had present, Mr Ronald gave comments to the class about our ideas. The comments he gave like all of us the idea were so 'in the box'. He wanted us to think 'out of box' like we can shoot our seniors' work but not all just our work.
On Tuesday February 5, was the day for presentation 1. My group was the first group to present. We present our idea to Mr Ronald and the class. During presentation, Mr Ronald asked questions about our video's introduction. The pointers he state on our group's video made us a bit confused. Few days back in class, Alan took over Mr Ronald and we present our idea to him. He thought that the idea was good but Mr Ronald doesn't think so. I think is because different people have different thinking.
When all the groups had present, Mr Ronald gave comments to the class about our ideas. The comments he gave like all of us the idea were so 'in the box'. He wanted us to think 'out of box' like we can shoot our seniors' work but not all just our work.
Lesson with Alfie Day 5
On Monday February 4, my group and i met up in the TP library's project room to do discussion. We finalized things we wanted to do in our video and discussed about the presentation 1. After that, we all went to design canteen for lunch.
We went for class after lunch but Mr Ronald did not came for lesson. He asked Alfie to look after our class. Alfie talked to our class and gave suggestions to us for our video. He also briefed us on the project 1.
Raymond, my classmate asked him a few questions about the video. He asked about the limitation of the number of minutes we have to take for our interview. Alfie told him that the 2 mins per person was like a guideline or the maximum number of minutes that we have to take for one person. Hence, we can take lesser than 2 mins if we want to.
After Alfie left the class, my group and i went to the 2D lab to use the PC to do our presentation slides and had discussion. When everything ends, all of us went to do our own stuffs and i stayed in the lab to do my blog.....
We went for class after lunch but Mr Ronald did not came for lesson. He asked Alfie to look after our class. Alfie talked to our class and gave suggestions to us for our video. He also briefed us on the project 1.
Raymond, my classmate asked him a few questions about the video. He asked about the limitation of the number of minutes we have to take for our interview. Alfie told him that the 2 mins per person was like a guideline or the maximum number of minutes that we have to take for one person. Hence, we can take lesser than 2 mins if we want to.
After Alfie left the class, my group and i went to the 2D lab to use the PC to do our presentation slides and had discussion. When everything ends, all of us went to do our own stuffs and i stayed in the lab to do my blog.....
Monday, February 4, 2008
Discussion on idea during camp
Saturday February 2 was the last day of the DOTC1 (Design Orientation Training Camp 1). My group (except Laurie) and i attended the camp for two days Friday Feb 1 & Saturday Feb 2. We went to the camp because we belongs to DSC (Design Studies Club) and we are in the main committee group for the DOC (Design Orientation Camp) camp. When the camp started, we were so busy with our work that we only got to rest at the next morning which was around 4 to 5 am. When we had finished with our work, we sat down and had discussion on the idea. The main focus of our discussion were to decide what things we wanted to include in the power point slides as next week is the 'Power Point Presentation 1'. We finalized our idea and thought of what things to include in the slides.
This is the content of our discussion.....
We decided to tell Laurie to draw the mascots out which we are using it in our video. We thought of including the mascots in the slide show so that we can show it as the few examples for the video animations.
? not sure
Introduction
This is the content of our discussion.....
We decided to tell Laurie to draw the mascots out which we are using it in our video. We thought of including the mascots in the slide show so that we can show it as the few examples for the video animations.
? not sure
Introduction
- Change the theme to "Seeds of Uniqueness/Aspiration" ?
- Every person starts out as a seed but we grow into different kinds of flowers and some of us may even bear fruits
- We think of questions for the interviews so that the video will not be in the order of 2 mins interview for each member
- What is MOI to you?
- What is your most memorable modules in MOI?
- What is the first thing that you remembered about being part of MOI?
- Why should they choose MOI?
- Video Fundamentals
- Animation Fundamentals
- Digital Media Fundamentals
- Photography
- Drawing Essentials
- Isel with some 2D art painting (animation)
- Hereafter Studio (video/animation)
- TV Studio (video)
- Sound Room (animation)
- Gallery (video/animation)
- 2D Animation Lab (animation)
- Design Space (video)
Discussion 2 on our idea Day 4
I am now trying my best to upload the posts i should upload....
Hmm.... jia you to myself...
On Thursday January 31, Mr Ronald told our class that we would be watching video clips with Wahida's class. Wahida shown us a few more video clips, the purpose was the same as what Aflie said the last time. The video clips she shown us was more on documentary and i liked the songs inside.
After watching the video clips, my group and i had a group discussion in our classroom. We made some changes in our idea and thought of how to do the ending for our video.
This was what we got....
? not decided yet
Introduction
Hmm.... jia you to myself...
On Thursday January 31, Mr Ronald told our class that we would be watching video clips with Wahida's class. Wahida shown us a few more video clips, the purpose was the same as what Aflie said the last time. The video clips she shown us was more on documentary and i liked the songs inside.
After watching the video clips, my group and i had a group discussion in our classroom. We made some changes in our idea and thought of how to do the ending for our video.
This was what we got....
? not decided yet
Introduction
- Introduction of our video will be 1 minute
- Fast run of images/video with a few voice over in the background (eg. "I am designer")
- Include animation & video inside
- Aniamtion will be high contrast and thick line art
- Video/images will be the footage on the modules we did
- For the transition to the content, we will first introduce the five of us
- Film our hobbies/interests in fast play mode ?
- Film the five of us at TP bus stop with fast moving traffics and people
- Camera moves in fast motion to one of us, slow motion play when we are doing self- introduction in voice over form
- Self introduction is like say who am i and what my hobbies/interests (show footage of the person's hobbies/interests) ?
- After one had introduced, camera moves in fast motion to another member to do self- introduction (voice over with slow motion play when self- introduction) ?
- This applies to the other group members too
Content
- Content of our video will be 10 minutes
- Tagline is "Different lifestyles, Same goals"
- Style/format for the interview is 2 mins for each member and not in order
- Members take turns to be interviewed
- Set aside a number of questions and in same order for every member to answer
- Include the bloopers (no cut unless needed), but cover it with a flash cut and a beep sound after the blooper before continue with the interview ?
- Cuts between members, include flash cut with the beep sound
- Video & animation will have interaction
- OCs/little mascot in quick animation frame will do actions like pulling headings/subheadings
- During interview, one can interact with the animation like the mascot made mistake on the subheadings and the person is angry
Ending
- Ending of our video will be 1 minute
- Do silhouette shots on the members ending with a "big bang"
- Freeze frame on the jumping poses
- Show credits with footage ?
- Show what behind the scenes
- Show MOI Video & Animation work/project/production
- Show other bloopers
Roles of members for this video production
- Video: Sholleh, Betty & me
- Animation: Hanis & Laurie
- OCs/mascots design: Laurie
- Graphic animations: Hanis
This is the end of our discussion....
Watch different videos' footage Day 3
Ok, finally i am back to upload my blog with new post..... I suppose to do it earlier, but somehow i have no time to do it and blah blah blah....
Never mind, i can always start now... On Wednesday January 30, my class and i went to LT 25 to watch some video clips with the other two classes. All three lecturers were at the LT too. Aflie told us the purpose of gathering us here was to show us some introductions of video clips and the making of the film. He told us that we could used some of it as reference for our video. We watched a few intros and i thought that some of it were quite nice. I remembered one of the style of intros was a documentary style.
Mr Ronald and Wahida also shown us some video clips. Some of them i thought it was interesting, but some of it was damn boring that i almost dozed off.... After all the video clips had shown, the lecturers talked to us for a while and lesson ENDS !!!
That all for now...
Never mind, i can always start now... On Wednesday January 30, my class and i went to LT 25 to watch some video clips with the other two classes. All three lecturers were at the LT too. Aflie told us the purpose of gathering us here was to show us some introductions of video clips and the making of the film. He told us that we could used some of it as reference for our video. We watched a few intros and i thought that some of it were quite nice. I remembered one of the style of intros was a documentary style.
Mr Ronald and Wahida also shown us some video clips. Some of them i thought it was interesting, but some of it was damn boring that i almost dozed off.... After all the video clips had shown, the lecturers talked to us for a while and lesson ENDS !!!
That all for now...
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