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....
Shooting at Ampitheatre
On Friday March 7, we went to the Ampitheatre to shoot our introduction. But we had a problem before we started shooting. The problem was Laurie slipped and fell on the stairs. She hurt her tail bone and it was so pain that she couldn't straighten her back. No choice, we decided to shoot the introduction on next monday. After that, we went to the 2D Lab to continue with our editing....
Shooting of introduction Day 23
On Thursday March 6, we started to shoot the introduction of the video. Our time for shooting was quite short because in the morning Hanis had class, so we can't shoot in the morning. In the afternoon, i had class at 3. Hence, we only had about three hours to do our shooting. We went to the design ramp to shoot.
We done a lot of retakes of the introduction like we all running towards the camera, but the results was not good at all. So we decided to change the venue for shooting of the introduction. The venue we chose was the Ampitheatre. After that, i went to class and the rest of them went to the 2D Lab.
We done a lot of retakes of the introduction like we all running towards the camera, but the results was not good at all. So we decided to change the venue for shooting of the introduction. The venue we chose was the Ampitheatre. After that, i went to class and the rest of them went to the 2D Lab.
Starting of editing Day 20-22
From Monday March 3 to Wednesday March 5, was our editing days. We started doing editing for the content and adding effects inside the content. For the next few days, we continued with our editing and had discussion on the remaining shoots. The remaining shoots were our introduction and ending.
Shooting again Day 19
On Thursday February 28, the whole group except Hanis went to Boat Quay again to shoot Betty's interview. We all went to the mac at Raffles Place again to have our breakfast and to wait for Hanis to come after her class. Betty then informed Hanis that Yi Jie can't come to school early to help shifted back the chairs and tables to the cafe, so Hanis had to do it. Betty also asked her to go level 5 Studio to get the clay works from Zaihan. Around 11 plus in the morning, Hanis met up with us at the Boat Quay.
When she reached there, she looked so tired. She told us that she shifted the table and chairs back to the cafe alone. I felt quite bad that she had to do this job herself as the distance from the TV Studio to the cafe is long. But no choice, i can't help her at that time.
After the shooting, all of us except Betty went to the Minds' Cafe at Boat Quay for lunch and played games. Around four plus, we all went to the Stamford House again to shoot my interview. The shooting was quite fast and we ended the day early.....
When she reached there, she looked so tired. She told us that she shifted the table and chairs back to the cafe alone. I felt quite bad that she had to do this job herself as the distance from the TV Studio to the cafe is long. But no choice, i can't help her at that time.
After the shooting, all of us except Betty went to the Minds' Cafe at Boat Quay for lunch and played games. Around four plus, we all went to the Stamford House again to shoot my interview. The shooting was quite fast and we ended the day early.....
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Shooting at TV Studio Day 18
On Wednesday February 27, was the day to shoot the interview for Video Fundamentals. The person being interviewed was Sholleh. On that day, we went to the TV Studio early to set up the place for the video scene later. We went to the Bistro Cafe to borrow the table and chairs. The rest of us went to prepare the things ready like cutting up the table cloth to fit the table.
Around five plus, we went to buy the food for the dinner scene. Our idea of backdrop for Video Funamentals was to have a romantic dinner scene at the back while Sholleh being interviewed at the front. The cast for the dinner scene was Caleb and Lydia. Before the shooting starts, we get all the things ready like the lightings, props and other things. The shooting went quite smoothly and the day ends....
Shooting at 2D Animation Lab Day 17
On Tuesday February 26, was the day to shoot the interview for Animation Fundamentals module. The person being interviewed was Laurie. Before the shooting, we met a problem. Initially, our idea of backdrop for this module was Laurie sitting in front of the screen while the screen potrays the animation works of our animation seniors.
But when Sholleh saw the animaton collage, he thought that the animation collage was not colourful and fast enough. Laurie, Hanis and Sholleh had an argument for this matter. But we managed to solve this problem in the end. I told Hanis that we could used back our initial idea to shoot at the 2D Lab with drawings placed on the lightboxes. Then, she thought of using the initial idea and have Laurie's drawings pinned at the wall as the backdrop.
Around 6 plus, we went to the 2D Lab to do our shooting. Everythings went smoothly, we had a short debrief and planned for the next day shooting.
The day ends....
But when Sholleh saw the animaton collage, he thought that the animation collage was not colourful and fast enough. Laurie, Hanis and Sholleh had an argument for this matter. But we managed to solve this problem in the end. I told Hanis that we could used back our initial idea to shoot at the 2D Lab with drawings placed on the lightboxes. Then, she thought of using the initial idea and have Laurie's drawings pinned at the wall as the backdrop.
Around 6 plus, we went to the 2D Lab to do our shooting. Everythings went smoothly, we had a short debrief and planned for the next day shooting.
The day ends....
Preparation & learning day Day 16
On Monday February 25, all of us brought the things we need for the video scene on Wednesday. Hanis brought a few white candles and an antique candle holder. Laurie brought an empty wine glass bottle. I myself got to bring 3 stalks of roses. But i will bring it on the day itself so that the roses can be in the best condition for the shooting....
Around two plus, my group and i went to the TV Studio to learn lightings for the shooting from our MOI seniors. The seniors who taught us were Tom and Matthew. They taught us how to use the lighting equipments and tips when we are doing lighting during shooting. I have learned a lot from them but i didn't stayed long because i went for my class at 3. I felt quite pity but i had a great time with them.
Around two plus, my group and i went to the TV Studio to learn lightings for the shooting from our MOI seniors. The seniors who taught us were Tom and Matthew. They taught us how to use the lighting equipments and tips when we are doing lighting during shooting. I have learned a lot from them but i didn't stayed long because i went for my class at 3. I felt quite pity but i had a great time with them.
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