DAY 30
well, our group didnt present. damn. out of like, 13 groups, ours was the only one who didn't present. everyone else's looked not bad though, except for one, which i will not name, but that work is the only one that we can compare with, with all our undone work. yea, sure, we would have kicked ass if we finished, but we didn't and that's that. we were too ambitious. sigh. i don't wanna compare with people below me, but i try to aim for crewsade level. their's was the best, i tell you, good thing they presented last. if they were the minimum passing standard everyone else would have failed. terribly. just some more terrible than others. their's was...fantastic. the only one where everyone actually clapped and meant it.
betty's group didn't do very bad either, actually, their's looked quite interesting, to thijnk i was in their group before going over to jake's. ah well, it's over.
i think today was the lowest point for all of us. after the presentation i jsut left them and walked to the six floor to do my MultimediaFundamentals work. didn't really want to talk to anyone. better now though, at jeremy's house, doing the MMfund. i could swear that if andrea and i didnt have this morning class we would have done much better. but then again, maybe its all to do with time management. ah well, if i fail, then, try again next year? at least i learnt something. some people are celebrating moving on to year 2, but i'm not so sure. heck, end of MOI P1 journal.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
DAY 29
wow, D-Day is just tomorrow, or wait, jsut a few hours , actually, it's past midnight. now i'm at andrea's house, jake too. staying over to rush everything. seems kinda last minute but so far it looks like we'll make it. at least im praying hard we will. angie's not here, her parents wouldnt let her stay over, so shes coming around 4am. her dad's fetching her i think. hope she'll be awake then though..
alright. plans. animation short by angie and andrea has been turned into a trailer, due to time constraints. i'm almost done with my trailer. done, actually, cause i think it looks nice, but the others don't agree. ah well... jake's 3d character is gone, now he's helping me with the editing of everything. dammit he got a new mac too.. and yea, that;s about it. we're really rushing now. i don't know if it's anyone's fault in particular, but yea, we slacked. majorly. time for regrets now.
yesterday we tried doing voiceovers, but last minute i had a call, so i couldnt do it then, so they decided to go ahead with jake's host first. by the time i was gonna put down i saw the three of them sitting there, not doing anything, so i thought somethign was wrong, and soon after angie and andrea left quickly, and jake was packing up. turns out the voiceovers would sound too fake. dammit. i still think we should have done it though, that's my stand. better sound fake than sound like crap. thinking of the others, especially raj, kinda gets me down. crewsade is like, done already, and greg keeps asking us things liek what are we doing, as if taunting us. ARGH! ok, gonna work on the rest of the things now.
wow, D-Day is just tomorrow, or wait, jsut a few hours , actually, it's past midnight. now i'm at andrea's house, jake too. staying over to rush everything. seems kinda last minute but so far it looks like we'll make it. at least im praying hard we will. angie's not here, her parents wouldnt let her stay over, so shes coming around 4am. her dad's fetching her i think. hope she'll be awake then though..
alright. plans. animation short by angie and andrea has been turned into a trailer, due to time constraints. i'm almost done with my trailer. done, actually, cause i think it looks nice, but the others don't agree. ah well... jake's 3d character is gone, now he's helping me with the editing of everything. dammit he got a new mac too.. and yea, that;s about it. we're really rushing now. i don't know if it's anyone's fault in particular, but yea, we slacked. majorly. time for regrets now.
yesterday we tried doing voiceovers, but last minute i had a call, so i couldnt do it then, so they decided to go ahead with jake's host first. by the time i was gonna put down i saw the three of them sitting there, not doing anything, so i thought somethign was wrong, and soon after angie and andrea left quickly, and jake was packing up. turns out the voiceovers would sound too fake. dammit. i still think we should have done it though, that's my stand. better sound fake than sound like crap. thinking of the others, especially raj, kinda gets me down. crewsade is like, done already, and greg keeps asking us things liek what are we doing, as if taunting us. ARGH! ok, gonna work on the rest of the things now.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
DAY 25
wow, five more days. sorry, haven't been updating much, cause there's been a lot going on, not just in P1. there was alumni night, and some random personal things i had to take care of, but yea, back to blogging.
so far, our group's progress SEEMS to be ok. i'm not too sure about everyone, cause so far i'm half done with editing and i hope the rest are doing their parts. heard jake has some problems with his 3d character, said something about not including him if there's no time. i agree with that, jsut that i hope he really tries his best to do it, cause a 3d guy will be quite a nice thing to see.
can't really go far with editing cause i have to use andrea's mac to do it, she has all the software. i tried to get my hands on special "educational packages" but so far it hasn't really worked for me. shoiuld have gotten a mac instead of this dumb dell. screw vista.
so now, i'm jsut trying my best to finish on time and yea, looks like its ok so far :)
wow, five more days. sorry, haven't been updating much, cause there's been a lot going on, not just in P1. there was alumni night, and some random personal things i had to take care of, but yea, back to blogging.
so far, our group's progress SEEMS to be ok. i'm not too sure about everyone, cause so far i'm half done with editing and i hope the rest are doing their parts. heard jake has some problems with his 3d character, said something about not including him if there's no time. i agree with that, jsut that i hope he really tries his best to do it, cause a 3d guy will be quite a nice thing to see.
can't really go far with editing cause i have to use andrea's mac to do it, she has all the software. i tried to get my hands on special "educational packages" but so far it hasn't really worked for me. shoiuld have gotten a mac instead of this dumb dell. screw vista.
so now, i'm jsut trying my best to finish on time and yea, looks like its ok so far :)
Friday, February 29, 2008
DAY 19
managed to get the filming done, for both the host and for the guests. by the grace of God at the last minute we managed to get a camera from mallory's group, cause apparently they were done with filming their parts. wow. so how did we film both parts? we used two cameras to shoot the scenes, one a extreme wide shot taking both the guests and host, that will be used to join the footages together, and the other a medium shot of the host and later a medium long shot of the guests, which is us. when we borrowed our own camera, we found a tape from the previous owners still inside, so now its OURS!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!! actually it's just mine, since the others are all going into animation, although jake did say something about wanting to go into video. ah well.
ANYWAYS, back to the shooting. we did the whole thing twice over, once with the host (jake, with his hair styled to a gravity-defying extreme) talking to empty chairs on one side, and a second time, with angie, andrea, jake, now normal, and i talking to one empty chair. afterwards we repeated some scenes for the guests, but this time not as a group shot but a close up. ending it all, we did the shot where we all enter into the talkshow together.
also, i have to say, our lighting is quite good! haha, we spent quite a while fiddling around with the lights we borrowed, which consisted of two
two words. fruitful day.
managed to get the filming done, for both the host and for the guests. by the grace of God at the last minute we managed to get a camera from mallory's group, cause apparently they were done with filming their parts. wow. so how did we film both parts? we used two cameras to shoot the scenes, one a extreme wide shot taking both the guests and host, that will be used to join the footages together, and the other a medium shot of the host and later a medium long shot of the guests, which is us. when we borrowed our own camera, we found a tape from the previous owners still inside, so now its OURS!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!! actually it's just mine, since the others are all going into animation, although jake did say something about wanting to go into video. ah well.
ANYWAYS, back to the shooting. we did the whole thing twice over, once with the host (jake, with his hair styled to a gravity-defying extreme) talking to empty chairs on one side, and a second time, with angie, andrea, jake, now normal, and i talking to one empty chair. afterwards we repeated some scenes for the guests, but this time not as a group shot but a close up. ending it all, we did the shot where we all enter into the talkshow together.
also, i have to say, our lighting is quite good! haha, we spent quite a while fiddling around with the lights we borrowed, which consisted of two
two words. fruitful day.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
DAY 17
well, we did filming today. not good. there were many problems, and after discussion, we decided that we cannot use any of the current footages, due to a number of problems.
1. we were trying to upload it to a school computer, but it was very slow, and in the end, it didnt even get half way through before the computer ran out of space.
2. our reactions were too fake, our dialogues too long. many redundant lines inside, which eat into our 2 minutes.
so we came together, discussed, and decided to redo everything. but this time we decided we're gonna do something mroe to our video. "lights". yes, we're gonna borrow lights. muahaha, just hope we can get it right though. tom, our senior, gave us a crash course into lighting basics, and i think, we actually can pull it off. hooray for seniors.
well, we did filming today. not good. there were many problems, and after discussion, we decided that we cannot use any of the current footages, due to a number of problems.
1. we were trying to upload it to a school computer, but it was very slow, and in the end, it didnt even get half way through before the computer ran out of space.
2. our reactions were too fake, our dialogues too long. many redundant lines inside, which eat into our 2 minutes.
so we came together, discussed, and decided to redo everything. but this time we decided we're gonna do something mroe to our video. "lights". yes, we're gonna borrow lights. muahaha, just hope we can get it right though. tom, our senior, gave us a crash course into lighting basics, and i think, we actually can pull it off. hooray for seniors.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Day 10 to 16
forgot to update the journal. anyways since day 9 there has been quite a lot of progress in our group.
we found out that "MadHouse" is already used by another company, so we're not sure whether or not to keep using it. but that's not important.
we managed to get the furniture that we needed, 3 couches, one small table, television, and 2 high chairs. andrea somehow managed to convince vaani to lend us the furniture, and now all we have to do is take care of it until it's time to return it.
we also had a dry run of the whole video, and we managed to identify potential problems to be rectified, like some scripts being too long, and camera placement. afterwards we just had to go back and finalize the scripts and we're ready to go.
however, the "ever reliable and friendly" guys at the video equipment store told us that we can't borrow 3 cameras. i mean, yea, sure we found out that we could give up one camera, but we definitely NEED 2 cameras in order to let everything go smoothly, we can't just film everything 3 times over, it won't be exact. filming it twice is already a gamble, and so we really need the 2 cameras. ronald please do something about it!
so, interim assessment on day 15, i think we did a good job with it. now jsut gotta finish the timeline and stuff.
ok, here's the lowdown on what we're doing, just realised i haven't given much information on the project.
we're doing a talkshow. jake will be the host, and andrea, angie, jake (yes, jake again) and i will be the guests. we're gonna talk about our life so far in MOI, what kinda things we've learnt and our experiences in year 1.
how are we gonna have two jakes? answer: we're gonna clone him we're gonna film it twice, one with jake in the frame, the other with all the guests in the frame, and join the images together in AfterEffects. also we will use different cameras to film a) a wide shot of everyone, where the cloning effect will be used, b) one camera on the host, and c) one camera on all the guests. if there are individual responses, we're gonna zoom in with AfterEffects, since there is no one on the camera to help us zoom. so now you see why we need 2 cameras at least?
today we have to hand in the scripts, timelines, storyboards and all other things related which may have slipped my mind. afterwards jake and i will go to the tv studio, probably to set up the furniture. studio filming should wrapped up by this week, unless we really screw up, which i;m praying that we won't.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Days 5-9
i think someone got into my account, cause when i logged in there was only this post which previously only said "HELLO RONALD HOW ARE YOU" or something like that. should be careful to log off next time.
anyways, i think i have quite alot to blog about. from day 5 till now, which is day 9. but basically it's quite easy to summarise waht happened. we basically came up with new ideas, and two main ideas came up which we thought were possible, one being an informal talkshow and the other being a borat-style documentary. pitched our ideas to the class on day 6 and asked for a vote, most of them recommended that we do the talkshow, although there was one interesting suggestion to combine them both.
didn't do anything over the CNY break, and from day 7 till today we managed to come up with a group name (MADHOUSE), and thought of the animation for the starting. we also reckied the school for good places to shoot, and we found a few, except that none were "perfect". we needed sofas, and the only place we found is the lecturers' lounge, although i don't think some lecturers will be happy with us going in, since we even had trouble getting into the place to check it out.
my personal favourite place would be the room in front of the gallery, i THINK it's called the lights and sound room or something. the others prefer the tv studio though. so now, we're working on the script and decided the places for other parts of our video. and, that's it :)
i think someone got into my account, cause when i logged in there was only this post which previously only said "HELLO RONALD HOW ARE YOU" or something like that. should be careful to log off next time.
anyways, i think i have quite alot to blog about. from day 5 till now, which is day 9. but basically it's quite easy to summarise waht happened. we basically came up with new ideas, and two main ideas came up which we thought were possible, one being an informal talkshow and the other being a borat-style documentary. pitched our ideas to the class on day 6 and asked for a vote, most of them recommended that we do the talkshow, although there was one interesting suggestion to combine them both.
didn't do anything over the CNY break, and from day 7 till today we managed to come up with a group name (MADHOUSE), and thought of the animation for the starting. we also reckied the school for good places to shoot, and we found a few, except that none were "perfect". we needed sofas, and the only place we found is the lecturers' lounge, although i don't think some lecturers will be happy with us going in, since we even had trouble getting into the place to check it out.
my personal favourite place would be the room in front of the gallery, i THINK it's called the lights and sound room or something. the others prefer the tv studio though. so now, we're working on the script and decided the places for other parts of our video. and, that's it :)
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