Day 21

Day 21

Today we started working. As Alfie had not finish viewing out script, we decided to do other stuff today. First we upload the videos again to wait for the rest to come. Jen and I started working with the credits and all. After that, we went to have our lunch first before we start shooting.

We walk to the Bedok reservoir for our shooting. This time we are shooting the process of Photography, like the field trip we had during class. Gina was pretending to take some pictures while we film her. Meanwhile, the rest of us were enjoying the scenery and the cool breeze at the reservoir. After all the filming, it was still early. So we proceed to the 3D lab to film the clay working. I am the one who is doing the clay. We had to try a few times before we actually had a good take. We also used quick motion as one of our style. But the outcome of the clay looks horrible. That's how I feel. After that we ended everything and that's all for today.

Day 20

Day 20

Today we met at 1030 and started working. While waiting for the rest to come, we decided to upload some videos we have taken the past few days to the computer and did some editing. It takes a looooong time to upload. In order not to waste time, we started on the animation and our script. We finalised it all and send it to Alfie for checking.

At 12 we went to the classroom and met Alfie for interview. The interview was great although we had a few NGs. yeah. We also had Alvin Soe to help us. He helped us with the v.camera on the focusing and the lighting in the class and the lighting angle. Then we also started on our modules opening. And we had Alvin's help again. Thank you.

After that we went to had our lunch... so that's all to today

Day 19

Day 19

today we met at 1030 again. Yup. so Gina, Jen and I went to collect our foams and slice them up to smaller pieces in the workshop and wrapped them with mahjong paper as our 'books' that we will be using.

After that we went to the classroom and start shooting. However we realise that we had some problems so we decided to postpone the shooting tomorrow. we did not really do much things today. ya so we will continue everything tomorrow. bye bye...

Day 18

Day 18

Today we meet at 1030 and start to prepare for the shooting later. We did the opening filming. We spend around 2 hrs near the design entrance. It started around 12+ and we had missed the crowd.

Then while we were setting up, we realise that the v.camera is low battery. I was the one who brought the v.camera home yesterday. I totally forgot that i have to charged the v.camera. I'm so sorry! Kala had to borrow a v.camera from her friend to use for today.

While we were filming, we attracted alot of people's attention and at one point they were crowding around us. This is so embarrassing. haha. Yeah and we had Germaine to help us while we were all in camera. Thank you!

After all the filming, we settle with the props that we need for tomorrow shooting.

And that's all for today! It is fun yet tiring. Bye bye!

Day 17

Day 17

Hello all. It's the first day of block 2 for P1. So we left less than 2 weeks for our production and 1 week for editing and stuff... So it's like rushing and rushing for the next 3 weeks.

So today is the 1st day of the production blocks! We met at 12 plus and Gina showed us the flip book that she did over the weekends and it was marvellous. GOOD WORK GINA! We made some improvements to the flip book, rented the video camera and tripod. We proceeded to film the flip book in the classroom...

We took quite a number of takes as we did not quite agree to the shooting position. After some trying and discussion, we managed to get what we wanted. Next we start on the flipping book. It was hard to keep the flipping at a constant speed... we had quite a no. of NGs... haha. It was a really good experience and we had alot of FUN!

Tomorrow, we're going to finish filming our opening! YEAH. And select the works we are show in the video as we did not do it today.

And so....

Bye bye...

Day 16

Day 16

We did not meet up because today is the submission for design, history & culture. Everyone is rushing to finish up their work. So we shall start working from next Monday!!! bye bye...

Day 15

Day 15

Today's the interim assessment. very informal presentation. we were marked on the content. We did a very brief presentation what we have done till date and our schedule and storyboard. We only had our schedule planned for the next week. so i guess we won't be sending Alfie our schedule soon. Then after the presentation, we had a small discussion and settle with some stuff.. and yeah that's for the day.

Alfie said that there will be a movie screening tomorrow on a Hong Kong movie. Can't remember what is the title. Ya. But I'm not going for the screening. Ha ha. Yeah. And that's the end of 1 block.. Whoa.. that's really fast. Bye bye...

Day 14

Day 14
So today we went to the mac lab to do our script writing. actually we didn't really sort of write out the script but we know what we are going to have in the content. We took 1/2 modules each to talk about or demonstrate. After doing that, we went on to do some research on the graphics we are going to use in the video. We found a few interesting fonts and took note of it. then it's time so we ended our meeting. Gina and me went to the 2D lab and realise that the other groups have already done their opening and it was marvellous. they are really fast. Then me and Gina realise that we are really lagging behind. tomorrow we will be having some presentation. Sort of letting Alfie see what we have for now also to see if we are on the right track. We only have our storyboard to show Alfie. but its better than nothing.

Yeah soon bye bye to DHC.

BYE BYE!

Day 13

Day 13

Today we met at the tables at design entrance and did our storyboarding there! As Kala was not here yesterday, we shared our new idea with her and i think everyone is happy with it. We continue our storyboard and there we finished our storyboards already!! Ha ha... So tomorrow we are probably going to plan our schedule, do script writing, graphics as we do not have much time left. Ya so hope everything will be done before the next block. Bye bye...

Day 12

Day 12

kala didn't come today cause she's sick!!

anyway, we went to the mac lab to discuss more about the content. So we spent like 3 hrs dicussing about our content idea. We got so many ideas that we do not know how to connect them together. Yeah. at one point we were really lost and had no idea wad to do. So Jen told us to stop thinking of new ideas and develop on the ideas we had now. And there we have finalised our content. Hurray!!!! We also edit bits of our content... yeah. So thats all we did for today.

Byebye

Day 11

Day 11

Today we went for class and Alfie talk about the previous yr works. So we did the opening storyboard. then later we proceed up to the mac lab. Actually we were to continue doing the storyboard. However seems like no one is in the mood to do and we have not confirm with our content arrangement. So we only did the opening storyboard. Hm today we only did a little. there's only left with 1 week before the production. I'm worried that we do not have enough time. we do no have any script and all our ideas are in our brain. we do not have any hard copy's of the stuff. Even our storyboard is not complete and schedule NOT DONE! It seems like nothing is really done and complete. hope that there will not be anymore major changes for our ideas and our script and storyboard can be done before the production date. BYE BYE!

Day 10

Day 10

So today we actually had filming. but due to some problem, we decided to end our filming. Also, we think that we got enough footage... We sat down for some discussion and we realise we are having a very big problem. We don't really know what we are doing and what we want. what is our focal point. And just with the footage behind the scene, i do not know how to link it by including our own work and our opening and ending. We realised that we got a lot of ideas but we do not know how to combine them together. We were very lost and do not know what to do. Then Jen came up with a very good idea. it is simple yet with great combination of animation and video. HOHOHO! so we scraped the previous idea and finalised with this new idea. Yup so we got the brief idea of what is going to happen in the video and we are going to do our storyboard tomorrow. So let wait and see... BYEBYE!!!

Day 09

Day 09

we had filming today. We followed the year 2 around in places like the TV studio and the ram area. Some of my group mates acted as the extra in the video. Haha... Today's footage is better than yesterdays and its more interesting than yesterday. We used up one whole tape. and we had to buy another one from the TP bookshop which cost $7 plus. So expensive!!!!!!! but when we're about to wrap up at 3, Alfie came and gave us 2 empty 60min tapes. just a few minutes after we bought the tape!!!! can we refund or claim money??? it's been more productive today. I guess we have enough footage. There's still filming tomorrow... hopefully the footage will be useful to us if not we will be wasting our time like for 2 days. ya so... bye bye!

Day 08

Day 08

Today after the trip to National Museum, I went to meet Kala, Gina and Jen at Bras Basah for the filming. And so we missed the afternoon class. So we started filming the scene and then what they are doing behind the scene. Like how the scene was setup, how the director and the other members direct everything and the interaction between the members and the actor. I can see that it is not easy to do. just a simple scene can take up up to 2 hrs to film. every action, expression and movement and the shot size are important. After a while, we began to feel tired and restless. We sat at the staircase and started dozing off. Tomorrow we will continue filming in TP and hope that it will be more interesting and fun.

Day 07

Day 07

Hello... Today we went to class. Alfie talked again about our project for a pretty long time. Seens like our objective is going to change or not. It's still not really confirm yet. And so we finally had some more time discuss. we are going to start our video shooting tomorrow... All thanks to our yr 2 senior for allowing us to film them while they are filming. But we couldn't really plan our schedule in detail because the schedule was not ready yet. So by tonight we are able to get the schedule and start our filming tomorrow. hopefully it will be fun.

Day 06

Day 06

I'm late for class again. Today is presentation day. So by the time I reached the class, the first group almost finished their presentation. Sorry! So the rest of the group presented their work to the class. Then my group started presenting. Seriously i don't know what to say. So I just said out everything in my mind and pass on to my next team mate. So and there we end the presentation and class.

After the class, my group mate stayed back in class for awhile and discuss again. So we have finalised our script. We named our group The Stickman Production. Haha... So below is the brief idea of what we are doing.

The Stickman Production

Opening
-Stickman pulls out ‘The Stickman Production’, then he run and jumps into be ‘I’ Squashing the initial ‘I’ and then head pops out to look.
-Stickman takes lots of photos, each & everyone of us, then hangs up in a line and choose the best photo to work on.
-Photography: Stickman takes photo of one of the group member (Polaroid). *keeps dropping the photo.*
-Drawing Essential: Stickman sketch out the photo.
-2D Art: Stickman does a painting of the sketch.
-3D Art: The painting becomes 3D
-Claymation (Backup): Stickman uses clay to build out the painting.
-Storytelling: Draws out a computer with keyboard, Stickman jumps onto the keyboard and start typing by jumping on the button. Types out our video title.
-Then from animation zooms into the screen, then zooms out from video to MAC laptop.

So we will probably start filming next week after we get the schedule from our senior. So it will be a busy week for us.

Day 05

Day 05

My group member and I did discussion about our opening and ending as well as our content. so we came up with a few ideas for our content. After consulting Aflie, we somehow had finalise what we want to do for our content. HURRAY!!!! It will be a combination of animation and video. But there will be a lot of work to do for our animation. I guess we will be doing a simple animation. It will be a stick man. ha ha. So tomorrow will be our presentation. So I'm in charge of the content. Yup so that's all for today!