Day 35

Day 35

Alright alright. Really the last post for this blog. No More entries after this. =D

As we could not transfer the video into the DVD CD-ROM, Jen brought the video back home and tried to use her house computer to transfer the video to the CD. However, something is wrong either the CD or the video. She could not transfer the file. So we had to come back earlier to do transfer the video.

We tried to transfer with 2 different video cameras, 5 fire wires, burn it to a CD again. But it doesn't work!!! And time is running out!!! Luckily, the video camera Germaine's group is using works. So after their transfer and Yi Chuin's group transfer, we managed to get the video transfer into the tape and submit it few mins later after the deadline. Our lecturers also pushed back the deadline from 1200 to 1300. Thanks! If not we will be really late for submission.

So we had screening in the lecture hall after everyone have submitted the tapes. Before that, we have to do the peer assessment. It is a reflection of your group mates like what have they contributed during the entire production and give them a grade and for yourself.

All the videos were great. I can see that everyone puts in alot of effort for this video and they really work every hard. The videos that impressed me alot was Raj's group, Tri's group and Apple's group.

Raj's group video is like the Hollywood kind of video. I love the opening where it looks like Pirate Of The Caribbeans where they are going for a quest with huge obstacles in front of them. The animation really impressed me. They really work alot on the animation and even Mr Ronald was impressed with them.

As for Tri's group, Their video is a very easy going kind where u can relax and watch. Their Animation is fantastic. And their opening is funny and funky. Enjoyable video.

Lastly Apple's group. Though I watched a few parts before the whole video is join together, The whole video is very funny. I can't stop myself from laughing. Everyone in the lecture hall were laughing like mad and Alfie was laughing really loud.

Now we have completed the production package and we are left with our blog entries to submit tomorrow.

From this module, I learn that doing group work is not easy. Although this is not the first time doing group work, but it is different because this project takes up to 2 month to complete. Good communication system is extremely important. In any way having able to communicate properly will cause less trouble and waste of time. Having things plan beforehand is also very important. It is better to have a schedule in hand as we can follow and keep track to where we are. If not, we are confuse of what we have to do for the day and there waste time again and waste a day. Every day is very precious as you can do many things within a day. And also having enough rest the day before the production. If not everyone will be restless and can't concentrate on anything. That's really bad. Lastly, self motivation. Everyone will get excited when we are started the production. but slowly, thing will fall apart and everyone is not in the mood and things are beginning to progress very slow. I believe that self motivation and encouragement from friends will be a really great help to push yourself to move further and to a great height.

Alright, Lastly, to all my group member and friend and lecturers and to the food and equipment and everything. Thank you for being with me through this 2 months. Thank you for your help and guidance. Thank you the uncle for not putting my name in the blacklist for not returning the video camera and tripod on time.

Gina, Adeline, Kala & Jen. Thank you!!!! Although our video is boring and we feel like killing ourselves. But..... we love the video right. (I Hope so...) I mean we did so many work and efforts put in. =D HOLIDAY!!!!!!! HOLIDAY!!!!



Really BYE BYE!!!!!

Day 34

Day 34

Last entry for P1. Cool. YES! WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR VIDEO!!!! HURRAY! Although we are the last to finished the video in the class, but we are really happy. We are happy with the video and the audio.

Today we meet up at 1100. I started doing the storyboard and Gina and the rest continue doing the video. Then later, Kala also helped me with the storyboard. We started to edit the clip as I had download the Adobe Audition into my laptop and importing it into the video. We also add in subtitles and colour correction as some parts of the video looks too dark or too blueish. I think that is because of the bad lighting.

Time passed really fast. It was already 6 plus. And we are still not done. We then began to start touching up. We had a problem while trying to rewind the whole video. Seems like we can't select the whole video to be rewind. So I ask Alvin for help and there, the problem is solved. He is really good at this! But... while we were rendering, something happen again. The video can't be rendered after 1.59mins. We don't know what had happen and we started to panic. Luckily Peng was in the lab and we asked him to help us. Looks like there is something wrong with the video. After searching and looking through, we realised it is the pictures that is causing the problem. So we decided to remove the pictures there, the rendering came out smoothly. We added the last audio in and some simple adjustment and HOHO! The video is done!!! We were jumping for joy!!! Finally after much sweat and whatever, we are done with our work! Adeline is also done with the production package!!! So we are left with the blog entries and we are done with everything. =D

So tomorrow there will be a screening of our works in the lecture Hall at 1200. After this, we will be free from works, projects and daily blog entry! HOLIDAY!!!! I'M COMING!

Last entry...

BYE BYE!!!

Day 33

Day 33

And today in 3D lab, I passed the complete and exported video to Gina and combine everything together. And now Gina is combining everything together. And now we have a very big problem. Jen’s Mac can’t detect the hard disk. So she had to Blue tooth the whole file to Adeline’s MAC. So we have to wait again. But it's too too slow. So we have to borrow the external hard disk from Apple's group. And cause them not able to do their work for a few hours as the transfer took a really really long time. And the hard disk can't be formatted because it doesn't have don't know what format. and so it can't be readable to a MAC lap top. Till 7.30pm we then finished transferring the videos. We are still editing the last footage at this time. We have finalised with our audio and Gina is going to remove the singing part and do some editing with the audio.Submission date is coming. Still left alot alot to do. Storyboard, video, the package. AHH!!!And so, That's all for the day.

Day 32

Day 32


Today is Sunday and we are meeting to do our work. We went to Gina’s house to do our work. I won’t say that it is a really productive day. But at least we managed to select the audio that we are going to use in the video. Actually we thought we can at least join up the first part of the video. But then I don’t know why some of the words are jumbled up and I had to re-arrange parts of the video. The rest continue with their work. We had alot of transferring here and there. Making copies of backup just in case any of the clips died on us. You will never know when it will happen. We ordered KFC for lunch, we camwhore, played guitar, talking etcetc...So that’s all for the day and tomorrow by 5PM!

Day 31

Day 31

Today we continue working. Kala passed me the video for the introduction to change the fonts and she left. Then Jen started working on the slides that we are showing before presenting the interviews. So we actually start preparing the documents we need to submit next week. Jen and I worked on the credits. Its a very simple . Just words and simple colour in it. And everyone likes it. Hurray!!!So we spend the whole day editing and editing our work and try to piece everything together hopefully by next Monday. And i guess we are meeting up on Sunday to continue with our work. Adeline is going to typed out our new ideas and all in the package we are supposed to submit. Jen is going to continue working on the after effects. I am going to finish editing the animated words which kala passed to me. Gina is going to animate the words for the parts that introduces the different modules. Everyoneis going to update our blogs. We gave ourseleves a dateline to complete all the blog entries by next tueday.Ya and so that's all.

Day 30

Day 30

Today we continue editing. All the pictures we took have been edited in Photoshop, and so we passed all the edited pictures to jen so that she can put them together the way we want it in after effects. But then she does not have the software and we can't download anything using the school's internet. So she had to go back home and download the software to arrange the pictures together. We are still picking out videos and editing.. Still got alot left to do. hopefully we can finish the work on time.

Day 29

Day 29

Today we had our presentation. We showed Alfie our works we had done till now. Like our animation and videos for the introduction. We were supposed to hand in our script and storyboard to Alfie but we forget all about it. Alfie commented that we should add more colours to the stick man as it looks too dull and boring with just black and white. To make it look livelier as currently, only the light bulb is the most interesting object in the whole animation. Alfie also told us what is needed for submission and the due dates to submit the work. He told us that we have to complete the whole video by next Monday 5pm and we have to transfer the whole video to tape on Tuesday. But then I doubt that we can finish everything by next Monday with our progress speed right now. Then I also heard from my classmate that we cannot use screen caption for our storyboard. WHY!!! I think with screen capture it will look 100% better than hand drawn. But I guess Alfie prefers hand drawn work. So we have extra works to do now.

After the presentation, we went back to 3D lab and continue editing and continue with the rest of the work. Currently, we are left with audio selection, editing some parts of the video, final storyboards, drafts of the ideas etc. Hopefully we can finish everything on time and not waste any more time on waiting and waiting for people which we are doing everyday without fail.

Day 28

Day 28

No meet up today. =) But we had to do some of the work at home.

Rainy Day!!!

Day 27

Day 27

Today we upload the last tape into the computer. We also prepare for the presentation on Wednesday. We decided to re-do the storyboard which looks crumpled and messy. We also re-do the schedule and re-organise it according to what we have been doing the previous weeks. As for the animation, we are finishing it by Wednesday and show it to Alfie during the presentation. And as for what we are going to present on Wednesday, we have to wait for Alfie's e-mail. Ha ha.

We are taking a break tomorrow!!! HURRAY!!!

Byebye/

Day 26

Day 26

Till now we have not receive the script. So we decided not to wait any longer as we are rushing for time. We will continue filming without the edited script. We went to the classroom and start preparing for the filming later.

So Gina goes first. Yeah and we had her condenser microphone in which we will have a better audio. Yeah!!! Then Jen's turn and finally Adeline. Gina and Kala went off first as they had something on.

And YES! we have finished with all our filming. Next week we will be working on editing and joining all the clips together...

It is fun filming your friend. They were so nervous and stutter. Although there were many NGs. But the outcome is great! Don't be sorry if you have taken many takes! It's the first time we are doing this and I believe practice will make perfect. =) let's enjoy!!!

That's all for today!

I realise that we can't rely on our lecturer even thought they wanted to help us. Now we are not in secondary school whereby if we need help from any teachers, they will help us immediately without a second word. However things are not the same in poly, It is time for us to learn to be independent and not relying others and no more spoon feeding. Oh well.

Day 25

Day 25

Today again we don't have our script with us. So what we had to do was editing and continue with the animation. We are still waiting for the script and we do not have much time left. Gina and rest went to take pics of our 2D works from the two lecturers. We are left with the content and i suppose we are done for filming. What we are left to do is the animation and editing etc... hopefully we can finish filming by tomorrow.

so that's all for the day.

Day 24

Day 24

Today we thought of filming our content. But then Alfie is still not ready with our script. So we uploaded the rest of the video into the computer and do some editing. Ya and the 3D lab is occupied again and 2D lab is crowded with people. But then we managed to get a computer in the Mac Lab. however the macs does not have premier software. So we went to get the software from Raj and installed in my laptop. But, the fire wire could not be connected to the laptop. So we did nothing much and wasted a day.

So that's for the day!

Day 23

Day 23

today we went met @ 1100 and continue with our filming. As Alfie only edit Kala's part, we decided to start with hers first. And Gina brought her huge microphone and we use it to record the audio.

While filming, we had many difficulties as we realise the classroom computer did not have Audacity. So we had to find other source to record the audio into the computer. After all the things were settled, we started the filming. Gina helped us alot as she is familiar with all the audio software etc. Thanks GINA!!!!

We took many NGs takes as Kala was nervous. After a few tries we had the best shot and we decide to proceed to editing. However, the computers do not have Adobe Premier and the 2D & 3D labs were being occupied. So we decided to end the day here and continue tomorrow.

So now we are still waiting for Alfie to send us back the edited scripts...

Hurry... Hurry... Hurry.....

Day 22

Day 22

Yeah today we meet up again at 1030. But then we had to wait for the rest as they are late so... yeah now while waiting, Gina passed the animation to me for and blogging to finish up the previous entries.

At 1330 we decided to move on and not continue wasting time. We went to the classroom and wanted to look for Alfie regarding the scripts. And there we found him there and looks like he only manged to finish Kala's part. But Kala is not ready for the shooting. So we stayed in the class talking to Alfie about lots of stuff. After that we decided to start working.

We film the animation process of Kala working. Later we went up to the studio and film Jen working on the 1m X 1m board. We decided to end everything today.

And soo...

byebye...