Day Three

Hello.
Its day three of our P1.

Yan Ping and I reached school late today and enter the lecture halfway while Alfie was talking. So we just sat down at the corner seats. haha. Sorry!

So today its a combined lecture.
Alfie showed us some videos and talked to us about the style of filming. Like theres this video about the Mallory and Irvine Expedition at Mount Everest.
The shooting style is like Cloverfield's. ( well, i thought cloverfield was not bad because i thought it was quite exciting. Okkk, my point of view la. xD ) and Alfie said this kind of style is not good because the lightings and stuff is really bad and it makes the people look bad as well.
Like, who don't want to look good infront of the camera right?
Yea, so thats what he said. So that kind of style is not approved.
But the introduction using that style was ok, quite cool actually.
But not for the entire video.

And then he showed us Gangs of New York where the style is much better and it makes people looked good as well. And emphasizing on the importance of backdrop.
He said who should pay attention to the set up as well because it is very important. We should make the backdrop interesting and not ignore it.

After Alfie is Ronald.
Ronald talked to us about animation. He showed us a few videos on how people used animation for the starting of the movies. Like introducing the directors, producers and other crew.
I think the intro for Hostage is really cool. Because everything is just so smooth and i think its really nice. Even the colours used were good.

Then there were videos of Shoot 'Em up, monsters inc. The intro as well as the closing were done using animation. And they were all done up really nice.

Like what Alfie has said, set up is really important. Even opening and closing, although they were all just really short ones but we must still put in efforts to it. Because opening leaves more impression on ppl. When ppl see the opening, if it is interesting, they will somehow or rather be more interested and feel that the movie will be a good one. No?

Next was Wahidah. She showed us videos on like, interviews. The fog of war, eleven lessons by errol morris.
I'm more to, action movie type. So interviews videos really bore me. But then again, its the style of the video that matters. Like how they used cutaways and old footages for the video.

After that we were dismissed.
Yay.

Bye (:

Day Two

We had discussion today about what we are going to do for our project one.
It started off quite okay because everyone had some ideas in their mind already.

Ronald asked us to present what we have so far to the class this afternoon.

Our idea
So basically our idea is to combine both animation and video together.
We will be using animated characters to represent each individual schools (business, science, it and engine) and have an actor to represent design school. (since the main focus is design school)

After that the actor will introduce the different courses in Temasek Design School which we will be using animation to do it.
All the courses will be represented in still images and then lastly moving images will be animated.
Because the main focus is to promote our own course which is Moving Images =).
Then we will zoom into moving images and start promoting our course and the fun we had from it.

Since our main theme is fun, because that is what will attract the new students, we will be showing all the fun side we have from all the modules we had taken. ( 2D, 3D, DMfun, AniFun, VidFun etc.) Like how we enjoyed learning all the new stuffs and how we make everything seems fun and enjoyable.

Its just a really rough idea. Haven't really plan out well yet.
The storyboard and stuff. We'll get it done soon since presentation is like, next tuesday.
But our conclusion is that Moving Images make things come alive. (:
something like that. haha.

Ok, then class ended after we finished our discussions.

Well, we still got a long wayyy to go (: I hope everything will be fine for us xDD

Nights yo.

Day One

Hello.

I never knew school was so "in" that they even used blogspot to keep track of our production. (: Its a good thing though, 'cause we can save up the printing money.

So anyway, today is our Moi P1 briefing. I know that we have to do a video about the journey we had the past few months in Moi and what each of our talents are. I'm seriously not really good at filming, but my teammates will know, they are cool xD hahahah. I'll will do my part as well okay. xD

I can't believe the first presentation is just next week. Thats so fast yo. We better start thinking on what we are suppose to do. We have one month to finish everything.

Thats about it I guess. First day is just briefing on what we are gonna do.

Ok, bye.


haha.