Day 2

Hey lo.

We came to school at 11am today for shooting. But as usual, we drag and drag till 12 something. After that we proceed to 3D lab to charge our video cam (cause we forgot about the charging part) THENNNN we realised that there was no battery included!! We wanted to go back to the equipment store to inform the uncle but they went for break already.
So we waited for him till 1.30pm and we went down again.

He didn't believe us because we borrowed the video cam for almost a week then we realise the battery is gone. We said we didn't use the cam until today. And he said why we borrowed for so long when we didn't have to use it.
Allow me to explain.
Because we wanted to start filming already, but because of things like reshooting storyboard and stuff so we had to delay the shooting. Then initially we wanted to return the cam and borrow it again when we need it, but uncle said he will be able to extend it for us. So we said okay, but we still don't need the cam yet. But no harm extending it right?
But we did not check whether there is battery or not since we never open up before.

Still, he got us another battery :)
k, now we learnt our lesson..
ALWAYS check before stepping out from the store.

Anyhoo, shooting went well today. Just that we took abit long to do it.

We took 3 scenes today, and have already upload the 3 scenes to computer.

The shooting process was quite fun and yes, quite tiring as well. Cause we need to retake alot of times.
I think we need to retake a few shots again tomorrow because some scenes are unfocused and its quite "not-professional". After all, its our p1. :)

I'm as good as dead now. Good nights all.

Day 1

Hello. Its a new day with a new block. And I'm having both P1 and another lesson together. T.T

We have to hand in our storyboard, script and timeline today. Oh, and our journal. Which is what I'm typing now. 

I'll email the timeline to Ronald later... I forgot to put it in my thumbdrive. 

Sorry. :(

We came to school at 8.30am today. To re-shoot storyboard from the beginning. 

We planned out the angles and the actions first before shooting. We got all our locations and props set so we got an idea of how and where to shoot it.

So everything went pretty well and we finished our photoshoot around 1.30pm or 2pm.

We came up to the lab to modify our script as well as to upload our photos to the computer and do up our storyboard. Cause we suppose to add in descriptions to our storyboard, not just photos alone.

We are gonna start filming hopefully by tomorrow xD

Day 16

Hey.

I know this blog is for our Project One. But for the whole of today, we had been rushing to finish our final assignment for DH and C. I visit Xorex for 3 times already and the queue was omg damn long. Everyone is rushing to complete their final work. It happens everytime during the last week of the block. The printing shop will be damn packed.

So why am I saying this? Because in order to finish DH and C, we didn't have the time to do P1. I'm so sorry all lecturers. This kind of thing is unavoidable but we promise we will do our work.

I'm having a headache now. :(

HAHA. OKAYYYYY. So there wasn't any lesson today. I think too much. My bad my bad! HAHA. Omg, so dumb of me!

Day 15

And its today!

We went to school for presentation. We presented our storyboard, script as well as our production timeline to Ronald today. For a moment we thought our idea won't be accepted, but whew, it was okay.

Howeverrrrrrr, we have to reshoot ALL our photos for our storyboard because Ronald said our storyboard must be as close as what we are gonna film. And he said we must be dependent on our storyboard. So yeaaa...

I think using photos for storyboarding is better. Because it conveys the story better compared to drawing. And we have Sarah! who owns a DSLR! So we got all our photos at a high quality xD

Ronald said we have to hand in our storyboard and script by Monday. As well as our production timeline, which have to be emailed to him.

After so much postponing, and delaying. I guessed we have to reschedule all our timeline again and squeeze all the video editing in one of the week in order to meet up with the deadline. Seriously, i think editing takes up a lot of time. So we should plan properly.

And omg, the animation for credits. I totally don't have the mood for it.
K, i'm just saying.
I will find THE mood to do it anyway.

We are shooting storyboard tomorrow! Good nights.
i'm gonna rush my Design History and Culture now. Submission tomorrow. T.T

Day 14

Forgot to bring my testimonial for the profile. I think Yanping got a bit pissed, so very sorry about it. Was too tired the day before although you did remind me. But i still can't remember. My brain shut down already.

Anyhoo, we went to Mac Lab again to take photos for our profile. And that means... PHOTOBOOTH YO!!! Hahahaha. Well you guessed it, I took uncountable number of photos and of cause 2 for the profile that was needed.

I edited my photos and change the background to one solid colour. The rest did the same as well. After that we transferred to the com yanping was using since she's doing the profile.
We put in the photos and they typed their testimonial in.

After awhile, i fell asleep. And I can't believe i slept for almost 2 hours. I thought i just slept for 15 minutes or so. But they said i slept for very long already.
See, i said i'm very tired.

So much to do, so little time. :(

I know i know, time management. I'm just saying that there isn't enough time for me to manage my time. HAHAH.
ok whatever.
byee.

Day 13

Presentation was postponed again to Thursday. Great.

We proceed up to the Mac Lab to do our profile thingy. One of the props needed for our video. Anyway we were around 2 days late according to our own schedule cause we suppose to start filming on Monday. But you see, many things crop up such as our props (clay) were broken, we have to redo. Hence, taking up more time and so on.

We took a lot of photos using Photobooth. Oh man, don't i just love photobooth!? Probably the best application a computer have ever had to entertain ME! Haha. I can laugh all day just by taking all those crazy photos.

Ok anyway, the profile template were all made nicely already. And all we have to do is to add in photos and a few paragraphs of text below. And we are done. :)

Day 12

Ok day 12.

We met later since there wasn't any lesson on that day.
We manage to complete our storyboard today, like finally. Everyone was so tired from P1 already. I'm practically dead. I'll sleep whenever i have the chance to.

Then we went to classroom and I finished typing the draft of our script since there's presentation the next day. After that we went off.

Nothing much today. Another super tiring day for all of us.
I know it looks as if we didn't do anything, but we did alot i swear.

Ok next day.

Day 11

Ok, so sorry I totally forgot about the existence of this blog.
But hey I'm back.

So Day 11..
We thought there was no lesson on that day. Cause normally there is none on Fridays. I didn't bother to check our schedule and my group was supposed to meet at 1 in school. But Sarah message us and said there was class today and theres suppose to be a storyboard presentation going on.
We were stunned.
But after awhile, sarah message us again saying that its cancelled and change to Tuesday. Whew.

Reached school and we went over to 3D animation lab to continue with our storyboarding.
we managed to finish our photoshoot for that location and we went for our DH and C class. After class we went up to studio to do our clay models again. Cause the ones we made previously were broken into pieces due to some accidents.

Wrap up at 7+pm and we went off :)

Day 10

Happy Valentine's Day to all!

All I had in mind today was > faster get it over and done with and get out of the school. xD
Sooooo, we didn't do much today.
Ok, and i seriously slacked a lot today, I'm sorry.

After all the chit-chats and stuff we decided to get back to our work.
i took out our schedule and realised there's still many scenes that were not done for storyboard.
So we went to the school bookshop and get a brown file to use it as our record file. Then we went back school and up to Cad lab to start on our work.

We researched on several examples of how a record look like and finally saw one that was considered better one compared to the rest.
So we use it as a reference and created our own record using photoshop.
All went well i guess, and i think the record template we have is oh-so-cool yo. It looks like a real one.

Ok, i'm dead tired right now i'm going to bed.
Nights.

Day 9

Hello. Its only day 9 of P1.
I got no mood to do anything at all, i just want holidays. :(
..
Okkk....just a thought alright.

Went in to the class slightly late because i went to meet Amanda to ask some questions. Alan took over our class today. He asked the class to list down what we know about him and what we want to know about him.
It was an interesting activity because we came up with a lot of nonsensical questions and Alan entertained it all..ok, majority of them. It was a fun exercise.
The whole main purpose of it is to tell us that this is what we can include in our P1 video. About us. He made it in such an interesting way instead of just telling us verbally. Its fun and we learnt something as well. Which is good. :)

After that we proceed up to studio to continue with our scheduled work. We were suppose to make models using clays for our 3D art part in the video.
We have to make something related to spy since thats what our video is about.
I failed terribly making a spy model.
So i break the spy into different parts.
I made a hat and a camcorder instead. Super miniature one. But better than none okay xD.
Then i made a crabmeat sushi. Yes irrelevant but, heck. Its just for the fun of it.
We even made a "toshi-ba". So cool.
And we watch Sweeney Todd while modeling. Haha.

We finished at around 4pm and we went off for lunch.

Day 8

Hi all.

We got into our discussions again today. Its basically all our time now.
We were suppose to do storyboard today. So we sort out which modules to go first. What scene to take first and all. After that we got of the class and went shooting for our storyboard.

We took the photos at the design entrance first and all the way till 3D animation room. Then we sat down again to discuss where our next shot will be. Because there are still a lot of props that we haven't prepare yet so we can't get our storyboard done by today.

We skipped some shots in between and took the easier ones that do not need any props.
And we finished our shooting around 2.30pm.

We gonna do our schedule again on thursday, oh and we will be doing our props tomorrow :)
Shooting will officially starts next monday.

Tomorrow is gonna be a long day.

Good night.

Day 7

Hello, happy chinese new year everyone (:

Ronald showed us the schedule today and he said he would not be able to come in anymore cause he needs to take over Alan's animation class.

The rest of the day was our own free time.
We got into discussions again. Planning out our content and modifying some scenes for the opening and ending.
Its pretty much still the same. Except that the crime-thingy that we got initially was canceled off cause it doesn't really link to whatever we are doing.
We sort out a lot of things and everything become much clearer now.

We did our production timeline next. And gosh, there's soooooo much to do!! T.T
Storyboarding will be doing tomorrow.

There's props making as well. Shooting, editing, animating. My god. I hope we can finish everything.

P1 is so tedious. And worst still, i've got one more module next block.

Day Six

Hello its day six today. Which means our first interim presentation.

We met up "early" today to roughly run through our presentation after that I went off to look for my friend.
I went back class at 12.30pm and get settled down before the presentation starts. And we were the last group to present.

So basically, the template which is criminal record alike thing is for our introduction and was presented by sarah. I talked about our idea, which i hope Ronald understand what we are going to do. Lastly animated scenes for the credits because i remember the lecturers saying that we should never neglect the opening AND the ending.

Ronald then talked to us for awhile before we were dismissed.

Yes, my group is not very co-operative right now. Which I'm quite pissed.
maybe you are annoyed too because you might think what you done were right. If thats what you think, then so be it.
But just so you know, we don't want to retain because of everything. Co-operate and we shall get it over and done with.

To get promoted.
Thats all we want.
just 2 months.
and hopefully with a good grade as well.


Anyway, happy new year to all.

Day Five

Ronald didn't come to school on monday. So erm, Alphie came over to talked to us.
He briefed us on a lot of stuffs that were previously not clear to us and made us improve a lot on our ideas.

We went over to his class as ''visitors'' later on to consult him on our idea. And yes, thanks again we improved on it even more and i hope everything works out well.

Seriously, there's nothing much going on that day. Just discussions and consultations. And then thats that.
We were dismissed.

Day Four

I feel like sleeping now. But I shall finish this entry anyway.

Its day four of our P1 today...ok, yesterday since its 12+am already.
Ronald was on leave so Alan took over him. But before that we have a combined lesson with Wahidah's class.
She showed us 'Capturing the Friedmans' and 'Bowling of Columbine' during lesson. And explained some of the style used for these videos.
I was so tired. But I did listen, i just nearly doze off. x) I'm more interested in what the stories were about actually.
But for now, the style of filming is so much more important.

After that we went back to our own class and get into our own groups for discussions.

Our initial idea was to concentrate on Fun. Howeverrrrrr, we were totally on the wrong track! Alan told us that the interview at the front was not needed because the target audiences are MOI freshies. Not to ALL freshies. So we have to assume that they already know what course they are going to enter and what it is about already.
We cancelled off the theme, fun and start all over again.

So our new style is actually to use 'crime like style'. I don't really know how to explain it here. But anyway, i think we are back on the right track already. We had discussed everything, from intro all the way to the ending. Was fruitful i think.

I'm starting to feel the pressure alr. Its very tedious and tiring. So everyone has to be cooperative if not it will be really troublesome.

I hope everything goes as planned.

Nights.