Yi Ling's Fifth Entry

So we tried to touch up on our proposal, scripts and I did my photography storyboard as well. I hope tomorrow's presentation will be smooth. I'm finalising the contents of the proposal now before getting it printed in a while.

As of now, I can't wait to get all the theoretical things done and get started on filming. Jovi might do some location-scanning on Friday and yes, i foresee sleepless nights, huge eyebags, stone-in-front-of-pc whole-day editing ahead but i think it's going to be worth the effort. With H&C coming up next block too, i think i must really learn to manage time and keep up with timelines. San will be having Anifun which will also prove to be a busy busy block ahead.

Oh well, that's the Designer's life. We are zombies, hahaha.

Jovi's Seventh Entry

Finally today, one again much progress is seen in our work. Seriously this is good. We got our story pretty firmed up and all. SO everything is going fine. All on track.

Well, I feel honestly, we have progressed alot, not just in ou idea, but as in knowing each other. Among ourselves. Honestly, I initially had much problems with the group. Well, communication barrier. Well, cause we were fom differant group of friend.

I can still remember the day when I realise Guan San was in our group. I think I pretty much scared him back then, now that I think about it. Suddenly grabbing and shacking his hands while jumping around. But now I have to admit, Guan San is probably one of the best guys I've seen so far. Good ideas, always pushing it to the limit, to the max. No regrets working with him.

Then, for Yi Ling. Honestly, I had observed her fo sometime before MOI p1. Well, its because of Sheryl, I think I did not spell it wrong, I hope. Well, you see, not that I like Sheryl, but there is this guy in Engine school, in my CCA that has such a similar face to Sheryl. Only that Sheryl has much better complextion. So at first, I found Yi Ling the rather quiet type. Now that I woked with her, I think she;s not so quiet. In fact, I think she has a lot of potential. Both in skills, willing to lean and good ideas. Complete change of my view on her.

Yup, I think for now this would be it. This is probably the first post, I think, that is barely project related, but more on our group members.

san's 4th entry.

hi guys im updating on what we are currently doing and progressing. Right now, we got our storys up and story board and mood board more or less done. Things so far are going rather well thanks to jovi and yiling , they are very understanding as i have to spend sometime on HnC final assignment =) . we have planned out what we will be doing in the next block on when we are gonna do the fliming and everything . Next block its their turn to have HnC and sadly i have ANIFUND geez.. the next block isn't gonna be easy but yea i believe we will pull through, ONE MORE BLOCK TIL HOLIDAY !

Yi Ling's Fourth Entry

Hey guys,

Just to update, I'm in the midst of doing the mood boards and i discovered that initally we came up with the idea that our character would be in his slumber at home and then he will wake up and head to the door. However, over the last few days, we altered that idea and changed the location as well. How would the ending come into place; we knocking on his classroom door or something else will take place?

We can try to post some possible/alternative endings if case our very initial one don't blend it very well.

That's about all.

Jovi's Sixth Entry

Well, its coming to three weeks now. Everything seems to be going fine. Our group finally get some 'good' wok started. At the moment, we came out with simple storyboards and brief ideas for the video. At the moment, we would lack mood boards as well as more detailed stoy boards.

SO far, fo our idea, we have decided to use a dream as a base. Why? Ok, fist of all, our memberr ideas all come from all over the place. SO using a dream would be the best way to merge our ideas all together. Well, I guess that turned out pretty well overall.

Anyways, I'd like to introduce to people, this guy. Zhao Han. Soon to be MOI year 1, and will be helping us in our P1. He has experience in Animation, both 2D and 3D, which would be of much halp too.

Jovi's Fifth Entry

Today came the presentation. I think I'll begin with an overall. Today, I felt that most of the groups were pretty well prepared. However, I there was a similar trend among all our events. Each of us would have at least 1 carnival based event. Well, to be honest, I was expecting that, since it was the easiest to come out with. However, as a side track, it makes me wonder. There has been carnivals fo such purposes, but why aren't they as effective as we planned. I've been to two such events, so to be honest, I think it works only in theory. Poor response o people just go there look around and do nothing. All in all, I think the best Idea I felt, was the instuments one. I think I was by Alina's group. It was to have all the CCs combine. Each CC would have people to teach 1 instrument. Participants must sign up in a pair of one old, one young. At the end of it, they would gather to perform during national day. I felt it was creative and it also helps make our national day more unique. Good job!

Ok, now for our group. To be honest, I was not satisfied with our assignment. Probably due to the mess up we had yesterday. Honestly, I felt I was pretty much at fault. I guess things would have been better if had slept more and could think more clearly yesterday. A mistake is a mistake, no excuses. Sorry guys. Ok back to the main point. I felt our presentation and assignment lacked much detail planning. Presentation wise, we should have practiced together as a group. I think, correct me if I am wrong, all of my group members presented the project pretty well, just that we didn't really sync. That was how I felt.

Jovi

Yi Ling's Third Entry

I was supposed to post yesterday but it just totally slipped my mind while I was trying to gather information for the presentation which was supposed to be today. It's okay that it was postponed as I got more time for preparation cause I hate last-minute anythings (particularly work, not much on impromptu outings, lol) So yes, we went to the LT and watch various project 1 videos which were done and I have to say the first one "MOI News" was quite interesting and comical; if the intended purpose of that was to make audience laugh then i'd say it has achieved its purpose. Good one.

In terms of technical aspects of the videos, there was this group which tried green screen and although the script wasn't all that good (i heard a lot of "NEXT PLEASE" coming from one of us), i think like they did try to challenge themselves by incorporating different kind of "effects" in their video. I personally don't really like the duration but still I think they deserve a bit of credit for the effort. I have discussed some ideas with Jovi already and hopefully by next week, Guan San, Jovi and me could really merge all our ideas and expertise together and see what we can come up with.

It's going to be a tough week but hopefully, we'll make this tough journey fun too. :)

Yi Ling

san's 3rd entry.

I was in a rather bad shape yesterday that i have to skip lesson to rest and recover. Today , there is no lesson for Moi p1 and i met jovi at 11 and discuss about what we have researched and came up with certain possible solution for the third age council and yiling meet up with us soon after. Our ppt are finishing and should be done by tonight . Thanks jovi for putting up visuals and everyone for the hardwork. Nothing much for today so i'll end the entry now. We wil be meeting up tomorrow at 10 to see if there's any necessary changes to our ppt and hope that things will go smoothly for tomorrow's presentation.

ciao !
-san

Jovi's Forth Entry

Well, today we watched a documentary about some Nike advertisment. How it was planned, the process etc. To be honest, I felt that it was interesting, but quite a bit of excess information and limited visuals. Most of the things discussed about how the chose production house etc. I felt it was a bit redundant to me, cuz they were stating the obvious. It seemed extremely textbook answe to me. I felt they should have explained more about the technical aspects rather explaining how they got the job.

Next in class, Yi Ling and I, finally started our first discussion for our final assignment for MOI P1. Guan San was not around as he was not feeling well. Yi Ling and I basically discussed what we had to do and came out with some ideas. We watched some videos on youtube and yup, that more or less ended our discussion.

Jovi

San's second post

well today was a rather short day as wahidah wanted us to discuss about Design proposal and what are the content in a Design proposal. Apart from that, our group progress are rather steady thanks to my group member Yiling and Jovi. We will be doing more research to back us up and also know the current stituation better so that we can come out with the best solutions. Things are still processing and we will update more about our progress on the next entry . =)

Yi Ling's Second Entry

There was no lesson today but group consultations with Wahidah. After dividing some of the "job scopes", I went on to research on what were some of the things that can really seal the generation gap between the old folks and the teenagers. I went to search about traditional games and stumbled upon randoms like kite-flying (which isn't of much aid since I think it is quite boring).

I also went to scout more on chinese chess for I believe judging by the number of old folks hanging around void decks playing chinese chess, it's quite a popular game they enjoyed and I have seen how teenagers play them too these days (I learnt how to play it years ago) therefore to include this idea will be quite helpful. I also went to gather information on cooking for I think it's quite an interesting activity which allows good interaction between young and old and this idea as discussed with Jovi and Guansan today could be merged together to form up something new, though a lot of things are still in the works.

I need to do some interviews amongst teens/old this weekend to gather more concrete information to further branch out our ideas for presentation next Thursday.

That's about all. :)

Yi Ling

Jovi's Third Entry

Hi there. Well today was a bit depressing as Ivy has officially left out group.

All the best Ivy!

Anyways, just to state before any confusion, if by any chance posts on our blog by Ivy ends up in another blog, no fear, she has all right to repost her contents to the other blog.

Ok back to the main thing. Today we basically discussed on the old people project. To date, most of the research material came from me. I have aleady done 2 interviews. One issue brought up was the language barrier. Much of the older generation only speak Hokkien, Catonese etc. Languages we rarely or can't speak. This surprisingly includes malays and indians.

Next, it was researched that music can link the old and young generations. Apparently, language does not seem to be the issue. This was brought up by one of the persons I interviewed who said using remixes of older songs allow people of both generations to enjoy it, as well as getting younge generation to look up on the original version of the song. Thus by doing so, he attracts both generation of customers.

Yup thats about what we discussed.

Jovi

Jovi's Second Entry

Today was rather unique. No lesson, but a movie screening session in the morning. It was the screening of Victric Thng short films. To be honest, I found the first few films shown a little boing. Espeacially Locust, so I have no idea at all how it actually won an award. Some of the films shown were very intersting, angles, concept and story flow. Some of them were very touching and all were depressing. Among all, I found 'The Mole' the most intersting one. Well, probably cause sets were used, and I am pretty interested in filming with sets.

At the end of it, I believe among the students, I was the only one flooding Victric with questions, at least moe than 2 questions. At the end of it, I chose to approach Victric after the session.

Ok, here are some pointers you might be interested in, I hope.

First, about 'Objectifs', if by any chance or whatsoever you need to get in touch with them, I got their contacts etc. I can even bing you to their office lol. Anyways, look out for gallerys sponsored by Objectifs, they are of much value.

Next, something that Victric pointed out to me after the session. Team members welfare. Please make sure members have smoking, toilet, lunch and whatever breaks needed. Plus provide food and drinks if possible. This way, your team will perform better and help to reduce conflicts.


Yup, I guess thats it for today, Jovi Signing off.

Jovi

Ivy's Second Entry

SWe were taught today about the design process, which is basically the steps taken towards creating the best and most unique looking product.

The steps, based on our group's findings, are:
1) To identify the problems in our surroundings
2) To describe the exact results which we want, such as the appearance or benefits, etc.
3) To gather information on the necessary and appropriate tools that we require
4) To select the solutions which we think is reasonable to carry out
5) To evaluate the actual results of our product against the results we had previously foreseen. [No. (2)]
6) To study the flaws of the final product and make any final modifications to it, so as to make it better.

This process could probably aid us in creating a perfect product based on the principles of ergonomics and overall design, which should look visually appealling and innovative at the same time.

Ivy

Lonxy Blogging Protocol

Hi Lonxy,

Just an idea.

I think our entries can be written out in a certain format so that it will look more standardised. Start with writing the entry title (indicate which entry e.g first, second etc) , proceed with the post and sign off with your name.

Eg:

Title:Yi Ling's First Entry
Entry
Sign Off

Thanks!

Good presentation today guys! :)

Yi Ling

Yi Ling's First Entry

After the combined briefing in the LT today, we were given lots to draw and then dispersed into our groups. I hope to be able to know my group members more and come up with something creative in our design proposals and solutions. I look forward to work with my team members and hopefully, we can share wonderful ideas in time to come. Hopefully, we can also make history with Lonxy!

For now, this blog is set up today and I am trying out my first reflection. We are going to organise a rota (sounds like otah) by tomorrow to take turns to ink down our after thoughts. We are also currently in discussion to alter our blog's layout. (and I am also contemplating setting up a tagboard here soon for easy discussion amongst members)

I look forward to see what is in store for tomorrow.

Yi Ling

Jovi's First Entry

Well, guess our blog is up and running. Well, honestly, this is not my first time woking on a group project blog, though its probably the first time I'll be on the blog for two months.

Ok first of all, I think I'll start off with what I felt about today starting from the LT. Ok, today first of all we had a briefing. Rather simple briefing about MOI project 1. Then later we continued in class. First when in class, I was pretty glad I was in the same class as quite a number of people I know. However, I did panic a little when I realise we could not avoid the cruel reality of drawing lots. Well, my class decided to try to talk Wahidah into letting us pick our own groups. I honestly was initially fond of the idea, but later I felt like telling them just forget about working with people we know. Well, I did have much fun working with people I don't really know for video and found it rather fun. I always thought that my own group of friends were the only ones who were willing to bring things to a crazy level, but I guess I was wrong.

So first, I realise I got into the same group as Ivy. Well, it was good as it was someone I knew and worked with. Next I had Yiling followed by San. Well, I guess I got a pretty group. Well, it is a very good group. Well, as a start, I aleady see my group members being very optimistic and all, so I guess, everything will work out. My expectations of MOI project 1. To learn, have fun and get new friends.


Ok, now I think I'll intoduce myself a bit. XD Ok, first f all, I'm Jovi, MOI year 1. I pesonally like Animes, J-dramas, mangas etc. Practically almost everything Japanese. Well, I also am the kind who like to do things that are either never tried before, or simply would make an impact. As for working in a group, I'd like to break the barriers fast, as I don't like people to work as though we are just working for the sake of working.

Yup I guess thats it for now!

Jovi

Ivy's First Entry

My Expectations: Probably to build stronger bonds with my classmates, and also to be able to create the most unique project of all.

Reflections for the Day: At first, I wasn't so sure of what MOI Project 1 is about, and am still not too sure yet..., but I'll always give my best in all that I do. However, it is good that most of the people in my present class are people whom I recognise. It should make things a lot easier if we are surrounded by people we can easily refer to when we are in doubt.

Ivy

Guansan's First Entry

Today is the first day of block 9 , everyone was looking forward it as a new block starts with new classmates. The day started with a talk at LT25 and after that everyone headed back to our respective classes.

When we were told that we have to form a group that would last for the whole of MOI project 1 which means it will be the same group for 2 months, everyone was excited , However, upon hearing that the groups will be decided via drawing lots, everyone was shocked and felt very insecure as they won't be working with people that we are familiar with.

1 by 1, everyone drew the lot and when its my turn, It turn out that my group members are Jovi Ivy and Yiling. I don't really know them very well but yes like what Wahidah said, we have to learn to work with people that we are not familiar with, so i will have to deal with it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that feel that way but forget it, be optimistic may all of us work together and have a good time together.

- San