san conclusion

well finally its over and goodbye to year 1. In the whole of p1 , it was a good learning experience and it also helped me realise alot of things especially who are the real friends. During the journey , when i just started the 1st block of p1 i was rather worried as my group mate are people that i dont even know, and as time pass, we get to know each other better and it was great , it was rather relax at first as its all just planning and we are all free to throw our ideas out and discuss to see if which is the most suitable one. Things are all going as planned only until a big setback which is i believe known to many of our friends/lecturers the lost of our footage due to a hard disk crash two days before the submission.

It was a big blow for lonxy and we were all overhelmed and stunned by the fact that such misfortune actually happen to us. All 3 of us were very worried/pissed/lost at that point of time . That was a big setback however also a good learning point for us to know what might happen to us and always keep lots of copies of backup files everywhere.

Also, at that point of time altho such a thing happen, jovi yiling and also myself, we didn't give up and we our best to produce something that we could with that little time. No doubt the final video is definately not what we expected as we lost alot of footages and we had to come up with something and we tried our best. Jovi and yiling were great people with great mind i must say.

In the process of the whole of p1 , it was tiring, fun and stressful. From the planning, to interim one, which was rather disappointing and we feel that its not the end and we carry on with our best and went on with shooting and interim two was much better. Editing and everything during that period was tiring and hoping to get ready for the final presentation/screening but sadly didnt work out as what we intended due to an unexpected problem. It was a pity as we didnt had enough time to redo what we lost and it wasnt as good as before.

Anyway its all over and done with, a good experience for all of us. This project would be made possible if not for the people that went through it with us, fellow MOI-ers and our lecturers.
Of cos not to mention, my good old teammates jovi and yiling. Thanks for everything and we are moving on. Next stop, year 2 coming our way.

Yi Ling's Eleventh Entry (Conclusion)

Overall, I feel this whole two months of journey in P1 have been a roller-coaster. During the first month, everything was good as we opened our minds to plenty of ideas, be it exaggerated or vapid but we stick by to the things we could do and achieve. No one would have thought that a hard disk crash during such crunch time (and especially since it was a new purchase) ; two days prior to submission.

That was a big blow but we gathered what we have and redo some of the scenes. Even the trailer I made to be inserted for the whole compilation did not work at the eleventh hour and I don't know why. I don't know if it's Murphy's Law or just pure technical faults but all I can say is that it's over there's no point dwelling over it. What we could do now is to learn from our mistakes. It was new to work with Jovi and Guan San and I have to say they were helpful guys that you can carry out good conversations with and although we started out feeling weird amongst each other (and especially since it was the first time), we weren't very comfortable I have to say but as time wears on, we are more "informal" in our speeches and are able to voice out freely, be it good or bad.

Surely, I wouldn't say that the whole two months have been a "honeymoon" period; in fact we went through quite a lot. Interim One was quite a disappointment but I bounced back; I felt unsatisfied but in way, I have to admit that the presentation wasn't too good; Interim Two was better; more composed and ready. Final presentation was supposed to be epic, but we have to be pulled down by a hard disk crash and yes, I have to say it's a big pity because so much time is wasted. Pre-production planning, green-screen shooting, renting of tv studio, late night at animation labs trying to get things done and early morning meet-ups the next day to repeat the whole process. So naturally, when such crises happen, I am bound to be afraid, bound to fall apart. (before I start on the additional stress of H&C)

We're not super humans and at the end of the day, we still need a break.

Working on a big scale project like this made me realise that time management is very important and the ability to NOT fall apart. It's not easy though but I'll learn in time to come. All in all, I thank Guan San and Jovi for playing a part in P1 and helping each other along the way.

Thanks to Wahidah too, without you, P1 wouldn't have been possible as well and especially with those consultations to improve our work etc.

It's sad to part and for the block to end and transition into year 2 junior but that's life. I'll carry on but I'll not part with these memories.

Thanks for everything.

San's Tenth Entry

Tomorrow is the final deadline for P1 submission and right now we are done with the piecing together except the rendering which we are doing tomorrow. A self reminder: to burn data AND video DVD. Yiling should be done with the cd design and everything and it will be screened on Friday. I hope all goes well. It has been a long journey with good times and bad times but I am glad we managed to resolve problems as a team.

After Friday, it will be freedom. Goodbye to P1.

Jovi's Tenth Entry

Today I tried re-rendering some of the scenes which I have lost during my harddisk crash and so far, I would have to say progress is good. I managed to find some footages at my desktop as well and this relieved me for a moment because I initially thought we lost everything and starting from scratch is seriously going to kill us.

I am also stressed up over another module I am taking this block (Design H&C) and somehow this whole ordeal really happended at the wrong time; in fact it should never have happened but oh well. Today, Yiling managed to do the voice over and touched on the cd design sleeve, whereas I managed to getour scenes sorted out as due to the crash, some files went missing etc.

Tomorrow's the final day. I hope I can get everything rendered and done with.

That's about all.

Yi Ling's Tenth Entry

I have to say today was quite a terrible day because Jovi's harddisk crashed and we saved everything in it. It came as a totol shock, a total disaster, totally at a wrong time when we are all on almost done with everything but just wasn't to be. We have to take out/simplify some scenes because it's impossible to retrive some footages.

Luckily, we still maanged to gather ourselves together and re-do backgrounds for our scenes. Jovi managed to find some footages at his desktop as well. The thing we learnt is that Murphy's Law happens and we must always be prepared to face setbacks, even they seem the most unexpected. Who would have thought a one week old drive would just crash like that? And apparently, my hard drive crashed as well (same brand and bought at the same time) - well I guess bad things do happen. Lesson learnt.

Tomorrow, we're doing voice overs.

San's Ninth Entry

Today, things look rather good and we are almost done, we have almost finished our voice over and the effects for certain scenes look great and we are rather happy about it. By tomorrow it will be done. few more days til the module ends !! wooo looking forward to friday

Yi Ling's Ninth Entry

Today, we are more or less finished with all the background for the green screen scenes. What is left is just putting them into the green screen and the effects are almost finished and after we finish the background and effects we can move on to the voice over and then finish things up and start rendering everything in and it will be up and ready.

Way to go.

Jovi's Ninth Entry

Alright today we have done some of the scenes with editing and adding the effects and there are quite afew scenes left to go. And also, we did some of the background for the greenscreen as most of our video are all greenscreen but we didn't do much on voice over today. we will try to complete the background and editing for everything by next week and hopefully finish up everything by tuesday so that we can have time for the other modules for myself and yiling, our HnC final are coming and its definitely gonna take up lots of time and also Guan san's animation final is on the way also and its gonna be stressful so hope that everything can go smoothly . =)

San's Eighth Entry

Currently we are adding effects into our videos and most of the scenes are up and ready in order except for one of the ideation scene and we will get it done by tomorrow. it sure is tiring for everyone doing p1 but its gonna be over soon so bear with it for abit more folks ! tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we will continue with the effects and hopefully by friday, we can start searching for sound clips for each of the scenes and complete the rest of the voice over and also start with our designing of the cover. final lap coming soon lonxy !

San's Seventh Entry

So far all is good. we are doing voice over to add into our video and piecing up the bits and pieces of the video together today and we face some problem in the footage as it cant be rendered but fortunately it was solved and everything resumed. today i have to say i learnt more about Adobe Premiere with the help of jovi , he is good with premiere and i got the hang of it after he explained . Tomorrow will be the presentation for our rough cut in class.

I hope all goes well.

Yi Ling's Eighth Entry

Oh well, I have to say it's a tiring process trying to re-shoot my scenes just because I keep screwing up when I am getting recorded on video. I think I need to learn to be more natural and less tensed. Guan San said that it was very weird to appear in front of a handy cam at first but after multiple tries, it will become an easy task and in fact, we will look more confident. I think I still got a lot to learnt to act. Important thing is to brace myself for production. I know post-production's not going to be easy as well with voicing over and all.

Let's march on!

Jovi's Eight Entry

So far, the progress for our group is quite steady though we might not be so natural up on camera yet but this is something we are trying to practice and to make ourselves look as confident and natural up front on video camera. It's strange that we get our scripts rehearsed and all and thought we can pull it off but I guess there are always other issues to handle. I think we can make it, just have to cope with the late nights for at least 3-4 more weeks.

Gambatte!

San's Sixth Entry

today yiling proceed with her shoot on photography , we shoot in the tv studio using green screen and things are going rather well so far, other then zhao han just recover and we miss out 1 day without fliming. We got most of the scenes of photography down today and will continue the rest of it tomorrow and hopfully we can get it done and start on our other scene.

Yi Ling's Seventh Entry

There is supposed to be my shoot today but turns out that our cast Zhao Han is sick and we couldn't proceed without him. My scene will be postponed to next week. We have all done with the green screen shoots and after which, we will proceed to do outdoor shoots starting next Tuesday for Video Fundamentals and etc. We have downloaded those footage(s) that are done and will try to squeeze time out for some editing hopefully by next Monday/Tuesday. I hope all is well.

Work In Progress

From yesterday's shoot.

Yi Ling's Sixth Entry

Today, we did more green screen shoots during the evening since the morning, Jovi was trying to get the footages that we shot in the TV studio yesterday into the computer. Turned out that there were some faults with the fire wire and we could not upload those footages for editing on computer yet.

I was supposed to do my photography scene yesterday but our cast, Zhao Han suggested a good idea to adopt a "stop-motion" style for my scene as well (to portray a bit of uniqueness, instead of it being so documentary-styled) so I have to go through everything again, and re-shoot. Anyway, there were quite a bit of problems with my filming because I felt I wasn't spontaneous enough. Hopefully I could be mentally prepared to shoot again on tomorrow/Friday.

For now, I would need to look through my script and prepare so that I won't forget my lines. Guan San and Zhao Han did their ideation scene today and I thought it was good. We managed to find an unused classroom to set up our scene there since the TV Studio is not always available. Another something I learnt is that one shouldn't wear a watch when doing a green-screen scene because the reflection from the watch will affect the aftermath.

Tentatively, it should be a break for the group and we will do some consultation with Wahidah in the afternoon and update her about our project progress thus far. Hopefully, we could complete all the green screen scenes and start on outdoor shoots next week.

San's Fifth Entry

Things are going well so far and we are working on green screen and taking photo shoots for our introduction video , everything are still in progress so yea will update more when we have finish the shoot today ! off to shooting =)

Here are some pics we have as a group

LONXY !