Day 4

Hey again! Anyway, for today's lesson, we got to watch a bit of a documentary which wahidah showed. It was mostly made up of home videos and stuff...i actually thought that style is quite cool. :] After that, she showed us the beginning of "bowling for columbia", another of micheal moore's documentaries. i love micheal moore's sense of humor and sarcasm. i should watch more of his shows...the only one i saw is Fahrenheit 911...a really good movie imo, go watch if you haven't. it's quite an eye opener...

After that, she let us all get into our groups and continue discussion. We manage to kinda finalise what we'll be doing and we all agreed to share all responsibilities (audio, editing, etc.) Since we have a presentation due on tuesday, Jasmine offered to do the powerpoint. :] fankies!!!

Since the lecturers want details, i shall give them their desired details. :]

Instead of giving each member in the group 2 minutes to showcase all their work, we will be covering different modules instead. We decided to do comDI first, then animfun, photography and than lastly, 2D art fun. In the beginning, all of us would be remincing about the past year together and from there, we'll warp into the past. We will do 2 modules in every flashback and go back to reality from time to time with the appropriate dialogue to keep it moving. :] So it's kinda like a story just that it's by flashbacks...get it? i'm not sure if i understand myself either lol. We got a pretty cool ending too...i'm quite excited to get started! and at the same time, i know it's going to be pretty tough...

yea...guess thats it. :] pretty glad we won't have to blog during the weekends. :D

Day 3

Alo again. :] Today's lesson was quite nice cause all 60 moiers were gathered in the lecture room to watch some short examples from movies and documentaries. Jasmine didn't come though cause she's sick. :[ *pats back*

Anyways...our lecturers; Ronald, Alfie and Wahidah showed us a couple of videos they've picked to help us with our projects. Alfie showed LORD OF THE RINGS!!! i love love that show, like the other 41236523751274 people in the world...:] Gina and me were so crazy about the trilogy at one point that we even collected all 3 of the collector's dvds...:O i think i should have a LOTR movie marathon next time when we're free. :] it's been a while since we've watched it...

Okay, moving on...Alfie also showed us this documentary about some mountain climbing expenditure...it was pretty dull imo. The beginning was nice but they continued with the same thing (fast-forward motion. forgive me if the terms aren't right cause we haven't studied film language :b) for like, a very long time. And it was hella shaky and the audio was quite bad too...:O i guess it's everything we SHOULDN'T do in our project. Alfie later showed the making of gangs of new york. i thought it looked interesting so gina and me went to borrow the movie to watch. it's ooorigh i guess...and pretty long as well. :O I think that in Singapore, we'll probably won't have the chance to do that kind of big scaled-set...cause no.1, u probably need a TON of money. no. 2, Singapore is too small. no.3, we'll probably have to go through a 101 shitty things before we can get permission. no wonder it's so hard to be film makers in Singapore and people choose to go overseas to further their studies. :x i better not say anything more about our government in case i get an invite to have tea with "the family". :]

alright next, Ronald showed us a bit of monsters inc. (ahhh good good movie), ending of shoot me up (cool animation! and so creative! the blood dripping down the credits is super rad!) and the beginning of iron man, the animated one that is. :] After that wahidah showed us some old documentary...i honestly don't remember what it was about cause i was getting kinda restless by then. But it looked like a film my secondary school history teacher would show...i think thats it? i can't help but feel i missed out something...

But anyway, the lecturers told us that we and our seniors tend to forget about audio and set design. I think audio is soooo important...and in fact, i'm hoping after poly, i'll get a degree in audio engineering/production or something. :]

okay that was a long rant and my mom's room aircon is freezing my fingers...so i think i'll stop here. till next post. bye bye! :D

Day 2

Booyaa again! As told, i'll have to blog about today's class like everyone else (boring!). i seriously wonder how people can manage to update their blogs all the time...cause it's only my second entry and i'm already feeling lazy. Or maybe it's just me. The idea of having to blog EVERY SINGLE DAY just kills me. Maybe we'll have a break from blogging on chinese new year? (yay!! ang bao! :D:D)

Anyway today, we all had to view everyone's blog entries, which was pretty dull imo. Maybe it's because we all have not got started on our project yet and everyone was writing about the same thing (eg. meet in LT, grouping, brainstorm bleh bleh bleh). Our lecturer said it was all not detailed enough etc. Some people in our class voiced out their opinions and thoughts that the reason why we're all not writing in detail is because we don't wanna spoil it for everyone, which i totally agree. And...we're afraid people might steal each other's ideas. Or maybe, people who have came up with the same ideas might be accused of copying off each other. :S ahh all those complicated stuff which me and probably some people would like to avoid. But i do see where the lecturers are coming from and their objective of making us write online diaries though. But i can't imagine having to read all 20 diaries everyday in class. D: or updating for the next...how many weeks about project stuff...

Okay anyway enough ranting. We all continued on with our group discussions after a break. Kirin was not present cause she's sick :[ (GET WELL SOON!! :]) so it was just yuan, jasmine and me. Though we were short of one member, we managed to kinda finalise how we want our introduction and conclusion to be. The middle part, where all of our works and stuff get introduced was not confirmed yet cause we need kirin's opinion and input as well. tomorrow, if all is finalised, we can move on to delegating responsibilities and also planning the timeline.

In addition to finalising what techniques we would be using (animation, silent film etc.), we also identified what programs we'll need to gain access to and also, we decided on what type of music we're going to use. :D:D we're thinking along the lines of electronic rock/drum and bass sort of stuff. I'm going to check out a band Jasmine was talking about (daft punk) and probably try to get my hands on cobra starship's latest album. :b *has great flashbacks of singfest 07* can't wait for singfest 08!! i am sooo going!! :D:D and shiny toy guns! and hellogoodbye! if you haven't heard of them check them out! :]

okay i better come back down to earth. :D we were all told to come up with 2 objectives for our video and one member had to present it to the class. After that, we were given some useful links which might help in our project...i have yet to check it out and it's pretty late already so i guess i'll do it after i get some sleep. :]

we'll be watching past works from the other years tmr so yay! :] i wanna get an idea of how others execute their work and maybe, it might give us even more ideas. :D

so yea...i'll probably be updating tmr. :] now it's sleep time!

Day 1

Hey. I've never written a blog before so this is kinda weird. Anyway, i've thought of starting a blog many times before after reading some of my friend's blogs but i was too lazy to do so (as usual). But since we're all forced to make one for our school project, MOI project 1, i have finally done that. so...yay. The ironic thing is that one of my best friends and us (gina and me) were talking about starting a blog soon for fun and today we're required to make one. o.O Anyway, if you're just some random visitor, don't bother to read on cause it'll most probably be quite boring. *cough*just coursework diary stuff *cough*. But if you're one of the lecturers or my classmates than boooyaa. :]

Ooorigh, on to the update. Today was our first lesson. All the MOIers had to gather in a lecture room and we got briefed and all. We have to make a video showcasing what we have learn the past 10 months or so. Sounds like serious propaganda to me. :O Then we went to our own classes and we were told to form our own groups of 4 or 5 people. My group members are Jasmine, Yuan ming and Kirin. :D:D wassup brudders!! *looks around shiftily for mats*

Anyway we all got to brainstorm and all and our group came up with a ton of ideas. i think we got pretty excite at one point. :b (think borat people) The thing is if we can execute the ideas...

anyway, thats it for today's lesson. I'll probably have to update almost everyday for the next one month or so. *feels tired already*.