Day 20

We finished filming today!! YAYAYAYAYA!!! it's a WRAP! :D

we shot finish animation fundamentals and photography modules. awesomeness!! i'm pretty glad and relieved that we have done the filming part...now all theres left is animating and editing. :] 2mr we're going to show wahida what we've done so far...

good job everyone! :D

Day 18 and 19

Yesterday, we didn't really shoot anything because kirin was sick and since Jas is living pretty far from school, i told her not to come cause it would take a whole lot of time. So anyway, yuan and me just went to school to help yi chuin's group for a while and tried to shoot the intro but it didn't really work. :[ but anyway, thanks shol, JY and clinton for helping anyway. :]

So today, we got yi chuin and shermin to help us again (FANKS! :D), can't believe we need to take 3 days to get the right shot. Then we shot the comDI one and helped yi chuin's group again and then went to complete the class scenes. Yea so basically, we kinda got quite alot of things down. :D:D

2mr, we're going to shoot animation and photography then it would be a wrap! and then we can animate over the video layer and add audio and edit and all. Oh yes, yuan got the butterfly for photography so yayness! fanks!

Day 17

Today, we finished about 1/4 of the shooting already so yayness! :D:D good job people! we're all pretty tired now. :] we were suppose to shoot the comDI and classroom scenes but last minute, zaihan told all of us to bring the 2D fundamental paintings up by 5pm. :O so we had to quickly shoot our 2D scene and also the silent movie where jasmine pokes alan stomach. Speaking of which, Alan is not available, so we guess we'll have to animate Alan then...:O gahhh! more animating to do. :[

Yea but overall, we did quite alot today! woooot! and oh how can i forget? We're confirmed going for Incubus and Saosin's concert! YAYAAY!! :D:D so happy! Someone started a thread on internet asking for 10 people so we can all pay lesser...so Gina, 2 of our friends and me signed up. :] can't wait to get the tickets! just thinking about it makes me so....spazzed! :D:D

Tmr, we're going to be shooting the intro again and the comdi/classroom scenes i think...and do the green monster animation (ahh! just when i thought we'll never have to see that little piece of...crap again. :b)

Day 15 and 16

Yesterday, we had the interim presentation. We didn't actually prepare for it at all...:O other groups did powerpoint stuff and all and we were sorta panicking a little. Luckily, we managed to come up with a presentation in time and bullsh*t our way through it. :]

Seeing the other groups' presentation made me realise that we are quite behind...or maybe because i panic alot? i don't know...i think that 3 weeks is not alot of time...and we have A TON of animation work to do, so...yea.

Anyway, today we came up with a new timeline again (cause we are currently finding it hard to stick to the old timeline at the moment). Yuan is going to send us the timeline and maybe later i'll post it up...We have to reshoot the intro again...very long story. i'm quite lazy to elaborate now. :]

oh yes!! how can i forget? SAOSIN is opening for INUBUS on march 7!! :D:D yayayay!! but tickets are so expensive...gahhh! what do they think we're made up of? cash? D: even student price is 115 bucks...but i heard theres a deal...if you get 10 people to buy with you, everyone can pay $95 each! saving $20 is much better than nothing...so whos up for it? comment back if you wanna do the group pricing thingy...:D but most likely there won't be a response cause no one in their right minds would wanna read a boring blog like this. XD

man LAMC productions have such a good marketing strategy...attracting the adults with incubus and the youths with saosin...i LOVE saosin and appreciate incubus's music...but yet it's to pricey...worse than singfest tickets. but at least it's better than linkin park's ticket price...ahh dilema.

Day 14

Today, we shot our intro! :] (the one where the camera follows jasmine into design school) pretty glad with how it turned out...though we'll need to do some editing...we took a total of 5 tries...cause random people came in at random times and some even looked straight at our camera lens. o.o probably one of the worse things to get when shooting...

Thanks to Raj, Jem, Yvonne and Rina for taking the time out of your busy schedules to help us out. :] and thanks to greg and wendy for waiting...:]

Tomorrow is the interim...we haven't edited anything yet and so far we've only shot 1/10 of our planned video...so i guess there'll be not much to show yea? But anyhoo we'll just show our script and storyboarding stuff...yea.

Day 12 and 13

On day 12, we waited for 3 hours before we could get our script approved. o.o so yes, one day gone.

Today (day 13), we went to shoot! but the camera was being an arse cause it wouldn't allow us to playback. D: damn the school cameras...i guess thats what u get when over 150-ish students share the same few cams. we had to keep going to the loan shop to get it cleaned and stuff...we ended up having to reuse a used tape cause our new one isn't really working...

so anyway, we managed to get the parts where our animated figures come to school and meet down. We also did a trial run of the intro, where jas is walking into school and stuff. seems to be working rather well...but the timing is something we all have to look out for. so tomorrow, we're going to finish the intro...:]

Day 9,10 and 11

For day 9, the whole group was present! :] we did storyboarding i think... can't exactly remember cause i have short term memory...:O this is what i get when i forget to blog...booooooooo!

For days 10 and 11, Jas was sick...so it was just kirin, yuan and me. :[ but we managed to finish up on storyboarding and the script. kirin typed out a more detailed script with all the information for camera movements and audio while me and yuan shared the storyboarding work between ourselves. we also listened to a couple of mp3s that i had picked out...:]

while storyboarding, i realised we actually left quite a few details out. :o but we managed to get it all sorted out. we also had a consultation with wahida and i think that helped a little...accroding to wahida, there must be an objective for every scene or idea we make...honestly speaking, we didn't think about objective AT ALL. but some how we managed to bullsh*t our way through the explanantions and in fact they sounded pretty darn good! wooot! design school really help us to bullsh*t eh? and funny how it seems to relate to design history and culture (the other module we're taking). it's almost like, if u can crap up a reason for painting something, it can be considered art. o.O this world really works in mysterious ways...

yea anyway after we got out our objectives, we kinda had more ideas on how to connect everything and we also decided to add our little animated characters from the beginning into the whole video, popping out with signs when necessary. that might help people to understand what module we are talking about and stuff...we'll need to update jasmine and then maybe we'll begin shooting on monday. :] gaaahhh hope there's enough cameras in school...it's so sad that all the year ones to threes have to fight for a limited number of cameras...

Day 8

Today, yuan had bad bad cramps so she couldn't come for today's lesson. :[ man cramps really sucks balls isn't it? it's so unfair that we females have to suffer monthly...but i guess the world is just not fair...

So there was only kirin and me. but it's ooorigh...we still manage to write out the whole script and reccee the places we are shooting at...quite glad we got those down. we're going to show the script to jasmine tomorrow...then maybe we can start shooting sometime this week. :]

yea so thats it.

Day 7

heya! back from the CNY holidays *sobs*. it was quite hard to get up and go to school today...i wish the celebrations were longer!! :[ all the visiting, goodies, ang baos, gambling, company...if only it was like that all year round! (minus the chinese new year songs which makes my ears bleed, and the bad tv programmes/movies they show on mediacorp tv...did anyone see the china one? gosh it was hella cheesy).

Anyway today we all had group discussions again. Since Jasmine is in malaysia, theres only kirin, yuan and me but we manage to get alot of things covered. We finished storyboarding and it was tons easier for us to plan what we need to get and stuff. Our storyboard is a draft though so yuan and me are going to draw the storyboards out nicely...

we even made a timeline...we probably won't be able to follow it through exactly but at least we have a plan. :] and we'll need to see if jasmine can make it for all the allocated dates so...yea. :]

tomorrow we're going to look for places to shoot at and stuff...yea, the end.

oh and how can i forget? we finally got a group name! it's "looney bin". lol. you know like looney toons? i am very aware that our group name= an asylum but we got it from dictionary.com. :b yea...

Day 6

Alo once again! today we had presentation and that alone took up the whole lesson. :o our group was sort of prepared but we didn't give as much details as our lecturer would like. We got to see all the other group presentations in our class too and man, some of them are really fast! they got quite a lot of details and some of their ideas/contents sound really cool. After i saw some of the presentations, i realise we're actually quite slow. :S and when i ask some of my other classmates for their opinions on our presentation, they told me they didn't really get it. :x gahhh must buck up! i think yuan and me kinda panicked a little and jasmine and kirin had to calm us down. rofl.

yea anyway...now that presentation is over, we can enjoy our Chinese new year holidays!! :D:D then after that we must get started on our project...boooooooooo...

anyway, stress aside...yay!! CNY the next 5 days!! the longest holiday on singapore's calendar and the time where we get more pocket money and can eat all those goodies without feeling guilty! wooot! ahhh the ba kua and all...:D:D and extra moolah for me to go watch more gigs...:b and...no updating of blog for 5 freaking days!! YAYAY! :b

Day 5

Today, all we needed to do was discuss about tomorrow's presentation (ahhh...i don't really like presentation...makes me all nervous :S) and kinda finalise whatever we have discussed so far. Jasmine, who thought today was the presentation day, stayed up all night (or rather, morning. :b) doing the powerpoint slides! :O *pats back and hands coffee* so we actually had our slides all done up already! :] so we had the whole day to go grab some food and draw out some storyboards...we only got to draw like 2 pages? we shall not digress people! :]

while storyboarding, we decided to change the beginning cause it was too...abrupt. yea...so i guess tomorrow we will be presenting whatever we have and maybe we can try to finish up the storyboard? most likely we won't cause we are such lazy asses. :b