Screening reflection.

Today screen was kind of a help to me. From others work, i watch and pick up on some skills. Some of their works really amazed me and left me a great impression. Whereas some of the others, give me a big shock. What i mean is, i discover a lot of joker from our course whereby they are very quiet normally. Everyone really put in alot of effort to do this P1. Overall,i feel that we had done a great job.

Working with Faizal and Kim Luk is a great experience for me. I found out that Kim Luk photoshop skills are great and faizal's animation are still as good as ever. I feel that i didn't contribute much as i doesn't have a strong area to start with. I learn alot from them but still dare not try it because i am scare to have ruin the video.

Apart from that, i also found out about myself is that i can only be an actor and not the director or editor. It is because i found out that editing and directing to me is really cannot make it issue for myself but i am willing to learn from scratch again.

-Xian Ming

Day35

Well, there is a begining and there is an ending.
IT's been a fruitful process during these two months, working with Faizal and XianMing.

Credits to Faizal: I learnt how to paint with photoshop from him.
some animating techniques from him and lip dubbing.

From Xianming: I learnt more editing techniques

Well there still alot of things i had learnt from them which I can't call upon.

My Reflections:

Getting angry with group from group members is very normal when things are not running smoothly. We ought to solve the problems together instead. It is also imortant to respect team members. Reasons: some might tolerate or some might fall out with you and never want to work with you in the future.

* What matters in a group is not always about being the best but is about how they overcome the obstacles( whether emotional or technically) and learn together as a group to achieve a common goal.

Today's screening was interesting. I could see many different results and processes from other groups. Some have very simple but effective masterpieces. Whereas, some have amusing effects. Faizal was busy doing his video fundamentals. So both me and Xian Ming presented when we first to present. Xianming spoke it all. Hahas, I' don't whether this presentation have marks or not but i am speechless if there is no questions shot at me. I am proud of the result of our work eventhough it might look inferior to some others.

Goodwork Xianming and Faizal... we have rooms of improvement

Reflection

Today was a hectic day as everyone were rushing their final rendering, burning and editing of their final work. The first render that we done had a huge file size. We are unable to burn into the disc so therefore, we rendered again using a smaller frame size. Therefore, causing us to be late for submission. F*** render! Overall, i learnt alot from Faizal but sometimes, things doesn't go well and i would be angry with him. BUT P1 IS OVER! Hope that things would be better if i ever have chance to work with them again.

Overall, i feel that i'm not that good either as sometimes, i would show out my temper and even informed Kim Luk that i would be late. Causing him to be in school very early alone. That was the start of P1. I'm sorry for not giving my all for this project.

-Xian Ming

Day34

What we did today was piecing every video shots and scenes into a whole with adobe premier. Hovever we have not recorded our audio yet. Yes me and my group discovered that the colours of our video paler than the original uncut clips. Then I happen to read the mail by Yoke Ee. She advise us to render the videos with the compress setting as animation/ none for Adobe premier and others except for final cut pro. So this was why our video was pale, its because of the compress setting. We always thought that it was H.264. And darn, we deleted the working files for the keyed out shots.
We have not design our CD cover yet.

-Kim Luk

Day33

First thing I did was to borrow a firewire and redhead light from the material store. During the afternoon, I went to the Hereafter Studio to extract more footages from the Handy-camera. I used Xianming's laptop to log and capture the footages as we could not use the desktops in the studio. Faizal and Xianming were editing the rough cuts. Then after the transfer, we cut the footages during 6 to 9pm. Lastly we did some shootings for our opening and ending of our video with the help of James Boo( thanks ). I am not good at acting. :) hahas. Thats all i can say. Then we ended around 10 pm +. Finally I headed home to do our interim2 report while Xianming do the rough cuts.

A team needs support and help from each other. Thus we are now still a team. : )
GUNGHO! GUNGHO ! GUNGHO!

- KIM LUK

Day 32

Today our group went to shoot was left for our shooting. We also decided to re-shoot the whole of green screen scenes due to the shadows. But it was not done today as the TV studio is not available for us. So, i guess we shall do it tomorrow. Got a few peeps from MOI to help us in our filming today and it was kind of fun. Apart from having fun while shooting, i fear that our group had no time for editing. Also, i'm quite stress to do the editing because i am afraid that i might screw it up and cause it to be a lousy work.

After so long, our group still had the claymation part to do and interim 2 is on thursday! I'm sure that we wont be able to finish it by then. After putting some of the rough cut footage together, i feel that our video are too long and needs to cut away some scene. But cutting away some scenes means that our video wont be as good. Hope that it could turn and well for everything. I shall use all my energy in the editing even if i don't sleep.

-Xian Ming

Day 30

Friday the 13th!
Faizal and Xianming went to do some voluntary acting for Jeremy's film except for me. I guess they have learnt some experiences from it While they are away, I spent the afternoon with the desktop in the 3d lab, figuring out how to key away the shadowy parts of the video. Well i was hoping to solve this challenge so that we don't have to reshoot the entire green screen part. Then there was a powerfailure. Everyone went whining about not saving their works.

Then Faizal and Xianming came back during the late afternoon. Faizal did some animations and i realized it was Xianming's birthday. Xianming went off early to work. Meanwhile i went around to look and learn from other coursemates' works.
Faizal finished animating the animations of the video. Well, I did not managed to key out the minor shadows. I thought it would be better to reshoot again but this time round with strong lightings to get rid of the shadows. We are now progressing on to make the claymations for our video.


GUNGHO, GUNGHO,GUNGHO!!!!

- KIM LUK