Day 29: 2nd interim assessment.

We had our second interim assessment this afternoon. Sorta like a casual presentation. When I say casual, I really mean casual in that gather-together-sit-down-and-chat kind of sense. No, wait, it feels like consultation too. But whatever it is, we showed Alfie what we have done so far. Yeh, so he told us to make the animation opening title a little more interesting. We decided that maybe we should add some colours to it as it was just plain black and white. 

As most of our videos are in the 3D lab, Alfie decided that he would go over later to have a look at them. We prepared the hardcopies of pre-production stuff, but realised that we didn't have to submit any of those until the end of block. Oh well, I guess it's alright, in this case we won't have to do last minute work and have more time for other stuff. Ah, but we got to redo the storyboards as they are not too well done. 

After Alfie left, we continued animating, editing and selecting more songs which we think would be suitable for the video.

Adding colours to the works in each frame is reeeaaaally tedious. A lot of work. With the number of keyframes we have, it's crazy! Can't imagine myself majoring in Animation. So Shuxian and Kala brought back some stuff to animate.

IT'S MIDWEEK! Remember to smile (:

Day 28: Have a kit-kat.

Break. We didn't meet up today. However, we were each assigned some stuff to prepare for tomorrow's presentation. All's going pretty well so far. I learnt that it is important to have backups no matter how reliable you think your hard disk is. Do not be afraid to be labelled as 'kiasu'. Have as many backups as you can. Better to be safe than sorry. That was what we did. A backup in Shuxian's hard disk and another in Jen's new Macbook Pro!  Ahhh... Macbook Pro. So seksi! I wish I could have a pro instead of the blackie. The light sensitivity of it is just so cool. And and and, the buttons! So nice to press! Tell me about it.

See y'all tomorrow.

Day 27: Third week.

Halfway through. 3D LAB IS OPENED! Like, finally. So we transferred everything from 2D lab to 3D lab as we felt that it's more spacious in there and has a better working environment, with MORE computers available. So many to choose from. Oh but I'll miss the warmth and the crowd in 2D lab. Anyway, back at work, we continued from where we left. More animating, uploading of videos, drawing of storyboards and further planning. We also did some preparations for second interim assessment.

Oh hey, we'll be taking a break tomorrow! 

Hang in there, y'all.

Day 26: Shoot Bang Drop.

We are behind time. It is already day 26 and we are not done with filmming. (Which is not how it's supposed to be as planned.) Only left with the interviews to film but the delay is slowing us down by a lot. Couldn't wait any longer for the edited scripts, so we decided to go ahead and film with whatever we have. 

Gina was the first to go because she has to leave earlier for a concert. We filmed the same way as how we did it previously for Kala's interview. I started to feel nauseous, I wonder why too. Probably didn't rest well last night.  So I went to get some shut eye. Jen woke me up when it was my turn to film. Man, I look really bad in the video. Sick kitty. 

Oh well, glad that all the filmming is done and we are left with editing. IT IS THE WEEKEND, YO!

Have a great one and be safe.

Day 25: Waiting and hanging.

Ginabrudder brought her camera to school today to take photos of all our 2D works so we can include them in our video. No idea where the 3D works are. 

3D lab was still closed. So we went to the 2D lab to upload the photos and some video footages to a computer. Apparantly, we were hogging the computer that one of the year 2 animation students uses for his P2. He was kind enough to not bug us though. Seriously, there isn't enough computers for all of us! I hope the school will consider investing in more computers so we can be more efficient. Okay, anyway, we then saved everything we have into Shuxian's hard disk as backup. The videos take donkeys to be uploaded. Once is enough, can't afford to do that twice.

Goodnight, y'all.

Day 24: Super un-gay day.

Oh, whatever, I know, the title makes no sense. But who cares, it's just a title. Anyway, today's super un-gay (if there's even such a word). Un-gay as in, the opposite of gay. Gay being happy fyi. 

No time to waste. So we decided to try out the Mac lab on the sixth floor since both the 2D and 3D labs were still fully occupied. Doesn't look too bright on our side. There is no Adobe Premier Pro in the Macs and Shuxian couldn't upload the video into her laptop because of the cable. 

Right, so we wasted a day. Couldn't film anything either because we haven't got the  edited scripts back yet. 

I'm outta here.

Day 23: And now...

Meeting time has been changed to 11am. So after yesterday's discussion about being punctual, we saw improvements today. 

Gina brought her condenser mic to school. It helps in such a way that the audio for the speech would sound clearer. Okay so we could only film Kala as her script was the only one that has been edited so far. We took turns to control the recording of the audio and video. It took us quite a number of takes before we settled with the one that we are satisfied with. Even wanted to upload the footage into a computer, but there wasn't any available ones as all the computers in 2D lab was occupied, while 3D lab was closed for some FYP presentation. Uffa! So we ended early. 

Alright, lets hope the edited scripts will be in soon!