43rd Post

Alas! Its officially the end of MOI Project 1!!! Two months of battle and now ( I mean as of 9:07p.m.) is rest and sleep. Well, till now we have endured lots of suffering and all those shooting and editing really took the spirit out of us. But today was quite different from the past few days, as today is the day we need to submit our finished video.
In the morning, we were trying to finish up all those unfinished task like adding background music and refining our DVD cover. However, we met quite a lot of problems like audio footage being overwritten and having the wrong dimension for the DVD cover. Because of time shortage, we decided to distribute the workload instead of our usual "do-it-together" way of working.

Shaun went down to the 3D animation studio and edited the credits for the video. Zhi Yong stayed at the Mac lab to fine tune the audio and I took up the task of preparing the disk cover. We took quite a long time to finish up, plus the fact that the printing shop was having its monthly "traffic jam" around the last 2 days of the block.

It was quarter to four and we were ready to submit. Actually we were being "kay poh" at the General Office and discovered that quite a number of groups had not submitted yet. Maybe they were really having problems in rendering and burning, and some of them were having problems with their work a few days before the deadline. I was reflecting, it is very challenging for a film-maker to meet the deadline, especially when problems come in unexpectedly. A number of my coursemates had gone through this experience, even our group got that too. Maybe this is a lesson learned that we need to back up our data frequently, and not to procrastinate at the start and rush at the end. Surely, P1 is something that we will always keep in our heart.

Yanjun