37th Post

Today may be an experiment day for us, as we tried to put in effects in our footage. Motion plus key-frame became our best friend and I experimented with different transition and animation. There were parts where we need to zoom in the first frame of the raw footage after the book scene (for 4 rounds), and we successfully done it with a very smooth transition and as realistic as possible. Sometimes when we had lessons on these software like Premier Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro etc, always we displayed a mundane look in our eyes, especially in Digital Media Fundamentals. But maybe I would like to thank my lecturers Alan and Yoke Ee right here who taught us on these programmes, which, in our production, became so important and I am still trying to search for my notes on these tutorials.

5 days left for us to complete our production, and there are still a lot to be done. I feel that this time round my team is exhausted from early February till now. Though for now Shaun and I do not have another module for this block, Zhi Young is having Animation Fundamentals and during this period of time, he is facing challenges in his final assignment for that module and may not be able to focus on P1. This means Shaun and I have to fill in, which may or may not be a good thing (for every stage of the production we used to work together, and normally we don't divide the workload that much as compared to other groups).

Till this day I have not put up any interesting things yet. During editing, I discovered that Final Cut Pro does not come in the software just like that. It comes from a package called Final Cut Studio, which includes the FCP, Soundtrack Pro, Livetype, Motion, Colour, Compresser Pro and some others. No wonder it is sold at around $1700 for students. Anyway, these softwares listed here are very cool in production and they can help us in adding effects and sounds into our video. They are something like Adobe Creative Suite for production but better. This period of editing may be a learning time to learn all these "shiok" yet alien stuffs from Apple.

Yanjun really needs to learn more =) ending here