People says that Mother Nature is not to be underestimated, and you just have to believe it. Also, there is famous children song that goes "Rain Rain Go Away, Come again another day..." I started to embrace this song. Well, we were suppose to go down to Clark Quay and do our shoot, and there comes rain, thunder and wind. Recently, we learned that the weather turn unpredictable.
So, we could only refine our voice recording in school, and to finish the design of our prop (which is the manual). Suddenly, the whole group come into a pressurized state as we have to push our schedule forward to a later date. Anyway, we have done what we can do in school and plan out every shoot that we are going to take so that we can start straight away when we reach our location.
Maybe today is the most sian in the whole block. We are stalled in the middle, and just not able to do anything productive. Is it that we did not plan well, or we are just unlucky? I really pray hard that when tomorrow comes, we can really do more that today and finish up more work so to be on schedule.
No rain for tomorrow please....
Brought to you by Yanjun from thr33
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Entry No.27
Today we met in school to try out audio recordings for voice over in our video.
I expected the recordings to be clearer than our current audio. Thus, I think that we need to edit the recordings using Audacity to remove the environment sounds and see if the voice is suitable for the video or not.
If there is no improvement in the audio, I think we need to buy a microphone and record the voice over again.
I hope that the production time will end sooner so that we can start on the post production, which is the editing part and choosing of music to add into the video.
Zhi Yong
I expected the recordings to be clearer than our current audio. Thus, I think that we need to edit the recordings using Audacity to remove the environment sounds and see if the voice is suitable for the video or not.
If there is no improvement in the audio, I think we need to buy a microphone and record the voice over again.
I hope that the production time will end sooner so that we can start on the post production, which is the editing part and choosing of music to add into the video.
Zhi Yong
Friday, March 6, 2009
Day 26
Sadly to say, we encountered a few problems today.
Firsly, I accidentally edited on the wrong draft of our script. Thus, confusion arose and caused a bit of a panic.
Secondly, we mistaken that Yanjun had his 2D Art Fundamentals works with him. They were still with his lecturer. By the time we realized this, we tried getting back the works. However, it was to no avail as we counld not find the lecturer.
Last but not least, the casette tape of the Sony miniDV camera was faulty once again. It made us restless as this problem kept recurring for the third time in a row.
Despite all these setbacks, we still managed to overcome the problems and continued filming. We also decided that the scenes that were not filmed that day would be postponed. I guess such delays are imminent in a production.
Shaun :)
Firsly, I accidentally edited on the wrong draft of our script. Thus, confusion arose and caused a bit of a panic.
Secondly, we mistaken that Yanjun had his 2D Art Fundamentals works with him. They were still with his lecturer. By the time we realized this, we tried getting back the works. However, it was to no avail as we counld not find the lecturer.
Last but not least, the casette tape of the Sony miniDV camera was faulty once again. It made us restless as this problem kept recurring for the third time in a row.
Despite all these setbacks, we still managed to overcome the problems and continued filming. We also decided that the scenes that were not filmed that day would be postponed. I guess such delays are imminent in a production.
Shaun :)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
25th Post
Yanjun is here again.
This time we were filming on the module Creative Story-Telling. We were at my house and we thought it would be a breeze for us. We needed not to record any sound and the environmental variables could be controlled. However, the tape encountered problems again plus the battery of the camera is running low. We had to charge it first before recording. Also, a lot of takes were NG, as there were shots which requires us to throw a crumbled paper ball, and the ball landed quite far away from the targeted area. Fortunately, we are able to wrap up everything and get the scene done.
I realised that production is so much challenging than pre-production, as problems are imminent during shoot. I think as we go on, we may face more problems, but I think we are able to solve them better than we are last time.
Here we go again!
This time we were filming on the module Creative Story-Telling. We were at my house and we thought it would be a breeze for us. We needed not to record any sound and the environmental variables could be controlled. However, the tape encountered problems again plus the battery of the camera is running low. We had to charge it first before recording. Also, a lot of takes were NG, as there were shots which requires us to throw a crumbled paper ball, and the ball landed quite far away from the targeted area. Fortunately, we are able to wrap up everything and get the scene done.
I realised that production is so much challenging than pre-production, as problems are imminent during shoot. I think as we go on, we may face more problems, but I think we are able to solve them better than we are last time.
Here we go again!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Entry No. 24
Today, after we consulted Wahidah to confirm the call sheet, we went to Pagoda Street to start filming as it was the furthest destination in our video. It was a tiring day as we need to travel all the way to Chinatown from school with our equipment.
I was the actor for today's shots and because of my poor memory, I had slowed down the whole process of filming. After that, we decided to split the paragraph that I suppose to say for different shots and for each shot I will say a different sentence.
Because this was first time we shot our video in a crowded place, we thought that the audio should be audible even in some distance. However, we found out that my voice turned out being covered by the surrounding sound.
We have also encounter some problems with the tape of the video camera, it was somehow faulty in some way. But luckily it turned out fine after some time. When we were filming, some of the people in Chinatown will just walk past the camera and we have to re-shoot that particular shot again.
Zhi Yong
I was the actor for today's shots and because of my poor memory, I had slowed down the whole process of filming. After that, we decided to split the paragraph that I suppose to say for different shots and for each shot I will say a different sentence.
Because this was first time we shot our video in a crowded place, we thought that the audio should be audible even in some distance. However, we found out that my voice turned out being covered by the surrounding sound.
We have also encounter some problems with the tape of the video camera, it was somehow faulty in some way. But luckily it turned out fine after some time. When we were filming, some of the people in Chinatown will just walk past the camera and we have to re-shoot that particular shot again.
Zhi Yong
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Day 23
Being a calefare in a our seniors' video todat was an invaluable experience that money cannot buy. It let me have an inside look in how MoiP2 works with the use of a 'boom'.
What we did today was finishing up most of the call sheet, 2 column sheet as well as starting to work on the Moi Series 1 guidebook.
As Wahidah felt that our script was too plain and not enough sharing of experience, we decided to add an additional module as well as extending the script. The 2 column sheet was not as easy to do as it looked. It required us to match the audio with the visuals for every single shot of the video. Meanwhile, we decided to soak the papers, which is used to make the guidebook, in coffee to make the papers look old and brownish. This is to maintain the feel of a martial arts manual.
As for tomorrow, we would like to start filming the Chinatown scene. We hope that the weather would be ideal for us to film the scenes that we require as it has been pouring heavily these few days.
Shaun :)
What we did today was finishing up most of the call sheet, 2 column sheet as well as starting to work on the Moi Series 1 guidebook.
As Wahidah felt that our script was too plain and not enough sharing of experience, we decided to add an additional module as well as extending the script. The 2 column sheet was not as easy to do as it looked. It required us to match the audio with the visuals for every single shot of the video. Meanwhile, we decided to soak the papers, which is used to make the guidebook, in coffee to make the papers look old and brownish. This is to maintain the feel of a martial arts manual.
As for tomorrow, we would like to start filming the Chinatown scene. We hope that the weather would be ideal for us to film the scenes that we require as it has been pouring heavily these few days.
Shaun :)
Monday, March 2, 2009
22th Post
Today maybe one of the bad days we ever had. Well, we actually had our ideas, but it was just not good enough. Wahidah commented that our scripts were boring, and we thought we were quite slow since there are still much left not done.
No worries. We can do it! Now we have finalise the call sheet, and the script is 50% edited to make it interesting. We still have the 2 column sheet and the script to finish by tomorrow, but I think we can make it. Nothing can hinder thr33, every stage we go will be a learning journey, and it will bring us closer to our goal.
Let us advance!!!
Brought to you by Yanjun =)
P.S. actually we heard that other groups are at the same rate or slower than us...well not sure but can't afford to slow down.
No worries. We can do it! Now we have finalise the call sheet, and the script is 50% edited to make it interesting. We still have the 2 column sheet and the script to finish by tomorrow, but I think we can make it. Nothing can hinder thr33, every stage we go will be a learning journey, and it will bring us closer to our goal.
Let us advance!!!
Brought to you by Yanjun =)
P.S. actually we heard that other groups are at the same rate or slower than us...well not sure but can't afford to slow down.
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