The Journey has not ended...

We made it to the end of the MOI project 1 journey, it was a long and treacherous path. But we all made it to the end. Lots of hard work and determination, has paid off with good results. When it was the last few weeks before the deadline, we all worked tirelessly to make sure we could finish it on time. We did the project work, on top of our work from the other modules. Tough luck, but we have no choice....that's the timetable for you. But even with the rendering problems and time constrain, we finished it on time! I was so relieved and had a sense of accomplishment. But we really couldn't do it without teamwork.

But alas....the long journey of this video and project, has come to an end. However, this is not really the end! This only the beginning of our dreams to be a director or an animator, a stepping stone to the next level. Like we mentioned in the video: The Journey is your to create, so keep walking. We will all keep moving forward to our dreams.

Rocking out once more

Deanna :)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! its 2:50,

and....

we are still rendering.
how nice.



):

Hi it's me alex again =)

there's more progress today (DUH)

we added in the music, and all of the museum and streets into the video already!

Somehow i think wafah's last minute street drawings look better than those done in a few days... LOL!

Yea, we're sort of wrapping up soon =D

ok not exactly...

shit we are dead.

Updates again!!!

Hi alex is back for another round of updates k? We've almost done all of the editing now, and everything seems well, but the effect isn't really impactful in my opinion. If everything went smoothly it would be a lot more great than what we have now.

All i hope is that i get through this and into year 2!

Oh bother...

We had our Interm 2 today, Alfie really liked the look of the video, so that good. But he also made some suggestions to help tie up the video better, let the message in the video have more sense. At first I was like : "What?" , to myself of course, but after an explanation, we were all on the same page. 

This poses a few more problems, we need a new scene, more music and get the extra footage digitalized? We plan to try and do all of this by tomorrow, on top of all the other things we need to do. Sigh...so many things..so little time. But we must put our minds to it and go for it, so go team :)

  

Flying off

Deanna.

Hi everyone it's me alex again! It's quite long since I, or we blogged, because i wasn't really active during the production period because of my H&C. But for now we've moved onto the post production stage, it is my turn to work now. Most of the progress is quite behind schedule, so i planned for lesser crazy effects on the video as a whole, hope everything is okay, and i hope we can submit on time. The keying is all done, we've done most of the opening credits, and all we've left are the still backgrounds and the ending credits plus some extra footage. I think we can finish everything by wednesday, if nothing crops up and everyone does their job properly.

Thank you for reading, and check back again!

Alex

WAFAH HERE!

i'm supposed to help out for my bro's wedding (thats is tomorrow) now but i decided to blog,
because.............................



IM SO STRESSED LAH

there is so much to do maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
and we are 4 days away from submission.

well, im working on the background and cd cover!
next week is the hardcore week man.
i feel the pressure, and the stress like never before.

although there are hiccups here and there, and the fact that i feel we are lagging a little behind,
i still do believe we soooooooo can make it.
monday tuesday wednesday is the final processing or so i call it,
and i really cant wait.
(:

So Far...

In this week, we managed to finish all the filming, so now our actress can rest :) But it's still work for us! Yes, lots and lots of preparation and test, finding talent and location, and then down to actually filming the sequences. Blood, sweat and tears.....okay..maybe there was no blood, but there was definately a lot of sweat.

Well, so far we have finished all the filming, both location shots and with the Green Screen. So the first time we digitalise the tape, we gave the footage to edit and piece them up together. After a little bit more shooting, I went to digitalise the rest of the footage we need. Wafah and I are in the process of finishing the background design, animation and cd cover design. So for now we need to work really hard. Yay!

Rocking out
Deanna

The Train is Moving!

We are finally in on prodution! We have footage for our video! All it took was to change the video camera, and we were of filming. We had the video camera and the tape, we immediately started filming. Video is a lot easier than stop-motion (that we tried before), record what we need and we're done, so it's a lot faster. This meant we had more time to experiment and test the shots, so that later we have choices to edit.

We manage to get almost all the footage we need. Both the green screen and normal footage, so we are of with a good start (with a slight stumble) to production. And I we really could have done it with our really sporting talent! Thank you so much! Now I'm just a bit worried about post production, how we will piece everything together. But I have faith in all of us, so go team 2tree :)

Whoot!

Deanna

A long time coming.

Been awhile huh?
i've been very stressed lately trying to juggle animation fundamentals and project one. Oh well, Design's like that!

On tuesday we were at the talents place all ready to film,
and guess what!

THE CAMERA IS FAULTY.
i got so depressed after that.
BECAUSE its we have 2 weeks left, AND WE BARELY HAVE AY FOOTAGE OF OUR TALENT.
amazing.

TODAY, i feel so much better.
guess how much of shoot we have left?
2 scene. OH YES JUST 2 scene left on green screen(:

I'm really glad man. My group has been motivating me.
Third week, (Next week), POST PRODUCTION BEGINS.
ANOTHER WHOLE SET OF HICCUPS AND DEPRESSION.

misery, here i come.
i mean, here you come.

Just a preview of the storyboard.

WAFAH

A Tragedy

Today started of like any other day, Animation Fundamentals in the morning and MOI project1 production in the afternoon. However, things did not go as it was planned.

I haven't had a chance to use the video camera properly, because I could not get a tape to record it. Today Wafah and I had planned to do the filming of the first sequence, to do that we needed a tape. Our dear talent, happened to have a tape that she could spare us for filming. So we went over to her house to get the tape and shoot the scene. 

Now that we finally had a tape, we assumed that we could start shooting the scene at our talent's house and area. I started to set up the tripod, Wafah looked around to get an idea of what to shoot, and our talent help to get the video camera started. Everything was fine, until....the camera decide to not work for us? Every time we tried to put in the tape, the video camera would either immediately eject it or read it for a while then eject it. At this point in time, we think the tape is corrupted or something? So Wafah and I, go off to get a new tape from a store nearby. But when we were almost there, our talent call us and told us that there is nothing wrong with the tape, but with the camera!? Upon this shocking news, we rushed back to find out. It seems that when she took out the tape, some tiny piece of tube-like plastic fell out! We couldn't do the filming, so we took picture of the scenes we wanted, so we don't need to remember them and get a feel of the shots.

Sigh....it is really sad that we couldn't get production done properly, but things like these are bound to happen.....so we must always be prepare for anything...We have been warned...

Over and out

Deanna

The Start of a New Block

We are well into the second block of MOI project 1! We've been doing lots of planning and test for the production, such as tracing the street pictures, find the right spots to shoot and testing if the effect( on After Effects) work. And thank goodness it works. So all we need to shoot and get that effect , is a Green Screen, as the backgrounds are going to be tracings of streets. And we also final found a talent to Starr in our video, a fun and quirky one :)

Yesterday we shot the our stop motion sequence, and we chose the busiest part of school, the entrance. It was though shooting there, lots of students and lecturers pacing in and out, so some time we got blocked and had to stop and leave our poor talent in an awkward position (because of the stop motion). It was a long afternoon, leaving Wafah, our dear talent and me exhausted, I feel bad for our talent cos she had to do everything frame by frame. However, with all the hard work and time we used, only a bit of the footage. Sometimes the camera moved, it was hard for our talent to walk slow-motion all the time, thus we could not capture the emotion. And that an important aspect of that sequence. This means we either have to re shoot the stop motion, or we do it in video.

The to-do list for next week:

1) Shoot the sequence again (probably in video)
2) Get a Green screen to shoot the other scenes
3) Finish the tracing of the streets

Rocking out
Deanna

2nd block day one

Okay, i'm just gonna update the progress more or less. Although i'm not so sure about what the others are doing but what we did today in school was that we presented our interim one to alfie, and he was pretty much satisfied with it. Now Wafah and Deanna are going to do the contour drawings and yea, that's about it. I'm not doing much on this, but i'll give it my best shot during post production!

Alex