Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Day 19

Hello retarded psychos and all the earth and heavens.

HELLO! If you see us walking to the canteen some people can just make use of their brains and move to the canteen to meet us. It is not like you are born with an empty cranium, but wait, maybe you are but I wont be so mean and speculate. But i already did and I don't care.

You are waiting simply because you don't have the initiative to follow us down so we can discuss. We are now in the 2D lab, waiting for natalya... lalalala. Why are we waitng. Right now Iam enjoying reading Wikipedia articles on the internet... lalalala.

Wait, do I see Natalya? No I don't. She's still not here and Maj has already told her where we are, so I wonder why are we waiting. Today we are going to complain aloud. Whee

Wait, is that Natalya i see at the little window? Wait no, she's probably still shuffling to school. Man we're so tired of waiting around and watching people laze around maybe she will come to school soon. Getting more worried, sicker and nauseous with each ticking second, man, I wonder if WE can make it. Hmmmm something to contemplate and deliberate.

So today we have decided on a new concept because the rpevious one was a little bit wrong. We are going to type out a new scfript today and take pictures for our storyboard as we have to be really anal about the angles and stuff. We were supposed to talk things out with Natalya but she just walked away and claimed we were wasting her time. So be it girl. So be it.
Wait wait wait.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Day 17

Cordial salutations to the endearing readers viewing this forsaken text.

Today we had a Subway feast, Maj, Kez and I.

We were told that our new script had some problems which were quickly rectified. The interviewer in our script is a student from a high life school hence his tone is a little stuck up and condescending tone. We have made a new time line and tomorrow we will resume our productions here and there and pick up from where we left off. We should do fine because regardless of being crippled the 3 of us still have the determination to pull this off and achieve a fine grade pleasing to our eyes.

We need a new camera because we returned the old one. We are going to find many ways to salvage the video and make a kick ass one and owned the silly epics we have watched. No offense.

We went to my place to watch Girl, Interrupted but then my quirky family had to bring all its four members to service the computer. I accidentally cheated Kez's feelings because I thought I had the Juno DVD. She got pissed and her period is coming soon either I take the weekend off to the Maldives or I hide in a bunker somewhere in Fort Canning.

Maj may have her period too, I should just bury myself alive. I am not trying to suck up but listening to Whitney somehow bears an uncanny resemblance to Kez's voice.


We can do this project well because every night I pray to God that He will help us get through this with a grade that glorifies His name. I tell Him every night too to make people stop hurting me and I ask Him to keep the frail but impregnable hope I still cling onto.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Day 15

Hello world and the eternal people inhabiting the tortured planet. Al Gore still lives.

Today was interim assesment which was quite alright.

We presented our rough cut video to get comments.

Nat solely made a redundant power point presentation.

We need better aesthetic for our interview room because it was too boring.It was a relief that everyone got our introduction and wasn't confused with the first and third-person role that the camera had.Our 2D art sequence had to be slower because it became really fast an headache-y when it was approaching the end. The same goes for our ComDI sequence.We also have to work on our transitions between the interview room and the video for our modules.On a more personal level, our group is facing some problems regarding initiative issues.

Other than that, we're doing fine and steamboat at Maj's house sounds like fun.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Day 14

Good evening world and the best supporting denizens of Temasek Design School.

Today Maj edited the video and we watched it. She wasn't satisfied and we could see some discrepancies so there is a lot of mess to clear up. TOday we just edited the video so we could show something for the interim assesment.

The main problem was not Maj's editing at all. She's very good at editing, is just that some people during our takes spoke quite alot and therefore the time limit exceeded. So Maj had to make cuts to keep within the time limit but unfortunately the cuts gave the video very bad transitions. So we are going to reshoot once I finish the new script.

Because we did not have a proper script to memorise, we spoke more than enough. SO with the new script we would be more controlled and hence we wont go over the time.

Love.

Day 13

Good evening world and the personels of golden experience.

Today we filmed Ideation and Public Speaking. It was not difficult because we did not need to set up any stage. As the scene was in a class room we just had to use one of the rooms in school and shoot. The lighting and everything was good so it was just shooting. It was quick because Maj acted very well and Natalya did her job. We were told that the role of the camera is a little bit confusing because one scene it is third person but the next scene it is the interviewer. I was taken aback because any one can tell that the camera is third person when it is filming us going to school and obviously in the interview room where there is someone's voice, the camera is the interviewer. We even have voice over to triple confirm it. I mean if you watched Mr and Mrs Smith then it is a prime example. It is also very obvious, the eye of God and the eye of the interviewer.

Maj is editing the video and Kez is sampling audios. They're good.

Good night world.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Day 12

Good evening world and the prestige and privileged.

Today we decided to shoot the segment for 3D art fundamentals. I did a sketch of a Grammy Award on my book a few days back but when we finally got to production, we thought the award proved too difficult because the head will topple as clay is not strong when it is wet. SO we switched to making the Oscar, the little man handled out during the annual Academy Awards. We use clay and each of us started to make the different body parts as a group. But the input of some were mediocre to none.

Maj made the sexy legs and Kezia refined them. (Kezia is pronounced as how it is read and not ker-za-er).
I made one of the arms and Kez liked it but she had to modify it, she told me to make another one but she didnt feel it was as nice as the first one. SO while we were making oscar, the camera was taking the whole process, it didnt capture our faces, it just focused on Oscar's construction.
Basically Maj made the legs, I made the hands and the head while Kez refined the parts we made, she also made the chest. She just refined the parts because she has skill we lack. Some lacked skill greatly I could die instantly.

So at the end of the day we ran out of tape, but got what we needed. Someone was being obnoxious and said Oscar was out of proportion, wanted to slap him there and then but then I was just being nice. Smiles aplenty. I love you all. Except for some people.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Day 11

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My brother is officially a lazy a******. It all begins with a super funny night of filming. You seriously wont believe how we transformed one of your 3-10 classrooms into a stage for Kez to play her guitar. I Say NO NO NO. NO NO NO as in you wont believe. By the way Amy Winehouse won 5 Grammys.

Ok so we did the shooting and I had a full body work out and finally settled my debt because I feel that I do the least work. Since on Day 10 they found out I have never tried Singaporean food and grew fat on junk food, they brought me out and forced me to eat Hokkien Mee, so the calorie count was so busted. So I was burdened with my camera which I loaned, my handbag and my plastic bag full of spastic pieces of paper and a mounting board. We were supposed to share a 1.5l bottle of Coke Light but in the end I had to bring the half emptied bottle home.

So by now if you are actually reading this you will know about me that I can have another you in a minute. Matter of fact he'll be here in a minute. So don't you ever get to thinking you're irreplaceable. SO i have a heavy handbag, a heavy plastic bag full of spastic papers, a camera satchel bag and a huge bottle of DIET COKE. 0 Calories. So i have to bear this yoke and go the distance as my bus stop was another 500000 miles away.

SO after staggering up the bus and hitting many ignorant passengers, for the first time I took up less than half of the whole seat because my stuff were feeling luxurious. Then when I alighted I fumbled home. AND WHEN I REACHED THE DOOR, I saw the s***** brother lying on the irritatingly comfortable couch while I was carrying weight worse than JLo's make up kit. And he just opened the door and continued watching his TV.




Good evening world and the personifications of authority and everlasting monarchy.

Today I imbibed a mollusk embedded in smithereens of egg and oil.

Apologies.

Today I ate oyster omelet.
So today we filmed the animated piece in real life for Natalya and Kezia. Natalya's piece was about something falling off the window and in natalya in real life, she's trying to jump back up into the window but no matter how many feeble attempts she takes, success seems like the horizon. Then for Kez, she has this animated piece with her playing the guitar with super nice hair flow and whatever, so we wanted to reenact the scene in real life. Problem is, in the animation the hair was moving but we had no giant fans in the room. In a forlorn corner we stumbled across huge pieces of square cardboards and decided to use it as a fan so her hair will move. Smart.
After that we filmed the sequences for the COMDI presentation. I was the one wielding the camera. They wanted perfect camera angles and it was very stressful because i didnt get anything right. Damn sad. SO Gary was nice and taught me how to do it. I learnt and trialed and soon I got the hang of it and had a full body workout as it was easier to do the tilting over Maj who did the mind map on the floor. Initially she did it on the whiteboard and it was very tough keeping the angles perfect. So it was better on the floor but I had to strain my back and hold my arms up like some yoga newbie. In the end it was worth it because my group was happy with it and I wont be labelled as the one who never did any work.
So to date we have filmed some parts of the introduction, COMDI and Animation.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Day 6

Good evening world and the wise elders over seeing the overall progress of this turbulent time while offering sage and just stewardship.

Today was presentation one. Dear Wahidah was sick so Mr Alan came and spearheaded the presentation.

The first group which commenced the presentation jitters were pretty awesome. They had a time line to make sure they do not schedule deviate, they had a group name and their group logo design was cute. The next group was, ok i forgot how their presentation went about. Probably a little too insignificant. Whoops. The third group was us. Mr Alan gave us some comments.

He said we needed a list of resources so we wont go haywire. So we compiled a list.
Thing We NEED:
Mr Ronald.
A random interviewer
A Mini DV
A tripod
The 5th floor studio

Since we wanted to have bloopers during our interview Mr Alan said in order to make sure it is totally natural we like to so like have to make the interview super long so there will be errors and then there will be like bloopers.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Day 5

Good evening world and the paragons of power tracking this computer generated journal.

We all have to come to terms with our loss, our penalties, the consequences of things and the sundering of intangible treasures. We have to embrace new shocking and hurtful facts and truths and we also have to live with uncomfortable reasons and sights.

What has transpired has past and has left behind happiness without regret.

Since I'm dry once I have vomited on this blog, I have decided to include snippets of personal stuff. It's called the writer's block or that I am incompetent. Ok speaking of acceptance, somethings that we are given to, though may be dissatisfying, its reality. But but but, I am not saying I love her. I'll just be a nice little boy. Little is a misnomer because I have a swimming tube wrapped around me which the only way to dispose of is to ingest less calories and work out a sweat. Chinese New Year is round the corner those reading this (regardless of elite clique or not) be wary, the chinese new year snacks pack many calories. Go for the mandarin oranges instead.

Alright today we did not really do much. All we did was to create the powerpoint presentation for Day 6. So far we are going to present what we have discussed and finalized. Like how we are going to present each module and the selected modules to present. We have settled our introduction. Its a movie style video. It is going to be like an interview whereby we are the interviewees and the interviewer is personified by the camera. It is going to be like Mr and Mrs Smith. If you watched the movie, half way through the action or the movie the scene cuts to Brangelina in a room where they appear to be answering questions thrown at them and they kind of contradict each other. So our video is going to be like that. The purpose of the interview style is to answer some frequently asked questions and also input personal thoughts about MOI year one and our views on what we have gone through.

Yay, time for day 6.