Interim Assessment Day- Again

Just as i woke up, i immediately called Aaron to see if he was at school editing the video. I called umpteen number of times but to no avail, the call went unanswered. I even went to panic mode but luckily at around nine plus, he sent me a message that he is on the way to school. I was more calm then; knowing that he was awake and preparing to edit our film. But things took to a wrong turn, when i received a message from Aaron thirty minutes later that he would have to attend his morning class.

There it was, REALLY IN PANIC MODE. I was told that he was only able to edit just a few or some of the clip. But seriously, i have to thank God that Yi Chuin actually took the effort to come down earlier and helped edit the video instead. She managed to speed up the clip and remove the audio as it would surely sound funny. However, due to the fact that the audio is needed and is compulsory, i told Yi Chuin to 'get back' the audio again.

The worst thing was when we wanted to render the edited clip, it took a long time and i really mean long time. So what we had to do was to actually transfer the files to another computer and render it in Raj's laptop as it would render faster.

Thanks Raj for your help and Wendy for your hard disk.

Anyway, i believed the Interim Assessment went pretty well as in not as bad as i had expected. It turned out that we could only show the unfinished edited work on Raj's laptop. I was indeed glad when i heard that Lecturer Wahidah saying that our film has the potential if we were to really edit it that is.

Elaborating further, we had actually wanted all of us to present but due to the fact that Lecturer Wahidah wanted the presentation to be rather short and the video is more concentrated and focused on, we decided to let Aaron present everything instead.

Haha.. Sorry Aaron, but you did a great job in presenting.

Like i had mentioned before; i will add the slides here.
Here it goes:

Things we have done

•Animating of the door
• ‘Flowy’ journey around the bridge
• Introduction of all members
• Scene of Drawing Essentials
• Scene of Animation Fundamentals
• Scene of Ideation
• Photos displayed on table

Things we have done (2)

•Flipping photos of Ting Yu running
• Scene of Video Fundamentals
• Scene of 2D Animation
• Flicking of the puppet( Video only )
• Scene where we spoke about MOI project 1
• Part where we paused at Yi Chuin’s art work

Problems we faced

•Having to fight our way against the noisy background
• Flipping of Ting Yu’s images
• Ending credits of the mannequin
• Camera unable to detect our fire wire
• Unable to decide which angle would best portray our message

How we solved it?

•Waited till the scene was quiet / Talked louder than the noise ‘provided’
• Decided to film Ting Yu running and print the selected images out instead
• Draw mannequin frame by frame
• Shared or borrowed others group fire wire as the fire wires were out of stock
• Voting were made (fixing on majority)

Resulted- Changes

•Filmed Ting Yu running through the alley
• Transit where she enters the video fundamental room with the use of a door
• Ending credits- drawing it out frame by frame [ initially wanted to do stop motion ]
• Not doing the many videos becoming MOI word and techniques learnt in 2d fund.

Things to be completed

•Voice over of Photography ( Convo. between Ting Yu and Aaron )
• Photos
• Animating the puppet pulling down the credits
• Ending credits
• Chi bi mannequin

Our Goal

•Stone animation - Saturday
• Voice over of Photography ( Convo. between Ting Yu and Aaron ) - Tuesday
• Photos - Next Monday
• Animating the puppet pulling down the credits - Next Monday
• Ending credits - Next Wednesday
• Chi bi mannequin - Next Wednesday

After the presentation, i really felt that everyone have progressed tremendously. I personally liked Snap's group the most of their content where they actually clear doubts of those students outside of TP and of the parents' as well. Not forgetting that their flash was superb; especially the part where the foot could be seen and subject could be seen at the bottom of the feet.

I also liked Raj's group, the part where the scrolls came stumbling down, as well as the part where Gregory used his hands to find the scrolls; the sound effect was indeed AWESOME. Not forgetting that i also liked the part where they actually placed the 3d lamp onto the table and of the scene of Jeremy in the dark room.

Last at not least, Germaine's group! It was hilarious indeed. Especially the part where Germaine had to chase after the butterfly and Jasmine could be clearly seen holding the butterfly. The part where Yuan Ming was hit in the eye and had to run so far and many places was funny too.

GREAT JOB EVERYONE. It must be very tiring but worth it.

Anyway after the Interim, Ting Yu continued doing the stick man on the paper while Yi Chuin tried looking for Nafisah to solve the Maya problem and tried animating the chi bi. I was also trying to do a better version of the stick man [ experimenting ]. Aaron was waiting for the files to be transferred. He hex.. While waiting, i managed to finish watching Howl's Moving Castle.. LOL....

Not forgetting the fact that i met up with my aunt and she complained that my house was messy, depicting what a person you are. So what she did was to actually tidy up my table and asked me to enter this site : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QPr2YMexlE

Have to continue doing my MM fund.
Take care

Nites.