Day 21

Today was SUPPOSED to be the first day of filming. And, so we went ahead to Hao Wei's secondary school at Hougang. One long hour trip there. To Montfrot Secondary School. Ok, so, we were halfway there and thought to get the shooting moving. But, Hao Wei called us halfway and told us we needed to get a letter from Temasek Polytechnic to validate sort of like a consent form for attending a trip. And so, we had to halfway return to Temasek Polytechnic to get the consent form from Wahida.

So, pretty much our day ended when we passed the letter to the the principal and he said it will take two days to confirm but we managed to plead to him that he will confirm a maximum of 1 day validation period because we had no time left.

“This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.”

Abraham Lincoln

Day 20

Discussion takes place today on how we are going to approach the film. First and foremost, we decided that a new storyboard needed to be made to make it even clearer. So, we had Hao Wei do the storyboard again, with the new elements of the location we are going to shoot at which he suggested is his school.

So, he did up the storyboarding again and he looked at Kenny's character designs that he did over the weekend and is not that impressed, because the coloring and the shadings was not clear from what Kenny did and so he had to go back to do character designing again. So, I was in charge of borrowing the camera from the design equipment store for tomorrow's shoot. That is about the round-up of today's work.

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

Abraham Lincoln

Day 19

Today, we had a day off, I and Kenny had to go through H&C so, ya, it came at a handy time for us to finish our final stuff. Just had some more extra time to put into for MOIP1 and fortify our ideas. Hao Wei had no other lessons. -_- so, ya it pretty much sucked seeing him coasting through this block.
But next one, we are all In the same boat of Video Fundamentals and we will all be stuck inside it. Oh well, played a little with Maya as I had time. Not much to talk about today. Still scratching the surface of Maya usage!

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. “
Dalai Lama

Day 18

We Had interim 1 today. Pretty much sucks. We were late because we did not get our stuffs printed in time and that deducted our marks. -_-

Overall, idea wise, seems like most of the people agree that our first idea of the follow your heart works. And is rather liked. The rest was not so well received though, in accordance to the contents involved. So, ya we were late, our presentation half-assed. But, overall we still came up something half-decent. So, that was a huge plus for us.

Although we bickered some because of whose fault so and so, we got over that since that is reality for us and we can't change it.
Oh,well. After that we went ahead to Amanda for consultation right after the interim and asked her how can we improve it since she told us that there are several factors to look out for when we plan to do the video we wanted to do like, will we lose track of the brief and the actual objective we are chasing for? How can we integrate it to make a video that actually works since making a wholesome of advertisements would be time costly and that we wont embark it but how can we fufill the 7 minutes of video then.

That, falls on how we can probably insert some sort of a director's cut or something that could use up the time as she told us.

I'd came across this quote and surprisingly, I loved it. Speaks words for me. Oh well, here it is.
“I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.”
Kurt Cobain

Day 17

Ok, Hao Wei started doing the storyboard, a more in-depth one. So, we would not have troubles fitting the scenes in the middle of so many cuts. So, that was his work of the day. I was the Camera man, so, I was with him while he was doing the storyboarding at school talking about what shots to use and of such. Had quite a lengthy discussion there, all placement wise lighting atmosphere, right about there. But, not being there, I was unable to give much on my point of it, since we had not went to the place before, (except Hao Wei) but what he said was rather alright so, I believed that there is a fair space to work on.

Kenny on the other hand, did character designing and coloring of the animation Hao Wei wanted, ( He is the director by the way. ) and he commented wanted more details and of motion walking jumping kind, so, Kenny had to redraw more. Our character is basically a Heart with limbs moving. That is about it for the day. Interim 1 is just around the corner. Hope we don’t get bombed.

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”

Pablo Picasso

Day 16

Its day one of productions. We have not started filming yet. We decided today to just discuss what we have and what we planned to do for the fiming days to come, since we did not want to waste a whole lot of time filming but in the end not doing anything.

So, considering the factors given to us by Amanda earlier before, we started looking on how we are able to plan properly and film distributing our strong points on workloads that we are most able to do hence minimising time used to do the work and maximising efficiency.

So, we started discussing and rather so with the location we are to film in the process, equipment needed and of the such. We roughly got what we intended to have for the film.

School location which will be Hao Wei’s Secondary school, will be left to him to get

Equipment which will be me, Boon Chong

And finally Animation which will be Kenny.
That’s roughly what we had in mind and hope everything goes well.

Your quote of the day.

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
Pablo Picasso

Day 15

Consultation, Consultation.

Today is friday. And, we went ahead to consult Amanda originally at 12pm but we sent it late and our appointment was push from what we wanted at 12pm to the available time slot at 3pm.
Regardless, we did not know until we reached school at 12pm and we checked our mail and found out it got pushed till 3pm. So, whatever. Life sucks. Ok so we had 3 hours of free time in the mac lab, we went there to meet up. And yep, since we got such a huge time available on our hands, we would try and work out our video idea and plan to see how it goes.

First was an initial idea of follow your heart video where the actor actually follows his heart. Including animation involved as the heart. Cannot possibly expect us to use a real one.

Second was a person screaming and the camera zooms out to show he is shooting an advertisement.

Third was a guy that holds his fart in and loses his sense of self and farts because he is caught away in the moment of MOI
Last is basically how we will show a child that is in a library or some sort to actually take a design or MOI book from the top shelf by using other books as leverage.

During the consultation, Amanda pointed out some factors for us. Although she liked the first one, maybe the last one too? The other so was not as appealing. Also she warned us that making an advertisement would burn a lot of time and advised us that making one or two will be tough and hard enough. She also questioned about how we are going to integrate the lives and experience or modules we were taught in MOI to be inside the film as well.

So, Hao wei and I was there discussing. Are we going to maybe input some sort of clip after the advertisement? Or of the such. Consultation ended with Amanda with these few very important issues in mind and after that, we discussed much about it to prepare for our interim One too. Pretty much about it today.

QUOTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

“The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.”Sorin Cerin