Day 4 "Do you believe in God? Written on the bullet"

Today, yesterday rather, we went to class. We proceeded into a different classroom as our Wahidah noticed that a certain facility in the other room blocked some of our views of the screen.

Today Mr.Ronald's class joined us, however, since he had something important to attend to, Mr.Alan was there instead.

When everyone had settled down, Wahidah showed us some more DVDs. One was a documentary about a family, the other was "Bowling for Collumbine".

I saw "Bowling for Collumbine" before but never finished watching it; but i do have a certain amount of compassion for those who were murdered. I have read a bibliography about one of the victims in the tragedy, her name is Rachel; today's blog title is part of a song written and produced by flyleaf titled "cassie"; the song was wtitten in tribute to another girl - cassie.

Wahidah told us to get into our respective groups and assign roles to each member. At the beginning of this project, our group agreed on not assigning roles. But since Wahidah insisted, we had to do it. Ha. We did eventually agree since someone had to be accountable to something.

Group Leader : Marge
Scribe: Marge and Joel, Nat and I are also taking down some notes.
Equipment: Joel
Software Application: Natalya and Kezia

We decided to give our group a name! "Press To Exit". The idea behind the name was as such. We were looking around the room for some scope of idea of a name. Marge who happened to gaze at 12 o clock saw the exit button. That was what we finally decided on. Our vision was, we want to destress people, by looking at our videos, we bring them out of that zone into perpetual entertainment out of the imposing world of reality.

We decided to go with a Mr and Mrs.Smith concept. Instead of a psychiatrist, we have decided to personify our camera as an interviewer; it will take life in the form of a voice over. Our answers will describe a module.



I was bored. And idea-less. With itchy fingers, so I decided to dwell in Tim Burton's world of fantastic fantasies (like Johnny Depp) and draw caricatures of Marge and I.
Later I story-boarded our plan.

We will continue on our planning on Friday, meeting early in the morning as we have a class outing in the afternoon.

LOVES

Day 3 Inspired

OK, so i decided to put a title on the "title" blank starting from today



Yes, so today, its "inspired" because we all went down to the LT. Our lecturers then showed us a few DVDs which they thought will help us.

The first one was behind the scenes thing from Lord of the Rings

They then asked us to compare the cinematography with some documentary on Mt.Everest



Obviously, the first one was better. From the interview camera angles to the lighting and background and movie clippings.

The second video was not as good as most of the shots were way too over exposed. Camera angles were also horrible as it distorted most of the peoples faces.

I thought the opening sequence was actually quite good. It started with a few text about what they were documenting, the sequence included a mountain whistling sort of noise that, I thought, captured the intensity of Mt.Everest

From the two DVDs then followed a chain of other tapes. Some memorable ones included (not in particular order) Monsters Inc, Iron Man and Shoot Em Up.
Seeing those DVDs really helped. We were all exposed to different kinds of introduction and credit line (if one is to make a movie like tape). I really liked the bloodtrail in the credit line from "Shoot Em Up".
Then, Wahidah showed us some DVD on some supirior guy during the war and stuff. But because of unbalanced ying n yang that affects my "chi" i coldnt control my bladder any longer and I went to the toilet. (Sorry Wahidah, that was the explanation from my "sing-se")

At 230pm when all the tapes were shown, we were released; and everyone scattered into the canteen racing to be the first to line up at the Western Food stall. (actually, it wasnt so drama, but OH well! I got my chicken chop 2nd you suckers! HAH!!)

Once our tummy was filled, me, Joel, Marge and Gary (UFO - unidentified f*****g object) went up to the 2D lab for further discussion. Natalya was unable to join us as she had class. Before she went, she told us she had a few ideas for intro and conclusion; and I told her to put them up on her blog and we shall read it from there.

In the computer lab, we carried out our meeting. Marge, Gary and I (see Sarah, I learn fast!! aha!!) felt sick in the stomach. Lyke, we needed to barf something out, might have been the food (we had the same thing); this was the reason why Marge and I could'nt concentrate at first. So, it started out a little slow but we managed to get somewhere.....in the end....after......a couple of minutes.. :) We figured that the wave current just went through me and Marge. Later, Joel sat directly in between us, and presto! it worked! Gary was (very silently) sitting by us.

During our brief discussion, we came up with a few thoughts. We had a lot of ideas here and there but realized that we had no main body. Whether it our tape was going to look like a documentary, or video, or ......reality tv...ya.
I came up with the reality tv idea, starting my thought with "survivor". I envisioned it like so:
Camera pans down through a myriad of our works and faces, basically showing our journey in a very super dooper quick manner.
I was hoping that my aundience would resopond like so:
(sees a work flashing through) "OO wat was tat?? (then, looks on longer for our explanation)
Joel then managed to carry it on from there, following my idea with the suggestion of .........
"do you wanna be on top (top) (top) (top)"....yes, the very hot and glamarous world of Americas Next Top Model (nanana..na..naaa..nanana..nana)

So, we settled on reality tv style. Still have yet to look at Natalya's ideas and we shall carry on with our discussion later in class :)

Day 2

Yesterday during class time, everyone got a preview on everyone else's blogs. It was interesting to see what people wrote in and what others left out.
Looking at theirs, I thought that whatever I wrote for Day 1 was too short.

So, first, I shall type out whatever i did not include yesterday. We came together and listed out what each person still has and whose works we are going to include.
The list came out as such:

2D Art fundamentals - Everyone has their works
Creative Storytelling - Only Joel
Drawing Essentials - All
Communicating Design Ideas - All
Ideation - Joel and Natalya
Video Fundamentals - No one has their works, but since our clip is mostly on video recording, we are using that to present this module
Digital Media Fundamentals - Marge and me
Animation Fundamentals - All
3D Art Fundamentals - All
Photography - Joel, Natalya and me

CDS and Electives
Visual Presentation Essentials - Joel, Natalya and me
Public Speaking - Natalya
Italian - Marge

So that was what we came up with on the first day

Day 2, we looked at the above list again and decided to spilt the jobs and confirm who is going to present what.
Before that however, I will mention what Wahidah (our lecturer) asked the whole class

She asked each group to come up with 2 main points that we want to portray through our clip.
Joel,Marge,Nat and I came up with 2 of our own points. When we got together to see what the other wrote, it came out to be relatively the same

1. We want to be able to tell the potential students what MOI is all about, the classes and projects we had to go through
2. That we had fun in sitting through projects and classes

Wahidah then told us to have one person from each group speak up and share of the 2 things. Since everyone else is shy and illiterate (HAH) they appointed me to do it. We were the last group to share our thoughts so we had a chance to hear what everybody else had in mind first. Mostly, the group's aim was to promote MOI and have new people convinced and inspired to join our course.
Our group's motive was different. We wanted to inform our audience what MOI is all about.
We came up with this motive because as we shared, we realized what everyone shared in common at the beginning of the year.
Most of us did not know what we were in for or what classes we had to sit through, so we decided to be really nice seniors and tell our potential freshmans what MOI is all about so they have a better idea of the course. We dont want people ending up not enjoying MOI when they have chosen it, so instead of major contemplation and lost of sleep, we will tell them what is in store.

Next part, we planned on how we wanted to showcase each module. We have not decided on all but I will just tell you those that we have planned on.

2D Art
we are going to have some video recording device in our hands and walk through the existing exhibition of everyones 1m x 1m

Drawing Essentials
Camera is above one of us (who is holding a sketch book on their lap), frontal side view so audience can see the sketch book.
The person (one of us) will start drawing and have our dear Mr.Ronald critique his/her work and ask him/her to start again until he/she gets it right.

ComDI
We decided to do a mindmap on us brainstorming on our collage a.k.a "School of Rock" style.
To take a video of the mindmapping proccess and the researching that is required.

Ideation
We decided to combine this module with Public Speaking. First, there would be a narrator saying "this was before public speaking" and the person showcasing their Ideation work will stutter and spaz out in whichever way.
then the narator will then say "after public speaking" then that same person will fluently deliver their presentation.

Animation
During this module, for one of the excercises, I animated this girl playing a guitar. We decided to use that. First show the animation then fade out to me playing my guitar. Or the other way round.

3D Art
We will take a video of everyone of us making a sculpture. Class is about to start so i will update this in detail when i have the time :D

Goodbye and see you readers in class

LOVE

ps. still pms-ing so dont aggravate me

Day 1

Mr.Alan Rudge briefed all three classes on what is expected of Project 1 We were then dismissed to our respective classes for further discussion The class was then divided into groups of 4 or 5

My group consist of Majorie, Joel, Natalya and me Today we discussed on our video layout, what we wanted to show and whose works we are going to include

We also discussed how we are going to do transitions and timeslots; whether we are going to show the clips module by module or person by person by person.

Module by module - meaning each module will be represented with one or two members showcasing their work
Person by person - meaning each member has 2 minutes to talk about their works turn by turn

We have not come to a conclusion on which sequence we want to use.