Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Day 8 I got pissed

Yes, as the title suggest, I got pissed. I got pissed at a group mate. But all is forgiven as is okay now. And as everyone can see, I have yet again procrastinated.

So, yesterday, we started shooting the intro. Already, the day began quite badly, we were supposed to meet at 9, I could not wake up and when I did it was already 830. I sms-ed Marge and apologized, meeting time pushed back to 945. Basically, our intro was to show the different ways we get to school with me already in school waiting. Me in school waiting was not to be shot yesterday as it would be in a different location.

When everyone finally assembled, we started with Marge walking to school. This took about 20 minutes plus. We took about three different shots of this, trying different angles and all.
Then, we had to walk to Safra and take bus to school and shoot Natalya in it. We took about 4 different takes.
Once we reached the school busstop, we alighted. We then took more shots of Natalya "getting off" the bus. This was a bit of a challenge as she really is not getting off the bus, just posing in front of the exit doors and walking away from it, we had to wait for a double decker bus to arrive. We waited twice as the first shot was not so good (sorry, this was my fault as I stopped recording to early).
At this point of time I was already sort of pissed cuz a certain group member kept complaining that it was hot and the bag that group member was carrying was heavy when it wasnt...

Time came for us to go to class. We showed Wahidah what we have shot. After that, we tried to import the clips into Marge's mac. This took some time cuz Marge never read the manual and we were not very Mac sevy, even the "The Raj" couldnt help us (how dissapointing). After 15 minutes (which seemed more like 30 minutes) Marge found a way to import the clips into her Mac....YAY......till a certain group member's itchy fingures had to move the Mac and stopped the importing.....................................I had to walk out of the room. When I came back, Marge was trying her best to start it up again, for some strange reason, this took some time as it could not perform the same task it did earlier.
Then, to make things worst, the same certain group member who was supposed to take up the task of scriptwritting, did not complete the task. Because of this, Wahidah could not critique and correct what we had planned.......yup.

We took some time out of class and continued shooting. This time, we shot for Drawing Essentials, I forgot to bring my sketchbook (a thousand apologies to Marge) so I had the task of holding the camera. Our location was in the E-Space. We could'nt promply start because of disturbances along the way. I would like to point out one girl who just did not have the brains to move faster out of the room; first, she and two of her other friends walked in (yes, they have every right to) that was the first distrubance, then they strolled very slowly, looking at the art pieces on display. She knew Marge and said hi and asked what she was doing. Marge then pointed at the camera in my hands and said "project". She nodded with an "oh", looked at me, looked at the camera and continued strolling in the room and into the next making as much noise as she did entering. Like WTF, like as if holding a camera was not in-your-face enough to tell you that we are in the middle of shooting, we are still first year students so we dont have the qualifications to set up lighting and all.

A little bit of inspiration from TP business school Mass-Communication, we decided to present Video Fundamentals module in a music video clip. We decided on "Wannabe" by Spice Girls, just for fun :D

Anyway, after that, Marge and I had to go to class. I felt very healthy that day because I managed to drown in a whole bottle of water. haha! When class ended, we went to Subway to have dinner. Yes, a very healthy day besides the times when I lost it.

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