I think on the whole, at the end of the day, it's not about what you achieve at the end, but rather the journey towards the end. It's about the lessons learnt, the personal observations, and more importantly, the interaction between others during the course of the production.
Sure, the end product counts, and the grade counts, but I think that it is the learning journey that really makes the difference. And yes, not picking group mates might have been a good thing after all.
When outdoors, we are at the mercy of the weather, and even when indoors, we have to deal with many other factors such as people walking down the staircase. But we cant have everything, and I'm glad to know what we've done our best. This was my 2nd attempt working with an unfamilliar crew, so I didn't really know what to expect.
I guess that it is safe to say that everyone has learnt something over the past 4 weeks, and for me, its definitely more than just one thing.
This is Ben Poh, signing off.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Editing period: summary
I'm too tired to list out too much about the post production process, so I'll try to keep it as simple as I can.
Basically everything went well, Kym was really satisfied with the graphics and opening sequence that she did. Joshua feels a great sense of satisfaction upon finishing the final cut of the production. wesley... is just glad that P2 is over. guo xiang is mainly late for the entire duration of the post production process, not that it matters anyway.
I ended up making a dvd and polishing up the documentation of the project. I think documentation is important to show how much effort was put into the project, even if the production wasn't as fantastic as many would have hoped.
Personally, I am quite satisfied with the end product. I think we all deserve a round of applause for effort.
PS: Surprise audio room destruction is NOT funny in the morning
Basically everything went well, Kym was really satisfied with the graphics and opening sequence that she did. Joshua feels a great sense of satisfaction upon finishing the final cut of the production. wesley... is just glad that P2 is over. guo xiang is mainly late for the entire duration of the post production process, not that it matters anyway.
I ended up making a dvd and polishing up the documentation of the project. I think documentation is important to show how much effort was put into the project, even if the production wasn't as fantastic as many would have hoped.
Personally, I am quite satisfied with the end product. I think we all deserve a round of applause for effort.
PS: Surprise audio room destruction is NOT funny in the morning
Last production day
Everything went smoothly for the last day of production. We managed to finish the rest of the scenes as well as a few reshoots of previous scenes. We decided to begin the editing process the next day. Thankfully the weather did not result in any continuity errors.
We ended up doing a photoshoot for a poster and dvd cover immediately after wrapping the entire production. Somehow it felt strangely satisfying that we had finally completed production, but post production had just begun. I hoped that it would be an easy task to edit the video, but uncertainties of the final output format as well as the lack of the audio rooms slowly began to pressure us into working harder.
Well, most of us at least...
We ended up doing a photoshoot for a poster and dvd cover immediately after wrapping the entire production. Somehow it felt strangely satisfying that we had finally completed production, but post production had just begun. I hoped that it would be an easy task to edit the video, but uncertainties of the final output format as well as the lack of the audio rooms slowly began to pressure us into working harder.
Well, most of us at least...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Production day 6
Amazingly productive, was going to wrap everything today but.... The weather didnt hold. Great.
We filmed a total of 6 scenes today, but ironically missed the climax.
Damn
Conclusion: highly productive but failed to complete.
Production Day 5
Time to make up for lost time. we shot the previously mentioned scene, things went well although there was rain. We tried our very best to be productive, and things went well.
Oddly enough there was this lady from the culinary school who is pissed about people using her toilets. Damn.
Conclusion: Alright i guess.
Oddly enough there was this lady from the culinary school who is pissed about people using her toilets. Damn.
Conclusion: Alright i guess.
Production- day 4
Just when I thought things were going to progress smoothly, one of the actresses overslept and missed our production. Excellent, this meant we failed horribly to even do anything even though the weather was great. We'll do the same tomorrow.
Conclusion: epic FAIL
Conclusion: epic FAIL
Production- day 3
No shooting today, further brushed up on location reckee so that we do NOT screw up. Did a lot more research on the location to ensure that annoyances are kept to a minimum. We're definitely behind schedule.
Conclusion: Adequate Progress.
Conclusion: Adequate Progress.
Production- Day 2
We ended up spending the entire day fixing up the canteen scene. Thankfully all went well, although we may have offended the canteen auntie. Sound was a minor annoyance, as well as the talents availability (again), but they are practically volunteers, so I am in absolutely no position to complain.
Conclusion: successful day
Conclusion: successful day
Production- Day 1
We withdrew alot of equipment today, finally met the cast. But something tells me that I probably won't be liking the weather as it may create continuity errors. Nevertheless, production continued. Minor annoyances today included the availability of the cast as they are only available daily from 2.30 PM onwards. This meant that our schedule was completely thrown out of the window and into the trashcan.
Upon further investigation, it appears that we did screw up today as the canteen shot had many mistakes including boom/ boom shadow in shot, and lighting stands in shot.
Total scenes shot today: 3
Conclusion: moderately successful
Upon further investigation, it appears that we did screw up today as the canteen shot had many mistakes including boom/ boom shadow in shot, and lighting stands in shot.
Total scenes shot today: 3
Conclusion: moderately successful
Production Updates- Interim 1 comparisons to actual production
Things went generally well for the planning, but following a schedule would prove to be much harder than I thought. There are many factors to consider during production planning, most of which we have completely no control over. Such examples would include the weather, as well as communication problems within the cast and the crew, resulting in undesired consequences.
For something which I had planned to go smoothly through 2 days, I realised that no matter how much we can prepare, we will never be prepared for the changes brought about by the weather. For almost every single day that involved production, it rained.
The weather is serious business indeed.
Working with too many locations and cast proved to be a rather troublesome matter. I guess I will write more about this in the next few posts concerning production.
For something which I had planned to go smoothly through 2 days, I realised that no matter how much we can prepare, we will never be prepared for the changes brought about by the weather. For almost every single day that involved production, it rained.
The weather is serious business indeed.
Working with too many locations and cast proved to be a rather troublesome matter. I guess I will write more about this in the next few posts concerning production.
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