I only want to be with just YOU forever~ - Your Guardian Angel: 16-02-2007

Friday, February 16, 2007

16-02-2007

Last day of school!!! No more, no more!

As expected, last day, still gotta feel that rush, that panic one last time. That rush to meet the deadline time (which was unnecessary).

There were joys, there were sadness in today.

Initially, our ATV segment wouldn't have had to rush, but e had to come at 9.30 instead of 9, and wanted to add int his and that, but she didn't have them, till 10.20. We were supposed to have things ready by 10.30, hello.

Ok, she was having problem digitising the VoiceOvers. But still, she could have given me the graphics earlier.

I was working from Newsedit room ATV10 machine, which loaded the graphics fine - but she wanted us to go over to ATV05 where SHE was working, cos "she felt uncomfotable la, later access the same workspace from 2 editing suites, got problem". =.=

In the end, really got problem. After we went to her suite. We cannot load up the graphics properly, and we were already running over time. At the last minute, I told her, just forgo the graphics since they can't be used, just add in the transitions, add in the VOs. And up to the last minute, she was still saying things like "but cannot la, other segments got graphics la, ours don't have very funny" Then what you wanna do? Put in a graphics that is a total disaster?

The original graphic was a subtitle kind of graphic, but now somehow, its become a whitish patch all over the video.

She still wanted to "give it a few more tries" with the graphics though it was hopeless.

SHe was plainly forgetting, or rather ignoring the fact that we still need to dump the video back to tape (meaning to export/record the completed video piece back into tape for viewing), and that dumnping is REAL TIME. Thats 4 mins. And she also forgot, that dumping is the easiest to have problems, and take up a whole lot of time.

True enough, finally when she was convinced (maybe idiots have slower thinking capabilities, she took way longer to be convinced to just give up on the graphics.), we had problems dumping. We tried a few times, then restarted, then it worked. ANd found out one effect was misplaced, and had to re-dump.

And Ms Chee was getting really flustered by then.

Finally, presentation. Well... its plain to see, there were BIG problems with other segments. Audio was one such problem (our segment was still quite ok). Kelly's had their talents technically mumbling to themselves, couldn't hear what they were saying. Owen/Adeline's portion had too much background noise. And Kit's had some wierd background humming noise which almost covered the talent's voices.

The look itself was quite raw too. But maybe that could be fixed during compiling... but in presenting to the client. Well, that was not even impressive.

The other group's first segment was quite good. But the rest of the segments... the voicing was soft, kinda gets boring after a while (because it was just soothing music, visuals, and a monotonous voice), and the Botanical Gardens section was just... Blair Witch Project. Not much footage, so they took the part where they were filimg while walking, and speeded that portion up, so it just looked like really jerky camera movements.

The clients gave rather kinds comments, and suggested areas for improvement.

But Ms Chee was just totally dissapointed and crossed. She said "its sorry and sad to end on such a low note." And when I stayed back abit to really tell her how much we appreciate, I appreciate her teaching us, she said "Nah I don't want to hear that". Then she said "But ya, thanks joel". So I told her "Aiya Ms Chee, whats happened already happened la." Then she just smiled. Haha. Well, its true...

And for the good news.

The LiME team made a preliminary selection of the commercials we submitted, and our group's got in the top 6 which will be put up on the LiME website late March for public voting!!! =DD

And here it is again. Keke.

Lol, showed my aunt my LiME commercial and my Singlecam short film.

Lol all she said was "spoof up/ low budget production/ *shake head*". Well... can't be helped. It IS a low budget production after all. Haha.

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