I think the most valuable lesson that i've learnt for P2 is.

choose the right people to work with you.


especially for FYP.

yesterday was interim two.
lots of pleasant comments!
Wow. so glad that we DID stop motion after so much of a discussion.


ok the point is,
when you are doing stop motion,
it's like exploring the art of their movements.

in movement of the the objects,
you can judge it's character and behaviour.
so much more interesting thing to learn besides
planning camera angles and framing stuffs.
of course, planning part is also important.
if you get what i mean.


I must say,
throughout this project,
i've truly learnt alot.
Not only from the from every individual group members,
but also from the tomatoes.

you see,
every individuals has their own way of working.
and here, the essential thing is,
knowing your group mates.
talk to them and understand them.
this would help in doing group works.

instead of talking to colleagues, you are now talking to friends.
If only everyone thinks like that,
there will be more friends than enemies.

it's easier to say than to be done.


ok. i shall stop here today.
we will be compiling all the docus later on.
i'm in charge of the story board, editing and assisting the director,
so well, i did my necessary documentation too.

haha. i wonder how are we going to pass up everything.
as in the hard copy ones.





and YES!
P2 is ending!~ :D

it's kind of funny, how kong can remember everything single detail that happened in a day.
So if you want to know what EXACTLY happened during work, read his blog.
his is more precise. hahaa.
http://www.0606108i-moip2.blogspot.com/



then i heard that there will be a screening next week.
haha.

HAH!
our final video is called:
SUPER SUPER SUPER DUPER FINAL.

thats because we had render testing too many times.



today is just compiling all the documents and yep!
its all done.

it will be ready to be submitted tmr.

=)

We are Almost done! YAY.i was rather early today. hahaha.
so did a final touch on the sound effects and also sme visual editing.
So far s good lah.
compared to P1,
P2 was less less less stress.
at least we've got team work. yeah.


novem reached a little later.
so redo the credits
because it was moving too fast and wasn't really readable.
so yup. redo.
through the all seeing eye~ HAHA.

10:45p.m
the school really looks scary at night from here.


ohwells,
tomorrow will be interium presentation 2!

and i'm happy cause we are all done!

we are left with the motion graphics.
which kong they all had difficulties trying to import the file into FCP.
so sad.

Oh wells, what to do.

still working on with the whole video.

some audio parts needs to re-do.

we are going to do a trailer.
maybe a 10 secs trailer will do.
yi jie they all had a hard time trying to import the trailer.
omg. how.


and yes. nothing much today.
=)


I think Bern's group's stop motion is goooooood. :D
i like~

AND, here the pics that is supposed to be here yesterday.
it's V.O-day.



THANK YOU NICK!
THANK YOU FROGGY!


look at how fierce she is.
omg. haha.
it's really quite stressful, i understand.

Gambatte to everyone!
work hard play hard too! :D

there is something wrong with hereafter too.

no choice. had to slack. i feel like sleeping now man.

ohwells.

blogger is going crazy like us too.


today we did the voice overs for little mato and old toto. oh yea, and the narrator.
heres the plan,

Narrator=Nick
little MATO=froggy
Old TOTO=Kong

however, because nick's powerful voice is so power, we decided to use his rather than kong's voice for old toto. wahah.

so in the end,

Narrator=Nick
Old TOTO=Nick
little MATO=froggy

(haha. does it matters)

on the other hand,
subha and rachel are working on the credits
kong and yijie is doing the introduction.


tomorrow,
we will do the final edit all in FCP again.
cuase some of the parts are to rushed.

and then we'll prepare for the presentation2.
=)

HAHA. so cute.
random.

AND SO!

IT'S POST PRODUCTION TIME.

:D

everything is going on much fine.
the things were done in time.

Novem, yijie and me reached the audio room at about 12plus.
followed by the rest. =)
Subha is sick. please take care of yourself! =)

NOVEM,
she was looking so hard for the perfect sound effects.

and after awhile. . . . . . . .

SHE started to go crazy!
just look at her.
this is super multitasking.
gosh.

And on the other,

Rachel, was helping me with editing the clips.

Kong is exploring the LiveType.
I think if we had a very zai intro text, that will be super cool.
yeah! so yah KONG!
ahem!*

Yijie is very nice,
he helped in anyways he can.
for example, returning the equipments.
he works just right as a gaffer. (kow tow man)


I had to leave early today.
leaving rachel and novem editing in school.
oh yah. kong had to leave too. yeap.



it's been so cold the whole day.

re shoot today.

nothing much.

but i managed to learn some new technique about stop motion.
difficult to explain here.
but we will let final product talk by itself.

i really feel of proud of it.
and with the team.
:D

and yah, i do agree that we are really lucky.
it keep on raining recently.
and lucky-we are shooting indoors.


and tomorrow, we will be looking for sound effects.
followed by voice overs.

froggy volunteered to be Little MATO's voice!
yay. thanks girl.
and Nick is gonna be the Narrator,
Kong the Old TOTO.


HAHA. so exciting.

OH YES.
i forgot to mention!

yesterday night, when me and noverm are trying to transfer the footages in 6th floor mac lab . .




WE THOUGHT THAT WE HAD CORRUPTED FILES!
because after FCP keep on showing a sign that looks quite like this.


both of us like super duper panic lah!
we are thinking like
"DIEEEE. all our hardworks gone!"



but in the end it's actually not.

its just that they've upgraded the FCP
and then some quicktime thing was changed.
so different format or setting
then cannot communicate.

LUCKILY peng came for our rescue~
thanks to peng again.


intheend we managed to find a Mac comp that the FCP is not yet upgraded.
being kiasu, we quickly transfer and export all the clips into quicktime movie.
so that we can use any other comps to edit as well.


yeah. :D

today's production day 2!

and we managed to finish all the scenes, including tomorrows'.


everyone is very happy with ourselves.


HOWEVER,
when me and novem is doing a rough editing just now,
we realised that there are some scenes missing.

MAYBE,
we (or maybe its me) accidentally deleted it when we are fidgeting around with p2 cam.

yup! and thats the reason why i dont really like to work with HD cam.
i rather work with machines that i'm more familiar with you see.
but again, we should always experiment on new stuffs so that we can learn new things.

and true enough, through this project,
i've got to know HD cam more.
(thanks to peng and the manual book)

well,
if given an opportunity,
i really would like to bring HD cam out of school to shoot.
:D yeah.
anyway, as for the deleted scenes,
we still have tomorrow to re-shoot.

i feel lucky man. :D


okay. lets talk about today's shoot.
not too bad, i should say.

everything went on smoothly.

so far no conti error.
and we got all the shots that we want.
for example the moving clouds and the MATO angel scene. :D

and OH YAH!
ONE of our greatest fear is what if we can't hit 4minutes.
BUTBUTBUT.
we can chill now.
cause it hit 4 minutes! (nearly though) ;D

yep! and. . . . . . . . . . .. ..
maybe we can add in more scenes. *ahem Subtext eh. *
and finally, the super gruesome scene!
we cant find durian.
so our sweet sweet Subha and Rachel bought pineapple instead.

i wonder if the script has to change too.

so smart man. :D
alrights, in the story,
the tomato-boy who lied is supposed to die.
but his stunt-man died for him !

damn sad and


yucky?
heh.


the tomatoes starts to have a wierd smell.


YES AAHH! tonight can chill and relax.
tomorrow can sleep more. yay!



TO Little MATO, Old TOTO, Peter, Susan, the Stuntmato . .
and all the fellow tomatoers,
I'll always remember you.
:D

and bless us with good grades in heaven. ;D

Our cast are here so early.
i'm so glad.

However, we are VERY overrun-ed at first.
but in the end when we got the hand of the p2 cam,
the whole production speeds up. :DOur make up artist cum director, NOVEM!
they became so cute and lively.

and the gang.
well. basically, we DID face some difficult situations.


however. it's solved after julian comes in. thanks julian.
your help is much much appreciated.

so tomorrow we have to change our shooting location.
shouldn't be a problem though.


as i've got experience as a PM before,
i think its a nightmare for the whole production team to change location when they already settled with their positions and equipments.

ESPECIALLY you are doing stop motion.
conti-error and lighting problems will start to appear.
and these things can give you Headaches. =/

still remember the time when i had to worry about where to shoot everyday.
WHA. thats when your telephone bill explodes.
OKAY. back to the topic.
. . luckily we didnt have to change location today.
thank buddha. :D

AND julian.



Another thing that i had learn from an unfamiliar production team.
is that.

who says only the assistant director can use the P2 camera?!
maybe PM-es and Gaffer-ers should had a chance to play with it.

so do you agree with me.




AND ALSO.
ESPECIALLY when you are doing stop motion,
not everyone has to be there on set. half the group can slack and move about.
i guess the best way is to take turns. yeah.



alrights!
so far for production day ONE.

i should have let the pictures do the talking.
oh. anyway they are here!


OMGosh. DID I MENTION THAT WE HAD PROBLEMS TRANSFERRING THE FOOTAGES TO MAC LAB'S COMP.

Verm and me really had an heart attack while transferring them. damnit.

luckily we are smart enough to find peng online. =D
super HAPPY now.



Suddenly, i miss working with the usual people,
people like tina, meimei, yilong and blablabla. =D

i'm going insane trying to imagine how the scenes will match and all.
have to worry about conti-error.


at first, i thought that p2 is even more slack than p1.

NOW IT's NOT. =/

i used to watch this kind of film in arts central.
is so amazed by the whole thing.

and
this is super brilliant.
i didnt know this is also stop motion until today.

And so, last night just after our online meeting is over,
i did character design.
then today, i realise Novem also did one!
and i think hers is better.
:D HEE.

Presentation is far more easy than i thought.



hmm. cool.
peng is teaching how to do stop motion using P2 HD cam later.
:D

To proof that we really worked.
we took loads of pictures.

and then. i realised, i didn't take myself in it. hohoho!


okay. so here are the bunch of random photos,
THE MAKING OF TOMATO-ED.


And here's a
Test Run done by me and verm. :D




a split of roles today!
PM: Subha
Producer: Rachel
Director: Novem
Assistant D: me
DOP: Kong
Gaffer: Yijie


Pre-Pro is going on smoothly.
its too good to be true.
this will only happens when you have nice cooperative team mates.

you have
people like rachel and subha,
they went to buy the props and
today they are making trees and mountains.

people like kong.
busy with the setting design.
damn chiong lah.

people like yijie.
lucky to have him i can say.
if not where can we leave the whole set with?

people like verm.
she understands my language well.
damn well until we can complete the script together in one day!

woohooo.
it feels good to have team work! :D


all thanks to everyone!
:D


tommorrow will be the presentation.
although a bit rush.
we will still do our best. gambatte!




WELCOME TO THE TOMATO-ED WORLD!

After julian talked to us this morning.
we decided that instead of apples, we should use tomatoes.
the fact that tomatoes are juicier and smaller size than apples.
and
there's a problem between reality and fantasy.
but
it's solved in the end though. :)

Verm the saver!
she suggested that we split the task between ourselves.
so, verm and me is working on the script.
subha and rachel is buying all the props.
yi jie and kong is doing the set up.
cool man.

and in one day, we managed to do so many things.
how great. =)


YAY!
the TOMATOED Script was done!

thanks to novem.
we were having fun imagining the scenario.
it's such a pleasant thing to be applying the camera techniques learned in year 2.
other than that, we decided to add in film language ingredients.

As a group, we talked about the characters that are involved:

The little tomato.
Little MATO (main lead)
- Naughty. Cheeky. super small sized


Smelly Durian.
- stinks anti social. No ones dare to get near him because of his spikes.

Family members: Tomato family, OLD TOTO and all the other children

OLD TOTO: tells story. Warn them not to go near the cave.




I don't feel like revealing the story here. :D
HHEEE.

To Prove.

hi, i'm drawing out a very rough storyboard. =)




in the end, it is rough sketch + rougher sketch.


alrights. it's getting late. i need to sleep.
tomorrow is going to be a loooooong day for us.