Thursday, March 20, 2008

Part 3 Day 1 - Never To Blog In Purple Blog Again!!

Today is day 16!!! WHOOT!
some goon goon lecturer said to my friends that today must blog.
BUT IT's DAY 16!!! BLOG WAT LA?!?!?!

ok... but here goes...
i came to school...
dunno for wad...
o... to return video cam and tripod.
yes. that's it.
tata for now.

I WILL NOT BLOG ANYMORE.
THIS BLOG IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED.
UNLESS DAY 17 ALSO MUST BLOG.
DEN I WILL BE BACK TO BLOG!
ahahhahahhaha.

Part 2 Day 15 - Final Purple Show

Came in late today.
Was having very bad stomach today.
Maybe was the food.

Went into the 3D lab. 
Found Apple and Jing Yuan there.
And Shaun and Clinton nowhere to be found.

Watched the video for the last time before rendering.
By the time the rendering ended,
it was about 12 already.
we were getting all panicky and stuff.
anyway.
we thought that we could show our video from my hard disk
but it appears the computer downstairs in the LT sucks big time
and it wouldn't be able to handle the hard disk.
so we went back up,
queued for camera to upload into the tape.
cause of me...
i forgot to bring the video cam we borrowed.
SORRY GIRLS.
anyway.
so we tried the com jing yuan was using.
but it appeared that it couldnt do it.
cause not enough free space in the com.
so we looked around.
and i found one com.
so we plugged in the video cam.
and imported the video in movie maker.
so we started to transfer into the tape.
BUT...
HALF WAY!!
THE VIDEO CAM NO BATT!
so the whole transfer closed.
we plugged in the charger and started the transfer again.
after a while...
somebody tripped over the charger wire and it got disconnected.
so there went the video cam again.
transfer closed again.
STARTED ALL OVER FOR THE FOURTH TIME!
finally, it was only left Sholleh and I in the lab transferring.
so yeah.
there were many struggles as we rushed down.
but all went well in the end.
HOPE ALL OF YOU GUYS AND GALS LIKED WHAT WE SHOWED TODAY.

but i must say..
i think we did ourselves proud.
=D
good job Apple and Jing Yuan!


other groups did great too!
all the best everyone!
it was a marvelous experience!
learning from one another and all.
editing, filming.
everything was just way the best thing so far.
though we encountered set backs and problems.
but we persevered and i would say our efforts paid off.
=D
CHEERS! 

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Part 2 Day 14 - Not Much Purple

There wasn't much for me to do today.
Caused i finished the subtitles for the spy already.
and it was only left with bloopers and jing yuan's animation part.
so i went down for lunch after finishing the subtitles.
that was about 3 plus.
went down with Kezia and Majorie.
We ended up talking in the canteen for an hour.
i then went up to 3D lab again.
but saw Jing Yuan sitting back-faced outside the lab.
so i walked over. and realised she was crying.
dunno what happened so i tried talking to her.
but she didnt answer me.
so i asked if she wanted to be left alone. and she did.
so i walked into the lab.
heard from apple that the whole animation that she did for the afternoon
couldn't be saved. and even exporting didnt work.
we tried saving in all kinds of places.
like desktop, u drive, my hard disk, Jing Yuan's thumbdrive.
all the responses were that everything was full.
no space??? my hard disk 100 over GB lorh.
o wells.
then we saw peng and described not very clearly what happened.
and asked if we could do anything to get the file back.
but i think we didnt say the right things and Peng thought that the com hung.
so he said hang arh. die lorh. no more already.
hahahhaah. Peng super funny come to think of it.
then we told Alfie about it since he was in the lab.
he said he'd try and get somebody to come help us.
Ronald! he tried mostly what we tried. 
and said the com looks like it's working fine...
and dunno why like that.
so off he went.
we didn't believe cannot retrieve the file.
So i msned Peng and he came to take a look.
WHOO!!! PENG IS OUR SUPERHERO!
he said the com like that cause the com NOT ENOUGH SPACE!
wah!!! so jing yuan deleted some stuff from the C drive and TADAH!!!
IT WORKED!!!
THANK YOU SOO  MUCH PENG!!!
he like saved us i think got more than 3 times lorh.
POWER TO THE MAX HE! ZAI MAN!

Part 2 Day 13 - Purple Audacity Day

We did the spy's narration today.
so we went to 3-10 one of the classrooms.
and did the recording of voice there.
after that we went back to the 3D lab.
Apple gave me the uploaded file in my thumbdrive.
i was supposed to import into audacity and remove the background noise.
but... it was an AVI formatted video.
so Clinton came to the rescue and he converted it into an audio file.
mp3 to be exact. he imported the file into premier i think
and exported it as an audio file.
anyways.
i got the mp3 version and started removing noise.
after removing noise...
Apple's voice sounded like she was a transformer robot.
hahhah... so spacey kinda voice.
so i tried removing the echo to make it not sound like she spoke in the toilet.
but after everything, Apple's voice sounded suicidal.
hahhaahha! so funny.
O wells... i tried. hope it turns out alright.
then... i did the subtitles for the spy's narration.
hahahaah...
i felt suicidal after that...
ahhaahha...
i think i repeated the voice over and over again to hear what she was actually saying.
not very clear. but i got there.
yay!
after that jen borrowed my hard disk so we stopped work for that day.

Part 2 Day 12.75 - Purple Subtitles

monday you're paranoid
tuesday you try to avoid
wednesday you dont have a clue
thursday they laughin at you
thank god its friday
thank god its friday

the means saturday is on the way
through the confusion i'll fade away
you know i'll give it a shot i'll tear my way through
saturday
saturday

monday they feast on your heart
tuesday you're playing your part
wednesday it gets harder to scream
thursday they crush all your dreams
thank go its friday
thank god it's friday

the means saturday is on the way
through the confusion i'll fade away
you know i'll give it a shot i'll tear my way through
saturday
saturday

monday you roll the dice
tuesday you fall through the ice
wednesday you're coming to terms
thursday the nightmare returns
thank god its friday
thank god its friday

the means saturday is on the way
through the confusion i'll fade away
you know i'll give it a shot i'll tear my way through
saturday
saturday

the means saturday is on the way
through the confusion i'll fade away
you know i'll give it a shot i'll tear my way through
saturday
saturday


ok... here's another saturday.
and we're in the 3D lab again.
Today. For the whole day...
i did the subtitles for the video.
Whoot!
Subtitling is fun.
to an extend.
but can be quite tedious too.

Part 2 Day 12.5 - Supposed To Be Purple Presentation

ooo... today... we presented in Ronald's office.
and it wasnt no class presentation.
It was more of a group consultation kinda thingy.
We waited for Raymond's group to finish their turn.
But it took like 2 hours lorh...
Super long.
Then we had to wait for Jing Yuan since she has another presentation for her other module.
So Sholleh's group went next. Then Jake's group.
By the time our turn came, we had to rush down 
from the studio cause we didnt expect the other two groups to finish within half an hour.
so we rushed from taking the equipment from upstairs.
Since we were prepared...
like real..
we borrowed Shu Xian's laptop cause the room computer was down.
sekali when we went up to Ronald's office...
Her premier couldn't open our premier file.
so we tried playing the quicktime rendered out one.
but her laptop didnt support quicktime.
So we plugged in my hard disk into Ronald's desktop.
But he didnt have premier nor quicktime either.
so he gave us 10 minutes to get everything settled and show it to him.
Down we went to 3D lab...
asking around for a laptop.
in the end we borrowed Jen's macbk pro.
LOVE MAC! IT'S ALWAYS THERE FOR YOU!
haha...
yeah. and we showed Ronald our quicktime file.
Though it was not really finished.
but he watched it and i think he quite enjoyed our video.
hahaha.. Whoo!
i think la.. think only k...
Just that our colour had to be corrected further and 
a little more editing here and there.

yupps. after we were done with Ronald...
We went to  the space outside design space to reshoot our spy crawling across scene.
OMG...
Apple accidentally tore the bottom part of Alfie's jacket.
DIE LORH.
haha...
it's just the sewing of the zipper that gave way.
so we'll have to send it for dry cleaning and alteration when we are done with our project.
SORRY ALFIE!

Part 2 Day 12 - I Purple Forced?

Today. Actually Apple wanted to stay home and edit.
Didn't wanna come to school.
but i managed to convince her to come still.
Cause why waste a day's time when we can do other aspects not only visuals?
So... since Jing Yuan's sick, and Shaun's totally redundant.
therefore only Apple, Clinton and I met up.
We planned to do audio and fix it up with the video.
Those walking parts that we still have need some music
cause all there was was noise in the background.
anyway... Clinton and I were looking for audio that we thought were suitable.
but... it's not that easy.
Clinton said he'd bring home and do.
Since he loves using his own desktop better.
So there. we completed more editing and a lil of audio.
At least we all have a clearer idea of what our audio files were gonna sound like.