Wednesday 13/5

yesterday was our production day. one member went MIA, 3 guesses who, no prize.

aaron did call me in the morning today to say that he was sick yesterday, but i guess i doesn't really matter, cause we weren't exactly helpless without him. hmm, i think this blog is starting to become a bitching vent for me, but hey, it's the end of the block soon, that's something i can look forward to.

so, production. we borrowed our equipment in the afternoon. seriously, the uncle has some problems man. i heard last year for p2 he refused to lend some equipment to jingyuan's group, based on the claim that as 2nd years they don't need such good equipment, until she got so pissed that she "argued back loudly" to him. now that we're all in our 3rd year, when we went to borrow equipment and i needed three 1k lights, the uncle gave me 2, and said i didn't need anymore. felt like slapping him right there and then, but i decided to be civilised and explained my situation to him, to which he replied that since it's only an exercise i don't need so much equipment. that's when i really felt like slapping the ignorance out of him, but then i realised that i still needed to borrow equipment for my p3 and FYP, so i slowly explained to him my situation, again. good thing he relented and gave me another set of 1k lights. but one of the lights in the box had a bulb blown, that selfish ass.. but it's ok, i only needed one anyways, the other one worked perfectly.

so anyways, before i keep going on about that uncle (some guy should really talk to him), i'm going to go back to production. sarah, derick and i went to the tv studio at around 1pm, after being excused for our P3 class, since it's only presentation and we had presented ours. we set up the lights and went through the camerawork, since it was the only time we had to practice. when we were ready, sarah got the talents to come in, and we started filming. we synched the cameras with audio (i shouted "sync". duh) and we had to reshoot 3 times, because i screwed up the first time, and derick and sarah the second time. after the third we shot a safety shot, wide shot on all three of them, and that was it. went surprisingly well.

today, we uploaded our footage and cut them together. derick edited and i was there to oversee. ended up with only 30 seconds. in our shot, the blue curtain in the tv studio could be seen, but that was solved by lowering the blues and increasing the yellows in colour balancing. after the clip was exported, we brought it to the 3D lab where i added in the text sequences in after effects. derick said he didn't know how to do it, but i think he didn't totally understand my method of going about it, so in the end i did it. not much work though, done in under an hour. just added in some text here and there from the pledge. rendered it, and our video was done. the quality was abit low though.