MEMBERS' COMMENTS

It's time for the members' comments during the period of FYP. 


SHARON:
Overall, I felt that it was totally a different experience for all of us in the team. As not all of us were very knowledgable in the area of production, we ran into some problems here and there. This might causes some of the delays in the process. But, we still managed to overcome it without any major problems.

Basically, of all the videos, I prefer the spoof! We had a lot of fun filming the whole process and the editing part was awesome. We could add in fun effects/ NGs to make the whole video entertaining.

That was the whole purpose of making a spoof! The CED staff and Glen were very co-operative, the process of teaching them the dance steps and having them listening to our cues. I believed my team members would have agreed with me on this! Not to forget to mention about the teaser and full video, we put in out utmost efforts and tried to edit it using limited effects. We're glad that we are still able to finish all the three videos, despite some errors occurring!


PANG LI JUN: 
For these 3 videos, I must say that all of us have put in a lot of effort for it. All of us stayed back turned by turned due to our different classes for the edits. We even came back to school during the holidays for our FYP. I believe that these 3 videos have served its purposes for the teaser, the full video as well as the spoof. Although the video may have some mistakes in it, we have really tired our best for each of them. 

As for my teammates, I feel very happy to work with them. Although there are times when our opinions collide, we still managed to settle and talked it out peacefully. And I think that everyone of us have did our part every well that made us be on pace with the deadlines given to us.


GERALDINE GOH: 
I feel that these 3 videos have helped me to explore more about Premier Pro. And that these 3 videos are able to show the potential in us.

It's interesting working as a team with people of different personality. Through this project, we definitely get to know watch other more. And also see the different talent that one posses. Overall, it's a great experience and it's an enjoyable process! 



MANDY TAN:
Despite all the challengers we face during the 6 months, i enjoyed the process and the knowledge that i learn from my teammates and our clients. For every video we do, i learn different things. i personally like the teaser effect and the process as it is the first video we are working on and it allow us to experience how to do a video properly. this allow us to make it more easier when it comes to doing the 2nd and 3rd video as we know what is the clients' expectations. I enjoy working with the CED staff as they teach and guide us when we have difficulties. in my opinion, the 3rd video is the hardest to do as we need to plan from the scripts to the shooting area to editing. we need to edit quite a lot of time to achieve our ideal result. without the help from CED staff, i believe it will make it harder for us. Overall, i have learn and experience filming and editing technique and i believe with more time given, we will do a better videos for our school.

APPROVAL OF FULL VIDEO

Hey Foursome,

Our full video is finally approved by the clients. I've seen the video broadcasting at RP One Stop Centre and weeks after, our team mate, Geraldine have also witnessed the video being broadcasted in the school library. Therefore, we would like to thank all the staffs that are involved in our FYP.

A big thank you to all CED staffs who are willingly to help out in the Party Rock Anthem Spoof, our clients - Leng Li, Erika, Samson and all. We would also like to thanks David Cheng for his greatest help in allowing us to improve our techniques and our videos. Lastly, we appreciated Glenn for making time off for allowing us to film him dancing with the other staffs in CED and the Full video where he have to be the narrator!

Our FYP team would only left with reports to be done. Thank you, Foursome; for all the wonderful moments we had in the past 6 months!

IMPROVING THE FULL VIDEO BASED ON ERIKA'S COMMENTS

Received an e-mail by Erika saying about the few minor changes to make to the full video. Thus, I continued my editing at home. Having internship as well, which starts on the 19th Sept, I got to use a few weeks to edit the video. Though it's minor changes but the rendering time and as well as making the films tidy needs time too. Even though it's minor, I still faced some problems as I'm not knowledgable in Adobe Premier Pro. I learn the skills through my team mates but during the time before they started internship, they have helped me a lot which enables me to be able to edit it. I'm grateful for the type of team mates I'm working with.

Thus, the below is the comments given from Erika.

1:48 – Can we just have the VO for “We are pleased to have…” over images/stills without the video of Glen entering the frame from left (in the samelibrary scene) too many times?

2:03 – Can we just have the VO for “we also have a host of other invited speakers…” over the images of the keynote speakers w/o the video of Glen standing in the library? Transition seems odd.

2:09 – 2:12 Can we delete this segment of Glen walking out of frame? It’s an odd transition from the stills before this.

2:24 – 2:26 The audio track and video do not sync – is this the best clip we have?

2:58 – The appearance of the reflection pond still is too abrupt – smoother transition here?

3:00 – The RP logo & Symposiym logo appear first before the white background and the rest of the text appear – can we have a smoother fade to white transition here?

But I faced some problems here as well.... 

The part where Erika asked for changes: 

2:03 – Can we just have the VO for "we also have a host of other invited speakers…" over the images of the keynote speakers w/o the video of Glen standing in the library? Transition seems odd.

I did not make the following changes as I thought if we were to use the VO over the keynote speakers, it would seems too long. 

So, here is the finalized full video! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quHhsoKTyTg 

Done by:

Sharon Ho 

(93853)

FURTHER EDITING OF FULL VIDEO

The rest of the team members have started their internship except me. It's at the last stage of finishing editing of full video. JUST THE LAST STAGE AND GIRLS, WE'RE DONE! :D

Thus, on this day, I went back to school, vista lab to seek advices and feedbacks from David Cheng. He's so willing to help and he said there's only minor changes to amend, judging from the video. Thus, he said he will go back and look for some resources for me to refer on. 

After munching on my snacks, I went back to vista lab and continue editing for a while. After editing, I rendered and upload the video to Youtube and send it over to David Cheng for more improvements. On the 13th sept, I went back school once again to borrow Macbook pro. That was the day when I had to use the school's Macbook pro to continue editing my video till satisfactory. 

Finished editing of full video on the 15th Sept 2011. Immediately rendered the video and uploaded to Youtube and sent it over to the clients: Mar Samson. Waited for their reply since then.

Done by:
Sharon Ho
(93853)

GLENN'S VOICEOVER

After putting the videos together, we tried to edit the audio as initially, the boom mic was not alright and we would need time if we need to return and borrow equipments again. Thus, we decided to record Glenn's voiceover and this would act as a backup if we cannot further edit the audio anymore.

Even though we set aside a certain period of time for Glenn's voiceover but we still exceed a bit of time as we need to have NGs taken. But overall, the team have managed to spilt the job well as to who should give Glenn the cue to start and to serve the speed of his speech.

Hopefully, this will be out last shooting with Glenn as we do not want Glenn to be tired out by us and we also need ample time to edit the full video.

FULL VIDEO EDITING

After we've all finalized on the Spoof video, the next thing we have to do is the editing of full video. The team have used three days to edit the full video and if necessary, we have to make some changes according to our advisor: David Cheng's and Clients' feedbacks.

These four days of editing (26th July - 29th July) have allowed us to fully utilize our members' skills and also from the previous two editing, we have learnt from there. Thus, it enables us to speed up the process. But nevertheless, we still need approval from both sides to wrap up the full video.

After four days of editing, we felt that the audio isn't strong enough. Therefore, we need to arrange another day of recording Glenn's voiceover so that we are able to mix the voiceover together with the visuals. Thus, we have decided to arrange the recording on the 25th August when both the client and Glenn are available.

Stay tuned for the next recording!

SUBMITTING IN OF SPOOF VIDEO

Due to ours and the clients' pack schedule, we are unable to pick a day out and meet for the final meeting of Spoof video. Hence, when we're done, we contacted them via e-mil and also meeting them in person to pass them the DVD. Aftermath, we will get feedbacks from them after they've finished viewing the video. In addition, we gave them a link where they can see. The link as below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwP7RGcP85M

While waiting for approval, the script and the venue of filming is finally approved. The next step we will do is to settle the borrowing of equipments and waiting for the day of filming! We've actually separated the team into two groups: Mandy and Li Jun. The two girls are involved in filming as the other two girls: Geraldine Goh and Sharon Ho are having lessons thus they are both in charge of editing the full video.

VIEWING OF SPOOF

This is our first time meeting the clients after we edited the Spoof video. It's out first round of editing thus we need to make some changes that are expected form them. Based on their level of standards and expectations, the comments we garnered are basically minor thus we are happy that we have not much things to amend as we have at least reached their minimum expectations. The comments given are mainly on the funny effects on the Spoof video and we also need to include the main color of CED which is a combination of yellow and white. We are also asked to add a bit of the storyline so that the video will look more interesting.

The clients felt that after the second round of editing, we are able to burn the final Spoof video into DVD and upload to Youtube. We are glad that we do not need to spend more time on Spoof editing as we still have a full video to work on. At least, we are confirmed that Spoof and Teaser are done! In the midst of another round of editing for spoof, we also plan the dates for booking of vista labs so that we are able to edit our full video. David Cheng gave us some feedbacks and some techniques to make our spoof more entertaining.

I guess... The team can have a few days off since we have done most of the work and we've also planned on what we should do next! :)

TEASER FINALLY APPROVED!!

A GOOD NEWS TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE! 
GLENN AND KUAH LENG LI HAVE OFFICIALLY APPROVED OUR VIDEO!




We're asked to export the teaser into 3 different formats: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypkxz9LPRl0

1. To embed into the Symposium website.
2. To embed the teaser into normal mail.
3. Movie clip (to be loaded into presentation)

Finally, the girls' efforts have paid off and we've cleared one stage of video. It's only left with Spoof and Full video! C'mon Foursome, we can do it!

The next stage is to let the clients and our advisor to view our Spoof. It's on 21st July. 1700 - 1730 PM. At room E14C. We're very eager to show them our spoof as we felt that we have included some parts that are humorous and that's what Spoofs are for! 

Stay tune for our next Spoof entry!  

UPDATED VERSION SCRIPT

The attached photos above are the finalized script that we are going to use for our THIRD VIDEO which is our last video. After finalizing our video, our last stage of teaser is to get approval from both our advisor and clients. 

Thus, we liaised a meeting with Kuah Leng Li and decided to meet at E2 level 2, which is at our editing room. A3 and A4. Basically, she have approved just that we need to make some minor changes and also, we need to send the link to her so that she can send the link to Glenn and then TEASER IS DONE! 

So... Girls, time to edit our Spoof and move on to full video! 

SECOND ROUND OF FULL VIDEO FILMING

After much discussions, we planned to have a re-shoot on this day based on Glenn's schedule. Mandy Tan and Li jun decided to meet 10AM in the morning while Geraldine Goh and Sharon Ho are in class.

We re-shoot most of the scenes as we felt that all the previous scenes are not satisfactory. We borrowed most of the equipments but we removed tascam because there isn't enough manpower. We added in a few more close up scenes as compared to the previous one because the team felt that most of the shots are wide shot/ mid shot. Compared to the first round of filming, we managed to re-shoot most of the scenes successfully and we did not meet into any obstacles. The main problem we faced are: Not enough manpower and we need more time to carry and pack the equipments as compared to the first time.

We tried to re-shoot all the scenes by 5PM as we need to return all the equipments by them. Aftermath, we meet up with the rest of the other two team mates and discussed about the chosen scenes and to decide if we need to have another re-shoot. Glenn is very co-operative as to we need more close up scenes. He also views some of the films and actually said that it was okay so we proceeded.

SPOOF VIDEO SHOOT AND SYMPOSIUM VIDEO

From the date of 15 June till date, we still have some elements that we have to amend.

Things that are to change: 

1. RP logo. (New RP logo are made and thus we have to incorporate the new logo into our Symposium teaser.)
2. To include a credits page at the end of the video.

Besides the amendments of the teaser, we also have to do a recee location for the spoof video. It'll be done on the 1st July. We'll be doing a recee location at CED department office and the area near the lift in the morning at 830AM. We'll then proceed with the dance training with the staffs from CED department. 900 - 1030AM 

The dance steps are lead by two of our members who have a bit of experience on dance. Thus, they are the ones who taught the dance steps to the staffs and the other two members were in charge of audio and observing how the staffs dance and if there steps were correctly done. 

Based on what they have learnt, we have decided to put the actual filming on the 8th July. 

1230 - 1400PM. But due to some situations we have, for example, the staffs had to go for meetings and teachings, so we will have to shorten the filming period to about 1.5 hours. Due to the time constraint, the team need to be more co-operative on what to do and we have to supervise the staffs that day so that there will be not many NGs to be taken.

FIRST ROUND OF FULL VIDEO FILMING

Problems that were faced by the team. The equipments are too heavy for four girls to carry it around. Hence we decided to start off with the furthest venue then move our way in to the nearest venue. However, we faced difficulties when setting up the equipments as the boom mic is not working - speaker doesn't have sound. The audio man finds it hard for recognize Glenn's voice and the surrounding. Thus, we spend an extra time to fix the problem but we still managed to overcome it.

Another problem was the weather. It's very humid and we also need to adjust Glenn's position as the shadow is too harsh on Glenn. We tried a few times on where we should place Glenn to cast a more satisfying shadow behind him. The team felt sorry for Glenn as he's wearing a suit.

We tried to follow the production schedule but ended up, we still change the venue sequence due to weather and human traffic, If there's a heavy human traffic, we cannot proceed on with our production as we felt that might interfere with the shots that we are taking. Glenn made a few changes to the script but thankfully, it's all minor changes. We thanked Glenn for making time for us but we stills acted quite some time as we all have to film some NGs. As Geraldine and Sharon are having lessons after 12PM, they can only helped till noon. We end the whole filming at about 430PM and we meet Geraldine and Sharon at about 530PM.

Overal,, the filming experience is not bad as we used some of the equipments that we hardly used. We views the videos from laptop once we gathered together. From there, we pick up a few of the best shots and decided to re-shoot one of these days.

POST-PRODUCTION

The two above photos that are attached to this entry are the production schedule we are planning to carry out on the 17th and 18th June. Basically, we seeked permissions from Help-Estate and Help-Library to carry out the filming at certain locations for example: 

1. Level 1, Library, around the round tables.
2. E3 Entrance into the library towards the reel room.
3. Inside TRCC theatre
4. Reflection pond
5. Lawn
6. E3 Walkway

Below is the initial script that we are going to use for our production:

The script was done by the team : Foursome. It was then proceeded to allow both our advisor: David Cheng and the clients: Kuah Leng Li to look through the scripts, proposed location and the suggested visuals. From there, they started to input some of their suggestions and amend the script. 

Awaiting for the day of full video filming FIRST ROUND on the 17th June! 

SPOOF VIDEO ACTUAL FILMING

Yes, it's the day when the team have to prepare in the early morning for the equipments that are needed and went on to the office. 900 - 1030AM. We have to placed our equipments based on the planning that we had earlier on. 1st July.

Thus, we now had a rough idea in mind of the different filming techniques we have to incorporate and the different spots that we can placed our camcorder and the tripod. Firstly, we took 2 camcorder and attached it to the tripod stand then we shorten the height and placed in ontop of the staffs' cabinets. We wanted different views of the shots therefore, we placed one of it at the back of the office and the other one and the front but facing more to the side which are able to capture their facial expressions when they are dancing.

Things were funny as some of them are still not very familiar with the steps but, we are glad that we did not take too much time on the NGs. After giving guidance to the team, the staffs managed to take cue and know when to start and stop.

After the indoor shot, we moved on to the outdoor shot. The area where it's just near the lifts. We asked them to stand in 4 lines and DANCE! The two cameraman, Geraldine and Li Jun captured their NGs and also some nice shots which we felt we are able to make it into a nice spoof. The outdoor scene were almost the same as the indoor scene, just that we wanted to make the whole video to look as if the staffs danced from their office to the lifts; like a transitions that are going on.

After which, we went back to the office to shoot the scene where the staffs will sit in 2 rows, facing each other. They will then do some hands actions, and at the same time, they will have to listen to the cue of the team and stand up one by one. Followed by a shout of "CED" and Jump!

I suppose both the team and the staffs did enjoyed for the whole process. It was a great experience for all of us as we have no idea that we could come up with such a plan for the staffs. It was indeed a learning experience, allowing us to learn how to give instructions and to decide what do we have to do for the next step.

Is this called PBL in RP? Haha! Self-exploring and self-learning.

TEASER - LAST PART 


During the past few weeks of our FYP, we did the editing of teaser according to our client's and David's expectations and together with our skills and creativity, we edited the teaser based on typography. Basically, we edited a lot on the font types as well as the visuals part on how we arranged the words to make a more simple yet classic theme.

Thus, we get some references from David and also, we researched on our own. Based on those references, we refer and did on some trial and error on the transitions to allow the words to appear. We explored every single effects on Premier pro but we felt that it is very limited. We felt that it will be best if we could use After Effects as well.

Besides doing the teaser, we also came up with the script and storyboard for the full video. We also have a concept for the spoof video as well.


The below is the script and the location that we came up with for the full video. 

We have came up a concept for the spoof video as I've already mentioned earlier. This is the reference that we got from Youtube; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVOOc6oqVTA

Based on the music video above, we would try to make the spoof video as amazing as possible. Instead of letting the staff dance like professionals, we would invent some dance steps for them to follow through.

Hopefully, our video will go on smoothly without any 'hiccups'! Oh yes, there will be a meeting with clients later at 2pm. Hopefully, they will feel pleased with our hard work and effort!

We'll be doing a filming on the 15th June for the Spoof video! Excited!!

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Teaser - meet up

Meeting up during the holidays for the Teaser

6th-10th June 2011

During this June holidays, a few of us have met up to edit and to come up with a new video. We met up to edit and improvise on the original teaser video by trying out the comments on the teaser which the client gave it to us. David, our FYP advisor, came in while we are still imprvising on the teaser commented on the video. He said that our fonts and typography is too small for the viewers to read because it will be very small when our clients placed it in the school's website. So we have all the fonts and wordings enlarged. 

But on Wednesday, David came into the studio and told us that the video is not as good and that we have to kind of re-do it again. And he came in after that with his thumb drive and wanted to inspire us with some of the videos. After that we got two days to re-do the video, making references and using more effects to bring out the purposes of the teaser while trying to maintain the essence that attracts the viewers.

We spent almost the whole day of everyday in the vista lab to do  and edit our videos to improvise on the teaser, making references and refining David's comments on the teaser.

Postpone of meeting 3

Sorry for the last post.

Just receive an email from clients about postponing the meeting to tomorrow 26 May 2011, 6pm.

This mean that we have more time to do and improve the video. :D

Lets go GIRLS

By: Mandy

Teaser video showcase

Today (25 May 2011)

We are meeting the client today to present our teaser which we have work on for the past 3 weeks.
We are now in the vista lab to do editing of the video. Due to the time constraints, 4 of us have stay up late to complete the video.

We have go through many changes in storyboard, visuals and audio. Although the changes do make us angry sometime, this is the process of learning and also make us stronger. Our advisor (David) have also share with us a lot of ideas and also what are the places can be improve.

All of us are nervous in today meeting as we want to show them we can do something different. We are still editing and hope it turn out right as we do not have very much experience in doing video for external and facing clients.

Wish us luck. :)


18 May 2011 ( Final Idea)

We are meeting the client for the second time. We do have a bit of ideas what to expect from the client but it still have a strong impact on us. During the meeting, we have learn different thing from the last meeting. Our advisors have advise us to look at a different view for the teaser. As students, PBL learning have been in our back of our mind and hence we cannot us the basic knowledge we have to treat the teaser. We have to change of point of view to allow the target audience to get interested.

This time round, we get even more information for the client on what they are expecting and also what are the key point they will like to highlight. After our presentation, advisors sound out what they dislike and like about the mock up teaser. We discuss and finalize what should be include and what should improve.

Concept
- using the 5 W to show case and tell the audience the message.
-What (past symposium)
- Who (target audience)
-Why (key message on symposium
-Where (Republic and logo)
-When (Date)

Video
-fast pace
-allow information to go show straight to the audience

After meeting with client,

We stay back to discuss the concept on full video and proof with our advisor (David)
We have plan to keep our first idea on the teaser to the full video. Doing split screen and create a visual that the director is walking through the frame. We plan to do a 3 min video and planning to finish it before July.
We will also do some editing to the scripts to make it more interesting.

For proof, the concept is to be funny and we wanted to do a dance video based on the MTV by LMAO "Party rock anthem". We will also be mixing music and the NG part on the full video to mix it in to the proof.
The members of the company will need to do a dance. We will also be using different angle to shoot the proof.

After the meeting, each of us have different thought in mind. Doing Final Year Project is never an easy thing.
Hence, we need to open up to different possible methods and understand each other.

We are learning step by step and soon we will know how to walk. :)

*photos will be uploaded soon*

By: Mandy (91933)

Teaser

A change of idea in the teaser

9th may 2011

Previously, we met our client on the 6th May 2011 and showed them our storyboard as well as the audio that our team member, Mandy, have done up. They felt that the initial idea isn't enough for 30 seconds to be able to convey the message to the public. They couldn't find the link to what we have pitched during the meeting thus we have to change the idea for the teaser. 

During today's (9th May 2011) meeting with our FYP advisor, David Cheng, the comment that he gave for our initial storyboard (idea) was that he found that the photos for our storyboard isn't suitable for the theme as he mentioned that the photos are like it's the tourist attraction. Therefore, after approximately of 15 minutes of the meeting, we have discussed that the idea should change to a comparison between past learning style and current learning style. The frame should be divided into two and we felt that whatever on the left is the old and past learning style therefore, it should be against white background. And for the right hand side, we felt that it's more suitable if it's vibrant in color. This way, we will have a feel that the learning style like Problem Based Learning would be important as well. 

During this meeting, we also discussed how we could come up with the storyboard as we need to submit to both our FYP advisor as well as the client; what kind of photos should we take and who should we ask to be in the photos itself. We also discussed when should we start to film our video and when to do the post-production. Our FYP advisors guide us along on the different ways to film the video as well. 

Overall, I felt that the meeting is beneficial to us. We learnt some ways of editing the film with our advisor's help. The ways that we doesn't know about it. We hope that through this FYP as well as advisor's help, we could carried out the filming and post production smoothly. 

Done by:
Sharon (93853)