pre-production day 4
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today! 28/2/2008 - day 4 of pre-production planning.
met up with my group members at 10.. STUPID yijie.. getting t00 much already. supposed to meet at 10, tt idiot ah... hahaha.. came at 1. LATE for 3 hrs! hmmm, i was disappointed and have nothing to say liao!
as of yesterday, me and my team have completed the structure of our set design.
as of today, me and my team have completed 3/4 of the layout of the design, the placement of the objects and things. i have to say that today was quite interesting.. i totally got to have that experience being an art-director. It was cool to compose and layout the objects. there have been a slight change to the layout of the objects - not as what i have planned initially. The changes were done on the spot, accordingly to the script that Novem and Huizhen have came up with yesterday. Though these changes were made, they were definitely minor and they have not caused any disruption to the entire structure of the set.
definitely, no doubt, we are faced with difficulties along the way. one of the problems that we faced were getting the objects to remain where they are now and also at the same place for the shoot which will occur this monday. i tried with blue-tacks.. even though the objects were able to remain at its place... it was still not stable enough. there could NOT BE ANY movements made to the surroundings objects in stop motion, if not when the video is being played, it will seemed that the surrounding objects are being animated as well. Thus, the team thought of using hot gun to glue these objects down. SO, we went down to the PID workshop to borrow the hot gun. As always, the PID lecturers ( should not mentioned names) always seem so pissed off with the students. they always have this face whenever we approach them for help or equipments. SO, as we tried to borrow the hot gun, we were given this face by this lecturer! hahaha. doesnt really matter to me ah. Cause i know what this lecturer is like. AND so, with the hot guns, glueing our stuffs down to the board became so much easier..
FOR today, i was incharged of building the set.. the job of an art director..
Huizhen and Novem were in-charged of finalising the paperworks for interim presentation 1 tml..
rachel was incharged of building mountains for me.. she was also in-charged of the ppt slides for interim presentation 1tml..
suhbah was helping me with the constructing of trees for the set..
and for YIJIE.. he became my personal help. *cause he was late for our meeting.. so i got free personal help* Yije assisted me in building the set as well..
here are some images of our nearly completed set design...
as mentioned, my team made some changes along the way as we were building our set.. here are images of the initial layout. if you guys still recall, in my initial draft of the layout design, i have designed the background of the set to be filled with mountains and trees.. let me show you my initial design of the set..
set design 1
set design 2
backgrd still e same.. change of the storyline, as mentioned, story happening btw a naughty tomato (protagonist) and a durian (antagonist).
set design 3 (drawn)
set design 3 (actual set)
however, as understood from my director, my director wanted a different mood and setting for both characters. For the tomato farm, my director wanted something that was more cheerful and more happy.. which explains why there were so many trees on the left side of the set -to make it greeny and and cheery. My director also called for a more solemn feel for the durian.. which explains why there would be mountains and stones and very little trees..
and so as we continued on, we made some changes along the way..
here are images our latest layout.. we included a river in the 'territory' of the tomatoes.. to liven up the whole outlook of the tomatoes.
this is all that we have done so far for our set design.. it is almost 3/5 complete. will complete the rest of them tml..
well, before i forget, the props that we are gg to use are kinda in the picture.. props that are no in wud be feeling the trees area with sands and putting more trees up at the bckground and also putting up more mountains at the other side of the set..
yupp, that is all for now. shall go through the ppt slides and things now..
*psst. tml is interim presentation 1. MONDAY starting shoot! will be COOL! =D stay tuned.
our set design~
good night!
today! 28/2/2008 - day 4 of pre-production planning.
met up with my group members at 10.. STUPID yijie.. getting t00 much already. supposed to meet at 10, tt idiot ah... hahaha.. came at 1. LATE for 3 hrs! hmmm, i was disappointed and have nothing to say liao!
as of yesterday, me and my team have completed the structure of our set design.
as of today, me and my team have completed 3/4 of the layout of the design, the placement of the objects and things. i have to say that today was quite interesting.. i totally got to have that experience being an art-director. It was cool to compose and layout the objects. there have been a slight change to the layout of the objects - not as what i have planned initially. The changes were done on the spot, accordingly to the script that Novem and Huizhen have came up with yesterday. Though these changes were made, they were definitely minor and they have not caused any disruption to the entire structure of the set.
definitely, no doubt, we are faced with difficulties along the way. one of the problems that we faced were getting the objects to remain where they are now and also at the same place for the shoot which will occur this monday. i tried with blue-tacks.. even though the objects were able to remain at its place... it was still not stable enough. there could NOT BE ANY movements made to the surroundings objects in stop motion, if not when the video is being played, it will seemed that the surrounding objects are being animated as well. Thus, the team thought of using hot gun to glue these objects down. SO, we went down to the PID workshop to borrow the hot gun. As always, the PID lecturers ( should not mentioned names) always seem so pissed off with the students. they always have this face whenever we approach them for help or equipments. SO, as we tried to borrow the hot gun, we were given this face by this lecturer! hahaha. doesnt really matter to me ah. Cause i know what this lecturer is like. AND so, with the hot guns, glueing our stuffs down to the board became so much easier..
FOR today, i was incharged of building the set.. the job of an art director..
Huizhen and Novem were in-charged of finalising the paperworks for interim presentation 1 tml..
rachel was incharged of building mountains for me.. she was also in-charged of the ppt slides for interim presentation 1tml..
suhbah was helping me with the constructing of trees for the set..
and for YIJIE.. he became my personal help. *cause he was late for our meeting.. so i got free personal help* Yije assisted me in building the set as well..
here are some images of our nearly completed set design...
as mentioned, my team made some changes along the way as we were building our set.. here are images of the initial layout. if you guys still recall, in my initial draft of the layout design, i have designed the background of the set to be filled with mountains and trees.. let me show you my initial design of the set..
set design 1
set design 2
backgrd still e same.. change of the storyline, as mentioned, story happening btw a naughty tomato (protagonist) and a durian (antagonist).
set design 3 (drawn)
set design 3 (actual set)
however, as understood from my director, my director wanted a different mood and setting for both characters. For the tomato farm, my director wanted something that was more cheerful and more happy.. which explains why there were so many trees on the left side of the set -to make it greeny and and cheery. My director also called for a more solemn feel for the durian.. which explains why there would be mountains and stones and very little trees..
and so as we continued on, we made some changes along the way..
here are images our latest layout.. we included a river in the 'territory' of the tomatoes.. to liven up the whole outlook of the tomatoes.
this is all that we have done so far for our set design.. it is almost 3/5 complete. will complete the rest of them tml..
well, before i forget, the props that we are gg to use are kinda in the picture.. props that are no in wud be feeling the trees area with sands and putting more trees up at the bckground and also putting up more mountains at the other side of the set..
yupp, that is all for now. shall go through the ppt slides and things now..
*psst. tml is interim presentation 1. MONDAY starting shoot! will be COOL! =D stay tuned.
our set design~
good night!
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8:52 PM
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