Thursday, September 06, 2007

New Media Challenge MOVIDZ Round 2




Photos which I submitted for the funniest moments,
click here for the photos taken.

Click here for the blog and watch our videos!

Like what the other teacher had said, it was a very stressful moment -I was timing and rushing the students to submit their work to the very last second!

Poor Jobain had to rush through the editing and definitely will be able to do a much better job if he has the time to - in fact I think we only gave him an hour to do the editing which is insufficient.

Though we reported punctually at 9 a.m., we were only flag off at 10 a.m. The director of Singapore Ga Ga, Ms Tan Ping Ping, gave the students some tips on filming and something which impressed us was that she said we should chuck away the script and unleash our creativity. A piece of golden advice indeed, as we had to make changes to our original plan such as changing the location of the canteen to the bus stop which was the surprise twist. We looked for our Marshall and found Cornie, a student from applied Science in Temasek Polytechnic. We quickly started filming at the nearest bus stop. As the girls needed some time to warm up - Kiat Yi actually had to take quite a no. of NG. Next we went back to comcentre and took the opportunity that most people had left and use the venue for our next shot which is scene 4 as both the actress need to be in their school uniform. Then Eddin and Jobain changed into their costumes (home clothes). We filmed scene 3 and thought that it was all over and brought them for lunch. Thanks to Mr Lam's sponsorship - the girls had lunch at Pizza hut. As I don't like pizza, I went to Noodle house, which is just two units away, with Mr Poon.

When we arrived at Comcentre, I was alerted by Jobain that we have not finished scene 2 and also the last shot! They got settled down quickly and started filming again. That's why Jobain could only start to edit at around 3.30 p.m. The team was so ambitious at first, wanting to include special effects, subtitles etc but couldn't due to the time constraint. Jobain managed to piece everything together and did the conversion to 3GP before uploading.

The final output will definitely be better if it is not converted to 3GP as the resolution and sound were compromised. I saw the video of one team JY and I don't think they convert it ot 3GP. I am sure with more time given, Jobain could actually better engineer the sound as it was pretty soft in some segments, especially the parts with Ah gong and Ah Girl.

Well, finally they have completed their tasks and I can't wait for the final results, which is today. I will update when I am back from the award ceremony. I sincerely hope for the best for the team as they had put in a lot of efforts! Do vote for them in the Behind the scenes contest!

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