First look at the Rough Cut (12 Dec 2008)

Attendance: Max, Jason, Siti, Serene (Supervisor)

At this stage, we have already collected everything to make the video possible. We have photos, archive videos, great background music done by Siti.

On this day we had our screening of our rough cut, the part that we were most concern about, is the story part of the video, the first part of the whole video. We completed that part and were just about to put in the interview segment of the video. Serene said that our rough cut is still rough because it was not the completed video. On a happy note, she said that our shots are very nicely stringed, good shots, like the horse running up and down, the horse rolling on the ground. She told us that with our video we can go into straight cuts - that is cut straight away without having to fade in or out. She said to us, by the way the video looks, we are almost there, just need to put in the interviews, re-look at some shots in order to make the story better and put in the narration. She also said that we can have other people look at our video as a form of feedback.

On another note in this meeting, we cleared up some of the errors that were made in the VISTA Booking. The situation is that we booked a room and used another room - room that we have booked but did not use it. After going through that confusion and clearing them up, I have some suggestions for the booking system in future.

1) The rooms should all be color-coded in the system, so that when the system refreshes and go up to the top page, then the person booking would know that the page has refresh and if the name is not there and in the wrong color then they would know where to look. What happened to me was that when i booked for my team the system refreshed and went up to the top and I did not see my ID and thought the system did not register my name, it was only when Delia sent me the email then I found out that i had made a double booking.

2) The equipment list does not match with the suites in the system and in the actual suite. This was where I got into the confusion.

I have highlighted this to Serene and she has taken note of it already.

On another note, all bookings or loan request that needs to be done within STA should be done by 19 Dec as Serene would be away and has passed the task to Juraimi. So team, take note.

Latest News: Serene would like to see the final cut on 29 Dec 2008.