Editing Report - 23 Dec 2008

Attendance: Max, Jason, Aim
Guest: Fazilah

The day's editing session was all about doing the voice-over with Fazilah. We did the voice over with her at about 12pm-2pm or so as we did many takes. After doing her voice-over, we then went to sharpen our video. We added the names and position of the people we interviewed as well as the clients and parents. But when we did that with the clients, we realized that we could not do for all because some were too short to put. The other thing was, we were then contemplating: "to put or not to put" as we know we had to have formality. We then decided not to put the names for all the clients, but add for the important people. We were also able to add a bar to the names, so now all names can be seen.

We then got people to watch our video. We then had mixed reactions.

Some liked the music, some did not really like it, they said that most of the shots were good. They also said to add some more of the video clients in the video, they also said to have some cut-aways during the interviews, but then again, it depends on what the interviewees say. They also said the beginning was a little too long. Solution for us a group, when first looked; To use the same shots from the SPONSOR VIDEO. The voice-over was not added yet. Which, according to Jason, I was a little too rushed to get people to watch the video because there was no voice-over yet and it does not have the impact we want yet. But he said that with the people's comments, it was a good thing, because he now knows what to do.

The video that they looked at were the volunteer video. Most of our participants were other G302 video teams.

Clients' age

Pheobe - 7

David - 11

Aaron - 10

Jun Wei - 12

Dylan - 14

Just in-case we need to put back the clients info in the video again.

We would be finishing up on the 26 of Dec. But then again may make minor changes on the 29th with the comments from Serene.

Notice of Meeting for final touches in video

The final touch is very near everyone!

Date:23 Dec 2008 (Tuesday)
Time Booked: 9am - 6pm (Voice-Over will be at 1pm)
Location: VISTA Lab C1

Task to be completed before day:

Videoline should be done with interviews and video shots for both volunteer video and sponsor videos

Infomation on CD sticker to be shared. If can post on blog. good

Documentation to be continued (Talent forms done)

Task to be completed by day:

Voice-Over

Both Videos done with voice over included

Task that should be continued after video is done:

Storyboard

Cover Designs and CD designs

Report

Evaluations

Please note: All hardcopy materials will need to be printed out or passed to me by 29 December 11.59 for compilation so that we can submit on time.

Thank you

Notice of Meeting (18 Dec 2008)

Hi guys,

Lets meet at my house for this meeting to look at our video before we insert the voice-overs and see the flow of the video.

At the same time we can start documention and report.

We can also get feedback on our video and voice-over (ideas) from my dad as he was a board member of the RDA in the past.

Address: Block 138, Rivervale Street, #10-760 (SengKang) You may refer to the contact list i gave to you guys in the begining.

Time: 2pm (Pls dont be late)

See you then!:)

Preparation for Documentation

Hi guys,

Lets start our preparation for Documentatin and Report for G302. Siti please prep graphics for DVDs and Covers.

Jason, please do preparations for the storyboard, can co-ordinate with Siti on that one with her.

Everybody if there is any other transcripts that needs to be done, pls do them for documentation purposes. Also prep your evaluations.

As for me, I need to start scanning and printing remaining documents that are not scanned or printed yet. which reminds me: What is the title of the Video? need to know then i can start doing the printing and scanning.

THAT WAS JUST FOR DOCUMENTATION...

The other big thing is the report. Lets put our heads together to see what to write in the report. Refer to your G301 reports for ideas.

We are almost there guys!

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.

Showcase of Roughcut of film

Hi guys,

Serene would like to see our rough cut on Wednesday (12 Dec 2008) at VISTA C - Whishper room.

Time of presentation is 3.30pm-4pm.

Time to meet at VISTA 9.30am

See you then!

Transcripts of some interviews