Its been a long time!!

Heyy!! Its been a long time since I've last blogged! :P Mainly cause the weekly routine is the same week in and week out hahas and also because i forgot lahhh... :P hehe..

Through the past few weeks, or month, I've continued to learn alot during my internship. It has given me insight of the working world, and the responsibilities that come with it. It is different from school.. cause in school, you can hand in your work late, or give crappy work, and all you're probably gonna get is a scolding from your teacher or bad grades.. But here in the working world, there are real consequences that can affect alot of people, not just yourself. Therefore i think that i've truly learnt to be more responsible in my work and also to meet deadlines.

I've gone out on shoots which is really fun! and at the same time is also a learning opportunity for me to see how to camera crew works. It is quite similar to what we learn during our year 1 & 2. Just that they are much more efficient and pro! hahas..
My most recent shoot was fishing at Pasir Ris Farmway! It was a fun and tiring experience! hahas.. because i tried fishing one fish myself! and boy was it tough! :P But it's a fun sport! :D

Anyway.. this week i've been assigned to do graphics for a upcoming christmas episode. So here are some graphics! :D
Oh and btw, since i've started working here, i'm glad to say that i've been using Illustrator and Photoshop more! Which is a good thing also! It has really allowed me to practice my photoshop skills! and i've also discovered many new techniques!

So here are the graphics!

Week 6

Its the 2nd Episode of our Show!! This time, i was posted to do the Supers for the show. We learned a new software called Expressions. It's quite similar to Maya and photoshop combined, so i picked it up rather quickly!

I was up in the control room this week, compared to last week when i was a FM - Floor Manager. Being up in the panel is so much different than being a FM. When you are a FM, you have to listen both ways, one from upstairs and also watch out for what is going on the floor itself. So we have to multitask :D hehe... While being up at the panel I was incharge of playing the supers when the time called for it. So the stressful part is that you have to be ready and immediately play it once it is your cue. Other than that, it was quite okay..

I've realised that i have more and more work coming in.... but i'm still trying to cope. And thanks to my wonderful mates, they help out sometimes too when they can :D

Also, I needed to edit the studio background because my supervisor said it was too Indian-ish LOL!

so here's the edited one.. haha..

week 5

Its Week 5!! The week where our show will finally go on air!!
This week was quite hectic, we had to finalized everything. Making sure that everything was done and ready to go on air. Our supervisor Cynthia asked me to design the studio background, here are the designs.





It was also my first time being a floor manager on set. It was quite fun, but at the same time quite tough too. I had to make sure everything ran smoothly on set, make sure that no one gets injured etc... But overall, it was a fun experience! :D

Week 4

Wow it has already been 1 month into my internship!! This week, Mavis and I worked on the opening titles. We had to finish everything by wednesday latest so that they could digitalize it for airing. Anyway, here are the designs that I did for the opening title of the show!








I used Illustrator and photoshop to create the designs.
And so far, after being on this internship for 1 month already, i felt that i have learnt alot during these 4 weeks. In the field of production, as well as learning more about what i do. Such as photoshop, as I've had to experiment and research more about photoshop to create certain effects. therefore I felt that i've learnt quite abit thus far! :D

Week 3

Our ideas for the opening title is more or less confirmed!! Mavis and I have begun working on the opening titles. Using Adobe photoshop, illustrator and aftereffects, we will create special effects for the opening title.

On tuesday it was my first time filming. Thankfully we managed to get the green screen studio @27 thanks to Mr Melvin. I had the chance to experience what it was like to be a director! It was fun but also tiring.. as i had to ensure everything goes according to plan. So after filming, we went back and video-logged the shots. Meaning to choose which takes we wanted so that we can edit it later on.

The rest of the week was just designing the opening titles. I designed in photoshop and illustrator and mavis animated and added in the special effects in after effects.

Week 2 of internshipp

Week 2 of our internship!! Mavis and some other students joined the internship. I didnt know them as there were from the mass comm course. It was good that Mavis finally came, she was supposed to help me with the Opening of the show.

During the week, Mavis and I brainstormed on different ideas for the opening title. But quite a few were rejected by our supervisor, Cynthia. Therefore we will continue to develop ideas for the opening title.. (:

Week 1 of internship at mediacorp!!

Day 1 of our internship at mediacorp, only me, si ya and zhen ru came.. The rest were coming next week. We met our supervisors, lawrence, cynthia and kalai. Lawrence brought us around mediacorp. I never knew mediacorp was so hugee and there were lots of people working in it hahaha...
Well.. anyway, the first day we were assigned roles for the program itself. I was incharge of doing up the opening of the show, Oktolive, zhen ru and siya was in charge of doing up 3G games. But when Mavis comes next week, she will help me in the opening of the show.
We will begin filming the opening for Oktolive on the 20th of sep, and it will be done at Ngee Ann's studio 27!! Because we need the green screen to do so haha.. So we got permission through Mr Melvin, (Thanks Mr Melvin, sorry for all the trouble :P), and we are more or less confirmed to shoot on that day.
However, the idea for the opening title has yet to be finalized. So we are still working on that and this entire week i've been drawing up story boards and discussing the ideas with Zhen ru and Si ya.

Week 17

Our story is in the final stages of the pre-production. This week we were told that we have to up ALOT of reports by next monday. Therefore we immediately set to doing up the group reports and individual reports. I also continued with the color testing of 'Death' in our story. And also the color testing for the mum and dad, as well as finalizing the colors for chloe's dresses. We have decided to go with the color blue. Here are some samples.

Week 14 to Week 16

Shi Yun and kiwi has come up with the character designs, and i have started to work on some color testing samples. Here are some
of the color testing designs.

Week 12 to Week 14

Prior to the alien story, we actually had another story that was in consideration. It was called "Forlorn". In the end, we decided to go with Forlorn, because the alien story lacked character development and we did not think through the story plot enough. Forlorn was something different. It was more of an abstract piece. So after finally deciding that we were going with forlorn, we immediately started coming with character designs. I was in charge of the color scheme. So i had to wait for Kiwi and Shi yun to do up the character designs so that i can do the color testing.

Week 8 to Week 12

After our second Viva, we realised that our scissor paper and stone story had a lot of problems. Therefore, after further discussion with the group, we came up with another story called "Alien". "Alien" had more humor in it compared to Scissor, paper and stone. At first, the alien story just ends with them fixing the spacecraft and flying home. But there were no obstacles along the way. So I thought that the story should have more action and adventure to it. I suggested some ideas that made the story more interesting with more action to it.

week 3 to 7

Since week 1 of our FYP, with all the planning and everything, our ideas for the final product have been through many changes.
After many feedbacks from our group mentor and the other lecturers, we went back each time and reflected on what can be improved on, making sure we got everything sorted out. Like our roles, making sure that each of us knows what we are supposed to do, and also making sure we have all the components needed for our story. For me, i will be helping in the drawing of the animation, as well as the color designs.

I was responsible for the character design of the spider for the scissor, paper and stone story. These are some character designs.

Week 2

Week 2! It was the week of our pitching!! I felt that our pitching was quite bad… We weren’t totally prepared for it and we kinda got shot down, A LOT! :X We were told that our way of pitching was incorrect, and that we should get our roles and ideas worked out more properly. In a sense, it was beneficial to us that the lecturers were harsh to us, to let us know what it is like in the real world out there! So I’m grateful to them for that too. Though we had to improve on our story a little, and be clear on what each of our roles are!
Immediately after the pitching, we went back upstairs and rethought the entire concept of our story and the roles that each of us played in this project. Till now, we’re still trying to improve on our story to give our audiences a good story with something they can learn. Oh and thanks to the story telling workshop by Ms Christina Mok today, we churned out more ideas for our story!! She told us that we need more adventure for our characters to get viewers interested in our story, as we’re targeting young children and they have short attention spans, and can’t really understand anything deep. Therefore, we have to present it in such a way that they will enjoy and understand what’s going on.

Week 1

Week 1, at first we weren’t sure if we wanted to do 3D or 2D animation. We even considered doing a 2.5D animation. But in the end, we decided to go with a 2D animation as none of us really has any experience with 2.5D animation, and for 3D animation would take up a lot of time with the modeling and rigging of characters, which many of us don’t really know how to do. So after deciding which genre we wanted to do, we went on to brainstorm for ideas for our animation.Though some ideas were just plain silly haha… because we were all like randomly shooting out any idea that pops into our minds… But in the end, everyone contributed to one idea, and we had about 10 ideas, which everyone thought was feasible.
With so many ideas in hand, we couldn’t decide which idea to work on!! So we decided to ask Mr Agus for advice. We presented our ideas to him and he gave us his opinions on some of them, on how we could make it better, what we were lacking, and what we could add to our story to make it better. Thanks to Mr Agus’s advice, we decided to go with the scissor, paper stone story. We didn’t think at first that it could make a good story, but Mr Agus highlighted to us that we could always use the simplest of things to bring about a good story, or animation.
So anyway, we decided on the scissor, paper stone story, and we got to working on the story. We had our pitching the next week, and we were all pretty nervous about it. Because we were worried that we would not be able to get it, and if we didn’t get it, we had to do another genre, or come up with another story.