Friday, March 20, 2009

#4: Comic Huh? February 19th 2009

During today's Film lesson, Ms. Wong briefly introduced us to our new double-task Film Project! First task was to create sound effects and dialogue for a comic strip. Second was to create a "The Making Of" documentary displaying how we created the dubbing for the comic strip step-by-step. My group for this project consisted of the same members as last lesson: Justin Cheung, Josh, Joanna and Lucas.

Since this lesson was only a single period, we did not have much time to do anything except create a plan for the Whole Create process of our project. We separated our group into 2 divisions: 1 would be formally in charge of the dubbing for the comic strip, the other would be formally in charge of the documentary. Josh, Joanna and I were placed in charge of the comic strip, Lucas and Justin were in charge of the documentary. 

During the last 30 minutes of class, I wrote down all the sound effects that were required in the comic strip, which included Mud Slides, Rain, Thunder, Wind, Sword Swooshing, Box Crashing, Horse Running etc. During this time, we also used a camera and filmed ourselves discussing our objectives so as to include in our documentary. During that discussion, we talked about what materials we could use to create these sound effects. For example, in order to create the sounds of horses running and neighing, we unanimously agreed to head over to Denise Chan's (a friend of ours) stable sometime within the month.

Today I managed to work very closely and co-operatively with my peers, and through that I discovered a bit of their potential in contributing to the success of the project. Lucas and Josh have had much experience prior to this project in working with Final Cut Pro (2 years they say), I have only ever worked with Final Cut Pro for my last CT project. Justin Cheung has had experience in post-production from creating a short film "ANA" in Focus On Film. I have great initiative, enthusiasm and am hardworking, so I know that I can contribute greatly towards this project. We're going to do great. Definitely.

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