#10: Double-Time...March 16th,17th,18th 2009

This reflection will cover the 3 days that I had to work in the Multimedia Lab on the video and documentary outside class time. During those 3 days, I primarily worked on really just finishing up the video, making sure that it is perfect, all the audio tracks are in the right place and to make sure I am not missing anything. However, time seems to fly so fast when one is editing and before I knew it the day was over and I had to continue working the next day. On Monday and Tuesday, I managed to complete editing almost all the audio tracks so that they are all distinct and realistic towards their characters. For example, for the Daemon-Queen, Lucas and I added some reverb effect to Joanna Fu's dialogue so as to make her seem mystical. For the Assassin, we had to make sure that each and every single one of his lines were spoken at around the same pitch, and same went for the Charioteer. Also, for the fight scenes, I had to make sure that all the fighting sounds such as the punches, the cracks, the grunts and moans, all had to occur at the right times and have the right volumes, speeds, pitches etc. On Wednesday lunchtime, I worked with Joanna Fu to add the songs onto Final Cut Pro and into the video. We did not manage to complete the whole thing but at least we got some progress. Now all that needed to be done is to make sure that the songs go in the right places, which is fairly easy for Joanna and I already did some of the work. I was planning to work after-school, but since Lucas,Josh,Justin and Joanna were already working on the computers, I did not really have much to do and so I took the opportunity to go home and rest before my rehearsal later that day. I hope this does not reflect me as not contributing as much as my peers for I have, I just realized that I could not really contribute as much when everyone already knows what they are doing.

Over this 3-day period, I learnt how to utilize audio effects to make one's voice seem less normal and more extraordinary. I also learnt how music can totally enhance the atmosphere of a video, making it seem so much more epic. Last but not least, I recapped over the fact that in order to achieve a goal, nothing can stop you except yourself.