DAy 10

I heard from Clinton, our editor that we are short of footages and the footages weren't very good and was hard to work with and we are tying very hard to salvage the clips. Sadly, hereafter closes at 6pm, so we need to work on it really hard .

But nevertheless, I learnt lots of stuffs form the module, basically multicam shooting, and I thought visual mixing was althought a stressful but interesting and fun thing to do. I'm really looking forward to my SIP after P3 and i hope i can get into some production house to do production with them.

Day 9

I had to look after the house in the morning because it was under renovation so i didn't attend the post-production briefing today.

Day 8

Today we are shooting our assignment 2. I went to school very early to collect the cameras from Derick, Kirin and Jing Yuan. Then we proceed to borrow the remaining lights and dolly tracks from the equipment store. Then we move on to the TV studio to set up the equipments and props. We took quite long to shoot can we need to be fast as Kirin's group need it for their shoot too. We managed to finish the shoot on time and return them their cameras. Ok, I've done my part as a cameraman by borrowing the cameras, did the floorplan and shoot with the cameras.

Day 7

Today, we wanted to loan out the cameras from the equipment store but when we reached there, we found out that all the cameras were loaned out by other groups. We need to shoot tomorrow as submission was very near, like in 3 days. So me and Clinton called almost all our coursemates to see if we can borrow the cameras from them a while for tomorrow. Luckily, we were able to borrow 3 cameras, from Derick, Kirin and Jing Yuan respectively. Really thank them very much. So after settling the equipments issues, we went back and do our preparation for tomorrow's shoot.

Day 6

We are now preparing for our second assignment, which was previously a bus stop theme thing, but was changed to the national pledge theme short film. So we dicussed and came out with an idea. The idea was to use food to represent and sync the National pledge and maybe make it like a commercial. I was assigned as the cameraman and i went home and did my floor plan.

Day 5

Today we are doing the real shoot for the interview assignment. I had prepared the floorplan for theset up of equipments and we took some time to set it up. We also got the talents to dress up respectively to suit the scene. When everything was ready, I went to the mixer and give commands to my 3 cameramen, withe the help of Bertrand, in setting the aperture to the same to have continuity. I think I was too nervous or what, i forgot to turn on the recorder when i started and it was very funny. But after that I clamed down and we took 2 tries of the whole interview. Bertrand commented that i was reacted fast to the switching of camera views but the shots were boring, so i keep thinking on how to improve it. But stil it was a wonderful experience to operate the visual mixer.

Day 4

Today is the trail shoot or the rehearsal of out interview shoot. althought Jac taught us everything that day, but we stil made some mistakes like connecting the wrong wires and not taping down the wires. But in the end we stil manage to set up the thing and proceed with the rehearsal. I was appointed as the visual mixer and i can say i was quite nervous when i operate the mixer the first time. I think it's quite a stressful job, like what Bertrand and Jac says, but i manage to keeo my mixing on track. After the trail mixing, i gained more confidence in doing the mixing on the actual shoot.

Day 3

Today we have a guest with us, Roszali, to teach us about the basics of lightings. To begin, we broke up into 3 groups and were given a task to light up different places with the lightings available. So we proceed to borrow camera and lights from the equipment store and chose a bright corner in level 5 studio, with sunlight shining directly in. We took sometime to set up everything and shot a few. After that, when roszali came, we went to consult him on our shots. So he explained what's wrong with the shot and teaches us techinques like cross lighting, rather than the 3-point lighting that we use commonly. After everything, we went back to screen each other groups' shots and let roszali comment on them. Then it was de-brief and the class ended.

Day 2

Today we are learning how to operate the visual mixer. Jac will be taking over to teach us about the mixer. I learnt that visual mixing is normally used when doing a live show or interview, where footages must be processed quickly for direct broadcasting. The job of the visual mixer is to control and mix the footages from different cameras and its sequence.

I learnt alot on how to operate the visual mixer, how to set up the machine and some safety precautions when using the mixer. After class, we dicuss about the floorplans and stuffs to prepare for the trail shoot.

Day 1

Today is the first day of vidpro class. We only have briefings today on the whole module. I'm looking forawrd to the 2 assignments that will be given to us for the module.

So we formed into groups of 4, with my group consisitng of Clinton, Jasmine and Clarissa. After the formation of the group, we discuss about the roles of our first assignment, which is doing visual mixing with 3 cameras. Then, we further discuss about the script and stuffs and ended the day.