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June 21 - July 4: Post Event blog

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June 21 - July 4: Post Event blog Event turn out Around about 70 people turned out for the opening event for the film. While this is a good turn out for such a informal event, I still think there was a lot that needed to be improved on. The whole event lacked a professional air to it, probably due to the lack of preeminence the items and decorations had and how quickly it was thrown together. While I don't have much experience with these kind of events, even our exhibitions for our personal project have more time and effort into presentation. If we get the chance, the film and other materials should be tidied up for the Flicks at the end of the year. People not finding the event I noticed that several people had trouble finding the event. While there are always a few people who get lost, I think that the "path" leading to the event should have been clearer and worked from multiple directions. It was a nice idea on paper to have the "colours" leading...
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Group Project: End of Project - June 18

Group Project: End of Project - June 18 - 19 If you have nothing nice to say, don't say it.  I have no doubt that Rachel will disagree about this, but I think this "everyone needs to drop what their doing and stay up all night to help finish the group film" is selfless and stupid.  The witch hunt/finger pointing has already begin on Facebook. Several people are trying to guilt others into working overnight, for example, here is a post by Sebastion Kutzi: " HEY GUYS, IT'S ONE DAY OVER DUE, I AM HERE SITTING TRYING TO BE A COMPOSITOR ( WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE LAME) I WANT TO EDIT IT TOGETHER!!! SO WERE IS THE REST OF THE HANDS??? RODRIGO IS LITERALLY DYING ON HIS FEET, NINA IS ANGRY AND I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS SHIT!!! WAKE UP, DO STUFF!!!!" Does he think the rest of us who aren't there are at a bar or something? We all still have at least one other assignment due before the end of term. Not everyone is comfortable with pulling...
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Week 9: Time schedule and problems

Week 9: Time schedule and problems Time allotted to script writing per week: Around 3 - 5 hours per week 9 x 5 = 35 hours of script writing. Weeks 9,  I did no script writing, so take 5 hours away. Week 5 I only got in 2 hours of script writing.  Weeks 1 - 4 = Story Concepting Weeks 5 - 9 = Script writing Problems in the group Got back a lost of feedback from SIT Pro for the script. Daisy and Sylvester say it is "easy" to change but from reading it myself it says nothing in the script works, and I agree with that statement. My problem with that is Daisy doesn't seem to have any direction for the film. Before the feedback she was says we shouldn't have dialogue and that we needed all these different elements in the film. Now that the guys at SIT Pro have given us feedback, Daisy has complete changed her tune. Whenever Glenn asked her what "direction" did she think the original idea had and what direction does it have now, she would keep trying...
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Week 5 and 6 - The Problems begin

Week 5 and 6 - The Problems begin Sylvester saved the group by getting Rachel to extend the due date for the first assignment. Probably makes him the better choice for producer than Marcella. It is nice to know that someone with a bit of drive is now in control (Daisy still seems a bit reluctant to push people). Several people have voiced their displeasure with the current project. I don't know if everyone is just suffering from project fatigue or if I just happen to be listening to the unhappy parties, but I think it might be a bit late to restart. Ruby was nice enough to give us some feedback on the treatment. I have started editing the treatment as according to the feedback given. Made two pieces of concept art quickly for Sylvester, as he needed more to fill out the proposal. Perhaps I should have been more forceful with pushing my idea for the film. It fits all the tick boxes that Daisy wanted, it had a simple plot line and an easy setting. Also I did the first draft...
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Week 3 and 4 - Putting the team and concept together

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Week 3 and 4 - Putting the team and concept together We have finally started putting together the team for our group project. While most of the roles are unfulfilled at the moment, the main roles of Director and Producer have been sorted. Daisy Thor-Poet is the director, Sebastian is the co-director, Marcella Muench is Producer and Nina Simpson is Co Producer. Our story took a while to argue on. I think too many people were obsessed with the "hallucinations" ideas as a way to mixing animation and live action. I feel that this is restricting the ideas too much. I wrote a story for the group project titled "Building Family" about a man trapped in a room who builds himself a companion. I censored some of my more out there ideas so the group will hopeful be kinder towards it. I really like the story as it is in one room and has only two characters, making it fairly efficient story telling. However I do feel it is a bit too close to my 3D story last year. Maybe I...
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Week 1 & 2: Beginning the Proposal and setting up the Project

Week 1: Beginning the Proposal and setting up the Project - Chris Sutton I set up the Facebook group for the project on Saturday, after finding out no one had made it yet. They were probably had the same mentality I did as were just waiting for someone else to make it. This is the kind of thinking and confusion we really need to avoid in the future. It might just be me but everyone seems a bit down on the whole project and we haven't even started. Sylvester saying that we should call ourselves Turtle or infinite productions, " Cause we gonna take forever doing things"(Liam was also says we should be called "Bad Productions", but that is Liam just being himself). This is probably just me overacting. Rachel mentions that if they are down on the project it is probably just a knock on effect from the infighting that the group last year suffered from. We should be fine once we get our feet off the ground. Company names suggested : Man Eating Kea, Slow turtle,...
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