Week 12 - Presentation and Butterflies.
Hours: Can't remember. A few. :)
Our Rehearsal Meeting:
It went well. We all were pretty confident at what we were doing and saying - I had pretty much mapped out the entire presentation notes anyway and exactly what each person was saying, rather, notes they had to cover for the talk... so I think most used that as a template, if not the basis for their talk.
Kim was fine with editing - I think he was quite happy with that fact actually.
Warm fuzzy feeling! Somehow I got the impression that because he pulled me aside to tell me his feelings, that he thought that I would try to do something about it (which I guess, inadvertently I did...) and a thought just occured to me that maybe he just felt more comfortable talking to me because we knew each other in first year orientation - we had met then, though we had lost contact during the interim years.
We were quite set for the presentation - the powerpoint was about done except for some aesthetic values.
We talked a bit about the poster, DVD and labels etc... which Peter took on being the designer.
I talked to them about organizing the butterfly to be completed and got the appropriate footage as did Kim.
Presentation:
Hehehehe. Both Kall and Kim forgot slides!
They completely skipped them. :p
That was okay. Kim wanted to go back and talk about it, but I thought - they said not to do crossover things, swapping people, so I thought it was better to just not do it and follow the rules of the presentation.
I think we had a pretty good structure - I didn't expect to be as nervous as I was, I was shaking a bit, though I was also feeling rather green that day, so I don't know what it was... pretty sure it was nerves.
I thought I had shaken it off by about late high school early Uni. I used to be quite bad, red in the face, shaking like a leaf - quite terrible to watch really! But I got over it somehow...
... and I was a bit wobbly in the knees.
I think it was because of the set up - Brad and Jason were quite far from me, it was a very open space and I was facing a glass wall where anyone could see me. :)
I guess I had gotten used to a more enclosed space - the interviewees being more close to me... in Communications, it was either smaller tutes, or I had something I could lean on OR I was facing people who were a lot closer to me (maybe as an added strange factor - the fact that there was more people made me less terrified? Safety in numbers...) or at least in Multimedia - people were behind/in front of computer screens. :p
Ah well. Something I didn't expect to happen.
But everything went well, I think everyone did really well.
I thought I didn't need the script/cue cards - and I mentioned throughout the rehearsal and practice I did that I kept using them even though I didn't need them at all - but in the end, I'm glad I had them since I was that nervous!
After the presentation - we just discussed quickly whether everything was okay and everyone had their roles: Kim was going to do the basic, core of the film and give it over to Kall to complete the effects.
I was still organizing the butterfly.
Butterflies:
It's finally done!
I had gone over to drop the footage off on Tuesday - and we basically discussed what I wanted the butterfly to do, and the specifics of it.
I just got it back today (Thurs-V.EarlyFriday) after we made sure that I knew how to export the 3D into Premiere/After Effects and I knew the logistics about how it worked... but more importantly, how the butterfly looked!
It looked pretty good! I think it's still a bit bright against the backdrop of the footage, but seeing that it's going to be brightened up, I'm not so worried about it.
Hopefully I don't need to take it back to get it done - though really, it's crunch time and time to play hardball. :p I think it looks fine. And with After Effects and having the alpha channel, it can be moved around appropriately. I was thinking of exporting it as avi and save Kall/Kim some time, but I won't need to - as while it has been given to me as 214 frames (footage I had given and edited down to) of Tiff picutres, After Effects is such that it just reads the first frame and knows appropriately to get the next frame without having to upload every single frame - as I first thought - that is if the naming conventions have been done correctly, which they have, of course! :)
So it's not a hassle. I think it looks pretty good. Can be a bit funny in places but nothing that can't be fixed with a little clever key-framing. :)
INSERT LOTS OF BUTTEFLY PICTURES HERE!
Our Rehearsal Meeting:
It went well. We all were pretty confident at what we were doing and saying - I had pretty much mapped out the entire presentation notes anyway and exactly what each person was saying, rather, notes they had to cover for the talk... so I think most used that as a template, if not the basis for their talk.
Kim was fine with editing - I think he was quite happy with that fact actually.
Warm fuzzy feeling! Somehow I got the impression that because he pulled me aside to tell me his feelings, that he thought that I would try to do something about it (which I guess, inadvertently I did...) and a thought just occured to me that maybe he just felt more comfortable talking to me because we knew each other in first year orientation - we had met then, though we had lost contact during the interim years.
We were quite set for the presentation - the powerpoint was about done except for some aesthetic values.
We talked a bit about the poster, DVD and labels etc... which Peter took on being the designer.
I talked to them about organizing the butterfly to be completed and got the appropriate footage as did Kim.
Presentation:
Hehehehe. Both Kall and Kim forgot slides!
They completely skipped them. :p
That was okay. Kim wanted to go back and talk about it, but I thought - they said not to do crossover things, swapping people, so I thought it was better to just not do it and follow the rules of the presentation.
I think we had a pretty good structure - I didn't expect to be as nervous as I was, I was shaking a bit, though I was also feeling rather green that day, so I don't know what it was... pretty sure it was nerves.
I thought I had shaken it off by about late high school early Uni. I used to be quite bad, red in the face, shaking like a leaf - quite terrible to watch really! But I got over it somehow...
... and I was a bit wobbly in the knees.
I think it was because of the set up - Brad and Jason were quite far from me, it was a very open space and I was facing a glass wall where anyone could see me. :)
I guess I had gotten used to a more enclosed space - the interviewees being more close to me... in Communications, it was either smaller tutes, or I had something I could lean on OR I was facing people who were a lot closer to me (maybe as an added strange factor - the fact that there was more people made me less terrified? Safety in numbers...) or at least in Multimedia - people were behind/in front of computer screens. :p
Ah well. Something I didn't expect to happen.
But everything went well, I think everyone did really well.
I thought I didn't need the script/cue cards - and I mentioned throughout the rehearsal and practice I did that I kept using them even though I didn't need them at all - but in the end, I'm glad I had them since I was that nervous!
After the presentation - we just discussed quickly whether everything was okay and everyone had their roles: Kim was going to do the basic, core of the film and give it over to Kall to complete the effects.
I was still organizing the butterfly.
Butterflies:
It's finally done!
I had gone over to drop the footage off on Tuesday - and we basically discussed what I wanted the butterfly to do, and the specifics of it.
I just got it back today (Thurs-V.EarlyFriday) after we made sure that I knew how to export the 3D into Premiere/After Effects and I knew the logistics about how it worked... but more importantly, how the butterfly looked!
It looked pretty good! I think it's still a bit bright against the backdrop of the footage, but seeing that it's going to be brightened up, I'm not so worried about it.
Hopefully I don't need to take it back to get it done - though really, it's crunch time and time to play hardball. :p I think it looks fine. And with After Effects and having the alpha channel, it can be moved around appropriately. I was thinking of exporting it as avi and save Kall/Kim some time, but I won't need to - as while it has been given to me as 214 frames (footage I had given and edited down to) of Tiff picutres, After Effects is such that it just reads the first frame and knows appropriately to get the next frame without having to upload every single frame - as I first thought - that is if the naming conventions have been done correctly, which they have, of course! :)
So it's not a hassle. I think it looks pretty good. Can be a bit funny in places but nothing that can't be fixed with a little clever key-framing. :)
INSERT LOTS OF BUTTEFLY PICTURES HERE!
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