200593013520145.zip

that’s is the score for can you feel the love tonight, i accidentally uploaded it and i can’t delete it :p

ANybody fancy playing the piano?
heh heh

anyway… YEAP! files uploaded!

WEEEEEEEEE!

Some misc.

Hey guys,

I’ll upload the characters illustration, storyboard, and the itineraries (first filming) soon.
Then i’ll print out the production warrenty form for all of us to sign on the next meeting, and also the talents release forms and budget breakdown.

let’s plan up a next meeting soon, reminder Louis is flying to boston soon guys.

I know it’s not my day, but just a random post.

Team, do take a look at this.
Very interesting, I love the way they panel it during the dialogues.

Our Most Defined roles yet!

HI all!

 

After the Mid point meeting, many topics were discussed after we left the room. Firstly would be our presentation. Yeah i guess it kinda sucked, so we’re most definitely gonna work on that. Next is what we’re planning to do and we also defined our roles specifically to what we’ve done.

Justin:
- Director

- DP

- Editor

- Location Manager/Scout

- Production Assistant

- Boom Operator

Louis:

- Screenwriter

- Location Scout

- Still photographer

 

 Wiing:

- Art director

- Line Producer

- Editor

- Production Manager

- Costume Designer

- Production Assistant

- Production Illustrator

Cheryl:

- Camera Operator

- Property Assistant

- Set dresser

- Editor

Felicia:

- Assistant director

- Production Manager

- Location Manager/Scout

- Production Illustrator

- Production Assistant

- Editor

 

 

 This is what we have so far:D

Closure

When we think of graphic novels, or in fact, any form of sequential art, closure comes to mind.

Since my semester was postponed, I’ve had time to place my focuses on streamlining my studies(I know that the Art and Design students have studied closure as well) and have come across this when I was studying comics as an artform.

Closure, is when the mind covers the gap from one image to the next. That gap, is what we call the gutter, a divide that separates the pictures. In-between two static images that differ slightly, when viewed alone, they have their own meanings, however, when juxtaposed, the mind would create a link using prior experiences to cover the lost time, space and events between the two images.

I found this to be extremely fascinating and wish to experiment with it. What if the gutter is expanded or contracted? Does it matter if there’s a gutter space? What happens when scenes go off-border? What if there’re no borders?

This, is definitely worth pondering and experimenting. Team, what say you?

Signing off,
Loucifer

What is New Media?

I’m sure this question has been on everyone’s mind lately.

What exactly is new media? Do special effects count as new media? Differences between new media and ‘old media’?

Wikipedia states: “New media is a term describing media that can only be created or used with the aid of computer processing power. It is a form of media that includes some aspect of interactivity for its audience and is usually in digital form. “

So the Wiki itself, is a form of new media.

However, our advisor, David, said that to him, ‘new media is about new techniques and experimentation, something to set it apart from the old media.’

I believe it’s a little bit of both.

To me, new media is a chimera of sorts, taking bits here and there and merging to become a beast with no true form, nothing and everything at the same time. You have a traditional medium like film, and you have new media in the form of Youtube, which builds on a traditional medium but gives the user a sense of interactivity, participation and opportunity to change how the traditional media is used.

Comparing it to a Japanese site called Nico Nico Douga, which allows members to post comments in real-time and sync them with the video they’re watching, upping the ante on interactivity as well as entertainment value.

It’s saved on Youtube by and I gleaned it from Wired.com. I don’t think I could embed the original even if I wanted to.

But my emphasis is not on the interactivity, rather, the twisting, adapting and modifying the medium into something different, a fresher experience.

I could go on all day on what I see as new media – machinima, webcomics, games, Oekaki forum boards/panels, interactive LCD screens, etc. The list goes on and on.

Ultimately, it comes down to your intepretation.

So tell me, what is new media to you?

Signing off,
Loucifer.

Sparked

I know I’m double posting, but I think I’ve got it, two words.

Graphic.

Novel.

Watch this…

A Scanner Darkly.

I gotta thank my laziness to keep this DVD. It laid there, on my desk and I stared at it for a minute or two before it hit me.

We have webcomics, we have comics in book form, A Scanner Darkly was a film done entirely in vectors. Why can’t we have a graphic novel as a film? Noone has done it yet I believe. Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel simulated interactive comic to retell the tale of the first game of the Metal Gear Solid series, one of my favorite game franchises. This, is a new way of dealing with an old media, in other words, new media.

I may have just found our answer.

So why can’t we make something like it? FYP mates, what do you guys think?

Signing off,
Loucifer

Doorways and overview

Doorways, doorways and more doorways.

The only thing running through my mind when I was writing the script. Remembering that worn yet spunky keymaker from the Matrix trilogy, I wondered how he managed those doors, then again, he was a program (or a crack in my opinion).

Which brings to mind something that struck me when I started the script. Throw someone who knows nothing of the Matrix, the Programmes or the Agents. I wonder how would this person react. Shock? Horror? Fascination? Confusion?

But what if he was apathetic? Or rather, naive and stubborn?

Much to ponder indeed, but I did get cracking.

This is a story of a boy, a young man if you will, working as a courier. On the way to deliver a letter, he stumbles into a glitch, subtle enough to go unnoticed, well, unnoticed to him only. Various interactions between the different characters will try to help him shed light on the situation, perhaps confuse him even more, you’ll see.

Can’t let the cat out of the bag can I?

However, I feel film seems so out of place for something like this. It lacks oomph, I’ll go think about it.

Signing off,
Loucifer

23rd January

Third Meeting

Louis showed his draft script.
Incorporating the post man idea with a taste of matrix world.
An adaptation of matrix for FYP, will we be too ambitious?

perhaps not, it’s all about experimenting, our team would like to try it out.

We’ve decided to settle on this concept to work as our film for fyp. It will be tedious but we’ll try our very best.

A FEW TOUCH ONs

Actors and actresses – we’re be asking friends or casting call
Equipments – loan paperwork, equipments needed for the film must be settle
Location – place to film ( hotel corridors?)
Storyboard – We’ll wait for the full script
Script – Louis will be working on it, dateline set on 9th of feb for first evaluation.
Proposal- a summary of the plot and our plans, 2nd feb?

and MEET UP WITH DAVID!!!!!

meanwhile do research, let’s make our adaptation of matrix come true

Here’s the notes for third meeting!

Happy chinese new year

Inspiration amongst other things

Inspiration.

Often it comes from prior manifestations of thought, or sometimes, born from nothing at all.

A few weeks ago, I was playing The Matrix Online on the computer. I always knew the world of The Matrix was a vast one, consisting of both the virtual realm and ‘reality’. What attracted me, particularly, was the fact that in that virtual realm, how code merges seamlessly with the perceived world, built to a twisted form of perfection.

I was drawn in, the next thing I knew, I was watching the Animatrix shorts and devouring whatever information I can glean from the different stories and the raison d’etre of the various characters. In my head, I played with what-ifs and why-nots, focusing on an aspect from Final Flight of the Osiris, where the female lead, Jue, sends off a package, a metaphor for e-mail (a metaphor in itself really, but I shan’t digress).

I have tinkered with this idea and drafted a short script from the rough ideas. Slowly the script developed and by March, it was done. More on the development next week.

Signing off,
Loucifer