Day...11!

Heyhey it's gina here. germ's suppose to blog today but she's sick (so many people are falling ill nowadays!!) and so she didn't come today! she fell ill on saturday (on our bday, how unlucky is that?) so i'm blogging on monday for this week. but she's feeling alot better already so yea. :] she should be back on wednesday. and even though she couldn't film with us today, she's going to compile the footage that we got at home. :]

today we completed 6 scenes!! whoooooo!! :D pretty darn happy! ;b we encountered some continuity problems though but we managed to solve it. added an extra scene (the product entering the basket which was nicccceee) and switched the numbers for some. we had the usual problems of lighting, shadow and unintentional item movement but we tried our best to keep those problems to the minimum. but it's still rather inevitable especially because of camera shake. ;X that can't be helped. Amanda said she's more concerned about the storytelling bit and not so much on the rest though and so that's a little comforting i suppose. ;]

oh and i'm not sure if this is mentioned yet but we decided not to put in any expressions for now...so it'll be shown through "body language". hopefully that would work!!


we also need a backdrop for our set and so we used the two wooden-textured-looking boards that shushu bought over the weekend. ;] there's a line inbetween but at least it looked better than having other surroundings in the shot.








Our broccoli was also starting to rot and turn yellow and so we found some green spray to spray on our broccoli! doesn't it look much healthier now? xb
















and raymond helped us to cut out the rotting brown bits on our califlower. ;] thanks! and ohoh here's another thank you to amanda for lending us your lamp!! ;] heh.

anyway, it was fun and time passes really quickly when we're doing the stop motion. we also have to be innovative and creative when solving certain problems. i wished that our course included some modules on stop-motion...that would be really awesome...but too bad it doesn't. ;[ but if this stop-motion piece turns out well and if my skills improve on stop-motion, i might use it for my FYP seeing how i can't exactly draw and my 3D skills are pretty horrid. ;b glad to know that there's at least some other alternative! yea so thats today!! :D

and oh yea we watched two wallace and gromit animations today during our project3 class. it's stop-motion as well and it's really inspiring and awesome!! go watch it if you haven't seen it yet! ;]

gina.