PreProduction Materials, Finally Scanned

I've recently bought a 3 in 1 (Printer, Scanner & Photocopier) Canon Pixma. And immediately started scanning my PreProduction materials.

Character Sketch:

Storyboard:

Location Release:

Scene Summaries:

Shooting Schedules:

Floorplans:

Montage Animation Style & Look

The above is the basic design for the animated bits in Kiamu!!!, excerpted from the Njet-Steng explanation & demonstration scene. The basic design is...well..basic. The character is casted against a white background.

Looking at how dull and flat it is, I've decided to add a bit of texture into the design. And what other texture would be better to represent school students other than paper? So I applied a recycled paper look to it:

I think it looks fine but still plain somehow. So I revisit the schoolboy-paper concept and applied a lined school exercise/notebook look to it:
I think this looks better in some sense, but i still somehow preferred the wrinkles that I get from the other version, as it gives a somewhat grittier look. So i added the two elements up:

I'm liking this one, especially the depths I'm getting from it. So i took this design and played around with the colours and ended up with the one below:

I'm liking the reddish tint that somehow shows as if the material has worn out due to it's age. Which is cohesive with the concept that the narrator is describing events from his past. It also goes well with the colour theme of the whole production - Red, White & Black.

Problems Editing

A problem, caused by an apparent capturing issue has made editing "Kiamu!!!" a lot harder than supposed. When dragging captured footage onto the timeline, the video and the two audio tracks seems unified. However when I start editing (trimming/cutting/dragging) the video, the audio tracks doesn't seem to be affected. Vice-versa if I edit the sound, and if I for example apply a cross dissolve to audio track A1, audio track A2 is not the mirroring the action like it's supposed to. No tracks are locked, hidden or protected for this to normally happen.

Update: Looks like I've found the solution to this issue. Apparently I've miraculously clicked on an icon I've never had any knowledge of what it does:

The button is called the "Link Selection", in which we can choose to edit video & audio simultaneously or separately. This may come in handy, but I'll stick to locking & unlocking the tracks when I want edit separately.

Cant believe it took me a week to figure this out.

Powerpoint Slides

Just here to upload the slides (in jpegs) from my recent presentation:

What went down yesterday.

English is not my first language, and I'm a terrible public speaker. Having that said, imagine how much worse of a public speaker I am if I'm reluctant? I've always dread the idea of showing anything I'm working on when it's not done. So I've decided to bring in mistakes and out takes, (which was my bad for not telling anyone prior to that). I was nervous of course, being reluctant and all. So when bombarded, I cant even think. And I thought I did a terrible job defending my work. To make it up to Kiamu!!!, (a project closest to my heart among any other) I'll post up my arguments here, not being able to say anything back the other day (which was totally embarrassing...). First off, if anyone was paying attention in my previous presentations, they'd know I was planning to take the documentary-like approach to the film from the beginning. The first line in my proposal actually does say the word "docudrama". And if one reads the script that I've handed in, it should make things even clearer. So when they say that the film is "going another direction", that is just simply not true. As it's going exactly where I intend it to. Maybe it's not going the direction that they have been persuading me to take, that's what upsets them. But I personally think that film school is the only time I'll be able to express myself the way I like most. As this would be almost impossible once I step foot in the industry. Although I was planning to use a boom, the audio levels of the diegetic environment were going to be brought down in the end anyways, giving way to the much substantial voice-overs. Switching mics was a decision made in complete awareness of this. The logo on the characters' shirts didn't mean anything, but the colors do. So to no mislead anyone into believing that I'm going to go with their suggestions again: 1. No, i would most probably not attempt to deteriorate the audio to the cellphone-like audio quality level. 2. No, i would most probably not attempt to deteriorate the video quality as well. 3. Again, I'm going DOCUDRAMA on this!

Kiarite!! Kiarite!! Kiamu!!!