REFLECTION: January 2010 + rambling

TWENTY TEN.
so today we FINALLY finished everything that we needed to finish, after worrying about it for AGES. when we got back to school, we were kinda worried about the documentary because we focused on the comic and the sounds so much that we didn't get to do much for the documentary at all because we had SO MUCH footage for the documentary that we needed to capture and it would take so long to get everything captured. so on thursday i stayed after school with Vikki to basically capture everything we filmed before onto the computer and we finished off the music and everything so we would be all set for Friday when everyone else would be coming in and finishing everything off.
so friday was supposed to be like the last class that we had to work on our projects and everything was due by monday, so we were really panicked and everything and all these problems started coming out because, well problems always come out when you do things at the last minute.
PROBLEMS...FIRSTLY, everything was captured onto my account, and therefore we could not work on them at the same time, which is BAD because well, we could have been working on both things simultaneously instead of waiting for one to finish. that's bad judgment on my part because i was the one who did the capturing, i should have asked Vikki to log in to her account to let us capture onto there.
SECONDLY, we changed computers and therefore nothing is synced right and because I haven't synced for so long there is SO MUCH to sync and it'll take probably an hour at that rate and therefore we gave up syncing and we couldn't find any of the documentary clips on the computer...which leads to
THE THIRD PROBLEM: we decided to capture everything again onto Vikki's account so we could work from there while Nadia and Lea finish off the comic editing (which they have been doing for ages), but when we tried capturing, the tape was BLANK...so we were all pretty much SCREWED...and we decided to stay after school to film it again...

so we all stayed after school and we split into two groups: Vikki and Nadia films the parts for the documentary while Lea and I edited the comic. so Lea and Nadia were talking about the music not showing up properly on Final Cut and at first we thought it was the file's problem, but when i saw the timeline i figured out that it was because it wasn't rendered properly, therefore the music only shows up as a beeping noise...so Lea and i tried to render the music, except that there wasn't enough disk space, even after i deleted all the clips from the CAN project...so we had to ask Mr Chiang to help us and it took up some time...but after Mr Chiang helped us sort of the things, we found the clips that i have previously captured onto the computer, which is good because then we went on to edit it on monday...

YESTERDAY (monday) was the last day and Lea wasn't here so we had to do the documentary editing "on our own". we had basically everything done for the comic, except we needed to capture around 10 minutes of footage for the sound that we need to add in and also the documentary. this time, we learned from our past mistakes and we utilized the "public" folder and captured everything onto Vikki's account first while Nadia finished off the comic and dropped the clips into the public folder so we could access it from my account. so we finished off the comic sounds and started on the documentary, which Vikki and I were supposed to edit, except Nadia started hogging the jobs and tried to do everything when we were offering to take over because she already did a lot for our project (no, this is definitely different from the time when i "hogged" the jobs for the CAN project, they didn't show up, i was RIGHT NEXT TO HER asking her if she needed help, and she clearly needed help because she was still doing some sort of assembly edit when we came back at break time...=.="). and the problem is Nadia kept TELLING ME TO HELP HER, when there was no way i could help her except for at times when she asked me how to do some kind of technical thing with Final Cut Pro, other than that, I had nothing to do except sit there and watch her edit...I got quite pissed because she wouldn't even take my suggestions, i told her to do a split screen for the beginning but she said that there wasn't enough time when in fact doing a simple split screen on FC would take less than 5 minutes.
when we came back during lunch time, I was editing and making the edit better (less plain than what she was doing, which was literally dragging all the clips onto the timeline and matching them with the music) and she kept trying to take over and complained to me that i was working "too slowly" when she had spent almost 45 minutes just doing simple trim, drag and fade stuff...Nadia also kept pointing out my "mistakes" and kept saying that "that part isn't rendered" or "that part overlapped" when I was the one who helped her render stuff in the first place...she also kept underestimating Vikki, who is actually really good and she was the only one who managed to use LiveType when Nadia and I both struggled to find the right way to do it...(Mr Chiang wouldn't help us and told us to figure it our by ourselves...)
after awhile, Nadia left to finish her art homework so Vikki and I worked together to pick out some other clips to add onto the documentary and finished it...even though we had all sorts of disagreements, i think we actually improved compared to the last project because at least we didn't have two different documentaries (like we had 2 clips last time) and we did have more team work than last time (however, we had a lot of communication problems, which needs to be improved if we ever work as a team more...)

P.S:let me clarify something. we did not leave everything to the last minute because Vikki and I were always giggling and fooling around. i agree that i was quite loud and we did talk a lot but we did finish composing the music for the comic book (even though it was mostly Vikki playing the keyboard). and i did not just sit there and watch everyone film, i held the camera for all the earlier scenes (when we filmed the sound) apart from the one where we filmed the shower, Nadia did the camera for that. and I'm not trying to show off or say anything but all i'm saying is that i guess i'm sort of the "producer/technician" of this project because i basically watch/listen to/look at everything everyone else does before they export it and adjust stuff and i did contribute to everything there is to contribute to. i may not be the person who did everything (unlike in the CAN thing when Vikki and I did everything), but that's just because my role is different and stuff...more about that later..

XXX