REFLECTION: November 24th, 2009

guess who's back? yes, it's me, whether you like it or not. (dear Thomson Loong, my blog is not weird, it's just...too cool)

"today" Lea wasn't here so we had to do stuff by ourselves. we started filming the documentary and we decided to start off with a "vlog" about what we were going to do and what we did, we were kind of disorganized when we were filming it because Nadia insisted on just filming instead of planning out what we were going to say, but in the end we just kept it short and "sweet" so we could move on to the filming of the sounds because that's the more important part.

we went to the bathroom to continue filming the water sounds and we found out that we left the tape in the lab so i had to go up and get it while Nadia and Vikki filmed parts for the documentary. (i'm sort of in charge of all the tapes, because i have a thing for tapes. i have like 4 tapes in my bag: the sound tape, the documentary tape, the clean air network tape and the CT tape). i did all the logging and stuff so that kinda makes me "assistant camera" for this project, which is fine by me because i like doing the logging...kind of.

basically what we filmed today was the raining sound and the wading water sound and also the running water sound. we used the showers for the raining sound and we kind of wasted a lot of water because we turned on quite a lot of showerheads to create a "surrounding" sound of the rain and we filmed for quite long because the sounds didn't really sound right when we first did it, but in the end we decided that we could slow the audio down a little during the editing process to make it fit the comic a bit more (yes, editing again, it's always editing...)
for the wading through water and running water scenes, we had to find a way to clog the sinks because there weren't any of the things they use to plug in to the draining thing in the bathrooms. in the end we had to hold our hand over the drain to keep the water from going out so fast, and i could tell that Nadia was kinda annoyed because she had to do it...i did the role of the camera operator for those scenes and i really liked doing it because i got to do whatever i want with the video shot as long as i got the sound, so i could kind of play around with zooming and stuff while Vikki did the sound operating and Nadia did the actual sound making and it wouldn't affect anything.

i think we messed around less today and we were more organized because we already kind of know what we need and therefore we could work more effectively. it's also probably because Lea's not here so Nadia doesn't have her best friend around her so we couldn't split into 2 groups and worked as a big group instead, which is, of course, better than splitting up. so i think we actually did quite a lot and we got almost all of the water sounds we need and we only need to do the horse scenes, which we'll do when Lea's here because she's the expert on horses.

short reflection..
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