Friday, September 30, 2005
hey hey!! today is the last and final day of impj! ha.. it's finally over.. three long and tedious weeks of constant staring at the com and stuck in the freezing mac lab has finally come to an end. well, we're in sch doing the final touching up before handing it all up at 12. for us lucky girls, presentation is at 2 so we dont haf to wait that long. lets jsut pray hard that we dont get blasted too badly so we can all enjoy our hols! good luck pple! =)- chang
Heh heh.. Finally we are almost done with our YEAR 2 Studio Project. Afetr the 3 tedious weeks, we are still ALIVE. Let's pray hard that our presentation goes smoothly without being fired or being prompt with alot of questions. Anyway, it's definately very nice to work with my fellow teammates for the project. Hope the lecturers will like our concept and not let our efforts go to waste!
- elaine
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! the long awaited day for this whole impj thing is finally over.. or rather almost over.. its the second last day and we're almost done. most of the stuff that we have to hand in tmr are finished. just left with the little parts here and there that needs to do chuchked in and we're done with the third studio project of our lives ( and probably the toughest so far). what we have not done:- website; mock ups and screen shots page
- director ( rollovers and bg for two graphics)
- sb
karen and siti were supposed to go print our poster and what not just now, as in they were supposed to leave at 2 but the sb was not completed and the file that they saved yesterday was gone so they had to kinda add in the text again. so we're probably gonna leave at 4 or 5 to go print and that's the end of the impj. as for tmr's presentation, we had to draw lots for the order of presentation and lucky us are one of the first two groups to go first.. dunno if that's supposed to be good or not.. anyway, good luck to us! good luck to everyone! its almost the end and we managed to hang on until the end!! yay!! applause* throw confetti drink champaign.. we're almost there...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Hi all...i can barely wait for holidays since its alrd around the corner. but still, have to go through friday first-the final presentation!
schedule for today:-
1. short animations and rollovers for application
2. complete web design
3. complete project report - bound and filed
4. complete packaging
Hopefully, there wont be any problem faced today, except that applications like illustrator and director keep shutting down on their own. grrr.
Tomorrow... must complete application and test it and ensure that the stuff to be printed are ready.
for printing:-
flowcharts
research material
digital storyboard
poster
cd cover
Pray hard that we can finish tmr.. so that we can enjoy the upcoming well-deserved break! =)
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
It's tuesday... 3 days left before submission.Target during today's studio time:-
- digital storyboard + project report
- webdesign
- cdcover
- director and flash as much as we could
and at e same time, we'll also do more webdesign+director+flash at home.
No major problem faced today. Just that we are not too sure about the format of the project report. Afraid that we'll get it wrong again. We'll ask Ms Ng later.
cant wait for lunch actually. =p
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Monday, September 26, 2005
oMg..5 more days left to holidays(*exciTed*) but that also indicates studio project is due soon. Alrite, we managed to finish our given "tasks" during the weekends. So today we will start tackling director and put all the sketches and mockups to our website! If there is still time left, hope to edit out A2 poster( the existing one we did seems to be too cluttered)Problems faced:
Nil( not at d moment)=D
Things to be done
- Director interactive site
-Bloggy
-Website
-A2 poster
-Cd cover
-Organise all our mockups, sketches, blah blah blah
-Digital Flowchart
GErs!!...5 more Days!..hanG on!
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Friday, September 23, 2005
Last day of the week, a week left till the final presentation.All 9 hrs were spent on graphics. we plan to complete all graphics (frame by frame) by Mon, the day that we hope we can start concentrating on scripting. Each of us are alrd assigned a task.
Health - me
Fashion- karen
Plantation- jiawan
car interior and interface - elaine
(all about 1/2 done and to be completed during the weekends)
I guess we didnt really face any major problem today, but still, we felt a tinge of fear that we may not be abe to complete the application on time. But at this point of time, all we can do is try our best to do as much as we can, encourage each other not to give up and at the same time, take care of our health.
Plans for next week/Things not done yet:-
-scripting
-webdsgn
-packaging
-final report
i think that's abt it, i hope.
Stress is in the air. Deadline's drawing nearer.
It was indeed a stressful and rather disappointing week, with ideas rejected then re-done.
Let's pray hard we'll get through this, together.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
After yesterday's disaster, we need to fasten our paces. Ms Ng talked to us today, she sort of approved our idea but gonna further confirm later. Today ain and i will continue doing our graphics then elaine continues doing editing d director site. Our TofuWe reallocated our tasks( Hope to finished everything on monday)
=Jiawan will be incharge of the graphics for the visit to the greenhose
=Elaine will be incharge editing the director part
=Ain will be incharge of the graphics for the health scan center
=Karen will be incharge of the graphics for the Fashion
Nevertheless, everyone will get involved with the director part as soon as we finished our graphics.
Problems encountered and solution=
- The computers keep auto shut off...Wth! But due to the previous bad experiences, we becum smarter!...heh
Gers ...hang on!!...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
today's presentation was a total disaster, or rather a total failure.our wish of the presentation going well yesterday did not come true. firstly, the lecturers told us that our director thing did not have much or rather any interaction and the whole planting of the veg section was made to seem like it was pointless. so in other words, we had to rethink our concept and think of other ways to make the site more interactive. the same thing was basically running through our minds; REDO! or somewhat close to redoing. so after the whole presentation, our sprits were not exactly what you would call high.
so we spent most of the day rethinking our concept and how to make the site more interacive and this is the conclusion: we sooo have to work faster and harder cause we're gonna redo the graphics and stuff so yeah. after that, we had some time so we changed the colour of some of our graphics to make it look more inviting and fun cause our previous graphics were dull and mostly grey. tmr's gonna be a long day and we still have a long way to go.. hang in there girls.. hang in there people..
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
okie.. ANOTHER BBBBIIIIGGGGG PROBLEM!!! just as we thought we could go for lunch and ease our aching tummys from the constant growling.. the computer closed the programme; illustrator unexpectedly and so all our works done in the morning was gone... GONE... DOWN THE DRAIN and we did save all the files except the poster which was pretty much the most important file that we did for the whole morning. so now, karen and siti has to redo the whole thing again and elaine and i will probably work on our website.lesson learnt: save your work every ten minutes in case misfortune like this befalls on us again.
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Monday, September 19, 2005
ain here. the total BLOG IDIOT. first time ever blogging, and making amendments to the otherwise untouched blog. =)Today was a rather fruitful day. we started the day with Jiawan and Elaine doing the mockups in Director then Karen and I planned the weekly plan for the whole of 3weeks. We couldn't wait for lunch as we were all starving.
After lunch, Jiawan and Elaine continued doing the Director mockups, while Karen and I completed some more graphics. After which, we confirmed on all our navigations and did a navigation flowchart. Time passed very fast just now, which was good! Lets all hope that tmr will be yet another worthwhile day.
Problems faced at the moment:
The transitions in Director lagged alot in the Mac comps when we transferred our files which were done at home, to the comps here. We were also quite clueless about the format of the report and the differences btwn content flowchart and graphical storyboard. There were also a number of difficulties faced due to the system's differences in Mac comps and PCs.
Solutions:
We plan to seek the supervisors for assistance. And ya, we ensured that there's always a supply of snacks to munch on to keep us going.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Hmm.. today was not a good day for us. Out of 4 macs, 2 cannot use. How are we going to do our work??? Haix.. realised that mac always have technical problems, OMG =( Continued with our graphic designs for cars and buildings then combined then together to make the main page. Yep, it looked so much better than the first design. haha.. Then we had another discussion with the lecturers to talk about our edited storyboard. Hmm.. it kind of work out and they gave us suggestions about how some parts can be improved. We had a better idea then we started reseach on the graphics, each of us contributed our ideas and planned out the final storyboard. We also started designing our sub-pages. Before we ended the day, we allocated different jobs for each member. Indeed, a lot of work to be done.
That's all for the day. May luck be with us tml to have all 4 macs working. *prays*
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
I m so Bored. Despite waiting for hours for the presentation, the lecturers rejected our work again. The result was simply have to change alot of things. It is taking forever to get approval for our storyb. It is so frustrating whenever we are stuck on one part of the storyboard, just NO IDEA of how to continue. *Squeezing our brain juices out* But anyway, we started our digital mockups. We came up with another storyboard after break and got approval from Ms Coen although still have to add more ideas to it. Have to trace all the graphics for the main page, juz have to make them looked as high tech as possible, haha.. We planned out what we have to do and draw lots to see who has to do which part at home.Very tired.. But we will hold on..
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
yea.. now my turn. Elaine's here. Right now I'm re-typing out the flowchart for our chosen topic 'Weather' because the current one is not printed properly. We waited till 7 plus to get to discuss our ideas with the lecturers, but luckily both our ideas was approved. *phew* We then decided to work on Weather because it is more interesting (I guess), hur hur.. Eh, wasted quite alot of brain cells while we brainstorm on our topic, omg.. we spent quite long on that. Lame ideas came to our mind though, Haha.. But yep, we got our ideas listed down on both paper and in the powerpoint. We also planned our work schedule for the 3 weeks and hopefully we can follow strictly to it. =PAll right, I guess that's all for now. *gone*
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the whole day was spent doing the storyboard and mock- ups for tomorrow's presentation. elaine and siti worked on the mock- ups while karen and i (jiawan) did the storyboards. once in a while there was the usual goofing around and asking each other for ideas when we ran out of brain juice but other than that, i guess today was a rather unproductive day. probably cause two out of the four coms we had were also down so progress was a little slow, but well... tomorrow will be a better day and hopefully presentation goes well..
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Monday, September 12, 2005
Our very first post in this log book for the studio project. Today is the first day of the impj and the first thing that we did today was probably to decide our group name; hsbc which stands for happily single bitch club. Then came the project proposal which was a total flop. they rejected every idea that we came up with and asked us questions that we ourselves answered until there was a big confusion. well what to do? redo. and that came after lunch. we came up with six ideas in all and that was cut down to two, namely weather and transportation.The bottom line is that impj had us racking our brains to come up with an ideal concept and the theme of it was how we would percieve the future in the year 2050. By today, we have to come up with the concept design and the flowchart and this, is the log book that we have to update everyday to show our progress. Well today's entry, which is the very first entry is done by me ; jia wan. =)
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