Project 2 - Preview short film

Today we managed to make a preview of what's going to happen on our first opening sequence. We organize all the shot sequence and edit it on the same day. There were also added shots that we think it's more appropriate rather than in the storyboard. We played around as well on the technicality of the lights around the house. We try to imagine as much as possible on how it's going to look like during the night even we shot during the daytime.  I add the darkish blue style and put the suspense atmosphere sound in the film.

Here's what we have done for today.



Preview A Wolf's Diary from John Dexter Abaya on Vimeo.

Project 2 - Horror Styles

I researched some of the styles from vimeo. I find to liking the bluish dark styles because it gives more depth and mood to the horror genre.
Limbo - unfinished transition from Fabrizio Cutrona on Vimeo.

there were also styles that I consider to be part of our short film. Like in this one what I like about is the dark contrast with little bit of grain on the video. I could possibly put this on the killing scenes

Horror film test, cute puppy? from Tim Collins on Vimeo.

In this video what I like about is the old school style and dull colour with a reddish/blue saturation added with a dark contrast, giving the moods of grunge and revenge on the scene.


HV40 horror Test footage from Joseph Lavender on Vimeo.

Project 2 - Week 1

Our project this time is to make a 4-6 minutes video base on our chosen folk tale/short story, and the catch is we have to make it to our chosen genre. Our group, Chris, Sam and me started getting the main concept of a horror/romance genre. We also decided that we're going to do the story of the "Three Little Pigs". At first we gather these ideas and tries to connect them. Some of us have the same ideas that make us compromise to each other but of course we can't get out of having a struggle from putting their own opinions. We decided that we're not going to follow much of the story line and move on to our creative idea that will interact with our horror/romance genre. 

                                                            A Wolf's Diary

The concept:

It's about getting revenge for those pigs being so greedy.

The storyline:

There's this guy who went to his girlfriend's house because he got a text from her that something is bad happening into his house. He went there, finds her until to her bedroom. He founds a book on the floor and reads it (The girl's diary). He founds out in the diary that she killed the last two boyfriend that she had because they were cheating on her. In the end he found's out he was also caught cheating and he's next on the list. He was shock and turns around she's already there at his back, making a surprise attack on him.

The relation characters:

The wolf is the girl that's got betrayed by her three boyfriends. The boyfriends portrays the three little pigs. They can't get enough of their own girl that they cheat on her, which makes the girl (wolf) makes a revenge and attacks them. Like a wolf she attacks in a surprising way that the prey wouldn't even escape. 

At this point we managed to make a storyboard from opening-ending. We were about to finalize our shot sequence and the location of the place were going to shoot. On our next meeting were going to finish the scripts and getting ready to rent out the equipments.

Editing Excercise

In this exercise we manage to make our own piece of a short video that has a story that we made only by putting some pieces of the video and audio provided. We try to understand the concept of this exercise at first and we moved on to watching the videos. There are some videos that are inter-connected to each other which is some way, we combine them to make our own piece. I just realize how powerful the editing was, after I finished my own video. We could make our own genre by putting together some video and audio that will connect and mix perfectly to each other.

Here's some of the screenshots from the video that I made.

Project 1 - Drawing Robot

At the end of the production we learned a lot not just in our own project but also seeing how the other's manage to do their own project as well. Similarly, problems that arise from all the groups were about ideas and concepts. But refining these fuzzy logics, turns into a brilliant product.  

Project 1

There were limits on the programming where you can’t make it stop while in a loop, which I just discovered during the process of making it. I also observe that the robot that we were making is not really complicated, so I try to cut down the program into a simple terms and wouldn’t complicate it further since we also have to be aware of our timeframe. But in some way I manage to make another way of stopping it by simply adding a switch block on it. Discovering this kind of things makes me feel really good inside, which is a sense of achievement. There were numerous times that I have to deal with this kind of problem but I don't give up on doing it because I know there's always some way that can go pass through the problem. 

- Sharpening the programming skill

- Awareness of limitations and time

- Develop a furthermore solutions in the future.

Week 3 - Project 1

This week were doing a project of a robot that makes drawing of any kind. It might be a light painting, canvas painting, just a simple drawing of a pen and brush etc. We have to decide first what's the robot going to draw or any artistic. First thing we did is we research about drawing robots and the kind of art it will possibly can make.

I did some research on what kind of art it will make. Is it going to be abstract, mosaic, geometrical and anything that is possible that make's it look like an art. I also think about what kind of robot model that we should make. At first I thought about making a missile shooter robot, that launches paint balls or sort of a soft ball that will splatter into a canvas. In the end we decided on drawing on sand. Sand art has been in many generations. The object of this project is to create a meditating and peaceful harmony of art through the use of the robot as one tool in achieving this particular project.

The Orientation Week 1st Activity

It's the first week of the BCT and it's already hyping up. There were great activities that happened this week.
First was the Social Mapping which you have to put your interest in the sticky notes and connect it to other people with the same interest as well. When I was taking a picture, it happens that I forgot to put the SD card to the right place so I didn't get any picture, fail.. :(


Anyway after one of the lecturer Mr.Gabriel, told us to make a structure of that social map using the Gephi software and make a visualization of it. It's kinda interesting to use Gephi because it kinda like a Photoshop but at the same time your doing some sort of Programming when we entered the data in Microsoft Excel and importing it to Gephi.  I'm pretty sure we're gonna use this a lot during the course. After that we decided to pick one of the works we did and develop it further to an extent of what can be a more interesting way to present it. 


Overall I see that there are flaws in the making of a boring information or data into an engaging way so that audience or viewers would be attracted to it. It's a sort of marketing strategy as well in my perspective. Nevertheless this course would be really exciting in the future outcomes.