11. almost there!

Okay.. not really. We're not really almost there. But the finishing of the project is getting closer and closer, and I think we actually are going to finish pretty soon. After recognizing how far behind schedule we are, Jerald, LokLok, Michele and I decided to go work on the film at lunch yesterday. I found out that two pages of recording by Jerald and Marcus had just disappeared, so we spent our lunch re-recording Jerald's parts. In between giving Jerald comments on his recording, I continued editing.

Today in film, we went through a lot of problems with one of the computers, so some time was wasted fixing the problems - Michele could not even capture a two-minute clip for the documentary before the computer froze. After restarting the computer, the same thing happened, and we gave up capturing. In between trying to figure the problem out, Lok Lok and I edited the soundtrack for the comic. As I have been concentrating more on the documentary than the comic (I had not done anything for the comic other than record my dialogue and coming up with a few sounds using the foley method), I actually had only a vague idea of how the soundtrack was turning out. After working on it today, though, I can see that it is almost done. The soundtrack is harder to edit than the documentary in a way because of the amount of recording that needs to be done for every line. I can only imagine how much work Lok Lok, Jerald and Marcus must have put into it to watch everything and choose the best recorded line and cutting all the rest out. Today, LokLok and I basically the sounds and dragged the clips around to match the sound and the image. First, we had to import the images again as we had imported them on another computer before. We realized that the images weren't available on the computer we were on. This required help from the technician to drop the files into an accessable folder again for us. Although this did not take long, and was not really a problem to us, it did teach me to always keep one project on one computer, instead of messing around with different computers.

We all came again at lunch to work. Marcus finished recording his dialogue, and Michele and I cut down even more on the documentary to make room for the new sections we want to include. Although we had already cut down on a lot, watching it today made me realize that what we had left wasn't all necessary either. This taught me to be more discreet in my choices on which clips to keep, something that I can apply to my next project. All in all, today was a pretty successful working day.