Twilight 3

March 26th, 09

Todays lesson was spent pre planning. We are still thinking of locations for our portals, and eventually, we came up with Repulse Bay, Causeway Bay Pedestrian Cross, Braemar Hill Coffee Shop, and victoria park, Catherine's rooftop and road beneath Catherine's home

Again, we touch upon the problem of our conflicting schedules. Catherine's almost never free, but she is the director, so there we have a big problem. We later compromised our time and agreed on filming this Saturday's afternoon from 3 to 7.

I have worked hard on the story board, but it wasn't easy, becuase of the script that Catherine wrote is lacking information. She hasn't planned any shots, all she wrote was lines of description of whats happening. She hasn't even done it on final cut pro, so the scene descriptons, character space, were all jumbled up. There aren't any dialogue on our film either. XiangYi and I copied the script out on final cut pro half way while teaching Catherine how to use this software. She wasnt familiar with where the options are and everything, so I showed here where they are, and also some tips that she didn't notice at first, like pressing enter after a CHARACTER space autimatically gives you a DIALOGUE space. etc.

I left her my email so that she could send me the script after converting it to PDF (because converting it to microsoft would take out the formatting) and i started working on the story board tonight. She told me to plan all the shots for her and use my imagination to create a setting. So I started on internet searching the locations so get a sense of what it looks like. Then just briefly sketching it, I created the start of it. I have no idea what the road near Catherin'es home looks like, so i just drew an ordinary bend in the road. Hopefully, drawing without planning won't affect the filming process much, so I told myself to keep in mind a flexible mindset while filming.

Basically, I have changed the script alot when converting it from word to picture. Lots of the things she wrote didn't make sense and I had to redo the story board several times just so that it follows a logical order. The directions (e.g. left exit screen, left re-enter screen) were also very messy, and i have voiced my concern to catherine, but she just said to leave it and pretend that it was done intentionally. It was a hard script to work on.

Problems and difficulties:
-Overall, i dont think we all work that well as a team.
-As a director, catherine's doesn't pay enough attention to the details, making the team members work doubly hard just so that the directions she give can make logical sense before carrying them out.

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Risk- takers: I have taken some risks in story boarding, because the directions and script was all done in a very unfamiliar manner, and i had to pick my brains and use different ways to over come that problem.