Day 2

Upon attending today’s class and observing my fellow classmates blog entry, I’ve realized how vague and general I’ve been with my first entry. On hindsight, I should have added the kind of ideas that we’ve come up with on the first day, the general timeline of what we’ve planned to accomplish and make a list on who is presenting what modules.

It’s never too late to list them down along with what we’ve accomplished today; here I go.

Yesterday, other than discussing how our video should look like, we’ve also collated the modules we’ve taken throughout our year. We managed to come up with 2D art fundamentals, 3D art fundamentals, drawing essentials, ideation, creative storytelling, communicating design ideas, animation fundamentals, digital photography, video fundamentals and also included, our cross disciplinary subjects and electives, visual presentation, public speaking and Italian (although the reason behind including Italian is still quite sketchy).

We also decided who should present the modules and that we should get all our modules back by Wednesday.

We also discussed the theme of our video, if it’s going to have a plot or if it’s going to solely be a documentary. We then decided that the idea of having a plot was fascinating but we didn’t want to tie ourselves down with a theme until we figure out how we are going to present the modules in the video.

That led to today’s discussion. We had to work out on how we’re going to present our modules without making it seem dull and boring. We listed down the modules again and visualized on how we’re going to showcase them in our video. We decided to add animated characters to showcase our skills at animation. We came across a problem when we broached on how we were going to present our video fundamentals module. We then decided that our whole video could speak for the module itself. So far, we’ve made more progress.

In class, we were also told to think of a message or two that we want to put across in our video. My group and I came up with the same message, the first being that we want our target audience (the freshmen, parents and people in open house) to be informed on what they should expect during the first year of school. Through our experiences, we hope to successfully achieve in that area. Also, our underlying message is that through our experiences in school, we hope to portray that we also had fun. Fun, meaning the satisfaction of completing a certain module and that we enjoy doing our work as well.

Even though we only had a few minutes to spare because of other commitments, we’ve managed to progress this far.
Onward to the third day.