First of all, the short clip 'Spider' has a great plot twist, I mean, two great plot twists towards the end. When you think a girl gets distracted and pops out of the car because she gets freaked out from the fake spider, her bf then throws it at her as a prank and she gets hit by a car would be the end, you are actually wrong, the latter scene where the paramedics are going to get the girl a shot but one of them sees the fake spider under the girl's arm, freaks out so accidentally the needle goes in the guy's eye who plays prank. Really interesting hmm. Another animated short film 'the cat piano' is more of a poetic piece conventionally tells an heroic act of a anthropomorphic cat who takes action to rescue numerous citizens in the town whom got kidnapped by a humanoid figure in the incident of the cat piano. Throughout the film, deep black and blue style is one of the components I find really compelling. The atmosphere it creates have given the viewers a preconception of something horrific and disturbing might happen. As the story progresses, the paranoia and mysteriousness unfolds alongside his attempts to save those missing ones. Great visual effects!! Great narration overall :)
Other than watching two short clips in the class, we were taught to write screenplay. That's very easy for me since I've done a few for others before. Then there was this activity for everyone's practice to know how to write one with correct format. There were some contributing to our creative 'AIT' screenplay in the class. With everyone's different ideas to put in our class screenplay, our story ends up like this: One sunny morning the lecturer stands in front of the class teaching us. Suddenly a fell dragon crashes in the classroom and eats George (one of our classmates who usually sits at the front), Then Peter (another classmate who sits behind George) says: 'this is why you don't sit at the front'. And Ashburn (my pre-production classmate) plays out the song 'bad day' loudly...blah blah blah... This is why I like AIT the best, the vividness we have here is far more interactive than what we do at uni..
And I sat with Gold today so it's much easier for me to ask questions when some problems occurs when using illustrator. He's certainly not in the same level as us. The fastness he got his work done as well as the flexibility to know where to find the tools, how to use a particular tool and make connection with other tools to get the effects you want has impressed me a lot. And he said he'd teach me other skills after our pre-production class. I swear sitting with him is the best thing ever in my digital images class.
I was still working on that tutorial task during my half an hour break. I was becoming so into this project that I nearly forgot to attend my pre-production class until I checked my watch 10 minutes after the class started. Soon I walked back to the other side of AIT where I attended my pre-production class, everyone has already settled down. Waiting for Pai's presentation, our own presenter today would be talking about a story of only one character involved. For me, her short film is explicitly reflected so many teen's problems nowadays as 'Diet' is something we've heard quite often from so many girls. I like how her visual images have illustrated so much more from the synopsis provided there. The remaining one hour was for us to do a short screenplay with 3 or 4 pages as a practice. Everyone had to work on their own in the computer room with a limited contents the teacher offered from the synopsis. Given that the synopsis is about a guy waits for his coffee at a long queue until he sees an attractive girl and attempts to hook her up. The first attempt of the conversation is a fail; the second attempt he tries to compliment her but turn out to be an offensive situation; and the last attempt he finally gets to have a date with her. Pai came to ask me how much I had written half an hour later, she was surprised that I was nearly finished.
Anyways after the last class we had, Katie, Pai, Gold and I found a room to work on our unfinished tasks. Gold was only there to help me out, I didn't want to waste too much time of his because this guy still needed to get his presentation done tonight. So he taught me how to overlap different layers to construct natural sense of a portrait and using some other feather effects etc to create the shadows. After he left, I asked Pai about our third tutorial task which I was late at that time and that I had no idea what to do the rest of the class. She patiently taught me how to use pathfinder to overlap my hidden layer and to group three objects together to make a clipping mask, wrap the shape and use reflection tool to make a heart shape. You only find something simple when you get how it works. Anyways looking at how she effortlessly was doing her spider man image in less than a few hours, it turned out so well even Katie and I couldn't help to stare at her work, and take several pictures of it. Btw I was told that Pai was once a graphic designer...Great...I can ask her so much more about what a graphic designer does...
Sad thing is, my mood was totally killed by mum all because I forgot to tell her I'd be late to get home tonight. Saying that I never care how she feels, judging me so negatively only because of one mistake I make, I was only silently chewing my food. And the voicemail greeting of my number once again popped out which has charged her when she called me for a few times, yup...this is why she's so mad...Anyways I guess I am getting too used to someone's madness up to the point that I become so cold. It can never be a good timing to say anything during the time when she's mad, the only solution to calm her down is to listen to her blabbering. Anyhow, seems like I have been having some unhappy moments since I came back home lol Even talking to my panpan that is. We had a minor argument because of an unnamed retarded reason before we went to sleep...It's been said that life is indeed, not so much about what happens to you, but how you react to what happens to you. Maybe emotional instability is that some of us have this tendency to make a big deal out of small things. But honestly, it's not really that you've got better reason to argue back or not since dealing with your love ones is not about winning or losing, so be generous to them, let the argument cease...
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