Done!

Sorry for the lack of updates.. but it is because I am finished my film!

Everything went out smoothly~ my film was completed on the day of the deadline (April 29) and everything- animation, colours, bgs, etc etc were all FINISHED =D

I mentioned about my composer and sound designer in my previous posts. My original composer and sound designer both dropped out on me near the end of the deadline, so the sounds and music are not made from them. It was really stressful to have people suddenly tell me that they can't work on the sounds and music but I am glad that it worked out in the end! (Thank you so much Ayaz and Nicholas!!)

So yep~ The film is currently being screened at Emily Carr till May 22. On May 21, it will be screened at the Vancity theater in Vancouver.

Although this film gave me a lot of panics and stress during the making of it, in the end I am very glad I worked on it. It was really worth the effort and I can finally said that I have tried my best and completed a film in my final year of university =)

Now I just need to build my portfolio and hopefully find a good job

Trailer + Press kit!

I have been insanely busy, so I haven't been updating""


Anyways! I have just finished my trailer and press kit! The press kit is for class view only since it has my address in it.. but the trailer is available to view for everyone XD

Trailer:


My World Trailer from Jenny Chen on Vimeo.


Press kit (Password protected for class view only):

http://www.mediafire.com/?xaockrjgr63y199

UPDATE:

      Right now I am just struggling to finish my film. I still have work from other classes which is not really helping.. but I just have one more scene of animation to finish, which I am aiming to finish by this Sunday... aiming. After I still have 26 backgrounds to make.. which I have no idea how I will get done. And then I need to colour the animations.. Omg.

     The sound mix is pretty much finished. My sound designer is still tackling one particular sound, but that is about it.

      Since I have not finished my animation yet, I have not mailed two of my voice actors with my animations that needs voices yet... which is Richard and Lay's voice actors. I promised them that I will be mailing them this Friday with all the scenes that needs voice so they can have at least a week and a half to work on the voices.

     My composer if still working on school stuff, but he has worked on the music for the beginning sequence (which in the trailer) and will soon be able to tackle the other music in my film.

    So yea.. I am just crazy stressed right now.. and time to get back to animation

Updating again for class #3

Ok so here is what is going on... Well I pretty much update at least once a week, but this is for class so here is the summary of what went on and what is going to happen..

I am going to try my best to finish all the animation this month.. I feel like it might go up to the first week of April till I finish (Mid March will be impossible for me.. especially since I have 2 other classes), but.. at least I'm sure I will finish all the animation. As for colouring, my helpers are all busy with school so I actually have not been getting any coloured scenes back since the semester started.. but 2 of my friends did say they will be able to help me.. one starting in March and one after April 14, so I am thankful for that. I am going to start my poster soon (which I still need to know the size it has to be in) since I need to do an event poster for Illustration class. I thought I should hit two birds with one stone with that cause seriously, I am extremely stressed about EVERYTHING..

For the music and sounds... I got my first pass for my child scene music and I thought it sounded great. I am still waiting on the street scenes and ending credits music. My composer said that it would be ready on Feb 27th, but I think he might just be busy with school.. so if nothing turns up by Sunday, I will be contacting him. As for sound designer, like I said in my previous posts, he is too busy this semester so he will have no time to work on my film, but he found a new sound designer for me. I will be meeting with the new sound designer on Wednesday.. I hope everything will turn out well.

For voices, I am going to start contacting my first 2 voice actors for very soon. I will be contacting young Richard's voice actor this week and Bill the next. Since I am still working on the animation for Richard and Lay... I probably have to wait till the beginning of April to contact them. I think Richard's animation will be finished first, so his voice actor will be contacted hopefully near the end of March.

So that is it for the update! If I am missing anything please tell me =]

And for this weeeek--

So yesterday I was really bummed out about the sound design thing. I decided that I will start recording sound by the middle of March if I have not found a sound designer by then.
Thing is, I am still quite behind in my animation, so that really stressed me out.

Anyways the schedule for this week (till Wednesday):

-Edit in the walk cycle for the pinning scene (scene 1) [DONE]

-Try and finish the animation for scene 3 [Impossible now =/ Just 2 more parts]

- 3 more comics [2 DONE]

- 3 illustrations  (bg with characters) [1 DONE]

- Update blog for class [DONE]


Omg. I so need a break after grad film.

So....

My sound designer won't have time to do sound for my film.. I am kind of really screwed.
He's really busy with school this semester so I understand, I was lucky enough to learn some sound stuff from him.. but man LMAO..
I was in a wreck today after hearing that, cause I understand how much work sound is. Doing this REALLY isn't as easy as people think it is. It is so much work.. I'm going absolutely insane, so I totally crashed today. Crashed as in my mood just dropped, like I am so stressed out and tired about this.

I really. REALLY need a sound person.

I probably should scout out for one asap.. if I can't find one in time, I guess I will be doing this myself

[Edit]: My previous sound designer just contacted me yesterday and introduced me to a new sound designer!! Yay ;v; So much weight off my chest.. I'm gonna see him this Wednesday~ I hope things will go well :>

GOT A COMPOSER

My sister's friend, Fluteman Chang, will be composing for my film =D!! He did a sample for the first 35 seconds of my film and it sounded like real film music... FFFFF- Love it. So excited!! ;v;

For the following week...

To do (Till Wednesday):

-LOL CHANGE OF PLAN. GET TIME LOCKED VERSION OF REEL TO SOUND DESIGNER BY WEDNESDAY. It turns out that his school changed the schedule so the reel is now due a week early... well it will make me work faster. [Will finish today]

- The means.. FINISH tight drafts for both scene 8 and 9 [ALL DRAFTS DONE.]

- Edit the child pinning scene (just the draft first) [DONE]

[Comics and Illustration will be worked on after I get the reel to Damon]

[Saturday booked for a birthday. It was fun =D]

I just contacted my sound designer and potential composer.. I hope everything will work out fine. I had my critique today and overall it was alright. People suggested me to take parts out but right now I am about.. neeehh about it.. personally I think it makes more sense if I leave everything in and the film will not feel rushed, but some people think it can be cut down more. I don't really know what to do any more to be honest. I might just go with what I have right now, but I do like the fact that I won't need to animate so much if I take them out.. I am just worried that it might seem rushed.. Well I took out scene 5 from the film as a test and I think if I end up taking it out, I WILL need to end up changing a couple of other scenes to make it work. I will keep it and see how people feel about it. At the moment, I know scene 8 and 9 will be pretty good to go. The class did say I don't need Lay in the end anymore... (even though I was told to bring him back last semester), but the thing is.. then I don't know where (**-Spoiler Alert-**) the paint cans would come from... even though it may not be important right now, I think that question will eventually come up if I took Lay away.

In the end it is my film, but I want to best for it.. I will see what I can do, when March comes around, I will start on the animation of scene 8 and 9 first, because I think I will be going with that ending (I'll admit it.. I became a bit attached to it LMAO.. C'mon it's almost March.. I can be a bit attached right? XD)