Do come and support our exhibition in republic polytechnic’s library room. We’ve worked hard on this fyp together through the mistakes, pain, fights, hardwork, overtime moments, meetings about ideas, concept work and hands-on work.

Oh, I think this video could really set the mood. It’s true this is a cover of Nine Inch Nails’, but he really did make it his own.

R.I.P Johnny Cash

Below are some pictures to share during our process of making our boxes and some miniatures.

Doing our textures for the interior.

Constructing our miniatures.

Weighing scale for Kim’s bargaining box.

Tada … !!!

Gary’s box.

Thou we need to re-film our 2 videos, but we film in ard 3 hrs and it was done. The end product was what we wanted. The group was happy and we are glad that Stacy is willingly to come down again to help us. Video is done and editted, will posted it up during the exhibition. So, stay tuned. Ha! Documentation during filming will be done asap too and post it up the same time as our video. Meanwhile, stay tuned and we will be updating again with our official posters on our exhibition.

In contrary, we’re moving up the ladder of progress slowly but surely.

Photos of our box progress will come soon, but for now here’s some bad news; Filming on the 14th November has to be reshot. Alot of things went wrong for our part. But even through errors we learn our way back to doing it right.

Stacy was excellent as an actress. We really extend our most hearty thankfulness to  her for putting up with the sun, our bad directing, and our long discussions.

Do visit her portfolio, she’s a really good designer.  I personally like her work, The Girl & The Goldfish.

I’m having a slight technical difficulty with the uploading of images to wordpress now, and I can’t really bother with it today because I’m  rushing the storyboard for tomorrow. f**k opera explorer. sometimes.

We’ll be filming today too, so wish us luck. again

The team has gone. to do filming.

Wish us all the best.

this be?

Where ever

could this be?

Only time will tell. It’s all just a sneak peek for now.

On the other hand, here are the pictures taken on the way to SagaCity.

Didn’t want to take too many pictures of what happens inside. Respect.

Other Random Photos which are G-friendly.

Giant stacks of Compressed Aluminum Cans

Sentry-like Chameleon standing guard outside Sagacity

Testing the box capabilities. I think

A peek into how the concept began.

Thanks all for now, folks. Keep visiting for the next few progressive steps. Cheers

God, it takes so long to find out how to post vimeo videos on wordpress. Thank god for forums.

Some videos that I think we could take some inspirations from. Like this one for the our shadow box? If we had to limit ourselves to stop motion.

Greenscreen Effect works wonders huh?

Over the last 72 hours we have, as a team, pored over concepts, settled texturing for the main stuff, poured overagain  and edited our concepts, toured the whole of Sagacity for materials, scared each other silly around Shun Li Industrial Complex, racky the potential sites for our filming, and finally, spend a good fifteen minutes or so @ Macritchie Reservoir planning for the times ahead.

Progress is felt and seen, but more awaits us, and the time ticks faster than ever. We still have a list of  many things to do.

People reading this, anyone has any reccomendations on wiring LED lights to manipulate its brightness? Comment us yaaaaaaaaaaa.

Time for peektures. Peektures, I say, because it’s a PEEK of the StrucTURES! GETTIT? GETTIT?

okay fine so you don’t.

So I’ll just let the images speak for itself

our concepts for our shadowboxes.

Based on Gary’s Concept, the box of Denial.

Based on Meiteng’s Concept, the box of Anger

Based on Kim’s Concept, the box of Bargaining

Based on my Concept, the box of depression

(Box number Acceptance is a video, but the storyboard will be uploaded soon. I just need to dig around my bed abit.)

Many thanks to my mom for helping me find some inspirations.

I’ll like to thank Ikea for making room for ideas. Layout of the cover really helped in a small but significant way.

My mom dug up this old secondhand post WWII history book of singapore that she bought for a bargain. Along with the gruesome and sad images, it was a good reference for old damaged textures.

Here are some samples.

Can’t say that you aren’t inspired by old damaged photos.

Well that’s all for now, I think I’ve overspammed on this post. More photos will be coming soon so keep visiting our site.

Cheerio!

Attendance – 4/4 All present

List of stuff to be BOUGHT

- Boxes x3
- Tv Box x1
- Mounting Board x3
- Nippon Paint Black x1
- Electronics Lighting

List of stuff to be DONE

- Research on textures for box.
- Media aspects of our project
- What is the link between the box and our website? ( How things can be viewed differently? )

List of stuff to be ADDED ON
- Having a frame for our box
- LED Lights to be used (brand superwhite), can use more than 1 for more power.
- What is the value of our video?
- All boxes should have an element of light. Eg – Strength of light, Color of light, Location of light.

List of LOCATIONS
- Plan A Library Piano level
- Plan B E3 level 3 Exhibition hall

List of Items to be DONE BY NEXT MEETING
- get our visualization of physical box done (concept art)
- Mid Point presentation should include documentation process, making process. It should show that we have done with our theory and are in progress with making our installation.

MEITENG AND KIM

source for materials for the sake of making the box
think of what locations you might need for filming of the virtual box so that we can film all at one go.

CALEB

search for balsam(sp?) wood for supporting beams.
storyboard completion
test box capabilities

GARY

confirm filming location
assess possibility of alternative coating of box texture

ALL

decide on the aspects of light on the box eg placement, strength an color.

Virtual.

- We would need to consider the sequence of our technical stuffs.

• After effects.
• Green Screen.
• Virtual Studio.
• Java (for putting our story on the net; under consideration).

Logo for boxes; Caleb had designed however logo will be revised again when certain things is done.

Urgent stuffs to be done BEFORE Mid-point.

- Rush out the box.

- Positioning of our items inside our box.

Timeline.

4^th Nov 2009, Wednesday; 2^rd Meeting with David Liew.
Discuss about our story, hearing feedbacks from David. See where we can still improve on. Further discussion after David’s comment and see are there any more things we need to add for equipment list, if not can send on that day or thurs (Kim incharge).

6^th Nov 2009 – 8^th Nov 2009, Friday – Sunday.
Buying materials that is needed for our different boxes. Staying overnight at Gary’s house to finish the box as many contents as possible.  Send out our individual story to Caleb so that he can draw our story out for our Virtual idea. Send by the end of this week (maybe can present for Midpoint).

14^th Nov 2009 & 15^th Nov 2009 (Sat & Sun; Tentatively Filming).
By this time, the boxes should be 100% done, no touch up or anything.

16^th Nov 2009 – 22^nd Nov 2009 (Mon – Sun; 1 Week).
Doing editing for our video and doing our Midpoint presentation contents

- Bought a box and cardboard to do a prototype to see if it witheld the heavy stuffs.

- Agree to show our prototype to David Liew for our nxt meeting.