Final Project - NUS

I like our NUS promotional video so much more than the CNM one. I think it's more interesting, and also because we spent more time on it than on the CNM video. We made some changes since our pre-production documentation, like the business student one because it was quite true that relating NUS business students to karang guni men was not exactly very glamourous.

We filmed the scenes over 3-4 days, separated outdoors and indoors. As we didn't have enough people, we had to enlist the help of Chu Yao, Canisius and Jia Hwa again. Even my sister came to help. We were lucky that for the indoor shots we managed to get an empty place, the SoC students' lounge. For that part there wasn't much problem at all. For the outdoors shot, it began drizzling a little halfway through the filming and our work was delayed for awhile. But we still managed to get it done in one day as the rain didn't last very long, luckily for us. That's the problem with outdoor shots, the unpredictability of weather. Especially in Singapore, we never know when it will rain, or when it will shine. We need to milk every minute that we possibly can.

During this time, we still have not come up with a proper idea for our business student, so after filming, we would always head back indoors to discuss and do post-production work. We couldn't really split the work for these projects, as there was only one raw footage to rip, which took some time, and then one person had to cut out the footage and delegate the jobs.

I got the idea of using SecondLife tutorials to promote the business faculty as I felt that it could both promote the faculty and also NUS. We felt that having tutorials in SecondLife would appeal to prospective students and so should use it in our video somehow. However, SecondLife tutorials are not held everyday, and permission needs to be granted before a student can have access. Thankfully, one of my friends will be having a SecondLife tutorial the next day. As I only found out about them having classes the night before, there was a mad scramble for me and meiyuan to attain permission to access the tutorial and also to film the process using an onscreen capture program. We're thankful for the tutor who granted us access even though everything was so last minute and unprepared. Nevertheless, we got what we needed and there we have, our Business student idea.

Another part of the video and filming process was that we wanted to link each scene together. We achieved this by having a recurring object/scene from the previous scene in order to achieve a smooth transition. However, this means that each shot must be planned carefully beforehand and we had to remember where the object left eh frame, ie. left frame or right frame? This helped ensure that we had a seamless video.

The result of all our hard work and late nights: our very own NUS promotional video. Hope you enjoy it!