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A Late Halloween
2008-11-10 00:27:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAwHRM2FGi0&fmt=18
I wish she'd stop being lazy and get back to uploading her stuff here...
Two more weeks left until the quarter ends. I just need to survive these next two weeks. It's seriously has gotten so bad that my work told me to take time off to get myself together. I'm not really in trouble. My bosses love me and were really concerned when school started effecting my work too much, but being away from work makes me feel bad and stressed too because I feel like I'm letting them down. I'll just have to finish up my school work quickly so I can go back soon.
I've got a research paper due Tuesday, a screenplay due Thursday, an AMV due next week Tuesday for editing class, and I'm managing my game development team. We have a game due next week.
I panic a little but I know that everything is managable with the time off I'm getting, but I've burned myself out already.
I'm mostly worried about the game and the AMV. The development on the game is behind schedule and it looks like the artist in the on the team is trying to take over the project a little. I guess I shouldn't say 'take over'. He makes good recommendations, but it's seems like my teammates are going by his words before getting my approval. I need to get everything back under control.
The AMV... I set myself too high on that editing project. I'm in a self-conflict between my own standards and the class standards. It's an introductory editing class, so I really dont have to do much for it, but I want to do more because I can do more. My teacher and class were impressed with my rough cut (or beta), but right now it's just a bunch of random FFVII thrown together. My teacher said he had a little problem with the 'cinematic' approach for this class, but so long as I can tell a story with my video, he's happy. I do have a good concept down, but it's a matter of execution. I was talking to Darkpwns about it and he was saying that it seemed like I was using effects I wasnt comfortable with/forcing a style of editing. As of now, I don't believe that I have a set style, because I am still not 100% comfortable with any editing style, but I understand what he is saying. It's more of me trying something new, so I have to watch out how I go about it. Hopefully, I'm not being too hard on myself...
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Chicago Sleeps Peacefully Tonight
2008-11-05 02:13:54
Or it parties till the breaking dawn.
Contrary to some experiences of other people here on the org, everything is cool here :)
Being the city today was exciting to say the least. Through out the day, I played "Lift Me Up" by Moby almost on loop. Night classes were canceled today to allow students to get home before the rally for Obama. I kind of wish I went to celebrate with everyone else, but I was alright sitting at home with my sister watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert reporting the election live. Regardless, I still had my laptop on MSNBC watching the numbers.
When the news came that Barack Obama had won, I logged onto facebook to see the millions of excited cries by my high school friends and my brother constantly yelling at me through messenger "To do the Obama"
I am a conservative for the most part and so are all my friends and family. But we all voted Democrat this election. To me, the conservatives in government have been destructive due to poor execution of what they had hoped to accomplish. What good is working for the greater good if you're doing it the wrong way? I'll rest easy tonight knowing that we've elected a decent man to the Presidency who I genuinely feel will benefit the people. In the end, that's what's important I guess.
Anyway politics aside..............................................................................
I got selected as Lead Designer for a group in my game development class. I have been getting barely any sleep trying to finish up school work in time for whatever project deadlines my teachers are giving. I keep telling myself that the quarter will be over in 3 weeks and then I get a nice long break. I'm on about 1 hour of sleep for the past 48 hours. I'll be going to sleep soon after I send out some level layouts to my teammates.
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As for editing class, Final Cut Pro is drag. I can see myself continuing to edit in it for some reason though. I managed to get a 1 minute beta done of my AMV for my final project and it's going to be screened in class on Thursday. I'm a little nervous cuz when I first made it, I was really hating it and a lot of it is a result of massive sleep deprivation and I some how managed to put in the effects that I needed. Today before submission I took a look at it and realized that it actually wasn't bad and I'm sure it will turn out to be better than my "White Houses" vid. I heard someone did something really awesome for their project (I was absent so I didnt see it) so it looks like I've been knocked down from my thrown in that class. It's alright though. Just cant wait to see it myself.
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Anyone else get 79 free songs from iTunes and their college? I did :D, but the songs were pre-selected :(. I havent heard of most of these artists or their songs. I feel like a lot of it belongs as coffee shop music. There are some really weird tracks and a few nice ones. Overall, they're all pretty soft songs compared to the J-Pop and rock that I normally listen to.
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Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpies
2008-10-26 23:53:16
http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/09/18/man-decorates-basement-with-10-worth-of-sharpie/
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YES! *cries tears of joy*
2008-10-26 22:08:19
After 2 painful hours that were beginning to break my will, I finally managed to get my code to work in Game Maker by simply messing around aimlessly with some stuff after giving up. I then broke out into this wierd, crazy, distressed laugh. My sister was enertained by it all.
I seriously wonder if I can finish this making this game by tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to get all the coding and levels down. I'll add the story cutscenes if I have time later this week :/ -
GreenLight!
2008-10-14 20:42:52
My "Editing I" teacher today gave me the green light to do an AMV for my final project. He was being very narrow in what he would allow for the assignment and I asked him if I can take one movie and do a full out music video. He defined that as similar trailer and didn't want me doing. I told him I'd show him an example after class of what I wanted to do. I showed him my old Umbrella video ( http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=147672 ) (skipped the now insignificant intro). He watched for like 10 seconds and then said: "That's some advanced stuff". I then told him that I already knew how to mask and chroma key and what not. He was then like "Why are you taking this class?" Me: "You can't place out of it!"
So in the end he gave me the approval to make an all out AMV for my final project. I'm pretty excited. The only thing I have to figure out now is How the freakin hell do I edit this way on a Mac in Final Cut Pro 0_o.
Note: The Umbrella video was made like two years ago and isnt my newest work. I showed it to him because I had a cousin, who doesnt watch anime, see it and said that it was so literal, so I thought it was the best example I could give.
Also I had now idea how to compress properly back then so here's the youtube link if you dont want to download a big file: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-mLyBeRxg
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