Throughout this graduation project, we laughed, we quarreled, we headached, we yelled, we worked hard and we enjoyed! We have finally produced what we scripted in October, from a blank mind to simple scripts and to this great work. Communication plays an important role during our production process. For example, we had to communicate with our actors about the shooting method and the acting skill; we had to communicate with department heads and shops owners for shooting location reservation; we had to communicate among ourselves internally for coherence.
Until now, I still remembered the days that we stayed in McDonald’s overnight for jotting the story plots; the nights that we ate takeaway food in editing room; the moments that we frowned our eyebrows and sighed when approaching difficulties. Today, I am glad to say all these are worth to do because our ‘DECADE’ was successfully produced though there’s still room to improve.
Since we are in a small group, we found out we would not have too much disagreements and we could manage our time evenly. Although a little bit harder than we thought previously, five of us were at pains to strive for our ideal video through these three months!
Here, I would like to give my sincere gratitude to those who had helped us before, especially my dearest group members. They endured Eva and my absence for doing Hugo’s final project before screening days.
>Thanks Karen that she edited the scenes well enough to fit different rhythm of the songs and she shot many rack focus which is her favorite.
>Thanks Erica that she scripted those touching dialogues to make our story romantic and she shot various angles with different locations. This gave us many scopes to choose for our story.
>Thanks Eva that she thought the statue scene and bears my grumbles all the time. Her comments are often to the point.
>Thanks Timothy that he represented us to discuss the PR matters with other groups and cooperated with us when we wanted to.
>Thanks Prof. Hodges for giving us unlimited space to decide our video topic and teaching us the vanishing point, the chroma key and the gradient picture. Without these, our ‘DECADE’ would be eclipsed a lot. His comments helped us a lot in trimming our cumbersome scenes.
>Thanks Mr. Eliot for helping us warmly whenever we had technical problems during his busy time. Although he sometimes is a little bit verbose, I know his true words are good for us on the major premise.
>Thanks our three main actors for sacrificing their valuable time for our shooting after their study and work, especially my little brother that I didn’t believe he would really promise me to be the main actor because I thought he was playful at the beginning.
>Thanks Prof. Tan that he played the professor role which made our story more vivid.
>Thanks Ms. Jenny for helping us to reserve the Umac venues for shooting: cultural center and the piano room.
> Thanks Terry who accepted our sudden request for singing our theme song.
>Thanks Gary, Seriena and her friend who helped us to be the students.
>Thanks Mr. Casber for giving us comments and asking questions about the high-tech 2018.
>Thanks Umac for giving us chance to use the professional HD camera.
>And lastly, thanks those who have enjoyed and supported our ‘DECADE’! THANKS ALL!!
/LL
