Cumulative Log - Wednesday 28 April 2010

10.00pm – I arrive at the office. I continue working on the job that was given to me.

12.00pm – 1 of my co-worker, Jason advised me a few things about the scene again. He tells me that the background scenery that I build might not be compatible with previous and next scene. He then draw few examples of composition that might work. 1 composition that he suggest is that to make a scene of rooftop of a building, where the character might be. I disagree with the suggestion as I find  a few problem.

The current shot shows 2 character are walking, and then one of the character will point front ahead where the missing character that they were looking for was there. The next shot however the character will runs towards the missing person. As most of the scene I found so far is about finding a missing person, I find it impossible for those 2 character to find the missing person on top of each building everytime. Plus few other scene that my co-workers is working on shows that they looking for the missing person mostly on the ground.

Problem that I find with this production is that first, the speech used in the video is in Chinese, and some of the footage dont even have voice as they will dub it later. Second, they do not hand us the storyboard. Although we are free to design the background, unfortunately with only few words such as “Destroyed City”, it is difficult to one without at least a simple sketch.

12.45pm – I go out to lunch

2.10pm – I go back to the office. I continue searching for materials again for the background. Jason, my co-worker suggest me to add few more building to enhance the ‘city’ look on my background.

7.30pm – Dismiss