Sunday, 18 September 2011

Awful ailing and amazing alliteration!

(for those unknowing, ailing means sick or ill)
Like you can guess from the title of this blog entry, I am amazing in alliteration.
But the important thing is, I'm ill.
It's sunday today, so I'll update this blog with a quick rundown of everything that happened in this weekend!


  • Friday:
    • Had a meeting with my supervisor, we discussed the plot of the machinima, the tools, the people who will voice act for it, and a timetable/schedule.
    • He showed me prezi (a program with which I could more easily set-up and organize the plot of the movie, which is still in the works. Prezi is a simple program kinda-ish like powerpoint, which creates a huge canvas, and lets you make small notes (images, text, video etc) which can all be laid out as a presentation, or to zoom around it.
      • This will help me organize all my thoughts, possible plot ideas, characters and settings
    • We then discussed the voice actors, so far four people will voice act
      • Me (main character(s))
      • My sister (female characters)
      • My dad (narrating voice)
      • Lorenzo (villain)
    • All the people agreed to do so, and the basic character voices are set (note, characters have NOT yet been created)
    • We also set a time plan for the project:
      • September: finish plot and script
      • October (there is a 2 week brake): create all the characters in WoWMV, possibly save every animation required as a file
      • November: in Adobe Premiere add all the animations, with the backgrounds, special effects, animate, make it look good!!!!
      • December: Record voice acting, sound effects, music and add to the machinima
      • January: TRY HAVE IT FINISHED!!!
    • So yeah, then I came home really excited to do the plot...and ended up with Tonsillitis. It is pretty damn painful, but only in your throat.. Unfortunately along with it came 39 degrees of fever and an exploding headache, forcing me to stay in bed all for the remainder of the day.
  • Saturday:
    • Woke up still in pain everywhere, went to the doctor, confirmed Tonsillitis, ordered by my parental unit to stay in bed, no electronics.
  • Sunday:
    • Now its only my throat, headache comes and goes, but today was the day I had to install our new router which arrived in the mail a couple days ago, finished that half an hour ago (it is currently 16:35) and now updating this blog before lunch/dinner.

I'll try to get the plot onto Prezi as soon as possible, I know I'm not going to school on monday, so I have today and at least tomorrow to do so! A good thing though, is that on monday my macbook pro (which I ordered) will arrive, allowing me to work on it from anywhere! THE COMFORT! I can finally work from my bed, so I'm sure I'll be more productive there (as most good ideas come when you are in bed. True fact. Or shower, but I'm not taking my laptop there!)
That's pretty much it so far, I'll keep you updated as soon as I know anything!
Cheers!

1 comment:

  1. Jacek,

    Sorry you're not feeling well! Well done on the quick update, and good luck with the router and new laptop. Wow! big changes on the hardware front. Anyway, have fun with prezi and post the link to this blog (all prezi have a url which you can copy down).

    Sincerely, Mr. Rawson

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