school is too cool for me
I've been really busy with school recently. Our school holidays are in three and a half weeks and all the deadlines are approaching. If you're interested in what I do in my course in school, read on! I'm just gonna talk about what assignments and projects I have.
For our video production class, we had to film a short meet-cute (a meet-cute is basically a cute and interesting way in which a boy and girl meets). We wrapped up filming already and now it's all post-production, which is where I come in because I was made the editor of my group. But the roles aren't set in stone so all of us in our group just help each other out with our roles. So tomorrow, I'm meeting up with our cameraman, RZ, and our producer, Jia Ying, and they're gonna help me edit the opening titles and credits. Then we'll put it all together.
Here are some photos from our production diary.
[More on my modules...]Tomorrow, I have an individual presentation to make. We had to pick a problem in another country and just talk about it. You know, the background of the problem, the impacts, possible solutions and stuff like that. We were given the assignment right after I'd finished re-reading Tokyo Vice and just when the ban on possession of child pornography in Japan was made. So I decided to tackle child pornography in Japan. I just finished rehearsing my pitch. I finally managed to end it under the time limit, five minutes.
In my Psychology, Philosophy and Society module, my group and I have to create a utopian world. We have to create a brochure of sorts for this world. We have to include the history of this world, an anthem, the benefits, how the government works, how is the economy, what are families like, and many other aspects. After glamourising this utopia of ours, we then have to individually write a 500 word essay on how it's actually a dystopia.
And currently the most pressing and exhausting project is for our Research and Interview Techniques module, where we have to film a 2-minute infotainment on an interesting sport in Singapore. My group and I were given Brazilian Capoeira. Tomorrow, we're heading down to the dance studio in town to check the place out, determine what angles would be good for our video, and take photos for our storyboard. The actual filming and interviews (we have to interview at least three people) will take place next week. It's exhausting because firstly we have to travel out of school to the studio, and secondly because we have to lug all our filming equipment there as well.
And for the class with the most credits... Scriptwriting. Right now, we're working on comedy scripts. We're writing scripts for the Singapore TV show, The Noose (a fake news show that pokes fun at things going on in Singapore), and scripts for comedy skits that take place in polytechnics. It's really difficult because I don't watch local shows or local skits so it's hard for me (and a lot of my classmates too, in fact) to grasp that kind of humour. But if our scripts for The Noose are really good, our lecturer will help us sell it to the producers. $200 for two and a half pages!
Due next Monday is a feature column on any topic of our choice. I'm writing about fat-shaming but once I actually got started on writing the first draft, I realised it was really difficult. Because the tones used in the feature columns our lecturer showed us were really casual and friendly. But I just sound angry and distant in my feature column. So I may end up writing my back-up topic instead: rude customers in the F&B industry.
When I write it all out like that, school actually seems pretty interesting. I mean, all my cousins are envious that I'm in such a fun course. I've just been taking it for granted, I suppose.
Despite being busy with school, I still have time here and there for myself. I played around with my make-up and face-paint again in preparation for Halloween. This is just a really simple design, though, nothing as time-consuming as the zip-face or slit-mouth I did in previous years.
I just did it for fun. I won't be parading around like that for Halloween. I still don't know what I should dress up as this year...
I also still set aside about an hour a day for exercise with my mom, too.
Right now, I'm at the top of the roller-coaster track. I'm healthy, I'm productive, I'm sane. I just live in fear of the moment the roller-coaster takes a dive. I believe very strongly in the balance of life, so after this long streak of happiness, I'm in for a long bout of the opposite.
For our video production class, we had to film a short meet-cute (a meet-cute is basically a cute and interesting way in which a boy and girl meets). We wrapped up filming already and now it's all post-production, which is where I come in because I was made the editor of my group. But the roles aren't set in stone so all of us in our group just help each other out with our roles. So tomorrow, I'm meeting up with our cameraman, RZ, and our producer, Jia Ying, and they're gonna help me edit the opening titles and credits. Then we'll put it all together.
Here are some photos from our production diary.
[More on my modules...]Tomorrow, I have an individual presentation to make. We had to pick a problem in another country and just talk about it. You know, the background of the problem, the impacts, possible solutions and stuff like that. We were given the assignment right after I'd finished re-reading Tokyo Vice and just when the ban on possession of child pornography in Japan was made. So I decided to tackle child pornography in Japan. I just finished rehearsing my pitch. I finally managed to end it under the time limit, five minutes.
In my Psychology, Philosophy and Society module, my group and I have to create a utopian world. We have to create a brochure of sorts for this world. We have to include the history of this world, an anthem, the benefits, how the government works, how is the economy, what are families like, and many other aspects. After glamourising this utopia of ours, we then have to individually write a 500 word essay on how it's actually a dystopia.
And currently the most pressing and exhausting project is for our Research and Interview Techniques module, where we have to film a 2-minute infotainment on an interesting sport in Singapore. My group and I were given Brazilian Capoeira. Tomorrow, we're heading down to the dance studio in town to check the place out, determine what angles would be good for our video, and take photos for our storyboard. The actual filming and interviews (we have to interview at least three people) will take place next week. It's exhausting because firstly we have to travel out of school to the studio, and secondly because we have to lug all our filming equipment there as well.
And for the class with the most credits... Scriptwriting. Right now, we're working on comedy scripts. We're writing scripts for the Singapore TV show, The Noose (a fake news show that pokes fun at things going on in Singapore), and scripts for comedy skits that take place in polytechnics. It's really difficult because I don't watch local shows or local skits so it's hard for me (and a lot of my classmates too, in fact) to grasp that kind of humour. But if our scripts for The Noose are really good, our lecturer will help us sell it to the producers. $200 for two and a half pages!
Due next Monday is a feature column on any topic of our choice. I'm writing about fat-shaming but once I actually got started on writing the first draft, I realised it was really difficult. Because the tones used in the feature columns our lecturer showed us were really casual and friendly. But I just sound angry and distant in my feature column. So I may end up writing my back-up topic instead: rude customers in the F&B industry.
When I write it all out like that, school actually seems pretty interesting. I mean, all my cousins are envious that I'm in such a fun course. I've just been taking it for granted, I suppose.
Despite being busy with school, I still have time here and there for myself. I played around with my make-up and face-paint again in preparation for Halloween. This is just a really simple design, though, nothing as time-consuming as the zip-face or slit-mouth I did in previous years.
I just did it for fun. I won't be parading around like that for Halloween. I still don't know what I should dress up as this year...
I also still set aside about an hour a day for exercise with my mom, too.
Right now, I'm at the top of the roller-coaster track. I'm healthy, I'm productive, I'm sane. I just live in fear of the moment the roller-coaster takes a dive. I believe very strongly in the balance of life, so after this long streak of happiness, I'm in for a long bout of the opposite.