THANK YOU!

To everyone who had gotten themselves involved in the making of HIS NAME IS UNCLEBOY, we wish to thank you for your generous support and dedication to spend your time with this awesome man named UNCLEBOY.

We are very glad that the process went well and we have gotten ourselves an A for this project.

Thank you.



Thanks to our team members who had gone missing throughout our entire project. Thanks.


Thanks to our facilitators, advisors, supervisors, technical advisors, friends and family for the time spent in criticizing our work to make it all good.






Till next time! God bless.

Just an update

Oh hello hello hello... Just a quick update to all... Here it is...

11th December 2007 (Tuesday) - Channel NewsAsia VISUAL+AUDIO training at E16L

12th December 2007 (Wednesday) - Publish ad on SGFORUMS for story2

13th December 2007 (Thursday) - Submit Proposal for STORY2

14th December 2007 (Friday) - Submit DRAFT2

I don't know if we could complete it in time but I guess all that matters is work for it....

Catch Uncleboy Pilot Episode on Channel NewsAsia, 1st January 2008. Time slot to be updated.

Do watch it and record it! Haha!

Report Update: Channel Newsasia's Comments

Email sent in on Tuesday, 4th December 2007, 1144hrs:

"Hi Team 6

The CNA team and I have watched your story.

Overall, we think your story and edit so far is very good. It helps that Uncle Boy is a very interesting character, hence it makes is watchable. For me, the best part was when he got drunk. It also helps that Uncle Boy is very comfortable and at ease with the production crew so the audience feel they are really getting to know the person.

The next step will be for you to work on revisions: additional filming and re-editing. Deadline 14 Dec!

We are looking to make the story even better and to give it a bit more depth, more context. For instance, while I understand he's lost his wife, everything due to his addiction, I don't know how he got addicted in the first place. and why he hasn't been able to kick his habit and why he hasn't gone for professional help. I also don't know why he's going to court. You need to explain his situation clearer. Go through the rushes carefully and see what bits you have left out can be included.

As you already have 5-6 tapes of rushes, your team doesn't need to do a lot of additional filming. Perhaps what you need to get is someone who can give a rational perspective on Uncle Boy. For instance, the church he goes to regularly. Can you try to interview a church member he is close to? I think just one more interviewee will suffice.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED AND FILMED:

- How often does Uncle Boy go to church?

- Is the church aware of his problems? Has the church offered to help? If so, in what ways? Or if the church is unable to help, has it referred Uncle Boy to other institutions?

This shoot should take about 1-2 hours or so, including general shots.

In addition, I know your team is setting up the web-blog and I would like your team to put it up as soon as possible and let as many people know so hopefully there will be feedback. Once there is any feedback from concerned members of public, we can even consider interviewing them.

Please start as soon as possible on the changes.

THINGS TO NOTE:

- please, please, PLEASE update me regularly on your production & post-production schedule. If you have arranged your shoot, let me know the venue and time so I can be there to observe and film.

- if you run into any problems getting the contacts for interviewees or filming issues of course let me know (early) so I can try to help

- any new scripts please EMAIL me. I want to see a proper audio/visual script

- lastly, if you have any questions or need help, PLEASE ASK. We will be around to guide/help you tell your story as well as it can be presented.Let me know if you have any further questions.

All the best!

Yueh Peng"

I Need Your Attention Please.

Friday, we will be having a meeting with Alina Heng.
Rosmawati is rumoured to be coming...hope she does.
We will update her on progress and explain to her about the hamburglar issue.


Thursday, Ros will show us the sketches of the sperm animation.
Easy yet challenging.


Now. Moving on to today's hamburglar episode.

Jannah booked Vista 1B infront of Faiz. They were at the scene itself and Jannah was the one who held the booking file. All that infront of his eyes. Gareth, Natz, Nora and Sammy were there too.

In 1B, there was no 2 pin adapters. Meaning, no sound. But, there was a hamburger lying around. So we used it since the firewire and all that were already plugged for us to use.

Later on, we moved to Vista A. Back then, we were encouraged to fill up empty Vistas. So natz, nora, jan and all that helped moved our stuff.

The hamburger moved with us.

In 1A. The hamburger and the dv deck didnt work. Tried and tested. Then we moved to 5A.
We started digitising with the hamburger since the tape and all that are already plugged in.

Moments later, Joe popped in...."Is that your hamburger?"
Adam replied. "No, the other room's"
Joe "Ok later put it back into that room"

Then Faiz popped in..."OOOhhh so that's where it is....ay what's your name ah? Lupa.(forgot in malay)

Adam...."Adam"

off he went to tell Faith. Eager to tell her that he found the hamburglar.
he wanna suck up i guess. Its what people do after they get reprimanded by their boss back then.

Faith then went in and lectured us....well mostly adam.


sure.


but then again, why on Earth were they running around searching for it when Jannah already booked 1B. Since they realised the hamburger from 1B is missing, why didnt they call up Jannah? Jannah is just next door. Did they search for us with their ass or something?


You watch out Faiz. It was us who nearly got you fired. It was your fault anyway. You don't curse us vulgarities you black bastard.

The script?

Well, adam here.

A quick update on the script.


I scrapped the script and am starting a new one. Now that i got to know UKB a lil more better, i can give the character in our story a better personality.

In a nutshell, the short film is an added bonus to our FYP. While many other teams are doing films as their main course, Naked Mole Rat is gonna be serving a short film as a side dish. The documentary would be the main course and as usual, a blooper section and behind the scene footage as dessert.


Unlike the documentary, the short would be a film inspired by the life of UKB instead of being a film based on the true life of UKB. Who knows, if audition goes well, UKB might not even be indian in the film. He could be Chinese, Malay or even ANG MOH.

Speaking of casting, we resorted to mandy.com. A few interested applicants replied but they are more interested to know the rate we are paying instead of the character they would be playing.
At this rate, mandy.com might not be a good avenue for the Naked Mole Rat.



We would be having a vote soon enough to decide the titles of our videos.

The documentary would either be called

MAN WITH NO MISSION or UNCLEBOY



The film would either be called

FERMENTED WATERS or MINDFARQUED.
both titles are still not in favour.
I might call it JUNIOR in tribute to UKB's dog or BAI QIU. That is UKB's favourite drink that costs only $1.80. 2 bottles to make him go out of control.

Another tentative side film is to be called 5 MINUTES.
No details to be released yet.



On that note.
I shall end this session of sharing here.
Time to transcript.

ADAM

Transcripting Mad

Venue: Jannah's House

Time: 3.30pm

Date: 11th November 2007, Sunday

We can't believe that transcripts are so tedious.... We had to listen, rewind, fastforward and type manually.... We only managed to get through 2 tapes only..... Furthermore, we had just 1 hamburger (an equipment to preview tapes) and that too was a 'loan' from khalis..... thanks!

Now, we just gotta wait for Alina to accept our equipment request to get 2 hamburgers out on Monday! Argh!

5 more days!!! About 5 more tapes to review.......

Lab Rats

Transcripts?



What is that?






Thanks to Alina's guidance, we managed to understand what transcripts is all about...

So, what is that really?


For documentary film makers, they have to go through process in which they have to write down every single dialogue heard on tape for some procedure stuff...



Just like scripts, this is one of it.... Documentary film makers don't really write scripts for real life people to say because whatever they shoot is based on real-time, real people...


You can't expect normal person on the street to write the scripts suddenly, right?


Transcripts usually appear when there is 1-on-1 interview because you gotta take down every single word the interviewer said.... So that there won't be any misinterpretation/misleading/misread...



This is all procedure in the industry...




We'll be doing the transcripts tomorrow at Jannah's place @ 2.15pm...