Premier and Film Thoughts

I was informed the premier went off with no real issues and everyone enjoyed themselves which is great.  I really enjoyed working on this project even though I was unable to watch the premier.

having seen the film now there are issues I felt with the film but I a very happy with the final product. I really enjoyed working on this project despite all the issues and problems we faced along the way. I really feel we have produced a product we can be proud of.   it was a tough challenge to bring a group of this size together and get them to communicate effectively,  but we definitely tried our best and we did communicate fairly well for the most part! Discord played a big part in that, and we used it quite a lot. The producer chat although private acted as a great place for the producers to keep on top of the project and work together to solve problems and vent frustrations. Tyler's introduction of Coda instantly started making an improvement to efficiency, at least for those of us who actively used it. Honestly I'll probably use Coda personally for some stuff, it was quite simple and intuitive!

Big negatives I took away from this project was the lack of effort some people put into this project. There were people who It was tough to get responses from and held us back from making as much progress as we could have. In general, some lapses of communication towards the end resulted in that big grind by Nik Tyler and Sonam.

Some of the others could have helped.  Yet they didn't communicate well enough that they didn't have enough knowledge or didn't let us know when they were busy. yet, on the other hand, Tyler and Nik should not of left people like Phil in the dark and steamed on ahead alone they really made it feel like they ripped the crescendo of the production process to themselves. I think we could have kept Rachel in the loop more on this matter as we had a reference from the double script incident that keeping her in the dark doesn't help anyone. Yet it was hard to rat out a fellow producer.

Overall, I am happy with the final product.  It was tough, but fun. I created some great relationships with some members of the team that I'm sure I will take into the professional world and develop even more! I've learned about efficient project pipelines and what goes into both live-action and CGI elements, and I found that I actually really enjoy working in nuke, it's very satisfying and very intuitive. Honestly, I couldn't have asked for a better team this year looking back at last year...   I think did a fantastic job on all fronts. It was a great learning experience.

Feedback on the Catering for the night: 

• The hot stuff was a bit difficult as we've established, we served the bread cold, the pies we heated up and put tin foil on, this worked well, however they did get cold really quick once on the table and we were informed to put them away once they weren't hot anymore.
• The type of items we had (skewers, cheese plates etc) took a lot of time but was worth it because of the neat presentation and sense of grandeur. I did enlist the help of others to get it done, Matty WW, Chloe and De la Rey (my brother, not an SIT student) even chipped in. It still took a lot of man-hours, Matthew's skewers were an unholy creation. Basically took a while, but worth it for how impressive it looks. 
• Woulda has been nice to have a cold place to store food closer, we had to make a couple of runs for a refill during the preamble. 
• The dips were hard to open, we were also a bit late to doing so and each time a new cheese plate was put on the table we had to scramble to re-configure the dip situation.
• There was a lot of excess Feta juice
• The number of gluten-free options was amazing, the vegan ones were aight.
• There was a lot of Feta Juice left
• The bell peppers were amazing, people loved them - especially with the Feta (which left quite a lot of excess juice behind) - and it was good that you bought two jars.
• We could have done with another knife (Chloe did end up buying one)
• Gloves were the big missing element, but we bought some (although Chloe only bought like 4 pairs, that's just pure incompetence - deserves not getting her storyboards used)
• We had to go buy drinks, again De la Rey and Chloe didn't think to provide any sugar-free options and I had to quench my thirst with copious amounts of alcohol and surprisingly nourishing feta juice  - Please NOTE Volunteer Matthew Wilmshurst left his hoodie behind the catering table, when he got it back it was wet (he received it moist)

Everything was great, you did a good job providing us with what we needed on the night, we cringed when we realized how much work you'd made for us with the assembly required, however, it was worth it. 

Premier Setup

Week 18

I will be heading away next week for Germany and the premier is on Friday. Tyler Nik and Sonam are in full go mode with finishing off the final parts of the film it feels like they have taken most of the last minute touch up into there own hands and have stopped trying to delegate tasks. I have less of an issue with this than most as I am trying to get all the timesheets in and update before the last week. 

I have been put in charge of catering the premier as well so I will organise the food to be ready for Thursday night pick up. 

Week 17

Week 17

 I've started doing some more nuke stuff in preparation for the compositing. Nik has been my guardian angel with catching up on my workload and helps me understand what I am doing in nuke and how to use this program. An issue I was a part of was some of the layouts have needed reworking, mainly to do with the MUM rail layout in the warehouse as all the people working on these have made them different in between shots, but it hasn't been too big of a deal. The Renders are coming along really well, and we've been finishing things faster than expected which is good as tyler has been in a panic about our pace since shooting started.  If we keep on this pace we should be algood for the screening night.
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Week 16

Week 16:

Mainly just working on getting the last of my coda tasks done I have stated compositing some shots in nuke which is cool and doing some shot layouts. we're trying to get everything done and ready to be rendered and composited for the final few weeks. Nik helped me to get1 thing rendered already! Been keeping up to date quite well on Coda. Managed to make up the time I missed out sick.

The Tri-pod was fixed so thank goodness I don't need to try and pull 2000 out of thin air, 

week 15

Week 15:

I was Absent last week due to illness and missed the meeting.

I have been playing catchup on my modelling and texturing as being sick has yet again hindered me and now it is affecting the animation team. 

I will push to get my models out asap to Nik for review and then textured and send to Phil and Nik for final review. There was a major incident over the past week. The Tri Pod was returned damaged to Chris and we will be held accountable for the repairs. At the moment i have done a quick assumption of the expected cost of repairs and replacement and both exceed our budget. 

This is a big problem and we as a company will be held accountable. The producers are trying to fix this. we have Tyler going to talk to Chris and try to fix it. 

week 13

Week 13

Post Production:

We are into post-production now and I am a modeller and texture artist. Phil drew up this chart to list everyone's jobs to get the VFX assets ready for rendering. I am trying to focus on texture as I want to improve in this area. I will be trying to use substance painter to get the textures but I am still learning the is software so I will have to see how it goes.

week 12

Week 12:

The Shoot:

 The Shoot went well in my mind I feel. 

We got all the footage we wanted so that is fantastic. I can't speak much on how the actual filming went as I was head of catering my attentions were spent a lot more on feeding that arm of filmies. I think Catering was a success. I was able to keep everyone well-fed and had a consistent assortment of snacks that were semi-healthy and good available. 

I was very proud of the fact that most days there were still leftovers.

Some thoughts I felt from my catering were: 

Food was enjoyed and people seemed happy with the choices. I was not prepared well enough with my kitchen. I needed a bigger working space with as I chose easy meals I was able to handle the cooking at home and smart food choices limited the home cooking to only 2 days. I did not cater to all lifestyle choices and allergies. yet I was able to correct this after the first day adding options to suit everyone. I felt this was very funny as I fall into a different lifestyle choice group.