October-26th---Faculty Review

October 26th, the day of my birthday, and top of that the nervousness of being in front of panel, and defending out thesis was really tough....even if i didn't want to be nervous, i STILL couldn't help it. i was much relaxed to see that i was not the only one....i guess, it's just the "first time" presenting, though we practiced in the class. but the fact that we know each other in class, and feel comfortable with our instructor always keeps us on the positive side, that o well, i know I'm doing good, so just relax. but i guess it's not good. knowing the fact, that all those eyes are at you, and especially those 6 eyes, the big shot people, are really cracking every word, coming out of your mouth that has anything to do with your thesis...

My major mistake....i got puzzled with in my own interests....i was thinking that since I'm going to net those millions of compositions into ONE THESIS PROJECT, so it's more into "editing". so, i guess, i was wrong there. i was still debating if my project is including all those techniques; ie. editing, motion graphics, and compositing, so rather than saying "motion graphics", i said "editing".

My second mistake....i told my storyboard, just from the very top layer. i was thinking more of time, since we had a few minutes for each person. so i just told my story, and didn't talk anything about camera movements, or 3D placement of layers. i guess, that's where it went against me.

In my mind, i was thinking, since our class is the only one done w/ research paper, so panel might read paper, or scan through it, and would eventually know how we're going to execute this. also, as they were talking about just keeping ur audience engaged by focusing on story, and not wander around, so i just "told" story, and didn't focus on technique. i was thinking, if i go and actually say, "now camera will go here", "here these layers are in 3D", " here, camera will go through trees", they might say, " o yeah, we know, so what?? "...so, all these things were jumping up and down in my brains, that i just let go of everything, and went right into story.

Finally, i think they got it that yes, it's a motion graphic piece, with camera movements, and 3D placement of layers, so you see depth of field.

Other than these, i don't think i made any major mistake.

Now that we all been through it once, and know what is expected of us, i think next time, we all will be prepared much better.

Over all, i think it went pretty good. All instructors had gr8 ideas that they shared w/ everyone. If they were confused for any of us, was because we might not have been clearer to them about what's going on in our imaginations.

If only there was any cure for NERVOUSNESS.....i'll be the first one in line....