I and Yannick, Hisataka Suzuki, and Shirai sensei worked on submission for Laval Virtual April conference last weekend (Feb 1-Feb 3).  We worked on the introduction video for Scritter most of the times, doing the planning during the week and shooting the film on Sunday.

I was mostly in charge of making story boards while Hisataka Suzuki studies video editing techniques with Adobe Premier.  Yannick continues to work on the final paper as well as the Unity Game demonstration.    I ended up changing the story board three major times, from trying to make a very factual introduction video to a story video and finally to a mixture of both.

It was an interesting experience to be making story board for a semi-complete project to say the least, as I had to consult the programmers and technicians for details about the game as well as did researches and blog readings before I can begin making the story board.

We were able to borrow Otsuka-sensei’s room for the shoot, which contains tatami and sofa which makes it looks like a living room.  Me, Yannick, and Hisataka (his first name) redecorated the room to make it look more comfy and family like.  Otsuka-sensei actually liked what we did with the room and told us to not put the furniture back to its original place.   We were also able to borrow Shirai-sensei’s family members on Sunday and with our actors and actress we shoot clips of a family enjoying Scritter in a “living room”.  It is interesting to watch how a family enjoys themselves during the video taking and the kinds of fun they can have.

Our small team spent the entire Monday editing the footage and three of us ended up not sleeping until around seven or eight on Tuesday morning.  During this time I also did the voice over for the video as well as some of the video editing after Hisataka left to catch the last train.  While some of the audios needs to be retake for future submission because of how I take them in the hallways (and the echoes destroy the quality of the audio), I still had quite some fun doing the voice over and did learned a lot.  We were relieved that we were able to get the introduction video submitted however.  As of now we are still editing the video to make it even better for future submissions.