Assignment4: Pre-production Document ( For Final Assignment)

Our group had a group meeting just to put this document together.

There are a lot of things we needed to finalise before the document can be presented in class. We have had several discussions before and we have an idea of how we wanted to film the video. However, we needed to come up with several items before we can produce the document. Some of these items would be :

1. Script ( of the rap )
2. Equipment
3. Props

After a 2-3 hour discussion, we had an outline of our rap, at least roughly what we wanted to do in the final project.

Raemarie wrote most of the rap while the rest of us tried rapping it and changed words here and there if the rhyming did not work out. It was good practice, both for our English and 'sense of rhythm'. Perhaps we can all look into a career in rap music.

The main reason why we decided to do a rap is due to the difficulty in finding suitable music for this kind of projects. A lot of the copyleft or freesource music are usually limited to academic or personal use and not for public usage, like uploading on Youtube or the OSA website.

Therefore, we decided that it is the safest bet to write our own rap and add a rhythm to it.

Basically, the rap would sound like this:

We’re famous for our world-class education

A wealth of knowledge, so much information

This year we’re one-oh-five

We’ve seen a lot of students thrive

Eleven faculties. Let’s break ‘em down now:

Design and environment, Science and Dentistry

LKY School of Public Policy

Arts and Social Sciences, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory

Medicine school, Law, Engineering

Business school and Computing

But all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

On our hill, there are still things we can enjoy

If you ever need a change in scenery

Campus-wide you’ll see we’re swathed in greenery

Just wanna hang with your friends? Sit around and have some coffee

Otherwise pick a food spot and throw a party!

All year-round there’s a plethora of activity

Bazaars, fairs and arty acts at UCC

There’s soccer, swimming, tennis, rugby for the sporty

And other less vigorous ways to maintain your mind and body

The friends you make here come from all around

So much cultural diversity in our humble university town

Lost in translation? We think not

Two words for you: Melting Pot

It’s here where life goes way beyond the books

Please don’t be fooled by our ancient roots

We welcome anyone and everyone from far and near

Come joiN US and you’ll be proud to say ‘I WAS HERE’

Then, we created a list of people we could call and planned when we needed to buy the props, since we have planned what we needed.

I realise the importance of this document, because if it was not necessary for us to do this document, I would have no idea what to do first before the actual shoot. I learned from this assignment that it is very essential, especially for video projects like this, to have a plan long before the actual shoot to plan what we would need and possible problems we might face in the future.

From what I see, the final assignment seems pretty feasible and should not be a problem. The only possible problem I could see was the coordination of the audio with the video since we plan to do a voice over.

But well, that problem can be solved later. We need to start making props soon.

Time is running out.