Well as you’ve read in my previous posts, I’ve been having problems with my group project. I was in hell. But, thank god, I survived it all…so far.This is going to be a very long entry.
So ever since Nesh, our ‘group leader’ defered the whole sem, we are left with no one with leadership quality. I’m stepping back because I don’t want to handle such responsibility but unfortunately, if I didn’t do anything, we’re completely fucked because it seems that no one cares. So I had to step up and DO SOMETHING.
I gave Jackie work to do and Ito, but both didn’t do anything. I was panicking on Monday because they said they’d do on Tuesday morning when I KNEW all along we wouldn’t be able to finish it on if we do it on Tuesday. He couldn’t draw the storyboard so I had to give to Bryan to draw it cuz he was the only one who could draw.
I did my work. With me, I always will have a backup plan in case things don’t go great. So I did a bad sketches for storyboard so I could put it in my comp and do the animatics. I planned Jackie could finish the work by Monday but when he couldn’t, I had to come up with a plan on the spot. And I also did the style board. I gave Jackie the simplest work which is writing two column script -
He couldn’t do that either.
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I was panicking even more. Because Monday night, my phone line and net was fucked up from 12 am… I WENT CRAZY! It was the last strike for me.. I broke down.. I was crying so bad in frustration, I was pissed off, I was screaming and cursing until 3 am when I was just about to go to bed and was feeling suicidal, and suddenly my phone line and net came back! So I quickly searched for pics, did the style board and went to bed at 4 am with very swollen/puffy eyes.
I woke up at 9 am. Panicked some more when I called Bryan, he haven’t fnished coloring the storyboard. Got ready. Went to print the style board… I only arrived at class at 11am. Luckily Mr Kelvin is a nice lecturer.. :D So I wasn’t in trouble for coming to class late. Filled in subject evaluation form..then went to the library with Jackie, Kah Mun & Ying to check on Bryan. Things didn’t look great. We needed color pencils and couldn’t find any. I just said we had to setlle with the color marker we had.
I was losing hope. We all went to lunch. Then Ito came. I pitied Bryan cuz he was doing it alone. I wanted to help him so bad but I couldn’t draw no color. By 12.30 pm we all went back to library… I told them to help Bryan with coloring..more shit happened. I was losing more hope. I was preparing for the worse. I saw Esther in front of me and she was looking calm. I was like oh shit.
As I remember we’re not supposed to show script on that day but Jackie told me I should do the two column script anyway so I thought maybe I should as a backup. That was the best decision ever because it turned out we needed it. As everyone is helping with each other, I did the script with Ito.
Finally when the coloring is done, it was like 15 mins to class. Bryan and I rushed to the IT room to scan it but that guy said to use the scanner that’s outside and there was like 20 fucking people crowding it, waiting to use the machine. That’s one thing I don’t like about Segi college. I never photocopy paper there. Scanning? It would scan to email… what? Like 20 pieces of paper scanned to email? WTF? Considering the connection at college is like a fucking snail, how long do we have to wait to download the email attachment? WTF. That’s so stupid. I ran back up to the library and said there’s no time.. used my backup plan. I had a feeling scanning would be a problem so I prepared a plan B at home which is taking photos of the storyboard using my digi cam.
It worked. Dura came. I told the rest to help with pasting the storyboard onto the mounting board while I rush to download photos to my comp and redid the animatics. We went to class at 2.15 pm but luckily everyone including Mr Eddie just came too so we weren’t late. At this point, my group started making jokes again so stress is lessen a bit.
Everything turned out ok. I think Mr Eddie thinks the styleboard is okay.. so we had everything done JUST IN TIME. You had absolutely no idea how relieved I felt at that time after all the stress. After all of this I seriously need a vacation. Since lately I’ve been looking into cruise ship stuff…it’d be nice if I could just get away from all of this, find a good cruise deals and spend some time away from the land in a total luxurious crusie ship. Sigh. A girl can dream, can’t she?
1ST SURVIVAL. 2ND SURVIVAL COMING UP.