Week 7

Ok, so this post is a little bit late. I did have it written down as a hard copy but just didn't get the chance to put it on my blog. These reflections are for Week 7.

Over the week I have worked on the scene where Dan and Lucy walk to the bench in front of the lake. Over the week I managed to finish the background and make Dan and Lucy walk. I wasn't too happy because we didn't get Friday's lesson because of the Gold Coast show, but this didn't matter too much because I hired a laptop over the weekend. And boy, was that a semi-successful disaster!

On Thursday night I managed to get Dan and Lucy to hold hands while they walked, which was a very fiddly task!

On Friday, I made Dan and Lucy walk to the actual bench in front of the lake (which meant creating another background) and make them sit on the bench and Lucy put her head on Dan's shoulder.

On Sunday I finished this scene. I made the sun set while Dan and Lucy were sitting on the bench, made Lucy walk off scene and Dan get punched out by Ben, the guy who likes Lucy and wants Dan out of the picture. Even though this doesn't sound like all that much for the six and a half hours I put in, it was because of the annoying computer and program! I would do a bit on the scene, then go to save it, only to have it say that it couldn't save because of some error when saving to my USB or becuse the disk space was full, even when I only had one other thing saved to the desktop which was the previous saved version of what I was working on. I ended up losing about 2 to 3 hours of work in total - after losing 30 - 45 minutes of work about three or four times! So annoying! In the end, I figured that if I opened the scene off my USB, worked on it for 30 minutes then saved it to the desktop, then transfered it back to my USB, moved the one on the desktop to the trash and then emptied the trash, and started the process over, it would work. Time consuming, I know, but much better than starting something over that you've already done!

Just when I finished the last little bit of the scene, I went to save it. It told me that there was an error when I tried to save it as an Animation-ish file to both my USB and the desktop. So I exported it as a Quicktime file. I then tried to save it again, but then Animation-ish just quit! So I didn't save the scene as an Animation-ish file but only as Quicktime, which I guess is ok because that's the one I'll need later. I just hope I don't have to make any changes to it *fingers crossed*. I then had a panic attack because when I played it on my own laptop it wouldn't play on Windows Media Player, but then I realised I could play it on Quicktime, and it worked! Yay!

Hoorah to the end of this scene - I am so happy!!!

p.s. I will put it on soon!