So this was taken yesterday afternoon at 12 when I was walking back home after school. I hadn't slept for 26 hours then. Today, I came back at 11am. 25 hours without sleep. Editing non-stop with my team in between other stuff like FYP meetings and classes.

Sigh, so much to learn from doing the video. Story telling techniques need to be improved.

We knew the one we sent for vetting was super rough, it was the first skeleton we put together for the video but time was up, so we had to submit it. Of course it was bad. I was worrying about it the night before and couldn't sleep till 4am even though that was the day I went without sleep.

Waited till 1am today before we were given comments about the rough cut this morning. Reshma and I then made mad cuts to our edit. All the way till 9am in the morning. And so we thought we left the editing suite today feeling a lot more upbeat and optimistic of our piece. I was in fact, feeling extremely hopeful coz I could see the docu taking shape, and taking flight! But more comments came our way. Our instructor sent us additional comments about our earlier edit sigh sigh sigh. Can be quite depressing. But I have to tell myself that they were looking at the earlier cut, so they haven't seen the new one yet. Don't be despaired!

Deadline is next Friday but we gotta hand up the final cut on Monday to a graphics artist to add graphics for us. Which is why we're rushing like mad kids. Absolutely.

I keep telling myself, stick it out, stick it out, it's going to be done soon and it'll be something we can be proud of! I will make sure it is something we will be proud of.

I'm quite proud of it right now actually after our edit and I know there's a whole lot more to fine tune and edit but I can really see the documentary going somewhere at least. At the same time, it is quite dampening to receive a whole lot of disparaging feedback at one go. I didn't want to hear about what was good, just wanted to know what to improve on so we could work on it. But I didn't expect to feel a little down when so much came in one wave!


Also, guess what? On Monday, which is the day after tomorrow, I've Media Law mid-terms: 30%. And I haven't touched any notes at all since I came back from Stockholm. Haven't watched the recorded lecture for the class we missed because we were in Sweden. I seriously poured my heart and soul into Go-Far, so much so that I was willing to neglect revision for my exam.

Even my FYP. Thanks for groupmates who helped cut the slack while two of us were away. But I had to apologise to them for being absent-minded during group meetings. My whole heart is not focused on FYP now, it's somewhere else. But I promise, I will return with a much invigorated and enlightened spirit after that, very soon.

I dunno why, but I feel a sense of wanting to do my bloody best for Go-Far. Whether or not it ends up a big whallop, I'm just going to do it. And I want to finish strong! I want to complete the race, not for the sake of it, but because I want to know that I will be proud of myself and the team for having finished it together, stronger and better. That end goal is always in mind, and I will never let it go out of sight.


In the meantime, here's the music performance we did while we were in Stockholm!!!! : )
Enjoy! They're freakin' awesome and super nice in person too I sur-wear!