CGOverdrive 2007

I'm kinda excited today. I'm really glad that after much deliberation (for stupid personal reason), I've finally decided to step out of my comfort zone and just accompany JH (or rather, tag along) to EXPO for her shoot.

In the name of "work", we're headin there to interview some high profile CG designers.
There's four of them.


As a coordinator, my work are mainly behind-the-scenes, which in another words means, administrative end.

So what I did was basically to arrange the interviews by liasing with the CGOverdrive PR exec and followed by hiring freelancing crewmen to help us out with the production. It's a pretty rushed job considering the fact that I was informed about the need for all these 2 days prior to the actual shoot. (or need to shoot.) bah!

woke up damn early in the morning to travel to expo first. surprisingly, the train station is pretty packed and as i walked along from the train station to expo, there are huge boards all over shouting out the multiple events held and here's s shot of the board for CGOverdrive.


CGOverdrive 2007 (Click photo to enlarge)
Along the pathway from MRT Station to EXPO

Being there that early means the place is still pretty quiet with little people around.
Most of them are either the staff or the speakers and you get to see lotsa foreign speakers with all their suitcases and blazers walking around.


Banner of kawaii-ko hanging up above

We started the shoot at 10 and the crew was super punctual. they were asked to meet us at 10am and at exactly 10 am they called to say they reached. 10:00am exactly!

whoa... hahahahaha

anyway,
a few hiccups here and there but that sorta added to the experience of being where I was and knowing what are the kind of variable circumstances and hiccups a shoot can face.

we couldn't find a good enough area to conduct the interviews since there wasn't one prepare by the organizers so we just had to find a spot which we thought was the quietest and least disruptive.

the speaker's lounge wasn't enclosed so sounds could probably echo in. bad choice so we skipped that. the most headache part was that there was this software clinic nearby which a huge speaker? hahahah every 5 mins or so the host would start talking and his voice will boom thro the external speakers and we'll be all wide-eyed and have to cease filming immediately to wait for him to stop talking. eventually we unplugged the external speakers wahahahha but then there is this conference hall nearby and once the various workshop ends, hoards and hoards of ppl would come out and gosh all the chittering and chatterings!?!? but actually, they weren't TOO noisy so we continued with the shoot. occasionally when the girls or people nearby start talking or giggling too loudly, i'll be the one running about asking them to tone down their volume.

we finished some of our interviews earlier than what was planned.

oh yes one screw with the tapes. i guess i won't divulge too much but it was too damn funny.

the directors and co-directors and staff creating Final Fantasy was there! hehehehe

we intereviewed one of them.

also the CG designer of Transformers and SL from Imaginery Friends.


Car motiff by Imaginery Friends

All in all everything else went smoothly. we even had our lunch covered (free!!!) cos they had buffet style catering for the speakers and media staff hehehehe

we finished shooting at around 3pm in the afternoon and i had to head back to office and when i got back there... tons of work was piling up and waiting for me. *cry*

i wanted to post the pictures i took of our interviewees but after much consideration, i kinda thought perhaps it might not be too good an idea to do so.

there was displays of some submitted digital art works and there was a couple that i liked quite a lot and too picture of but i can't post their pics here since it's not my work and i haven't gotten their permission.. so. yeah hahaha

all in all i learnt much from that trip and was quite happy to be at least out of the office once in awhile.

Heard from my boss that i might even get to go with my producer during his shoot for WCG (World Cyber Games) Asian Championship 2007 that's to be held in Suntec City in August!!

Here's a lil PR:

Animax is the principal partner for WCG Asian Championship 2007!!!