SP Videography Club

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The Videography Club has been tasked to make a video that consists of all the respective videos on the clubs in SP and WE ARE SHORT-HANDED

To date we still have 51 clubs to film and about 2 months to the next openhouse(+3 more months for the CCA showcase)…. thats not a lot of time considering everybody has their own commitments too….

Videography Club needs people… and we mean we need YOU!

Please email our secretary Kylie or tell us on facebook on the CCA that you want to cover and what you want to help as. (Production = Storyboarding, shooting. Post-production = video editting, music)

Currently we need people for:
1) MindSports chess club Post-production
2) (Priority) Karate Production or Post-pdtn
3) Astronomers Pdtn or Post-pdtn
4) Scuba-diving Pdtn or Post-pdtn
5) Bowling Pdtn or Post-pdtn

Those interested please come down next Wednesday 3 pm for the group discussions. For those who wish to help in Karate, please contact Kylie @ 8436 8846 by Tomorrow as shooting is on Saturday.

A music video tribute to the film “Sweeney Todd”, done by our very own club member, Vicki Lau in 2008 during leisure time.
Enjoy!

On the 15th of April 2009, both new and existing members of SPVC gathered together for an important meeting – the club leadership handover ‘ritual’.

Outgoing committee:

Kevin Xu – President
Sean – Vice President
Soon Bing – Treasurer
Fazli – Secretary

Incoming committee:

Xiang Ju – President
Kai Jun – Vice President
Yao Wei – Treasurer
Vicki – Secretary

Deep appreciations and congratulations to the outgoing committee members (and an outgoing^2 Kevin) for leading the club thus far: for the equipments that you fought for the club; for the welfare you have provided to the club members; and for putting together a mosaic of diversified individuals, growing and learning together with each other, sharing a similar passion and interest.

Thank you!

In the meantime, congratulations to the incoming committee members for having your efforts and contributions to the club given official recognition from the previous committee as well as from the club itself. Thank you for the hard work you have put in and may your leadership bring this club even further, towards a goal we all share.

All the best!

And lastly, for all the members in the club who have been contributing to the club in any way possible, thank you! The club would not have come thus far without dedicated members as well as goal-oriented leaders.

May we strive together for our goals; our dreams and for a better SPVC in 2009/2010!

Mr and Mrs SP 08/09 Video

On 21 November 2008, Singapore Polytechnic’s Student Union crowned its Mr and Miss Singapore Polytechnic 2008/2009 at the SP Convention Centre!

SP Videography Club brings you the exciting bits that you’ve missed, as well as exclusive interviews with this year’s champions!

Hey guys, this is the first time I’m blogging here. Hell, it’s the first time I’m blogging anywhere, so bear with my language.

Note: Only some of this information was taken from sources liek wikipeedia, so if you think I’m just bull-crapping at some points, I probably am.

Now, I’ll just skip on all the history crap, and get down to the one thing at hand:

What is “Stop-Motion”?

Well, to answer that question, let’s look at the definition of video in some random online dictionary:

• noun (pl. videos) 1 the system of recording, reproducing, or broadcasting moving visual images on or from magnetic tape. 2 a film or other recording on magnetic tape. 3 a video cassette. 4 Brit. a video recorder.

(Alright, it’s Oxford.)

Basically, a video is a series of still images put in order and played back at a rate fast enough for our brain to register as motion.
We call these still images in a video “frames”, but you probably know that already.

Now, say we actually take this a little more literally, the “still images” part to be exact. Yep, you got it, that’s where stop-motion began, especially when video was still “new” in the old, old days.

The following are classified in “real” stop-motion though(according to the weekee):

1. Animation of non-animated objects.
2. Animation of living things (using photos, duh)
3. Pinscreen animation (round and round it goes)

And etc. Gawd, I am lazy.

King Kong (The 1933 one) was a stop-motion. Quite famous in its time.

Model animation falls into stop-motion too.

And “claymation” too. Woo.

So, at this point you pretty much get the idea what it’s all about.

Feel like making a stop-motion too? Don’t worry, it’s pretty simple to do. You just need:

1. An actor/several actors (can be anything inanimate, even a 10-cents coin will suffice)
2. A decent camera. (and a decent tripod/stand)
3. A good sense of imagination.

I made a simple stop-motion video myself, using the very laptop I’m blogging on right now. Yes, I still believe it’s the epitome of (most) evil. Never trust it. >_>

Yes, it’s really basic, and the camera shots are a bit off (I used a point-and-shoot without a tripod, what’d you expect?!), but I was told it’s good. What has this world come to? :S

Of course, with a little bit more work, you’d prolly end up producing something like this:

That’s the advert for the new Nokia N-Gage application btw, whatever that is.

Yay, so that’s the end of my post. This is the Great Baka, signing off.

Well, you may have seen the enrolment drive video when you were forced to make your way around the 4th floor, clutching your newly bought school notebooks and student passes.

Here’s the video again!

This video wraps up 4 weeks of intensive filming and video editing, as well as using up more than 300GB of raw footage throughout the making process.

Click here to see a photo-journal of the making of the video

SPVC is recruiting this coming CCA Drive! Come on down to our booth at Moberly Hub from 28th April to 30 April 2008, and experience for yourself The Green Screen, and how you can travel anywhere without leaving SP!