Recap...

The first two weeks of studio were really good. We actually achieved a lot more than we had expected in those two weeks. I was quite confident about the whole thing.

In the following weeks, my level of confidence just went WAY down! After listening to Mark and some of my friends who graduated in multimedia telling us how much work is involved..I started to realise that this was really ambitious..especially for two 2nd year students. I am not doing any animation, and Lauren has just started this unit. None of us had done the Digital Post Production unit yet. Basically, all we had was Foundations in 3D!

It was then that I started telling Lauren that we have to come up with a backup plan. I was restless, was stressing way too much over this and how we were going to get all this done in one semester! Finding out that Calvin and the Dragon was a year long project was what made me say 'that's it!', there's no way in hell we can do this in one semester!

I kept telling Lauren how much work this will be, that it's not going to be that simple. Somehow she just would not see how big this is. She had this notion that it's going to be easy and was so laid back. This attitude was driving me crazy! I wanted her to realise how much bigger this is and help me come up with a backup plan....but saying "relaaax, its gonna be fine" really did not help at the time.

I took charge of writing most of the Project Plan. Our first idea of the project plan was that it's very easy/simple. But as I got into it, again I realised there's so much more work. I also realised that it was time to tell Lauren this just could not happen in one semester. We should tone it down! But when I called Lauren to tell her about this, she suggested we made this a year long project instead of toning it down.
I was not looking forward to making this a year long project since I wanted to do something in Flash next. But she seemed so excited the whole project, so I said yes..but did not feel very good about it.

Lauren did not realise how much work the Project Plan was..again she kept giving me that laid back, 'its all good' attitude that drove me nuts. But I guess maybe that's because she wasn't the one writing it, so she could not understand when i was stressing over the phone. She was doing some testing, and scanning the storyboard to send it to me at that time.

When we met at uni on Tuesday (the day before the plan was due), she thought the rest of the work will be done in a few hours. I knew that we would be here much longer, but did not say anything. As it turns out, we did have to stay for much much longer. Lauren stayed until 9pm and I stayed until 1am. Although it was a lot of work..I'm glad that Lauren finally realised that this is going to be harder than she thought.

Although I'm doing a project that I'm not really into(yet), and that Lauren drives me crazy sometimes...all in all, I'm still glad to have her as Studio buddy :) I am not enjoying Studio as much as I thought I would yet. That's mainly because it's causing me a lot of stress and because the project is ambitious. We are not very well armed to do this yet, so it's scary. But I'm hoping for the best, and I believe that in the end we will produce something pretty good for two 2nd year students :)