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It's nice that the Comm School here has lots of opportunities for the students to showcase their FYPs.. There was the exhibition for FYPs by the Advertising Faculty and now a public screening of all the FYPs by the Radio n TV Faculty (like our EBM).. it's a really big affair with lots of publicity and lots of effort into the planning of the whole thing and there was even a discussion session after each screening where an external critique wil be invited to comment on the piece of work and the students are to respond to any queries by the critique or even the members of the audience..

while the concept and execution of the whole screening is great, i felt that the quality of the works were not up to all the hype it created.. i'm pretty sure our FYPs are better than theirs even tho i did not go for this yr's screening.. i watched some of the previous video FYPs and there were really good ones.. i remember a 'GREY' which i felt was really good.. and having participated in an FYP shot myself, i believe their finished work woudl be better than what they haf to offer here..

very basic stuff like focus, exposure, white balance were not well taken care of and every piece had problems with their sound.. did not see any piece which actually put in effort for their sound design.. jump cuts and crossing the axis happens quite often and basically the editing was the main problem.. some had pretty good shots but the editing did not do justice to the shots.. i was really pretty disappointed given i was looking forward to their screenings..

but then all those that i watched were all a one-man FYP.. and they had pieces that lasted almost 60mins.. for 1 person to come up with a 5min piece is not easy already, not to say 60mins so i must credit them for that.. but then i believe that quality is better than quantity.. i'd personally rather be wowed by a 5 min master piece than having to sit thru 60mins of not-so-good stuff.. all i can say is they are really good at packaging the stuff but the contents are not that wonderful..

now that i'm critiquing others' FYP, i better give some thot to my FYP already.. given i'm in EBM (haf i mentioned that here before?).. ah seeking FYP members now!!

i think we should haf a platform to showcase all our FYPs too! i mean everyone put in so much effort to come out wif our masterpieces we should at least haf a NTU level kind of showcase where everyone in NTU and beyond can see wat CS is all about!