Sorry for the late update. Please note that future up dates will be infrequent due to school.
Vocaloid belongs to Crypton.
Evillious Chronicles belongs to Akuno-P/Mothy.
Audacity belongs to its creators.
My oc (Kaede) belongs to me.
Thanks to Wrath76 for allowing me to use the basis of her plot.
April 7th, 2008 (Day 31)
I got an email from Boss this morning.
Sadly, it was not about the new computer, although he did mention at the bottom of the email that he'd think about it…
No, it was about Servant of Evil. Apparently, he wants it done by the end of the month. So, naturally, I said yes and that it would be no problem.
Well, well, well. What a challenge. I'm sure it won't be too much hassle to-
Oh, you know what? Screw this. I'll start tomorrow.
April 8th, 2008 (Day 32)
I called up Yuuma and IA today to tell them about the new project. Not surprisingly, they were both un-amused and started to question Boss's schedule planning. So I told them something like 'Believe me, sometimes I question his choices too.'
Anyways, we're meeting up this afternoon to discuss the details of the PV/placecard and song.
Later
Went and called Len after our meeting. Luckily, his schedule was free, so he agreed to come in for a recording session tomorrow. We've also all agreed to help IA work on the PV's placecards, using our own tablets and laptops.
Well, things are going good…so far.
April 9th, 2008 (Day 33)
I'm currently writing this in as Yuuma is double-checking for any problems with the recording system, Mayu's working on the costumes, IA's sketching out and going over some storyboards, and I'm…I was editing our work schedule. If we can all stay up until 11pm, and don't stop working for anything other than to eat and got to the washroom, then we should be able to get it done by the 24th maybe? Somewhere around that time.
"Morning, Len," Kaede greeted a rather sleepy Len as he walked into the recording studio. "What happened?"
"The girls… were having… a pillow… fight up until two in… the morning," Len explained in between yawns. "I… tried to tell them…but it didn't go…s-so well."
"Ah," Kaede nodded sympathetically. "I suppose that they bombarded you with pillows after you tried to tell them to stop?"
"Something like that."
"Well, I suppose we should get the recording over with then," Kaede muttered as she and Len headed to the recording booth.
"This is going to be a long day…"
If we were reborn into our next life, then let's play together, and be the best of friends...
"And we're done," Kaede said, pressing the 'stop' button on the recording machine.
"Okay...s-so can I go now?" Len confirmed sleepily.
"Uh...yeah..." Kaede nodded. "Just remember you have a photo shoot here in two days."
"Right. G-good...bye," Len yawned before heading out. After she heard the door slam, Kaede turned to IA and Yuuma.
"Shall we start?"
Later
I now have a new appreciation for IA's artistic skills. Apparently, working with Adobe is harder than I thought. I kept accidentally deleting layers, or somehow messing up the painting. Thankfully, other than that, we have no problems. So far, we're just painting the background with the Palace of Versailles as a reference.
There are too many windows for my liking...
April 11th, 2008 (Day 35)
Len came in today to model the costumes we were going to use in the PV. It was (thankfully) short, since Len had to go film another PV somewhere else in half an hour. I didn't really pay attention though- I was too busy trying to complete as many slides as possible while mixing the audio track.
April 16th, 2008 (Day 40)
It's been 5 days since any of us got a healthy amount of sleep- I think my average is 4 hours...
On the other hand, we're halfway through with the PV, though I had to scrape a couple scenes (to IA's chargin)
Unfortunately, there are still a few rough spots in the audio track...
April 21st, 2008 (Day 45)
8 days until our unofficial deadline, and we're just three-quarters done-heck, we haven't even started on the editing! I got an email from Boss wondering if we were going to be done by the end of the month.
Great... how should I respond?
IA looked up from her work to see Kaede staring at her laptop screen intensely. After five minutes had passed, IA decided to speak.
"...Kaede? Are you alright? You've been staring at your screen for five minutes straight now," IA pointed out in a worried voice.
Kaede blinked and looked up. "Uh, yes, I'm alright. Boss just sent me an email, that's all."
"...Okay," IA shrugged before returning to her work.
Later
I solved the email problem by telling Boss 'no promises'.
...I have a feeling that that won't work.
April 23rd, 2008 (Day 47)
This...is the third all nighter we've pulled this week. Currently, Yuuma and I are taking a break while IA's still frantically drawing on her tablet.
...I don't know, but we might actually make it. All we have to do now is tune...and edit the entire three (?) minute song. On Yuuma's laptop with Audacity 1.4.
Man, this is going to be a pain.
April 27th, 2008 (Day 51)
Ugh...today we narrowly avoided a disaster. It turns out that Yuuma's Audacity disc space was full...so the audio got corrupted. We were just about to call the quits when we remembered that we saved the original audio directly on Yuuma's laptop, so all we have to do now is to work through all of today and tomorrow...and then we'll be home free!
April 29th, 2008 (Day 53)
It's done. We've actually done it! We've actually managed to record and produce a PV in three weeks! I sent it to Boss last night, and he uploaded it this morning. In return, I got a music file with another song.
Ah, great...We really can't catch a break, can we?
Critiques and tips to improve are welcome.
