Here is the official completed scene 4! :

Actually Lai Yenn and I officially completed this scene 2 weeks ago.

 But when I brought the files for printing, the staff at the printing shop suggested I tweak a little to make sure I get better results from the print. The problem with the files was, the words are too near to the edges and most likely will be cut off during the binding process. And we've forgotten to create outlines for the words, so we had missing fonts. Adding on, for book printing, they print 12 pages each book. Which means the books that are to be printed must be 12, 24, 36, 48 etc. pages. We only have 34 pages, including the covers. So we had to add 2 more pages.

He taught me how to add a border as a guideline and place my words and the graphics within that border. He also suggested I saved it as PDF instead of importing it straight away into indesign. After that, I let Lai Yenn and Komal know about it so we can clean up the files and do the adjustments.

I do feel disappointed when I couldn't get it printed on that day, because we would like to show the clients the printed product. I also did panicked when he told me the words will be cut off and the missing fonts. However, I know it's best not to rush the printing, as our money and effort would be wasted if there are mistakes.

Besides, we still have a few more days to do changes and clean it up to make it better. I felt it is my fault for not researching and getting the printing rules right before finalising the layouts. I will definitely make notes about the printing rules to save time for future projects. Especially the number of pages needed to print a book. I feel at fault for not remembering printing rules from semester one's typography class.

Okay moving on, this is basically how I clean up the layout :

All the animation for the scenes are completed and we proceed to add in sound effects. The sounds that I've used came from www.freesfx.co.uk and freesounds.org. I played the animation in Quicktime and pause the video whenever there are movements that require sounds.

Then, I'll search for the sounds and place it in a folder in google drive so that everyone in the group can have access to the sounds. It is quite hard to find some of the sounds such as the rubbish piling up.

Initially, I searched keywords such as "garbage". There are some plastic rustling sounds but it doesn't suit the scene. Then I searched "tin cans" and most of the tin can sounds are clanging and clinking. The other keywords that I've used are "plastic movement" and "toys", which I did find suitable sounds from that keywords. The sound that I've used for the rubbish piling up are "tin of chocolates" and "plastic toys". Seems to be quite different from rubbish junks, but it works. As for the vending machine's sounds, I use the sound "items moving in fridge". Because to me it seems like a big refrigerator with lots of cans.

After that, I use Adobe After Effects to place the sounds. Personally, I would prefer using Final Cut Pro, but I'm using a PC. That's alright, as I can still adjust the sounds in After Effects under the audio's option.

We have also agreed on which music to use, we've gotten the music from incompetech.com (Royalty Free Music) and these are the choices that I've listed down to be choosen :

Silly Fun

Dance of the Sugar Plum Faeries

Sing Along with Jim

Circus Waltz

I shared the music with Komal and Lai Yenn and we all agreed that "Sing along with Jim" is the best choice among the 4 music due to it's catchy tune.

Here are the animations with sound and music added in for the scenes:

Scene 2 and Scene 3 are done! The QR codes and some of the texts are not placed in yet. I did the illustrating for the backgrounds and the dog, owl, fox and the vending machine except the two pages where the fox is not with the other two musketeers.