day1 -part3

after completing the shots for the previous location... we shifted to another location.... NZX.... 3 locations in 1 day... not bad huh??? after dinner... it's shooting time....

our location... the pathway outside NZX.... nice??

shooting in progress....

Until then we realised... or it's actually the director realised that the lights along the road were not bright enough.... so we used our light... but its static... so the effect wasnt as good as planned... so the director made a decision.. which is... the light will have to move along with the camera-on-the-dolly.....

luckily we have a trolley... so we tried positioning the light on the trolley... but somebody has to be up on the trolley to stabilize the light so that it wont fall off....

eggy went up first.... but she a little to heavy to be pulled along with the trolley and the light....

so we switched... agnes claimed that she was lighter.. so she volunteered to be on the trolley...

while pulling... she started shrieking and said that the trolley wasnt stable...

then suddenly.... someone (i forgot who... i think its PJ) said that we can actually turn the trolley the other way and push it instead... how brilliant!!! why didnt we thought of that before???

so, basically it worked better than the previous way....

the hard part is to keep the light align with the camera... which means both movements have to be on the same speed....

we shot until the light went out of battery..... so we have no choice but to depend on the lights along the road... which was not very bright.....

and here's Mr-pirated-DVD-man with his girl..... (ya, we had nothing to do.... while the cameraman and director was adjusting the angles...)

to be continue....

day1 -part2

after completing the intro shot... we split into 2 groups... group 1 went off to set up the scene while group 2 stayed and wait for the talents to arrive and make-up....

after everything is done... group 2 headed off to the location.... jalan17/5.....

introducing our male talent(PJ... and again... it does not stand for petaling jaya)!!!

and the female talent!!! (boey)

practising....

director directing (obviously... what else can she be doing??)

the whole picture of the scene... ignore the crew members....

As mentioned... it was glaring hot that day... and he IS sweating like a human hosepipe!!!

PRO-nye....

we needed a dustbin for our next shot... so we'll have to get a dustbin...

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2 (sorry, hands shaky)

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4

the female part.... 1

2

3

4

stay tune for more coming up!!!

p/s: these scenes will not show up in our mv because due to unforeseen circumstances... the whole shooting was officially taken off the production.... so these photos are the only thing left...

to be continue...

day 1 -part1-

Our first day of our shooting week did not go as smoothly as planned... but it's still ok anyway... after getting all our equipments... we still have to head over to class.... and all shootings start after 12.30....

we went to a vacant classroom.... and started setting up to shoot our very first scene... which is the intro scene....

As you know... we should always charge the equipments before using them....

This light has been giving us problems since day 1....

plugging in the plugs and stuff for charging.... while joanne is still studying the light...

still on the light....

everybody is still with the light....

setting up the background for the scene.... putting the cloths up.... and down(i suppose)

now its time to position the props... that's my notebook you're looking at....

now... it's time for the easel and camera....

setting up camera and stuff....

to be continue...

shooting progress -part3- finally, the end

Finally!!! today is officially our last day of shooting.... all shots must be completed since we have to return all our equipments tomorrow....



Last day at NZX!!! thanks to our MV shooting... i finally get to come to this place when all the shops are open....



woke up at 6 again.... can you believe that???!!!! waking up at 6 during a SUNDAY!!!!! set off to Bear's house to pick up crew members.... our shooting time at Full House starts from 9am - 11am... so we'll have to get everything ready by then so that we'll not waste time...



shooting went on exceptionally smooth today.... the Full House crew were very nice and helpful... the best we met so far....



after shooting... it was around 11 something... we wanted to straight away have lunch at Full House... but they are not open until 12pm... so we hung around and waited... until suddenly... someone started yelling that PJ has lost his car keys!!!! wow!!! must have dropped it somewhere... so everyone started searching... i searched my car but it's nowhere to be seen.... until me and eggy went to check on PJ's car to see if he left it in the car.... we saw his lock thingy was extraordinarily high up... i tried opening the door and it just open!!!! yalah!!! PJ didnt lock his car... pandai!!!! then we looked around the interior of his car... and found it on the back seat... how smart can you be???!!!! i am though!!! hahaha....



after the hastle of car-keys searching.... we headed off to big apple for doughnuts... i'm not really a fan of sweet stuff... but i couldnt resist when i saw "say cheese"!!!! it's cheese with white choc... both are my favourite!!! so i bought a piece anyway....



we waited till 12pm and headed back to Full House for lunch.... the decoration there is really beautiful!!!! nice and unique!!! and the food is good too!!! *double thumbs up



after lunch.... all of us head back... on the way... i got a call from bear asking whether is PJ's house key is in my car.... what the hell is his house key doing in my car???!!! i mean he wasn't in my car today.... he said he might had dropped it there yesterday... since they were riding my car back to section17... and he did not went back home yesterday... instead he stayed at boey's place... so it might be in my car after all.... ok fine... i'll go check..... the result........ it's not in my car!!!



i reached home at 3.30!!!! and officially announced the end of our mv production week!!! hurray!!!

editing is coming up next.... but it'll not be as hectic as shooting... since we get to stay in the air-conditioned editing room.... and not sun-glaring, bones shivering locations......





photos will be post up soon.... stay tune!!!

shooting progress -part2-

i'm finally back!!!!! from selayang!!!! after 2 days of shooting!!!!! yippeeee!!!!

let's just start with friday morning when we were gonna shoot at ken iii apartment's swimming pool.... had a great big issue with the guard... about shooting at the swimming pool.... even though we've got our permission letter this time!!!!!! anyway... the guard gave us time until 9am to shoot..... well... that's the best he can do, i guess.. because this few shots require our talent to be in the pool... so a camera have to be situated on the pool for a closer perspective.... and the job of handling the camera on the water goes to me and eggy... because both of us were wearing shorts!!! oh!! how smart!!! the water was freezing cold... until my legs were shivering in the water... but my condition was very ok if compared to our talent, PJ's condition..... his legs were all redish due to the cold water.... kesian him..... he have to stay in there longer than we do because he's the main character..... like usual.... we went far off the time limit given.... the guard keep ushering us to leave or just stop shooting..... but the crew went on until 9.30... then, the guard strictly forbid us to shoot anymore..... yala... that's something usual about our crew... we are never on time.....

then we went back to uni cuz PJ's class starts at 10am.... but we have no class until 1.30... so we hung around at bear's place.... took a short nap and head back to uni.... attend comm theory and multimedia tools for advertising lectures.... handed in our comm theory report.... hopefully it's ok...

today's class ended early.... at around 4.30... so again... we hung around pieggie's house to wait for our talents (PJ and Boey) to meet up with us.... then... talents arrived but realised that they have forgotten to bring one of their shooting costumes..... ah yes.... so we split into 2 groups again... eggy and gang went off first to selayang while we headed to kelana jaya to get the talent's costumes.... after that... I pass the stering wheel to PJ since its around 6 something already... and i bet you my pendrives that there'll be a massive jam at LDP!!!! since i'm not very used to driving my mom's audi... and PJ seems eager to drive... so why not.....

the jam was terrible!!!! especially when its the opening ceremony of the olympics... not that it's occuring here.... i guess everybody is rushing home to watch.... however.... we missed it!!!!! luckily... mommy recorded it on tape for me... i know what you are thinking..... yes, i still use video tapes and for your information... i really like them!!!!

it was 9 something already when we reach selayang.... after setting up and stuff... its already almost 10.... poor boey.... she have no choice but to continue shooting until 12 something.... we called it off until then and everyone went to sleep.... because we have to get everything ready for shooting by 7am the next morning.... not wasting anymore time.... we hurried off to sleep.... 4 of us...festiny, joanne, eggy and me slept in fetiny's room while others (5 of them) slept in the other room.... festiny and joanne tooks the bed while me and eggy took the floor.... everyone was tired so nothing much to complain.... until the next morning... we heard like a dozen of alarms ringing.... one by one... until 4 of us couldnt take it anymore and woke up at 6.45.... got everything ready... and waited for the others to join in.... but there were no respond from the next room until festiny and joanne went in and wake them up at 7.30am.... yala tu... biasalah....

then started at around 8 something... while festiny and eggy went off to fetch agnes from the ktm station and buy breakfast on the way.... shooting... shooting.... shooting..... then splitted into 2 gangs again.... with eggy heading to jalan kuching for our next location..... until then... there was a sudden change of plan when we have to completely omit monday's shots at jalan17/5... due to unforeseen circumstances.... so we spontaneously found a spot near festiny's place to replace those shots....

shooting at jalan kuching went on quite ok.... then we head back to the location to replace monday's shots.... then again.... we have to re-shoot a fews shots that were done on thursday... due to unforeseen circumstances again!!!! luckily... these shots odes not require the talents.. so i'm in charge of sending them back to petaling while poor eggy have to stay back....

tomorrow is our last day of shooting!!!! yeah!!!! NXZ's Full House restaurant!!! it's a really nice place....

p/s: huiping ajak-ed me for yuncha tomorrow but i cant go!!!!!! i still have shooting!!!! snifs!!!

will upload all the pictures later!!!! stay tune!!!!

updates on shooting progress

currently have completed 2 days of shooting:

monday: jalan 17/5 field, NZX commercial centre *check

wednesday: taman jaya park(opposite amcorp mall) *Check



both are outdoor scenes.... currently shooting an indoor scene which consist of the singing part... i'm not involved.... why??? because.... i dont wanna skip class... hehehe... sorry... anyway... it should be going on smoothly in selayang now.... all the best wey!!! but i did not waste my day today... i edited the comm theory report and found out that we left out the conclusion which includes the answer towards the assignment question... all we have is theories and arguments.... yikes!!! then went for class.... ms u-know is lecturing on agenda-setting today.... then mr zachary is releasing a partial of the final exam's tips.... wheeee....



it was raining heavily in Petaling, i bet it still is now.... luckily we shot our outdoor scenes yesterday.... phew.... speaking about yesterday.... we were suppose to be shooting in taman jaya park.... when we reach there for set up, it started drizzling... wooo... however it wasnt heavy and it stopped about 10 minutes after we reached there.... first hurdle... down... then when we were setting up... some random park-ranger came hooting at us and asked for a permission letter... oh shoot... we did not prepare one for this location... and the park ranger will not allow us to shoot unless he sees the letter.... fine!!! we called eggy and gang to turn back and prepare the letter.... luckily i had a template saved in my pendrive.... but miss foo had to turn back to pc just to sign our damn permission letter... and that's so nice of her.... Thanks yo!!!! we owe you a lot man( i mean woman)!!!! hurdle 2... down.... then.. due to the strong wind... the sun ray was moving all around the place.... we have to delay shots just to wait for the sun ray to be back at the previous position in order to not mess up with continuity.... anyway... the sun ray was quite cooperative because it will always come back to its previous position after its "stroll" around the park..... hurdle 3.... down..... what else??? well... i guess that's the few major hurdles.... i'll just skip those minor "frictions" during shooting... ask me personally if you wanna know...

well then... i'll flashback monday's part.... first... we drove off to jalan17/5 for our first location shooting at around 4 pm because we'll have to wait for our talent to finish their classes.... while waiting we took our intro shot.... which took us appoximately of 2 hours to set up.... ish.... then the first batch took off in eggy's car to the location for set up... leaving me and talents, not forgetting our make-up artist... fuiyoh!!! as the second batch because we have to get the talent's make-up done first....

done~~ reach location 1.... the sun was glaring furiously at us!!!! we were burning hot.... PJ(our talent's initial... and no!!! it does not stand for Petaling Jaya....) was sweating like a running hose pipe.... shots were taken.... all was ok... but the whole thing went on till 7pm!!!!! and it's getting darker and darker....

we finally left the place at 7.30 and headed to NZX for our next location.... reached there around 8... had dinner at stationOne... then started setting up for shooting.... "frictions" again... about car keys and stuff.... will not mention here... ask me personally if you wanna know.... the whole thing went on and on and on and on.... the thing is... we only have 3 DAMN SHOTS!!!!! and we were damn lucky it did not rain!!!! or else... we are done!!! the whole thing will be delayed until the next morning, i guess.... cuz we left NZX at 12am!!!! the initial idea was suppose to be a raining shot to enhance the dramatic "whatever"..... but lucky the sky was kind... and did not let the goddamn rain loose... or else it will be harder for us to get everything done.....

i know people are now eagering for photos during shooting...
i'll post them up after i'm done with all my shooting posts.....
kinda lazy to upload them now....

doink

just ended my comm theory presentation yesterday.... now it's report time!!! boy.. i still so so so so hate reports!!!! presentation went on ok.... until the tutor pointed out that our group's discussions and points are all heading the wrong direction!!!! what???!!!! we did what was told and what was taught... even added critisms and stuff... and now we are still in the wrong direction???!!!! why is this subject so freaking hard to understand??!!!! i just dont get what the whole subject actually wants us to gain... besides more frustrations and stress..... anyway.... the tutor really went easy on us... i guess it's due to our discussion topic was supposed to be presented next week... since the group before us have mv shooting and are not available for this week... we exchange dates of presentation.... so it seems that we were not fully informed of the topic since the lecture class only covered half of it.... so i guess... we were kinda lucky after all.... then the tutor briefed us about the whole theory thingy.... so now we roughly have the idea of what is supposed to be in the report.... which is due next wednesday...





our mv shooting week is next week!!! gosh!!! how time flies!!!! a whole full week of shootings.... everyday after classes, before classes.... between classes.... hectic!!!!



anyway... just really really hope that everything will go ok....

pre-presentation blues~~

wooo..... currently waiting for my comm theory presentation....... ish.... "gan jeong" la... dont know how it will go... anyway... points are all out.. i'm still thinking about whether or not should i make cue cards... but cue cards are kinda distracting wey..........

anyway... let's sum up yesterday's stuff... first.. we have comm theory lecture.. this is the very first time i actually pay full attention and listen to whatever that is being taught... yala... i do pay attention during the previous lectures.. but this time is 120%... because it concerns my presentation topic... and also... eggy and i went up to u-know and ask questions!!!!! wheeewooo!!!!

after lecture... it's mv production discussion time.... cheng hui has been complaining that our grou has discussed the storyboard like a gazillion times already!!!! from the time we know which mv proposal has been picked until their production week( they were the first to shoot - week7)... until their editing.. until they are done editing.... until now... it's already a few weeks later.... we are still discussing... hahaha.... kita orang manyak gigantic mia production weee!!!!!!!!!!

while discussing.... we got a last minute message that advertising copywriting lecture has been cancelled... aish.... it's a good time too... we can discuss about the mv and also our comm theory.... me and eggy were discussing about the comm theory conclusion... critism and suggestions.... and because of this... we now declare that both of us have very very very critical short-term-memory-loss..... and the weirdest thing is.... we can just forget the very same thing!!!!

anyway.... to report my current where abouts and situation.... i'm now in the discussion room using cheng hui's laptop to update my blog.... and now... chenghui, jessie and eggy is discussing about cars and stuff....

very distracting....
i wanna join the conversation....

signing off!!!!

it's just another boring day~~~

Went to school early today to discuss our comm theory assignment... and we got all things sorted out... i have to get my part done on thursday... which our presentation will be on friday... yeah.... i'll be so screwed....

then i'll have to type out the shooting schedule or script or whatever you call that.... then the permission letter for location shooting.... and get ready for shooting next week....

besides... i have a moral mid term tomorrow.... i have not touch a bit of it... not even the theories.... i'm planning to force myself to swollow everything tomorrow... since i have around 4 hours of free time...

what's next??? oh yes... my advertising assignments!!! print ads... websites...

well... today's moral class... presentation time again.... as you know... and i bet everybody will be nodding their head furiously now.... that moral presentations are a real bore.... regardless of whoever is presenting....

anyway... members of the bc3 gang who attended the class today are..... me, eggy, agnes.... while kevin, marc and joanne will appear occationally for the attendence sake... anyway... in the middle of class... agnes went out to nowhere.... leaving me and eggy in the torturously boring class... luckily we've got edison and choon wai entertaining us... with their humorous conversations and very nostalgic games.... so it's not that bad after all....

i actually plan to jot down notes for my part of the comm theory assignment but at last got distracted because edison and choon wai's conversations are too funny to resist.... doraemon!!!

until ishani started shooting people while their group is presenting and kena shot back by the back-seaters....

the whole presentation thingy went on and finished at around 5.40.... imagine the jam then.... i was near to dozing off while driving on the moving-by-cm traffic at federal highway.... i think i'll just sleep early tonight and get everything going tomorrow.... this includes points-jotting and notes-revising....

signing off!!!!

multi... tasking

currently... watching bones.... analysing my comm theory stuff... and blogging at the same time... wooo... multi-tasking!!!! and i'm also suppose to amend my permission letters and stuff....

its week 10 already... i have a moral mid term on wednesday.... a comm theory presentation on friday and then a whole week of shooting next week.... from monday to saturday.... from dusk till dawn... there's even stay-overs so that we dont have to waste too much time by going back and fro to the shooting location....

i'm pretty looking forward for our shooting week... which will be damn hectic... busy... nerve-wrecking week of production... till now... everything is still all over the place.... i wonder how kelam-kabut will we be by the time... we have loads of shots and scenes... tons of props.... a great number of locations.... hopefully everything will turn out smoothly and miracle-ous-ly successfully with zero hurdles and errors....

anyway.... to cut things short.... these few weeks is gonna be hectic because assignments are due-ing.... and there are heaps of them to be completed... some are just in the brain-storming state and some are just in the pre-production state... so i guess everything will be all concentrated withins these few weeks and i'll not be as free as a bird anymore... until week 14 ends... untill all assignments are handed in...

then here comes my study week then final exams... woo-hoo.... habis semester!!! then year 2 sem 2.... waa-haa....

ok i'll go back and concentrate on watching bones and analysing my comm theory points...

signing off!!!

japanese language festival (day 2)

since we dont have to arrive early for registration today.... i woke up at 7.45... went out at 8... then pick up bear and pieggie 2 UM...

after reaching UM... we went for our japanese cultural experience activity... session 1, i choose furoshiki (japanese traditional wrapping cloth)... its really fun...

this is the cloth used

book or square/rectangle objects wrapping

bottle objects wrapping

round objects wrapping

cloth-turn-into-bag

i hope i'll remember the techniques... i recorded one of them here...

group photo with our sensei... (why do i look so cocky?? and fat!!!!!!)

by the way.. the akido and karate group is right beside us... we saw 3 very cute karate members demonstrating....

group practice

akido side... the man talking to our sensei is a japanese... and he speak very fluent BM!!! tsugoi ne~~!!!!

After furoshiki, we went off for lunch break.... and we had free nasi lemaks.... heee....

the "heavenly" effect was due to the strong sunlight

we pass by the Go club... japanese chess...

after the short break, we headed to our japanese cultural experience session 2.... which was cooking (inarizushi).... now i know how to prepare sushi already!!! yay!!!

after cooking we went and watch the odori dance group....

while waiting for bear to finish her ikebana activity....

after all those... we went back to the auditorium for the closing ceremony.... got our "provided" lunch and went off...

did i mention that UM is DAMN BIG!!!! we got lost in the campus area just because we missed a turning... round the whole place just to find the exit to jalan university.... ish... if only utar is also this big... or maybe just half as big will do... it will certainly be awesome!!!!