The shoot for AFP Film #1 has passed on for about three weeks now. I finally managed to make my way down to Jurong West to meet Kai Xiang under his block for the production stills.
I wished i was living at his house... his block is beside Sly's! I had great fun sitting under Sly's block for the next two hours while whining and cursing about school to KX.
There werent that many stills taken it seems. Maybe its a blessing. Funny how the stills turn up much better than the footages from the film camera....
The day starts of well.... nice clouds and Rahman got me horny with his whole Egyptian headress thing.
...and here I am pretending to not notice that I'm about to slap Daryl's butt.
All's smiles and laughs for the afternoon... until the generator failed. I dont wanna talk about whatever happened on set because I'm afraid of myself.
FSV's Best Director doing his job... i wonder why KX decided on the sneaky point of view. I dont think I feel safe around him anymore. Maybe there's a reason why he was wearing short shorts when i met him??!?!!?!!
Directing was okay for me. Apparently one of the best lessons i've learnt from this shoot is that having anyone from North View Secondary to help out in productions is comparable to killing yourself slowly with a dead cat pretending to be knife. It's a whole mess. I'm not sure if it's something the school didnt teach us but everytime I have someone from NVSS to come over a shitty attitude greets me in the face.
Waiting for nightfall. I love these three people. If any team members deserve a medal, i'd pick these three.
Night falls and we're ready to shoot........ NOT. /sarcasm
Master Jimmy Low. Sometimes i find myself defending him no matter what whenever a negative comment is being thrown about him. Why?
Glad to have him on set. I remember that next day we had coffee and teh at Ang Mo Kio where i sat with him for the next two hours talking about the shoot the day before. Then of course.... this.
The Arriflex 16mm camera. I dont know the specs but all i know it costs forty-five thousand dollars and I'd like to buy one by the age of 35.
I call this the "Spider Fuck" position.
My name is Earl!
Finally. Getting jiggy with it. I like KX's framing on this.
We had a crowd watching us. Nice. But i'm sorry aunties and uncles... you wont have the chance to see the product of this shoot anywhere else but the FSV dustbin.
Daryl... I was wondering how he got such stable shots with my video camera....
Nader Tadros. We found him on AADB.com.sg. It's a database webbie for asian actors based in Singapore. I suggest you go look around that site... you might find something interesting there (hint hint).
Have you ever noticed how productions crews tend to smoke religiously on set? It's even worse when your producer STEALS your cigs because of some funny rule and we gotta bring in contraband cigs to calm us down. Piracy FTW.
Please, do not touch a man's cigs.
"How many film students does it take to set up a tripod?" - Sulaimi.
Waiting for shit to happen. I should have left our beloved actress in that set-up till the next morning....
Or maybe lock her up in the van and sent both of them back to the rental company.
I wished we had this kind of lighting appearing in our film. But not that i can blame anyone. It was divine intervention that day.
I wonder what happened to the Rahman's camera team...... ah.. oh yes now i remember. Was he pissed that day...
Nader again. I kinda like working with him. Things clicked and he knew how to think things through. I'm glad he actually put up with us and all our blunders.
Performance was a bit flat (as in... angry all the way) and i wasnt too happy with that. But I spotted the flaws in my direction and did a bit better for my Directing for Camera shoot the weekend after this shoot.
Directing isnt exactly an easy job. I'll save my breath because i've ranted on it a lot to Daryl, Don, KX, Kang Sheng, Michelle and so on and so forth. I wish aspiring directors good luck because you're gonna need it. For now i'll follow Jimmy's advice and stick to lesser roles and learn the basics before thinking of putting my balls through a stress test.
All pictures credited to Kai Xiang..... who live's beside Sly. ZZZZZZ.....
well we had fun trying to point out Sly's room... I couldnt find it.
I wished i was living at his house... his block is beside Sly's! I had great fun sitting under Sly's block for the next two hours while whining and cursing about school to KX.
There werent that many stills taken it seems. Maybe its a blessing. Funny how the stills turn up much better than the footages from the film camera....
The day starts of well.... nice clouds and Rahman got me horny with his whole Egyptian headress thing.
...and here I am pretending to not notice that I'm about to slap Daryl's butt.
All's smiles and laughs for the afternoon... until the generator failed. I dont wanna talk about whatever happened on set because I'm afraid of myself.
FSV's Best Director doing his job... i wonder why KX decided on the sneaky point of view. I dont think I feel safe around him anymore. Maybe there's a reason why he was wearing short shorts when i met him??!?!!?!!
Directing was okay for me. Apparently one of the best lessons i've learnt from this shoot is that having anyone from North View Secondary to help out in productions is comparable to killing yourself slowly with a dead cat pretending to be knife. It's a whole mess. I'm not sure if it's something the school didnt teach us but everytime I have someone from NVSS to come over a shitty attitude greets me in the face.
Waiting for nightfall. I love these three people. If any team members deserve a medal, i'd pick these three.
Night falls and we're ready to shoot........ NOT. /sarcasm
Master Jimmy Low. Sometimes i find myself defending him no matter what whenever a negative comment is being thrown about him. Why?
Glad to have him on set. I remember that next day we had coffee and teh at Ang Mo Kio where i sat with him for the next two hours talking about the shoot the day before. Then of course.... this.
The Arriflex 16mm camera. I dont know the specs but all i know it costs forty-five thousand dollars and I'd like to buy one by the age of 35.
I call this the "Spider Fuck" position.
My name is Earl!
Finally. Getting jiggy with it. I like KX's framing on this.
We had a crowd watching us. Nice. But i'm sorry aunties and uncles... you wont have the chance to see the product of this shoot anywhere else but the FSV dustbin.
Daryl... I was wondering how he got such stable shots with my video camera....
Nader Tadros. We found him on AADB.com.sg. It's a database webbie for asian actors based in Singapore. I suggest you go look around that site... you might find something interesting there (hint hint).
Have you ever noticed how productions crews tend to smoke religiously on set? It's even worse when your producer STEALS your cigs because of some funny rule and we gotta bring in contraband cigs to calm us down. Piracy FTW.
Please, do not touch a man's cigs.
"How many film students does it take to set up a tripod?" - Sulaimi.
Waiting for shit to happen. I should have left our beloved actress in that set-up till the next morning....
Or maybe lock her up in the van and sent both of them back to the rental company.
I wished we had this kind of lighting appearing in our film. But not that i can blame anyone. It was divine intervention that day.
I wonder what happened to the Rahman's camera team...... ah.. oh yes now i remember. Was he pissed that day...
Nader again. I kinda like working with him. Things clicked and he knew how to think things through. I'm glad he actually put up with us and all our blunders.
Performance was a bit flat (as in... angry all the way) and i wasnt too happy with that. But I spotted the flaws in my direction and did a bit better for my Directing for Camera shoot the weekend after this shoot.
Directing isnt exactly an easy job. I'll save my breath because i've ranted on it a lot to Daryl, Don, KX, Kang Sheng, Michelle and so on and so forth. I wish aspiring directors good luck because you're gonna need it. For now i'll follow Jimmy's advice and stick to lesser roles and learn the basics before thinking of putting my balls through a stress test.
All pictures credited to Kai Xiang..... who live's beside Sly. ZZZZZZ.....
well we had fun trying to point out Sly's room... I couldnt find it.
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