Last weekend there was a big shoot conducted by Oak 3.
The first day we were shooting out at Punggol and the scene called for three malay pirates to attack on a squad of five Americans patrolling the area.
i gotta hand it to the location... Punggol gave me orgasms of unimaginable magnitudes; it was sweet for a war film.
On set I had a friend from Tisch Asia, Ash, come over to help out taking videos and such for us. He was the director for my first film as a stuntman and main actor. He told me his film was "one of the better few" in their school at the moment. I actually did get a few calls from his friends who asked me for stunt services.
In this shoot I was acting as some young enthusiastic Malay pirate who's all raging with hormones and wanting to get his first kill.
We had a shot where the four of us had to run through the forest, seemingly positioning for an ambush and the camera would track us from the side for the whole 100 metres we ran.
They had some steering wheel device that placed the camera in the middle of it. I asked the people around "what the fuck is that?" and it came out to be some sort of steadycam.
Great... now I've got a new project idea...
Uncle Jimmy was very on the ball that day. He goes crazy mad everytime during big productions like this that there comes a point of time it may difficult to rationalize things... but hey I understand what's happening.
We had a lot of fire effects that day including two real Kar 98Ks that were used by the Germans in World War II. They fired blanks for it and I had a fun time cleaning up the sand in the vagina.
So this American would recce out infornt of his squad, then see us Malay bastards ambush him, he lets go a round, kills one of our men (the guy with the big sword) and then we chase him....
... then i catch up to him and unleash my precision keris blading skillz, bringing him down. The rest pummel him with parangs while i get into position and then slice the fucker to death.
Then we all get shot by the other Americans around... thus my first backfall stunt.
I couldnt remmeber how many times i had to rehearse the falling for the director and crew to see... for the many takes... and it was painful when you land the wrong way. Luckily the gorund was soft sand.
Then a stray rock or two appears out of nowhere.
After that there's a shot were the Americans come closer to our dead bodies, and suddenly I rise up from the dead and attack one of them. He blocks me with his rifle, kicks me in the gut, I stumble back and another American comes and swings his rifle butt across my face. I spin around, fall and receive a pummelling from them with rifle butts and the deadly "Kick sand into nose and mouth" attack.
Was a fun day that time... but then we had to skip the explosion scene and schedule it for another day because the production overran.
The next day, we were over at Fort Canning Park to film a fortress fight scene between the Spanish soldiers and Malay raiders.
What a day it was... I spent lots of time driving Uncle Jimmy's van on the hills of Fort Canning, squeezing through other production vans, dealing with security guards and laughing at the joggers as i spew their lungs full of carbon monoxide as I pass them.
The costumes Oak 3 produced looked really cool. The actors playing the Spanish hail from European countries like Mesopotamia and some were hell of tall. It was like a backwards front flip time travel as I saw them walkign around with those triangle hats and carrying the muskets that Uncle Jimmy and I built from scratch. The muskets really do look sweet!
Uncle Jimmy thought the crew how to make a "smoke machine".. which really is just a tin full of incense (BUT, with modifications made to it). The modifications made by Uncle Jimmy had one tin produce so much smoke it blocked out the vision quite a bit... and we had FIVE of them that day.
I was incharge of fixing up the musket effects, the weapons distribution and nosing around.
Uncle Jimmy had cold feet about how the musket firing effect would look like. The night before he sat in his office, thinking over a musket on how to fix up the wires. The weeks before I was a little bitch to him getting particular to the look of the musket, the measurements, the hammer striker and all those little nitty bits right down to the shape and size of the cloud once the gunpowder effect burns.
I showed him You Tube videos, I showed him pictures and all that till he got so annoyed that he went,"If I follow everything you say... i'll go bankrupt."
Lo and behold, the shot came, nine people stood in one line, muskets at the ready. The leader shouted the command to fire. And boom...
Uncle Jimmy was happy as can be. He showed everyone we met the rest of the day the musket effect after that. I think it looked sweet, too.
After that we had a scene of 15 Spaniards and 15 Malay raiders fighting at the same time.
You have no idea how hard my boner was at that time.
But yet again, the production overran again and we to reschedule the next big scenes to another day. So our two-day shoot transformed into a six-day shoot; this weekend and the next.
Next weekend we'll be doing some raging fires. I'm looking forward to it... I love burning things.
The first day we were shooting out at Punggol and the scene called for three malay pirates to attack on a squad of five Americans patrolling the area.
i gotta hand it to the location... Punggol gave me orgasms of unimaginable magnitudes; it was sweet for a war film.
On set I had a friend from Tisch Asia, Ash, come over to help out taking videos and such for us. He was the director for my first film as a stuntman and main actor. He told me his film was "one of the better few" in their school at the moment. I actually did get a few calls from his friends who asked me for stunt services.
In this shoot I was acting as some young enthusiastic Malay pirate who's all raging with hormones and wanting to get his first kill.
We had a shot where the four of us had to run through the forest, seemingly positioning for an ambush and the camera would track us from the side for the whole 100 metres we ran.
They had some steering wheel device that placed the camera in the middle of it. I asked the people around "what the fuck is that?" and it came out to be some sort of steadycam.
Great... now I've got a new project idea...
Uncle Jimmy was very on the ball that day. He goes crazy mad everytime during big productions like this that there comes a point of time it may difficult to rationalize things... but hey I understand what's happening.
We had a lot of fire effects that day including two real Kar 98Ks that were used by the Germans in World War II. They fired blanks for it and I had a fun time cleaning up the sand in the vagina.
So this American would recce out infornt of his squad, then see us Malay bastards ambush him, he lets go a round, kills one of our men (the guy with the big sword) and then we chase him....
... then i catch up to him and unleash my precision keris blading skillz, bringing him down. The rest pummel him with parangs while i get into position and then slice the fucker to death.
Then we all get shot by the other Americans around... thus my first backfall stunt.
I couldnt remmeber how many times i had to rehearse the falling for the director and crew to see... for the many takes... and it was painful when you land the wrong way. Luckily the gorund was soft sand.
Then a stray rock or two appears out of nowhere.
After that there's a shot were the Americans come closer to our dead bodies, and suddenly I rise up from the dead and attack one of them. He blocks me with his rifle, kicks me in the gut, I stumble back and another American comes and swings his rifle butt across my face. I spin around, fall and receive a pummelling from them with rifle butts and the deadly "Kick sand into nose and mouth" attack.
Was a fun day that time... but then we had to skip the explosion scene and schedule it for another day because the production overran.
The next day, we were over at Fort Canning Park to film a fortress fight scene between the Spanish soldiers and Malay raiders.
What a day it was... I spent lots of time driving Uncle Jimmy's van on the hills of Fort Canning, squeezing through other production vans, dealing with security guards and laughing at the joggers as i spew their lungs full of carbon monoxide as I pass them.
The costumes Oak 3 produced looked really cool. The actors playing the Spanish hail from European countries like Mesopotamia and some were hell of tall. It was like a backwards front flip time travel as I saw them walkign around with those triangle hats and carrying the muskets that Uncle Jimmy and I built from scratch. The muskets really do look sweet!
Uncle Jimmy thought the crew how to make a "smoke machine".. which really is just a tin full of incense (BUT, with modifications made to it). The modifications made by Uncle Jimmy had one tin produce so much smoke it blocked out the vision quite a bit... and we had FIVE of them that day.
I was incharge of fixing up the musket effects, the weapons distribution and nosing around.
Uncle Jimmy had cold feet about how the musket firing effect would look like. The night before he sat in his office, thinking over a musket on how to fix up the wires. The weeks before I was a little bitch to him getting particular to the look of the musket, the measurements, the hammer striker and all those little nitty bits right down to the shape and size of the cloud once the gunpowder effect burns.
I showed him You Tube videos, I showed him pictures and all that till he got so annoyed that he went,"If I follow everything you say... i'll go bankrupt."
Lo and behold, the shot came, nine people stood in one line, muskets at the ready. The leader shouted the command to fire. And boom...
Uncle Jimmy was happy as can be. He showed everyone we met the rest of the day the musket effect after that. I think it looked sweet, too.
After that we had a scene of 15 Spaniards and 15 Malay raiders fighting at the same time.
You have no idea how hard my boner was at that time.
But yet again, the production overran again and we to reschedule the next big scenes to another day. So our two-day shoot transformed into a six-day shoot; this weekend and the next.
Next weekend we'll be doing some raging fires. I'm looking forward to it... I love burning things.
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