K700 cannot… i repeat cannot take pictures if your life depended on it…
Yet why am i posting pictures like this?… maybe its the flu… scrambled my brains.
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Ako… conti shot
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Want to know how they do car scenes?… with big suckers.
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The 2 biggies of Malaysia TV dramas.
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Office scene… corporate drama mah…ZZZ
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Wedding scene.
Its been a month now since industrial training, its been a helluva ride, seeing how a production is being planned, organized, and developed right in front of my eyes. It was a bit boring at first, sitting in the office watching astro and surfing the net. Now i understand what Soon Teng said when she meant "better rest now, because when the shooting starts…", and i was like "how hard can it be?",
well its hard… very very hard.
Imagine working from 8am till 12 midnight… that’s 16 hours a day… I’m working 2 office hours in a day!, with 1 off day every 10 shooting days. How are they expecting me to concentrate through all that? This project was doomed from the get go… unfinished script, unconfirmed shooting locations, unconfirmed artist and temper-mental staff. It was like what Richard (my producer said) "The planing of this project felt like it was planned during a mamak session, then decided to shoot the next morning". On average we shoot around 7 to 9 scenes… which is bad. The thing is the entire pre-production crew and technical crew are not communicating with each other… and expect the interns to know everything! Everybody here has the mentality of "glad its not my ass that is gonna get served"… so you’ve got to be on your toes all the time, "Sing mouk" us Chinese like to say.
But having said all the bad things about this project, there are some good things to come out off it, First, a director that is willing to share every single thing about film making with you, as 1 of the technical staff mentioned to me - "Some director just wanna get things over with as quickly as possible, they don’t give a shit about you or any thing besides completing the project" which i consider very very self-fish, i mean who are we to refer to if we wanted to know more things about film making? Thus making the whole "industrial training" program felt like a "cheap labor" program instead!. Another good thing is meeting all the actor and actress, seeing them outside of screen, they are like part of the family now, they even tease everybody on the set… Ako Mustafa is the joker of the pack… there is never a day without him having pranks, joking around and just making the entire set just feeling abit more relaxed. Dato Rahim Razali is definitely the king, he usually requires only 1 or 2 take to complete the scene, and he brings such emotion to the character of a father. Yasmin Hani is definitely a honey in really life… what an eye candy! Shaped like Barbie and an ability to speak Chinese, she is definitely a hit among the Chinese crews.
Looking at it, it isn’t half as bad as i though, just maybe I’m tired and sick (I’m writing thing while taking MC for the day). Caught the sniffles, bah my nose feels like a Kuala Lumpur rush hour jam and everything i eat taste like paper… being sick sucks big time!
