Review Kiamu!!!

Berikut merupakan apa yang orang lain perkatakan tentang Kiamu pasca Maskara Shorties tempoh hari. Ada yang akademik ada yang santai sebagai penonton (dua-dua penting).

Dengan kebolehan yang sama seperti Azizulhakim, cuma Anwari lebih kemas bermain dengan tempo yang lebih perlahan. Ia tahu bagaimana untuk sustain minat audien. Kesimpulannya ia mengiyakan keganasan yang berlaku di sekolah itu yang lebih nyata sifat kereptiliaannya - survival of the fittest! - JHBT, Binfilem.

Aku dah lama tunggu nak tengok filem ni, memang best, cerita pasal budak kena buli di sekolah kluster, macam pembongkaran la jugak, cara penyampaian gempak, kemas, tersusun, shot cantik, editing cun.
Memang layak pengarahnya dihantar belajar ke oversea. - Azizulhakim Salleh, Pengarah Filem Pendek

Director ni dengar2 bukan calang2. Jalan cerita, voice over, grafik, lagu latar bergerak begitu harmoni. Terasa kelancaran pergerakan. Emosi bisa turun naik. Cerita biasa isu ragging budak sekolah tetapi menjadi luar biasa dengan adanya kombinasi jalan cerita, voice over, grafik, lagu latar dapat bergerak dengan harmoni.- Rizal Gunx, Pengarah Filem Pendek, Aktivis Sol-Jah

Isu klise buli disekolah, pelajar senior membuli pelajar junior. Dari sudut editing memang sangat kemas, sampaikan ada satu babak seolah-olah babak mencari benda tersembunyi(babak cari kesalahan si junior-rupa-rupanya tak tutup lampu). Apabila sampai bab berkaitan isu kematian(pelajar dipukul hingga mati), ia seolah mengundang emosi penonton, untuk berasa sebak bersama. - M Yusof, Blog Review Filem

Terbaik!!! Harap sangat masa tengok cerita ni Brother Bear ada kat sebelah. Terkenang zaman dulu Asrama Pusat Segamat dulu. Bahagian tiup lampu sampai padam adalah denda kegemaran. Cuma yang tak ada adalah, tiup kipas sampai berpusing. Tapi benda semua ni terjadi pada budak lelaki ja. Budak perempuan paling- paling dahsyat pun kena pegang batang mop, berdiri dekat koridor menghadap Aspura dan nyanyi lagu Negaraku. Aku? Tak pernah kena. - Ay Yusof, Di Blog Peribadinya

Aku suka filem ini sebab ia mencuit kenangan sewaktu aku bersekolah asrama dulu. Memang sebijik. Senior memang suka cari pasal kalau nak pukul orang. Kalau dalam filem ini, kes tak tutup lampu dorm. Kalau time aku sekolah dulu, tak bagi salam pada senior. Malam tu, kena bantai. Cara penceritaan juga aku suka. Macam style Afdlin Shauki dalam filem BULI. - Fikri Kacak, Di Blog Peribadinya

Wow. Filem pendek paling boleh buat aku bergelak tawa santai dalam masa serius untuk kita mengetahui apa yang cuba disampaikan sesuai dengan kes dan isu semasa yang berlaku iaitu isu buli disekolah asrama penuh. RMC misalnya yang banyak. Mungkin dia mengambil pengalaman peribadinya namun adunan cerita sangat fresh dengan kepandaian dialog narator mengambil peranan ditambah dengan animasi meletop ! Wajib tengok. - Gua Layan Je, blog gualayanje.blogspot.com

Rupanya ada yang menganggap isu yang diketengahkan dalam Kiamu klise, mungkin sebab Afdlin Shauki dah introduce unsur-unsurnya dalam Buli. So macamana nak buat feature ni bai? Tapi bagi aku dalam Buli, ada beza dari aspek tona buli yang digambarkan Kiamu. Bak kata Binfilem - Kiamu lebih REPTILIA der!!

Maskara Shorties 2010

Gua tau dah lambat, orang laen pakat post pasal maskara 2-3 hari lpas. Tapi gua belum sebab 2 benda. Gua bukan blogger kental dan gua sibuk naik turun KL-Kulim.

Hari dimulakan dengan penye-muggle-an 2 ekor budak SAS kuar, Che Ku & Haikal. Elly & Fatin yang menumpang kereta satria gua turut thrill dengan kehadiran 'star' Kiamu!!! - Che Ku (PosterBoy). Pastu shoot gi Sunway amik Amin. Mamat tu ketika ditemui kat meet up point (Caltex Sunway) memang muka high xcukup tido. Mana taknya, malam sebelum itu, lepak ngan kitorang sampai pukul 3pagi, lepas tu straight gi daki gunung mulai 4pagi (kejar sunrise katanya).

Kitorang tak sesat cam most orang yang carik rumah Pena. Sebab gua pernah pergi situ beberapa kali dan adanya GPS tomtom gua. (Tapi kitorang set destination as restoran Tupai Tupai, last-last kena halau sebab tak boleh parking kat situ. Kedekut.)

Sesampainya di Rumah Pena, gua disambut brother Sinaganaga yang sempoi. Cukup time gua minta diri nak solat maghrib.

Kitorang blah awal, sebab budak-budak sekolah tu susah kang kalau lambat-lambat sangat. Dahla tengah trial exam. Dan most member-member aku tak bole nak appreciate certain-certain filem dan mula rasa migrain.

Memandangkan Maskara mnerupakan event yang tiada diskriminasi dalam pemilihan filem, maka pelbagai la jenis filem yang tayang malam tu. Yang mana yang gua tak review, anggap jela 'no komen' sebagai komen gua. Tendency aku untuk mengamalkan Snark-ism probably takfair untuk penganjur Maskara - Sindiket Sol-Jah yang baik-baik orangnya.

(Tiada makna ye susunan yang mana direview dulu dan kemudian, ikut mana yang gua ingat la. Yang tak direview, sama ada gua tak sempat tengok, or simply - no comment)

PERTAMA - Halimi Hassan

Serius aku respect sedara Halimi punya capability in DoP-ing. Dengan kenaikan practise DSLRvideography hari ini, Mamat ni boleh buat serious damage kat independent filmmaking scene Malaysia. Gua yang selama ni self-aware kat skill DoP gua yang slightly under-average ni jadik gatal nak ajak brother ni collaborate. In terms of penceritaan, bagi gua memang nothing new la, sedikit klise pun. Skrip non-diegetic narration dia cheesy, tak generic, story pun sikit cheesy. Sound design terabur dan awkward. Evidentla yang sedara Halimi ni more of a technical person- cameraworks and post-production mantap. Story-telling slightly under average. Tapi sebab gua ternganga ngan camera work dia, semua tu gua dah tak kisah masa menonton.

LAWAN - Azizulhakim Salleh

Skrip dan premise mantap, siap sindir-sindir lagi peel piawai kaum ku dalam berniaga.Execution kurang umph, sebab dengan execution yang lebih baik filem ni boleh bagi impak yang lebih hebat. Contoh execution yang gua tengah sentuh sekarang ialah camerawork, penetapan tone dalam editing. Pacing editing dah mantap, aku suka repitition shot a-la trackingkaki character-character yang interframe dalam cerita ni sorang demi sorang. Masalah castingpun ada jugak - Yakni brother kutip hutang/duit perlindungan - Tak Garang langsung la der!Probably masalah terbesar film ni sama dengan Kiamu!!! - DoP. Lepas ni sedara Azizulhakim, mari kita ajak sedara Halimi jadik DoP kita! haha.

Fighting Fit - Sulaiman Salomon

Skrip almost perfect! Again, masalah execution.

6 Lorong - Syed Syahrul Zarizi

Gua rasa filem ni berpunca dari personal documentation event bunga api yang mahu dijadikan filem narratif. Maka diemploy lah seorang 'fotographer' yang tak convincing langsung sebagai 'watak utama' dan jalan cerita yang bagai tiada.

Colours of Ideas - Low Wei Yan

First thing yang come through my mind masa tengok cerita ni - RAJIN SIAL! Aku peminat stop motion gak. Tapi series, aku tak setekad brother ni. Kalau tengok filem ni banyak kali, boleh nampak yang pengarah bukan nak kutuk satu pihak politik negara kita. Tapi dua-dua belah! Stop motion yang bukan sahaja berjaya dalam animasinya, tapi jugak berjaya dalam aspek isi dan delivery.

Mr & Mrs BBM - CST Production

Ok, aku tau korang cekap videography DSLR, ramai orang upah korang buat video kahwin, dan korang dah kaya. Tapi please come up dengan cerita yang worthwhile, or aku dan Fatin terpaksa tulis skrip sendiri masa kitorang nak upah korang nanti.

Low Budget Love - Bainun Waheeda

Gua memang bukan peminat cerita cinta. Tapi kalau PERTAMA dan ada rom-com yang gua boleh blah. Kenapa yang ni gua tak boleh belah? Gua pun tak tau.

Petra Bond - Chin Yew

Filem opening event yang bagi gua, sangat berjaya (sebagai opening event). Tapi bila diletakkan out of place macam Maskara, rasa awkward dan off-key. Pasti lebih lawak dan masyuk ketika ditonton masa dinner company tu.

Sroq - Indra Syabani

Slapstik. Gua pergi beli maggi dan ambil air lepas 30 saat pertama.

Why am I still Fucking here?

I'm seriously considering deleting this blog. I mean seriously what was I thinking? I do not update, I don't even visit it myself so seriously? Why fucking bother? Some people use it as a form of 'memoir' placeholder and often come back to read their previous entries, but even that I don't do. So seriously, why fucking bother?

Anyways, the ones that actually gives a shit about what I'm up to. I'm in the middle of completing a 7000 word essay combined. Yes, 7-fucking-thousand, and oh yeah - a portfolio is to come with it!

Can i say fuck more? Please?

Trash, Utterly Trash

I really should be doing some editing now but.. pfft~~ I might try to launch myself to it right after.

Anyway here's something new, and this one actually means something - dissect it!


Pfft!! Still pfft-ing!!!

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Location:Cowper Rd,Barnet,United Kingdom

When this blog gets personal.

I used to be a lot tougher than this. It took a lot to bring my spirit down. I used to be more confident than this, I trusted myself more than anything else. Or was I? The word Introspective should have been better off unknown to me, as the understanding of the word itself implicates more of it within me. Behind the emotionally indifferent self I portray most of the time, I'm actually ridiculously frail. Maybe that fragility made me work hard on creating this much tougher persona that I'd like myself to be. People close to me had always left me alone when my shit is not together. I hated that, I thought I deserved some empathy, some guidance, some thing. Now I know that these are the people that believe that I'm better than that. That I'm stronger than I think, and that whatever I'm going through, I'll find the answers within myself. These are the people who truly respect me as a human being. I'm always careful when I give advice, most of the time I refuse to give any at all, unless I truly know that person. I always think that I'm a good character reader but I'm not. I'll try my best to refrain from assuming that I know people from now on. As social commentaries, especially when untrue can inflict a lot of damage to a person.

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Video for 3FOUR50

So I did this Video for a website called 3four50, a "Think Health" website. It's self explanatory really. Enjoy!!

Tengah Bulan, Hujung Tahun

It's the time of the year again, where any male blogreader of mine would probably vomit and regret ever following my blogs. It is a day I'd find myself hating being in London (among hundreds of other days). The date of the post might not say it cause I want this to be published as soon in the day as possible, Malaysian time.

It's 15th December 2009, The day Miss Fatin Humaizah turns 20 :)

Below is a little something that I have been holding off to do for quite a while,

The song illustrates perfectly how i feel - here without her. Sorry the chorus isn't written on screen like the verses. I tried having it on screen, but it seems to distract viewers from the "Humaizah Experience", how her smile is soo contagious!

Anyways this is what the chorus says:

When she's sear

The new year's here

And there is not a resolution

That I can't do

I see things clearly

When she's near me

When she's near me all the world is new.

And I do feel exactly that! That's why we need our 12 hours of Skype each day! :P

So on your birthday Sayang, I wish that everyone around you would spoil you for the day (you know I'd do that). Have a good one!

P/s: You what I'm gonna say :P

Pulp Fiction: Dead Nigger Storage, by Wei Sheng Loh

So Theo haven't got the chance to see this yet, so I guess I put this up here since he's following me



Eddie (the lecturer) told us to quit our day job and start looking for acting gigs already. I thought my acting was crap. Eddie didn't have any complaints about it, he thought it was technically competent; shots were well composed and lit, good editing.

P/S: Sorry for the 14 F**ks I said (yes, i counted), it was in the script!

Hello Hurricane

This is simply too beautiful to not post here:



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Tolong Saya Capub Kiamu!!!

Ya, pasti anda hairan, mengapakah saya berbahasa melayu dalam post kali ini. Ya, semestinya kerana saya tidak mahu matsalleh-matsalleh dikelas saya tahu yang saya sebenarnya telah selesai penggambaran Kiamu!!! cuti dahulu.

Walaupun saya tidak mahu mereka tahu (belum lagi), namun saya perlu mula menyebarkan hype! filem ini, terutamanya di Malaysia. Oleh itu, jika boleh, semua rakan-rakan (kecuali di United Kingdom) saya yang punyai blog / website atau apa-apa sahaja, yang ingin membantu saya mempromosikan filem ini - Sila maklumkan saya.

Saya akan membekalkan anda dengan kit promosi (so far hanya ada trailer 30saat, dan poster) untuk anda post kan di blog2 anda seperti mana saya post kan poster kiamu!!! yang outdated ini disebelah kanan blog ini.

Cakap Benar Tak Radikal Langsung!!

The Test that was a 100 years ago

There was a time, a while ago. where i was blogging about making animations using flash instead of stopmotion powerpoint. Sorry to dissapoint anyone but i STOPPED.

Why? because one; it didnt worked out as well as i hope despite the immense labor required to finish a 30 second clip of it

Two: the "least" expected happened - I got lazy.

So here is one test clip done, amongst thousands:



Lifeless, i know. Hence me stopping.

They Love London and Paris

So Fatin wanted this up on my blog, maybe she thought she looks cute in it.



So yeah, They like London and Paris. Aku x, aku malas bila pikir kna balik London, Paris plak bau hancing.

Budget for Kiamu!!!

I have checked and confirmed on the equipments that I shall rent for my latest production:


Panasonic DVX102B 3CCD camera + tripod x1, 6days : RM150 x 4 = RM900
Arri 800W Tungsten Redheads x3, 4days : (RM40 x 3) x 4 =RM480
8' Panasonic Director's Screen RM50 x 4 = RM200

Manpower x 9 = RM50 X9 =RM450

Total: RM900 + RM480 + RM200 + RM450 = RM2030

Xtermasuk duit untuk makan minum crew lagi.. haih, sah aku pokai after production.

P/S: Kira DVX tu dapat murah gile tu, standard camera saja sehari RM300 beb.

Sasputra new image: Gritty!

Well I've been working myself around a new production label for my films, I've been using SASPUTRA for a while now, The name is close to my heart but the image of the 3D logo spinning to face the screen is too safe, conventional, and tame.

I wanted something rough, something alternative, something that rhymes with rugged. So I've played around with what I could and came to this new image of SASPUTRA films:

Just as much as how bored I am with slow tracking shots, clean cut photography, 3D CGI stuff, colorful color scheme. This new production label complements it swell! The scruffy and unclean edges and the massive presence of noise reflects my soul as a young, revolting one. This version of black over white is the main one.



The alternate inverted version is for use in cases where and when necessary: especially for opening sequences, which usually is cast over black.

Kiamu!!! would be the first to be produced under this label. Which is why i think it's about time.

Kiamu!!!: The Short

Yes, I'm doing it. The hell with what people say, I am still friggin doing it! "Kiamu!!!: The Short" is now at the level of pre-production, and I am pretty sure a lot people would be happy it is, but not as many as the people who frowns upon the idea that I am actually planning to go with it.

I've been silent for a while, have been quite the busy bee these days. Mornings I am an under-appreciated intern who says no to nothing and nights I am a Director trying to convert his stories into MPEG-4

They keep telling me that what I'm doing is radical, and that its risky. I'm not doing any public demonstration or anything, I'm just telling the truth as I know. Telling the truth is far less radical than keeping it in a closet.

Busy

As the title suggest.

Have handed in one paper. Am now struggling making portfolios for these films:



Yes, two of them. So if you mind, I must get out of the net and start putting on my creative cap!

Peace

US products and US bounds

*This was written by a good friend of mine, Emir Anuar. He post it up for a while and retracted it from his blog to protect his relationships with people. I for one, find that it is a shame for this not to be up on the net, and I trust people around me would be open minded enough to accept another person's point of view*

US products and US bounds

I heard and read a lot of students urging to boycott US and Israeli products.

And it amazed me that some US bound students urged the same thing too.

Shouldn't the first thing they do is to drop the scholarship? It would be a hypocracy if they don't. The TAXPAYERS money is being used to finance the education in US universities. And where the money goes? What happen to to the boycott? Didn't you guys realized that by going to the US, you are making the government pay MILLIONS of ringgit to the country you are urging to boycott?

Seriously, it doesn't make sense. If I am wrong, give justifications. So don't go or stop being a hypocrite.

At least those people buying Big Mac are using their own money and it is about 100000times cheaper than an education there.

Please don't criticize without any negations or justifications.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

As for my personal view on this matter, I would say that I'm not against the idea of boycotting US products. I can really respect their cause, and see where they're coming from. But for a government sponsored student bound to the US to do such a thing - I have a great deal of 'APAKAH?' accepting that. I agree with Emir, that demonstrates a bit of hypocrisy.

I mean, it is obvious that these people, despite their beliefs, refuses to "drop the scholarship" because of their fear of loosing something important.

Ergo, my arguement is, if you yourself can relate to the fear of losing something out of this - You would actually be the person that'll be most empathethic of the situation that you yourself put the local McDonalds retailers into. Who by chance, could be a Malay Muslim as well.

The same goes to the Intel factory workers in Kulim, who now, are fearing for their jobs, and the incapability to provide their underprivileged family.

*I rarely...wait, NEVER post up anything political here, but this one caught my interest*

Too Much Time In Hands Tonight.

Classes has ended. True, it has. No more class till the beginning of the new term this autumn, where I'll return as a final year student ("Already?" I know!). But that doesn't mean its all play and relax for me, as I have a horrendously massive amount of work to hand in on the 23rd of April and the 5th of May. Then it'll be independence from the 2nd year BA Film Video and Interactive Arts learning frame. I guess in a way, I have slightly less to worry about compared to my other classmates, as I'm pretty much finished with my year end film - Fragility. The public premiere of Fragility went well, I'm pretty convinced that a lot of people liked it (self re-assuring moment).

Sesi berbahasa Melayu bermula:

Aku tau aku akan bunyi seakan-akan riak, angkuh, dan bodoh-sombong. Tapi, kalau anda-anda berada di tempat kejadian, anda akan setuju, dan faham bila aku kata:

"Fragility ditayang bersama-sama filem-filem sampah!"

Jangan salah faham, aku tak perasan bagus, aku tau kelemahan-kelemahan filem aku. Dan ada beberapa filem rakan sekelas aku yang aku benar-benar tabik! Namun tidak terlampau jika aku kata 80% dari filem yang ditayang malam itu benar-benar memalukan aku sebagai rakan sekelas. Filem yang siapa-siapa dengan camera boleh buat. KATA belajar buat film? Aku malu, sebagai tukang compile filem-filem itu kedalam DVD aku malu. Fragility diatur untuk ditayang nombor 10 dari 20 filem. Maka, dalam 'perjalanan' ke filem aku itu, aku perasan, seorang demi seorang ahli audience blah sebab SAKIT mata. SAKIT mata melihat keJAHILan budak-budak yang ambil degree filem buat filem. Aku duduk dibelakang seorang ilmuan filem masa screening itu, Patrick Philips. Dari riak wajahnya, aku tau dia sedang sakit hati, merasa dirinya seolah-olah sedang membuang masa. Yang aku paling marah, dia BLAH sebaik-baik filem aku bermula. Bila aku berharap dapat mendengar feedback beliau tentang filem aku.

Namun tidak semua sampah, dibawah merupakan filem-filem yang aku boleh respect:

Indistinct - James Clear Tournas

The Horror of Hang Wood - David Paul Irons

Together Forever - Mikel C.G.

Dracula - David O'gara

Fragility - Web Premiere

So last night was the Big Screening of Fragility. It went all right, despite the fact that.. well..forget it.

So here's the Web Premiere of Fragility.

Enjoy! - Seriously, I demand you to!

Fragility Feedbacks, so far.

" The usage of space is very well thought of, and the camera movements compliments it well too. Personally likes the consistent usage of focus shift of the piece, and the constant cutting between the conversation itself and the conversation off screen with shots of the girl. Good use of music and sound. Notices the change of light on Liang's face, referring it as a continuity error. Not really a fan of the tv static usage, being the depiction (personally) of the dream sequence a point of view of Lydia's character - using tv static, a very technological and electronic thing to represent something biological like memories. Likes Ching Yee's performance and thinks she's a very capable actress"

David Heinemann, Lecturer


"Love the style of the cinematography, the representation of space through cinematography and continuity was brilliant, interested and hopes to work with Anwari for my final year project. I really like his style!"

Navarro Aydemir


"Disagrees with David's opinions about the usage of static, and believes that the usage of static represents 'disturbance' and compliments well the situation - disturbance in her memory - her forgeting him. Likes the look of the film, especially it's depth of field"

James Clear Tournas, fellow filmmaker


"Finds the cast to be rather good, charismatic in a way. Likes the significant difference of depth of field between the dream sequence and the real world"

David Paul Irons, fellow filmmaker


"The film looks promisingly professional, not very keen of the whole idea in which the past events are hocked into the audience by the means of dialogue. The film, being fairly experimental, might have utilize other ways to represent the past events, something more expressive ,perhaps with mise-en-scene or such. The dialogue in the beginning draws the audiences' interest away early in the film. Otherwise, the dream sequence is wicked!"

Nicole Wirth, film critic


"The editing is superb, also notices the continuity error with light on liang's face. Finds the dialogue scene to be a bit long and dragging"

Siti Noor Fateha, senior filmmaker



"Ching Yee's performance is great!"

Suraya Hani, Media Student


"The early handheld scene to be novice-ly shot, likes Liang's performance and is the only science student to watch it and interpret the dream sequence as a struggle for memory, and likes the dream sequence."

Afida Liyana, Petronas Scholar


"Likes the effects in the dream sequence! Nothing like the Malay trash films"

Emir Anuar, Physics Whiz


"Find the acting to be a little stiff, resulting the feeling of dragging-ness early into the film, almost cried towards the end, almost got a heart attack from the sudden neuron buzz and strikes"

Elly Azreen, Law Student


"The acting seems to be a little stiff, was irritated by the high pitched sound, couldn't relate the content to the title, and a few medical mistakes"

Farhan Wilson, Medical Student