Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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.




Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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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Saturday, February 20, 2010

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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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Video for 3FOUR50

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


Monday, December 14, 2009

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

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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!