Friday, 30 October 2009

Interesting experience

Acted as a supporting cast for a reality show on Channel 8 last night.

I made Guo Liang and the whole casting crew waited for almost an hour. Oops...

Other than that, it was a really fun, interesting and spontaneous shooting...

Being not so self-conscious help in being natural...

Chatting with the crew was an interesting experience too.

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Experience as a Director

Just completed my BLP 3rd weekend on Mon morning. To be honest, we didn't really have completion. We were so so so busy over the weekend that by the time i'm ready to go to work, most of us couldn't even stand straight. We were that tired.

But it was such fun! We had a 48-hour movie making campaign, and I was the assistant director of the movie. Could you imagine not sleeping for 48-hour?

Things we had to do in this crazy 48-hour:
- Align the team (on what movie is it)
- Operations plan
- Crash course on movie-making
- Crash course on editing
- Crash course on directing/ filming effects
- Script- writing
- Make-up
- Location search/ scouting (like where to shoot certain scenes etc)
- Shooting / Re-shooting
- Reviewing the videos
- Editing the scenes
- Piecing the scenes together
- Researching on various film festival to submit our movie to
- Lots of bickering
- Fierce battle-in-progress
- Ensuring the team is still alive
- Crash course on sound effects
- Going around making sure everyone stays awake and being productive
- Creating special segment (like those NGs scenes)
- Create credits for acknowledgements
- Playing the raw movie


I think it's crazy, i think it's fun. I think i was so greenhorn. I think I can get much better.
I realized so much of my strengths, weaknesses, growth, communication, miscommunication, leadership, working style etc. When you are stressed, all these surfaced. I appreciate the growth over this weekend. =)

Shall research more on being a great director.

Thursday, 15 October 2009

3rd weekend is here!

Tomorrow is my wave 8 BLP* 3rd weekend.

I'm ending my 3rd semester with:
  • Results to show
  • Systems in place
  • Balls to juggle
  • Increased and increasing attraction level
  • Sense of loss (people come, people go. *sniffs sniffs*)
  • Determination to make things work no matter what
  • Formulas that worked and didn't work
  • Newfound confidence
  • A sexy strategist (hehehe... so cute!)
  • Newfound way of communication
Alright, can't wait for it to start. Can't wait for it to complete.

BLP* stands for basic leadership program