Christmas that never was - Director's Comment

Bloopers!


After much hassle of trying to process the video out and upload it to youtube (apparently due to some uploader upgrade at youtube, a lot of other users suffered uploading problems as well!) it's finally up!

The idea of this video is to allow others to view a different perspective towards Christmas - Who says we're the only ones having a huge commotion about it? Evil agents too have a lot to up their sleeves and if we as mortals do not pay close attention to the value of Christmas, can you imagine how much we're missing out?

One of the junior pops the questions midway through the discussion - "What if Christmas never happened?" There then unfolds the different opinions from the other evil agents but Senior Agent TwisterThorn lashes them with the deepest reality of what impact Christmas has made to everyone!

The whole video took quite some time to edit but was split over a span of a few days. Once more, huge credits to my own dad for allowing me to use his factory to shoot the scene and of course to my dear youths who contributed by acting in their roles -


Aaron Lim as Senior Agent TwistedThorn
Ryan Tan as Junior Agent MoldyFroddie
Allyna Goh as Junior Agent HyperCollider
Kathleen Tay as Junior Agent BrainDrain
Jeremy Chan as Human Subject

Thumbs up to their acting although some of them may be a little raw but hey, there's potential! Aaron also chipped some ideas such as the arguing part among the junior agents and suggested to try different angles or shots to some of the scenes he's involved in. Sure is a great time to work with these people and am looking forward for more!

For those who would like to check out my youth's official blog and fanpage at facebook, here are the links:

Official Facebook Fanpage: TTDIGC Youth Fanpage
Official Blog: TTDIGC Youth Blog

Christmas that never was - Trailer

A production that I'm helping my Youth with - Christmas that never was. A video that speaks of 4 evil agents plotting evil on Christmas day and one of the junior agents popped the question, "What if Christmas never happened?"

This 1 minute an 33 seconds video took me almost 9 hours to edit it! Phewie, now it's time to edit the full video itself. Shooting took us 8 hours or so in 2 separate locations.

Credits to Ryan Tan, Allyna Goh, Kathleen Tay, Aaron Lim, Jeremy Chan and Kathleen's dad for the great support in this production! :)

So be sure to stay tuned for the full video and for those who didn't know, this video was made in conjunction of a Christmas dinner at my Youth on the 25th December 2010. Be sure to contact them at:

Official Facebook Fanpage: TTDIGC Youth Fanpage

Official Blog: TTDIGC Youth Blog

Youth Camp Trailer

Had some struggles trying to figure how I wanted to make the trailer attractive and after considering for some time, I've concluded to go with this!

A fast-paced video to cater to the youth who has um, "fast reflexes" and generally like things that are vibrant. It was a step of improvement at the Adobe After Effects and thankfully, all went well. It was fun to play with the "3D" space lol.

Hope you like the trailer and if you're interested to know more about it, do drop by at my Youth's websites!

Official Facebook Page: TTDIGC Youth Facebook Fanpage

Official Blog: TTDIGC Youth Blog

Polo Rocks!

As both bands - threeminutenights and the Asparagus Monkeys collaborated in the Polo Rocks competition, we've recorded their performance live at The Curve!

It was quite a challenge to record this performance as we could not exactly anticipate how long the song was and what sort of angles we could get with the risk of both cameras moving at the same time (which you could see at 3:14).

However, we're thankful it didn't rain or had any major technical difficulty at the performance :) We're glad that both bands made it this far and indeed, it was a great experience not only for them but for us as well.

P.S - Thank you Volkswagen for organizing such a great competition!

Notice: The video has been made private due to personal reasons. However, do look forward for it when it's recorded professionally! We're making certain discussions on producing a MV for it so let's see how this goes!

Official site:
threeminutenights: http://www.facebook.com/threeminutenights
The Asparagus Monkeys: http://www.facebook.com/theasparagusmonkeys
Polo Rocks: http://www.facebook.com/mypolorocks

Adorable Kids!

That's the music video for Taska Precious Steps' Graduation & Concert 2010! Was an interesting experience as working with the kids sure isn't an easy task. Most of them were afraid and shy of the camera, so I couldn't get them to even wave "hi" at the camera until I got one of the teachers to help me out lol.

Nonetheless, they're really adorable. I hardly say these sort of things to kids but the kids from this event were really cute! And their smiles are the best, pure & sincere, no other ulterior elements to it :)

It was great to see how the families gave their support and be there for their children - truly a heart-warming sight. Looking forward to see how beautifully these children will grow up to be!

Just want to say thank you once more to Taska Precious Steps for this opportunity and hope someday, will be able to see these kids again!

Taska Precious Steps Official Site:
http://www.taskaprecioussteps.com.my

The Ecoba Experience

As a church friend of ours had a gig in Ecoba, PJ Trade Centre, we decided to head over and showed our support for them. Their band is none other than the Asparagus Monkeys. Turns out, there were a few hiccups there and here but overall it was all good :)

However, due to the noise from the crowd (and the absence of our mic), please do bear with the background noise. For videos that you can hardly hear the singer's voice, there were some technical problems with the mic so we just had to make do.

Here's 2 of their best sets at that night:





There were other performers at that night too but there was one particular singer who caught our attention so we decided to record hers as well. None other than Anne Azureen, here's 2 of her videos that we've uploaded:





And so, we look forward to see what other projects we can go with them (do we smell a music video coming up? :D )

Who DID it? - Director's Comment

This exclusive video was produced by assisting a friend of mine, Ming Han, in his psychology subject project in HELP college. It took us 4 days to finish up this video!

It was really fun to work with him, not mentioning picking up some of his style of producing a video (i.e - the little jumpy parts of the video when the inspector was taking her pills) as well as knowing the other team members better too. Thanks to him, we got in the police car footage into the video haha. The cops were wondering what we're up to and thankfully, we turned the tables by having Ming Han inviting them to be part of the production too!

Not mentioning that they're psychology students, you can tell how seriously they took this whole thing! The costumes, script, location.. they really covered all the pre-production needed for a video *except for the storyboard :P*

A personal thank you for this opportunity - Ming han, Melissa, Rachel, Adeline, Amanda & Jeremy as well as thanking God for making all of this to happen!

P.S - Just in case for you guys who didn't know, Ming Han is one heck of a singer from his band, threeminutenights. Check him out HERE! It's a collaboration of him together with the Asparagus Monkeys :)