Director Journal Week 14-Review Public Screening

     Public Screening was successfully held at amphitheater in the Faculty of Built Environment on 27 May (Tuesday) with effort of every students who taking Directing Class and also our audiences supports from Production TV Class. This amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and of course it's really good for public screening too.

     We always afraid that it will be raining and we might miss such a good place for public screening. Fortunately, there is no rain but we still able to see a few star on the skies (maybe it's just artificial satellite? Hahahaha!!!) Around 8.00pm, the technical team finally turn up to set all those screening's stuff. I really love the environment and atmosphere there especially when the bossa nova music and 80's song were being played,it's just so relaxing.  The screening finally begin at 9pm. Like what we had watched on Screening Night,but this time is more casual and we could exchange some ideas with friends sitting besides because this is the second time we watched. Besides it's a very nice experience to watch films at outdoor,first time ever!! I noticed changes on some short films which is the subtitles has been added. The audience could catch up faster about the storyline and  especially for the first time viewer.

      Lastly,our public screening ended with light refreshments and presents exchange session. I only got 3 pens for the presents exchange session just because of the host request us to exchange with the person who standing in front. The person who stand in front of me take away my present with grining and give me the pens that she got.What a SAD case!!!!

       Anyway, good luck in exam, friends!

 

 The amphitheater  in the Faculty of Built Environment.

(Photo from Abdullah Ahmad)

      

 Group photo of the night!

(Photo from Ariff's blog.）

 

Synopsis: Nine -Tailed Cat

        A monk tell an eight-tailed cat that it have to implement human’s wishes so that it can grow the ninth tail however the eight tailed-cat claimed that it will lost its tail once implement human’s wishes but the monk just smile without giving reason. One day, the eight-tailed cat meets a little boy in a forest but the little boy have no idea to make any wish so he decided to bring the eight-tailed cat home and when he got an idea then only make his wish, the eight- tailed cat transform into an ordinary cat and follow the little boy back to home. One night, the little boy dreamed about the eight-tailed cat lost its tail one by one due to the greedy of human who make their wishes non-stop and finally the eight-tailed cat died, the little boy cries and he wake up from sleep and tells the eight-tail cat that he hope it can grow the ninth tail as his wish, the eight tailed cat feel touching and kissed the boy as appreciation and it successfully grow its ninth tail beautifully in front of the little boy.

Director Journal Week 12: Review-Screening Night 2014

Finally comes to our media department's the most exciting annual event----SCREENING NIGHT~~

There are total 14 productions including our PSA production are being played for non stop which consist different variety of genre such as documentary,horror,public service announcement,short film,commercial and etc. Suddenly realized that I didn't take any picture throughout the productions presentation because I was too concentrated to watch them,ahahaha~ 

Overall, my favorite production will goes to a short film named: Inspector Petonah who directed by Syazwan. It has a good and humor storyline and mature editing skills.Besides,there is another 2 production which has a really good twisted storyline such as Zahirah and After Storm. For Zahirah, this short film begin with the narration of Zahirah's mother who keep praising her daughter achievement but ends up with Zahirah's creepy smile,it seems like indicate something wrong with Zahirah.While After Storm begins with a running bride and being comforted and accompanied by a guy. At first, we thought that guy was the groom but because he appear with a very formal outfit like groom and yet he was trying to comfort the bride and make her smile.In the end, the bride left with another guy.Very good twisted story indeed!

Epilogue is awesome too! The color tone they used throughout the video has successfully convey the retro feel and atmosphere.Besides,a big credits to actor and actress as they did a really great job in this production! But I can't really understand the dialogues because there is no subtitles provided.

Unfortunately,our team didn't get to win any award that night but still really appreciate the hard work,time,effort,cooperation given by our team mate to complete our PSA production!! 

 PSA team ROCKS!

While waiting for the arrival of VIP~

The decoration on the table that night~

Selfie~ haha =P

Cheers~~PSA TEAM~~

Director Journal Week 11

     This week lecture we had learnt about slug lines, big print, and camera coverage and crew protocol. All these elements are very important to accomplish during pre-production and production. A slug line is unique to the screenplay and states numerous things about a scene. Often called a Master Scene Heading, it occurs at the start of every scene, and is usually made up of three parts. Here are some examples of slug lines that show how all the parts fit together:

•   INT. JERRY'S APARTMENT - DAY
•   EXT. PARK – NIGHT

            This week, our production are being evaluated and only one person will be represent the whole group to convince our lecture. I'm the one who represented our PSA production evaluation for ART OF FILM DIRECTING. I'm really regret for not answer the questions well due to the lack of knowledge and observation during the production......However,I have try my best and end up only obtained 5 marks out of 10 marks for the evaluation. =(  Not matter how I should accept this and it's necessary to work hard to have better understanding on productions in very detail but not shallow as before.There will be another evaluation on next week by a lecture from UPM.  KEEP IT UP MATES!!

Movie Review-Never Been Kissed

“All of you people, there is a big world out there... bigger than prom, bigger than high school and it won't matter if you were the prom queen, the quarterback of the football team, or the biggest nerd in school. Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.” This is the epic quotes from the main character, Josie. Why is she said like this? This is because she had been fed up of what her friends’ silly action that they did toward her best friend- Gibby. Josie said: “Let me tell you something, I don't care about being your stupid prom queen. I'm 25 years old. I'm an undercover reporter for the Chicago Sun Times and I've been beating my brains out trying to impress you people. Let me tell you something Gibby, Kirsten, Kristin, you will spend your lives trying to keep others down because it makes you feel more important. Why her? Let me tell you about this girl she is unbelievable. I was new here and she befriended me no questions asked. But you, you were only my friend after my brother, Rob, posed as a student and told you to like me.” Josie ends up being the homecoming queen and ends up telling everyone that she is not 16 and that she is 25. She intend to tell those high school students about there is another reality world beside high school and she hope that everyone can find their own identity but not depending others to value the sense of presence.

Director Journal Week 10

Recently, our director still working hard on editing process for our PSA-Domestic Violence Video. While, for me still keep on finding the most suitable sound effect and music tracks. It’s hard to find a appropriate music tracks or sound effect which really can convey the mood. Besides, I also do not know where is the sources that we able to find all the tracks that we need. Keep on trying and listen and imagine matching with the scene situation.

I think this is the part of difficulties when comes to editing process, lack of sources. Seriously need to know the proper and effective way to look for sound effects!!!

Movie Review: The Chorus (Les Choristes)

            A failed musician Clement Mathieu comes to a strict boys' boarding school, where the tough headmaster Racine rules over the youth with his motto of "Action-Reaction." Mr. Mathieu tries a different approach, introducing music into their lives, forming a boys' choir that allows the teacher to discover the secret musical talents of a quiet but troubled young boy named Pierre Morhange.

                In my opinion, Les Choristes is a GREAT film for all to see if you can read subtitles for 1.5 hours. It's a feel-good movie that made me cry at the end (of happiness). Nobody was even crying in the movie, and there wasn't sad music, and I was still crying. My favorite character in this movie is Pepinot. This child/orphan, is extremely shy and sweet. He thinks his dad will come pick him up at the school so he waits at the gate every Sunday I believe (not sure of the day). He plays a large part in this movie, as he starts the unraveling of memories. The Chorus is sweet and heartwarming movie I ever seen before.