DALANG 2013

DALANG 

(2013)

Dalang was the first short film project I involved with another close friend company, Vfilm (associate with shadow man film), owned by Jye and Steve Long. The story about 14 years unsolved murder case involved with a Malaysia traditional Puppet Master (Tok Dalang), the casts for this short film included our independent film pioneer director, James Lee, also with veteran actress Koe Yeet, and Stephen Chua (he is industry famous DOP). 

Basically we all have been flied to Kelantan and completed most of the main scenes there, it was my first time go to shooting locations by plane. But during this short I really impressed by the beauty of Wayang Kulit (Malaysia Puppet Theater), I want to shoot something involved with this in the future as well!

Photos credited to Shadow man, Jye

3 Doors of Horrors 2014

3 Doors of Horrors

(2013)

FLOATING SUN // HORROR MISSION

3 Doors of Horrors consider another big influence for me during my film making days. It was a first big project I worked with our Pioneer Independent filmmaker James Lee (eventually I produced for his 2014 edition later). 

3 Doors of Horrors was omnibus film which James Lee executive produced for 3 different directors with different 3 types of horror film. It was an annual project by Doghouse73 pictures, until 2015 it already reached it 3rd edition.

For the 1st edition (2013) I worked as Production Manager for Edmund Yeo section, Floating Sun. once again I got back our actress friend Andrea Lee for one of the main role. the ghost. As well as new talented actress Daphne, and charming Emily Lim, with another famous actress Candy Ice and actor Steve Yap. I guess the theory for the director concept want to gather all pretty girls inside his short was worked. 

It was fun shot but actress have to stand for sleeping on the water for long period, without any complaint, proud of them! 

And at the end we successfully made the premiere along with another 2 segments, Horror Mission (directed by Ken Kin) and  I Miss You Two (directed by Leroy Low). 

At this point, I have to mention that actually I worked as production assistant for Horror Mission segment!!

For Floating Sun, it continued traveled to European Premiere @ Spectrum Shorts, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2014.

( Project FLOATING SUN shoot during 28 June 2013 -1 July 2013 )

( Project HORROR MISSION shoot during 27 April 2013 - 30 April 2013)

 Last few survived photos but signature one.

Photos credited to Edmund Yeo & James Lee

Group photos by Emily Lim

This is team Horror Mission. photos credited to SOO (Art Director / Editor)

Double

DOUBLE (2012)

This short film opened my first step into independent film, which gradually I felt in love the mentality, spirit and the way people make film just for art and trying to express themselves with their own story. It also my first job worked for Greenlight Pictures, get to knew who was Woo Ming Jin (director of this short film as well) thru Edmund Yeo.

As I remember this short film funded by YOMYOMF network youtube channel for a project called Silent Terror Short Film. And I worked as props assistant and production assistant on set, at the first time. It was also my first time worked with actress that I knew for sometime, Andrea Lee. Beside she, there was another famous actress Carmen Soo and Thien See.

The shot was 2 days but good enough for me to make decision that changed my future and which result as what I am for today. So it consider a very memorable project for myself.

p/s: most of the photos I shared took by Edmund Yeo or the personals on set, mine own photos gone with the corrupted harddisc.

Fourteen to Zero

It has been almost 5 years I working in film industry. That longer that what I expected, I set my target for study aboard within 4 years. but that ain't going to happen in short term. I started in the film industry at a generally mature age of 28, at that time, production companies were reluctant to hire me for production assistant jobs due to my age. Yet I did whatever I could to find a job related to filmmaking. I ended up in a local Chinese production house where I served as a production assistant.
In 2013, I started working as freelancer, I managed to participate in the numerous commercial and independent arthouse works of Greenlight Pictures, a company found and run by Malaysian directors Woo Ming Jin and Edmund Yeo.

I tried to recorded all my works no matter it was small as short film or big scale as feature film. The amount of projects I joined gradually grew year by year, it reached peak record that I worked on 14 projects in 2014. But for the next first half of year 2015, it dramatically reduced to none (I only noticed it when my friend Fikri interviewed me for his online Magazine CQ). And this is how the blog title came from. At the same time four of my hard discs broke down, most of my memorable pictures, artworks and memories gone with them.

Since the changes like riding a roller coaster, I realized that I have make something different on my career path, at the same time, I also realized, function for a blog actually not only write something for share, but also can be as recorder of your memory. There was a Hong Kong comedian said, if people used to wrote for themselves to read called Diary, now days people wrote for others to read we should call biography. And at the ancient time only those great peoples, we so called Legend, able to wrote their own biography, but now days everyone who can write will able to do that. So, am I going to write my biography and become a Legend?

I'm not so great. I'm just want to record the moment of my works, what I think and I don't mind to share some of it with others. It just like my Blogger title, meme (pronounce as MEEM (/'mi:m/) ), all those writing just acts as another idea that spreads around people. Since I didn't wrote anything after I got into filmmaking industry, I plan to write those projects down, choose some of it to share it, it just a reminiscence for myself, of cause it won't be chronically.

I believe most of the local filmmakers will know that most of us have to be multi-tasking. No matter your title is Production Manager, Assistant Director, DOP, Production Assistant etc, you have to able to work in different posts and handle different tasks in order to survive. That happened same for me, I used to worked as Line Producer (or Production Manager) cum with Location Manager, Casts Manager, or Assistant Director. I guess that can train myself become more better, otherwise, it bit hard to focus and master on post. Well that what brought me to become. As I realized myself have to move on after armed myself with my past experiences, I will focus more on own contents, hope there will be another road to the future.