Warwick Mnight trailer 2010 update!

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I have to apologive to all actors and crew. The video editting processing time is very.. very.. long. The video is 60% completed but the other 40% would be faster in time to edit it in comparison to the current 60% which took the 1st 3 full days for trials and errors for just 10 second. Thank you for being patience as they say patience is virtue!!

You must be wondering how the tailer worked out in the ukac meeting yesterday afternoon. The 60% video was only on an accepted lvl for me since even sleeping only once in 2 days to edit it, it is still not good!!
Unfortunately... the presentation went horrible and I'm sorry to Hazim and Hui Lin, they are the ones taking the heat on the day. What happened?
The video was played without the music. The music is great! The video is tune to follow the music, so if the core is gone, the video will be totally weird and awkward. On the bright side, theres a blessing in disguise. Why?? Of all the presentations people will remember warwick mnight presentation the most. Wait till they see the full version, not just the trailer, the whole theatre since their expectation is lowered, the greateness will be hype!!!

To put up with the misfortunate. I will refine the current video and put up a marketing strategy that will spread the news of mnight like a binary code. 1 becomes 10. I will do my best to see the news becomes 100! haha! Confuse? Ask an it expert or Hasif Samir, my good old buddy!

Feel free to express yourselves! We will do our best to improves every seconds!

(You can check the uncompleted trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBc0JJQjW4)

Warwick Mnight trailer update 4

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(Excited)
Great news! Hui Lin just edited the choir music and it sounds BRILLIANT!! Thank you Hui Lin. And the male singers, Rocky, Chump and Clammer!! You are a excellent team!!!
(Like a salesman)
Look forward to the trailer! The music will gives you ghost bumps!!

Warwick Malaysia Night 2010 teaser 2 of the trailer

Prototype 2

Warwick Malaysian Night trailer update 3

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The video I shot last week was simply exciting, will do a docu. Unfortunately for me, I had to get a better pc to edit this video with all the effects. So...
Yesterday I just went to goodge street or how it spell, I dunno. Well I went there to build a pc in pcworld. They didn't have anything good to build!! They asked me to go find the parts bring it back and they'll fix it. Nice, but the tech dude says, 'it's gonna be 100 quid.' 100 quid!! Ridiculous pc world! Ridiculous. Thankfully the tech dude told me there is a shop selling high end pc parts. So there I was in the shop, saying "can I build a pc." The salesperson asked my budget, what for, and all those question. Brilliant! Order a custom build pc there, sent it to pc world to build?? No! The shops called stones trader ltd. Simply brilliant. 
Then I went to uni to talk to my lecturer, David, very good lecturer. Informs about Mnight video shoots last week and its a green light to do the video for my final experimental video as well.
Actually I'm in a hurry now to finish the video by tonight. Good luck to me!! See how it goes!

New Poster For Mnight!

Better than the first one?

I think so. It seems less...cluttered and more.............impactful? haha

Shooting the trailer was good fun. It turned out much better than i expected considering I only informed everyone by email a few days before and we shot it - in my house =.=i

Luckily I have quite a large living room with high ceilings to fit everyone in despite my house being rather  run down and cold.

I never thought that i would ever invite more than say 3 people to my house at one go and on friday there were at least 15 people excluding its inhabitants. And there was still room for more had it been necssary!

A big thank you to everyone who showed up for your patience and consideration. (Most people only got to go home at 3 am). I am also thankful that Abang Faizam was kind enough to make 4 trips in order to drive everyone home instead of them travelling in the cold despite having work at 5 am the next day.

Hopefully Khairul will be able to edit everything by Wednesday!

Made Vanilla cupcakes (Hummingbird recipe) yesterday with Nandos style grilled chicken for housemates as a reward. YUM! The cupcakes i made were meant to be a 'tester' for sasha's bake sale. But in the end we ate them all ourselves.

Mnight teaser of trailer

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This clip is a prototype of the trailer shot by FLIP camera

Travel to Coventry with equipment

And so i give you......

Malaysia night 2010 poster! Did the title font myself thats why its a bit inconsistent. which disturbs me a little. Head gear sourced by Khairul's mom, super nice of her to get it and his sister for flying it over! Gives the poster so much more character.Did hair and makeup myself and picture is courtesy of Tiki! our lovely photographer. and of course the princess herself! jasmin

I went to tesco today to buy Fox's jam rings (which are better than jammy dodgers because the jam does not stick to your teeth the way the jam in jammy dodgers do) and discovered that today is the last day of their 50p a box offer! OH NO! so- i bought ten packets :)
Want to know what ten packets of jam rings look like?

TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA




Been reading some pooh quotes to keep my chin up. Here's one of them-

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Winnie the Pooh

Penang Pepsi (2008) report

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I used the video for my assignment and re-edit it. It is to give reasons to everything I do for the vid.

REPORT

This video is re-edited with different music and colour. The Penang Pepsi video is inspired by the Pepsi brand’s advertisement video; shots of people moving their heads to the rhythm of the music. Therefore the name Pepsi is on the video title. Penang is a name of a state, also an island, in Malaysia. As the 8 of us friends travel in various tourist places in Penang, we take a video of ourselves shaking our heads using 2 digital camera, a canon and a sony cameras. The camera does not have the best quality for video images but it is the most portable gadget for the trip.

Finding a specific footage for editing quite easy for me as the footage is already organized by my friend, Shareen. Using only adobe premiere pro for editing, the footages taken from the 2^nd camera, a sony brand, is a bit blurry. Plus the colour and exposure proved to be near impossible to fix.

The introduction, before the beat begins, I call it the holiday mood; I extracted the colours except one colour in each shot. The reason for that is to experiment with the audience’s eyes to react in calm mood. Well it did for me. Then the main section is when the rhythm starts there are the shots of us in various places we went. I left some parts with extracted colour and some not. Again the experiment’s reason is to calm the eye from the fast changes of shots in the video. There is a blank section in the middle of the video; it is there to rest the audience. My theory come football game, there is a half time break for the same reason as well as to get excitement for more.

As for the music, I put a slow pace instrumental music just as how you would find the music in a holiday hotel atmosphere. You will find there is a diegetic music in some shots. As a person in a holiday, I would love to relax in a place where there are small number of people present and few talking or sounds from another person in the background. That is the theory for the editing. Then the main section is a faster beat music with a lyric that will just motivate you to do anything, I would use that while driving, jogging or in a gym.

Lastly, there is a last shot of my friend, Firdaus, it is just there to be playful. As my friend is not saying what he wants to say properly plus the weird costume. And it follows with laughter.

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What do you think?

Past video 5: King Machadamia (2007)

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Cast by form 4 boys in 2007. The video was intended to show on Social night intermission videos but none of the cast knows this except Azim, the producer, and me. Imagine how surprise they were to see this video in front of the whole school!

Cast: Macha, Nashwin and Raj

A rant when one is snowed in with an essay due in 8 hours

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when i was running for co i was told that one of the problems that i would be facing would be singsoc's musical drawing from the same talent pool as msa.
i was a bit worried, but not really. because what matters in a performance is the quality of the actors not the quantitiy. so even if i was left with only a handful of people as long as they were to be well trained and have some enthusiasm all is not lost.
but now- we've gots bigger fish to fry

with an overflow of msian students this year, searching for talent has become th least of my worries. instead imperial sheffield manchester and leeds are competing with us for more or less the same pool of audience. good luck to marketing!

at least i could do something about the whole lack of talent thing. but i just dont have enough space in my life to worry about people to fill up the seats. all i can do is to do my best during rehearsals and tell people -please come! (and try not to appear too desperate at the same time). Do not like this feeling of helplessness. i refuse to force my friends to come (unless i am really sure that they would definitely have an awesome time) because i'd rather know that our audience came simply because they want to watch us perform and not under some friendship obligation.

My boots that look like the ones on the Balmain runway have arrived. i just need the balmain jacket to go with it and the stupid snow to go away so i dont have to worry about dressing sensibly and wear my new things. thinking of just buying a regular military jacket from like hnm and customising it to look more balmain-y.

we will be shooting the trailer for the play next week! quite excited as we will be using the green screen :)

Past video 4: Kolej Tuanku Jaáfar Prom 2007 ad

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The idea and material came from Ashaari who was the vice president of the prom committee at that time. The idea was simple and it was a success.

Raindance TV

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Raindance is a well establish indie international film festival

in London. I came across 2 short films I like. The story will

inspire you.

Check www.raindance.tv

1.The Wall - an animated short film describing about a person

journey in life in a simple style.

2. Sonnemann - about a man who choses to live with the nature.

This inspiring documentary short story points;

Sometimes we need to reconnect with ourselves especially in this era of fast-pace living.

Leave a comment of what comes through your mind. Then look back at what you've written. It says a lot about your current state of mind.

Warwick Malaysian Night trailer update 2

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Dear dear dear. That what my house master, Mr McWilliams a.k.a Bapak, when he caught some boys doing anything bad. Well, the

shooting trailer has been moved to next week. This will add

more pressure in post-production to meet the deadline, before

27th January.

(Eating chocolate and dreaming about melted chocolate on marshmallow)

Anyway, looking at the bright side, there's more time for

better preparation for everybody...

Including me! I've just invested on the studio lights and a

3m X 6m green screen! Haha! I had to buy it anyhow in the future.

(Guilt smile)

At least I didn't go shopping for handbags!

(Serious face!)

But seriously! It's one of the habit of a successful filmmakers!

LOL! True! Check this out; 4 Habits of Successful Filmmaker

http://www.raindance.org/site/index.php?id=47,4264,0,0,1,0

Ciaoz!

WArwick Malaysian Night trailer update

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We have not much time to prepare for the trailer shooting as to

what I'm told. Oh no! Hopefully everything turns out excellent!

Wish us luck!

By the way the picture above is an example of how I sketch my shooting shots. Do you understand it on human levels? LOL!

Past video 3:The Successor (2007) part 1

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I made this video for Nadzaruddin Boarding House, Kolej Tuanku Jaáfar, House master and mistress, Mr and Mrs McWilliams, Bapak and Mak, who was retiring in July. The video was premiere at Bapak and Mak surprise dinner in June 2007 which Tuanku Naquiah was present.

You can find part 2 at: http://www.youtube.com/user/filemduatayar

Past video 2 : IUDAY2007

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I made this video for the opening ceremony of Interact Club KTJ, International Understanding Day 2007

Past Video 1: Penang Pepsi (2008)

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At 1st the idea came from Pepsi advertisement. It then becomes a fun experiment to capture ourselves, where ever we go, in this rhythm .
Let me know how I can improve from this. Thanks!

Hermes Ribbon Font

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Tried and failed to create a ribbon like font like Hermes :(. The shape is there but the texture does not show.Which is the whole point kan? Then you can get ribbed ribbon font, satin ribbon font, velvet ribbon font, ribbed ribbons with white stitch trimmings.....and in any colour you please! Anybody know any programs that can create 3d font with texture? Looks like i have to make each word by hand and photograph it for now :(

After Dinner

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EXT. STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH ST - EVENING

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I fell down on the ice covered roads. thrice.
Huge bumps on my legs and bum.
It was worth it for the deluxe sushi platter

at half price!

INT. WHEEL 1 HSE. LIVING ROOM - LATE NIGHT

WHEEL 1 is practicing guitar.

WHEEL 2 is doing economics essay.

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Yellow is not exactly the best colour to have

on a pen. And yes, I was talking about you

MUJI!!!

WHEEL 1 stops playing guitar.

WHEEL 1 continues practicing his guitar.

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Happy New Year!!

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EXT. MY HOUSE. FRONT DOOR - AFTERNOON

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(Sparkly tone)

Happy New Year!Its been snowing for two days and have

been unable to get back to Coventry. Its like God has

been holding a giant snow ball and cheese grater over

the UK. We are waiting for Pin Ruh to arrive to go to

Oishii!! Meanwhile am designing Mnight t shirt and

trying not to make it look too gay. Will post it up

later so please let me know if you will wear it.

P.s. DO NOT WANT CLASSES TO START :(

INT. MY HOUSE. LIVING ROOM - EVENING

WHEEL 1 is working on editing the winter holiday's video.

Video 1; Tips on winter cycling, premiere on 10th January.

Video 2; Cinderella Theatre design by Peter Jackson, premiere on 17th January

WHEEL 1 and WHEEL 2 are now making a video plan for Warwick Malaysian Night 2010 trailer.

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For me, making videos is one of the ways to exercise

your creativity as well as your freedom of speech

(but, you have to be extra careful if you are in

Malaysia) No matter how good or ridiculous is might

turn out to be. The process is worth it! Look

forward to filmduatayar's youtube channel for the

videos I've made in the past before I'm into

studying film. Please, your comments are very much appreciated, let me know how I can do better aite.

Thanks!

WHEEL 1 writes http://www.youtube.com/user/filemduatayar#p/a/u/0/Ko5LGn5P3sc

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