When clapperboard claps..: My 1st filming experience

Yasmin Ahmad's blog always gives me some insight of producing a film. Besides, I read Christopher Doyle's hand-notes in filming, go through the ups and downs of Peter Jackson in producing King Kong, search the stories behind the scene of some of my favourite movies...

....and i couldnt believe, that I got a hands-on experience on filming one day..

There was a meeting this morning that actually evoked the memories and passion toward my very 1st filming experience.. In fact, the meeting was about producing another video presentation requested by our senior, after our previous video made a surprising debut to our senior during our company's Hari Raya celebration.


I wouldn't say that the Hari Raya advertisement that we've produced was a real masterpiece... for God's sake, that wouldnt be assumed any better than American Funniest Home Video .. but i do believe that it was the effort and passion and, yup, the heart, young hearts, that surprised and excited our seniors .

So glad to meet people like Azlan, Abang Fariz and Roy. U know when producing a film is such a far-away dream for me, they showed me how close my dream is by just having a Panasonic cikai handycam.. (sorry i use cikai...)..

...but, yeah as i said, it was the heart that made things valuable. ...


....and not to forget the ideas and the skills of putting our storyline into a video..

I was, indeed, surprised when the team know so much about directing and producing a film. Cuz before that, I thought with Yasmin Ahmad, Christopher Doyle, Wong Ka-Wai, Ron Howard and even Peter Jackson as my sifu, I needed to worry about all those stuff, which is a totally rocket science for me actually...


... ...but the team's knowlege and capabilities got me so embarrased about my arrogance..true.. .. and right from that moment on, I put myself in a roustabout position, which allowed me to really really, really learn from my real life sifu.


There was a gang of fun people I was working with beside my trio sifu.

Zul, Yahys, SJ, Tini, Aza, Lai, Amie and Abeh Weh...having them in the production team simply meant having tonz of tonz of tonz of fun in the working process.. ..


Abeh Weh and Amie were the main characters in the video while the rest, helped here and there, and played those no-name Mr A, Mr B, Madam Q and Miss XYZ.. ...

I made the clapperboard for the production.. it was, again, as cikai as it could be...( it was actually a writting board with some clapperboard design on it..) .. and i do still remember what i wrote on that:

"SCENE:

SHOT:
TAKE:
TITLE: IKLAN RAYE XCITE*
DIRECTOR: AZLAN + FARIZ = YASMIN AHMAD"

well i know, that sounds stupid enough, but.. as a dedication to Yasmin Ahmad, why not?... i mean, our heart..

eY, looking forward to our next video
17 Jan, 06 .. 2017hrs, in a chilling office.


*XCITE: Young Executives Club of my department in PETRONAS.