Recent Posts
The English Surgeon
The English Surgeon was a tastefully executed and informative film which I felt gave its audience a good insight into the otherwise little-known world of neurosurgery.
Aesthetics
It was very satisfying aesthetically, as seen from these instances:
many wide shots – of the clinic, of the scenery pre-emptive wide, still shots waiting for people to walk towards the camera short, clipped, fast-paced sequences when the Read more →Documentary Exercise 1: Confessions
Here’s a simple edit of the first exercise!
LIONCITY THROWDOWN
Part of my documentary required me to film for Lion City Throwdown. An international dance event that is organized by Flair Brothers , one of Singapore’s most well known dance crew. This is the 6th and the last LCT and by far the biggest of it series. I had the privilege of filming alongside RP productions for this and am Read more →
Dance Lesson @ Recognize Studio
Recently interviewed Xiao Mei who has street dance experience of about 9 years. I ended up not only interviewing her but taking shots for two of her classes and joined her kakis for supper later on! Total of 4 hours spent! This are some of the raw clips I took of her [ Interview , dance segment and supper conversations Read more →
KAKAK
A short documentary I put together for practise. Stories are everywhere,so I might as well kill 2 birds with one stone. I’m still in the midst of setting it up the context and subtitle for this film!
In Singapore , it is common for the locals to have “maids” and unlike a term overseas , being labelled a maid is not an offensive Read more →
Superstar
Find out his motivation and passion in singing. Has been joining singing competitions since 16.
He has been singing for 8 years but he is not trying to venture into the scene.
Doesn’t like direct interaction, through music, he experiences the power that connects people. Singing gives him the ability to communicate in ways that he would never be able to normally. Read more →
Group formation and concept "Step by Step"
Due to the fact that we would like to expand the story about the half blinded Patricia Poo into a broader story we decided to form a group of three people including Frieder, Janos, and me.
We decided to make our documentary about (up to) three half blinded or completely blind people to compare their different ways of Read more →
Update on Farm Nation 5th Sept 2016
My Group and I have interviewed 2 out of the 4 farms we were planning to featuring in the Documentary.
We initially had 6 farms which were willing to be featured but we felt that 6 would have been overkill as most of them would talk about similar things. So instead we chose the 4 most diverse farms. Diverse in their Read more →
Documentary outline & research
Topic: The Ultimate Truth -Does God exist?
V.O with images
Why there’s a creation of religion?
-Why finding out the ultimate truth?
‘truth’ involves both the quality of “faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, sincerity, veracity”,and that of “agreement with factor reality” Human nature. Curiosity. Virtue Only humans can discern truth. Of all life on the planet, only humankind can rise above conditioning or instinct and identify truth, so that this Read more →Documentary: Farmers in the Concrete Jungle
My team and I were very interested in Singapore’s farming culture — all we knew of it as millennials was that the ones in Singapore had a kind of tourism vibe to it. We initially considered if it was just unconventional farms that made us think of Agritourism – such as the crocodile and frog farms here – but upon Read more →