2016 Film Directing – G1

Salif

Background – Laselle Acting school.

Cast Audition can be viewed here – https://vimeo.com/185358148/2700479029

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I think Salif stands out as a character. He looks interesting and is able to portray a more comical side. Although slightly theatrical at times, I feel that he delivered the best performance out of the 3 casts. I say this in terms of believability – whether Read more →

At the initial stage of “Disconnected”, I was largely inspired by this short film, “Noah“, that did storytelling entirely based off a screen recording.

I wrote to the director and editor a couple of days ago asking if they could share the technique of how they did “Noah”. They just wrote back to me and introduced me to the screen Read more →

Final shooting script: Mother

I have also created a props list to keep track of props and art deco: List

Tentative Callsheet

Entire scene has been reworked to fit 1 house location only. Location: The Interlace, 200 Depot Road, 109706

Tentative Shooting Schedule attached here

Logistics and Cast Checklist

James’ Gamer Room:

Gaming Geek evidence: Will add more anime posters to add more feels.

Jeremy’s Dying Toilet Scene:

Corridor Scene:

So in the previous test, what I did was to photoshop the interface of The Strangers Network, and overlay it with 2 separate video files.

In today’s test, I’ve screen recorded Omegle’s interface and overlay it with pictures and video files. The result can be view here – https://vimeo.com/185126068/c7bb14a403

So, today I took the interface of Omegle and made it into “The Strangers Network”.

Thereafter, I tested on screen recording as well as photobooth recording. The little test can be view here- https://vimeo.com/185019035/6a57678f3e

Photobooth recording was the top video, and the screen recording was the bottom video. Photobooth recording allows for audio recording as well, as such we’ll be using photobooth Read more →

Presenting, the revised draft (02) of my short narrative.

This is the script that I will be sending out to prospective actresses for the Casting Call. Attached along with the script, will be the following screen-shot excerpts for the actresses to do a video audition to.

Video Audition Excerpt for the role of Mei Qi:

(Includes extended dialogue, so that the actresses may Read more →

Director: Alexander DOP: Matthew Producer: Lauren Art D & Sound: Phoebe Gaffer and B-camera: Ken Ng

LOCATION (2): Singapore Polytechnic. The Interlace, 200 Depot Road, 109706

CONTACT: Director Alex: 9320 0698, or Producer Lauren: 9070 7984

SHOOTING TIME: 0900 call time 0930 – 1230 – Hospital @ Signaproe Polytechnic Scenes 1230 – 1430 – Move to Interlace & Lunch 1430 – 1600 – Vending Machine Scenes 1600 – 1830 – Carpark smoking Read more →

In brief:

CALL TIME – 1530hrs for ALL crew FIRST SHOT – 1615hrs

Attached is the full PDF for all crew.

cheng-nuo-call-sheet-as-of-30092016

Thanks!

Benjamin Tan

View casting video here – https://vimeo.com/184858012/2ca0f5220f

Actor’s CV here – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7406651/?ref_=ext_shr_eml_vi#lb-vi2303112985

– How he played JOE in this scene was to internalise the idea of the scene and play it out in his own way.