MY LAST POST

To my friends who are currently reading this post...

This will be my last and final post for this blog...

I will be giving a new life to my blog after 3 years of blogging at blogspot...

My new weblog is now relocated to http://dannylim.wordpress.com/

I feel home...

Finally came home today after staying in school for 5 days. Feel like the days in they army where I only get to go home on weekends. The feeling is so… Great! It’s been some time that I feel so good to be in my own room in front of my computer sleeping on my bed.

Been a busy semester, from the day I starts my shoot till the day I end it with my 16mm TVC shoot. In total 1 mth, 9 productions shoot in which 2 I directed. That’s a lot! Nevertheless learn a lot from being gaffer to camera assist to grip and PAs. I can say that this semester was truly a fulfilling one.

Soon, in few weeks time, Red Table Production will officially be introduced to the school. A production team consisting of me, shiqi, ellen, jiahui, felice, jit and caroline. 7 of us made Red Table Production.I do really hope that Red Table not just exists in our schooling days but also when we are out in the industry. People will know us as the Red Table production team.

Proud to say, 3 of us also got selected for the Tibetan trip. I am really lucky to get this opportunity with 5 other film students. Though I know it will not be an easy trip but definitely a trip that can’t be missed. When on earth will I be given a chance to go Tibet? Not just going there for holiday but to shoot a documentary. That is really a once in a life time experience.

Tired of writing essays, why can’t I focus just on film and directing, like what a master course will offer to post grads. I really hope that I can go through another directing class to better understand how a director works. I need to improve myself, look more see more observe more…

Shooting Season...

It’s the time of the year that shooting will be going on for weeks. I have been through a 5 day of film shoot since Monday. Gone for the Thaiindie film workshop at NUS on Monday and Tuesday. It was really a good experience there talking and sharing film experience and knowledge with the Thai film makers and film students from other schools.

Something I learn from the Thai filmmakers are they focus on their story a lot and really putting personal feelings and connection into their films, without the means of High-end or good equipment. Personally, as a film student in school, I should really focus on the story telling and make use of what ever the school has to enhance my story. There’s no point to have a film with beautiful shots but sucky content. The film should tell something that the director wishes to convey.

“In a production, the film belongs to the film-maker. At a screening, the film belongs to each individual Audience.”

From Wednesday to Friday, is my 2nd short film production. Finally after a hard long 2 month of planning, it’s time to make convert my idea into visual. Everything goes rather smoothly, the crews were fantastic, we know each other very well and have a fun time shooting. The cast were marvelous, really glad to get Wanhui and Yisheng to help me. I believe I have cast them right. I really spent quite sometime to find my cast.

However, something that I learnt from this shoot is that, I take it for granted that since there is not much dialogue, I did not really rehearse much with my cast before the shoot. Another reason is due to time constraint as it is quite hard to get my cast for one day of rehearsal and there are a lot of other things to settle as well. Well, guess this is something that I need to improve on, learn how to communicate my idea effectively to my cast. I need more of directing class!!! Lilian!!!! Where are you????? Haha…

A very big thank you for the help from my crew and cast. You guys are great. Hope that I have been a good director, if not please do give me feedback so I can improve on it. I’m seriously looking to improve my directing in the next shoot. :)

My Vision

"At the end of the day, if someone is able to get inspired and entertained by me...
I have succeeded as a filmmaker..."

2 weeks of Roller Coaster

This blog gonna be long… been 2 weeks since the school starts… but too much things have been happening… there is the election and handing over of the duties of the 2nd management committee coming up, 1st year anniversary with my dear and my mum’s birthday celebration… I nearly fall sick and exhaust myself last weekend… luckily manage to pick myself up and move on… haha…

"It's not about how you get hit, It's about how HARD you can get hit and keep moving forward" - Rocky Balboa

Anyway, 9th August was great, not only national day, but a special moment for me and my dear… went out to buy gifts… for me… haha… and had a sumptuous dinner at suntec, can’t believe it we ate a 90++ dinner… haha… but is really GOOD! Then follow by a glimpse of the fireworks performance… lucky us manage to get a national goodie bag which include the Star… haha…

Then another 150+ dinner on my mum’s birthday… this month is really xiong… spend a lot… if not for teck’s lobang, I don’t know where to get all this money sia… haha… but is ok lah… the more I earn the more I am willing to spend… hehe…

Well the main thing I’m gonna say is the election… it had been a torturous 1 week of consideration… run, don’t run, run, don’t run, run, don’t run, run, don’t run, run, don’t run, run, don’t run, run, don’t run,… in the end I submitted my form and then I withdrew! Haha… ok it sounds bad especially I drag along a team with me… feel bad for them and the people supporting me… but my heart and passion is no more there for the committee already… compare to ying… she is much more passionate then me… so why not I withdrew and contribute in other ways?

Is only till yesterday I finally feels happy within and have a goal for myself… Wongfu production, this team that starts off with nothing but crappy videos and now they are on the roll of getting rich and making feature films… This group of people was my dear’s inspiration and now mines as well… Talking about low budget filming, guess I’m gonna look at how they does their work and adopt their kind of low budget model… it have been sometimes since I have this kind of drive and passion to do something… the feeling was great… also have a chance to organize some screening events for Asian Film Archive… I seriously feel that these are the things I’m seriously looking at… getting more involved in events and not just simply overseeing them… Grafire and Film Focal are some other events that I’m looking at to promote the school and film to the local community.

From the look of it… year 3 gonna be an experiencing year… I hope… getting expose to the media industry through different means… good luck to the 3rd management committee and to me as well… hehe…

A Wrap for Summer Break

Hmm been 1 month plus since I last updated my blog… sometimes really wanna blog but just damn busy and lazy to blog it out… anyway I gonna one shot blog the events that happens for the past one month…

Been a very fulfilling time working at Esplanade, helping the Marketing people to market the events and also understand how Esplanade function… is really a cool place to work in with nice people around… it makes me feel much closer to art!

End my job mid July, b4 I can call for a rest, Teck called me for another job offer… hmmm seems that jobs started to come in when I decided to rest… anyway 1st time doing location scout for Teck, good experience… good money… have a chance to really recce with the producer, director and DP. They are really crappy and funny people… but they are really cool, they do know their stuff...

Yap, straight away 5 days of FOC, damn tiring on the 1st few days but adapt to the late night sleep as the days goes by… a wonderful ending to the FOC, much better then last year… it will only get better…

Yap, end of FOC, 1 week left before school starts, a lot of student club stuff to tidy up before the election and handing over… but for this one week, I kept asking myself should I just walk? Or run? I don’t know how much commitment I can put in either… but funny thing is I already plan out everything that I going to do if I decide to run… oh… it is really contradicting… my heart and mind is playing tricks on me…

Anyway, I really do hope that this coming 3rd year will be a fulfilling one… cos I had a good 2nd year in ADM and hope that it just get better… JAI YOU!!!

Rocky 6

Today, I’m down with Flu and Cough... stay at home play game whole day... quite relaxing... no need to think of work or studies… simply kept my mind free from worries… At night watch Rocky 6 on my computer, it is truly inspiring though the camera works and shots sucks... but the ending match was really the highlight... cool indeed...

In life,

"It's not about how you get hit, It's about how HARD you can get hit and keep moving forward" - Rocky Balboa

I totally agree with this statement he made... Rocky is a legend not merely in movie but in everyone's mind and heart... it seems that Rocky Balbao is really a person in reality... I guess this is what makes a good movie... to be remembered... always...

3/5 Stars