Hopefully, this won't take too long to write, although i have the tendency to do otherwise.
Here's what happened in the Committee since August, yes it's hard keeping our work a secret and we kept it for two months. But i'll be able to elaborate only my part in it.
Late August 2010
My memories aren't that well but i think that's around the time Yan Nie and i start work on the "mystery game", though the story was of course was made together with all the members. As said in Kexin's blog, it's purpose was to draw much more attention to the events happening for the night instead of people running around taking pictures, which i think it's incurable, some Malaysians just have short attention spans.
Anyhow, the end result didn't matter for me as much as my partner, i enjoyed more in the process and in my work then what i would expect the majority of the audience to participate in the game. Yan Nie probably did most of the "material and personnel" work, finding actors, putting make ups etc, i haven't done much until she gathered the people to do the shooting, although there was some trouble finding a cheap shotgun mic which i thought my comp was compatible with, only partially though. Haven't used it for sometime now, wondering when again.
Enjoyed shooting the scenes, although i was "raining", it's actually my first time doing something to a certain level of profession. Even though it's my first experience, i thought to myself if i wasn't nervous, i probably could make better decisions where to shoot from, what angle to take.. etc. Lot of things were improvised before and upon shooting, but i guess it worked out at the end anyways. We had two shooting sessions and one just taking pictures, first session had most the scenes/voices to take and was the most tiring compared to the other shooting session. Surprisingly fun to do though, partly because at the end we did the scene with the Don(Ernest Wee) making jokes about the scene by changing the dialogues to cantonese, and was shot at my favourite place, Hobby Forge, thanks to Alvin Khaw for lending us a room from his shop.
September 2010
The other shooting session was.. surprising to me i guess, hailing from a small town, i guess i have to be in awe at Yan Nie and her friends' homes. But nice thing about that day is that i get to slap a girl.
I'm just kidding, i'm actually excited about getting a role in the story, which before the day of shooting, i trained myself on how to act and remember the lines, which probably wasn't effective.. but i guess i tried my best on such short notice.
Afterwards was mostly my main job in the committee, editing stuff, have to bear in mind around late September, my mum was admitted into the hospital, didn't do much around that time but accompany her.
My most satisfying work was the poster i guess, glad most people liked it and proud of it appearing almost everywhere.
Sometimes it was frustrating when i worked on the vids, lags, crashes or just plain unsatisfactory. But through it all, i guess i made the game possible since i didn't gave up.
October 2010
Still had a lot of editing of the videos and voices to do, the last photo shooting probably happened in this month. It was rather, short so to speak, set my camera up, Yan Nie did some make up on our sole character on that day and took a picture of her dead on the floor. Then we left, yeah really short.
Hmmm, probably all the personal stuffs happened start surface up even more at this point of time. Well, considering what i seen in November, i doubt this problems frustrated me a lot. This issues were either suspended or solved to my view, not gonna dwell in the past but what happened, happened i guess, if you can move on then i'm glad about it.
Prom auditions were held too, nice to see Brickfields students have some extraordinary talents, though some of them i could only praise them for their courage to audition. It was totally casual, nothing strict about it although we have high standards, it was clear who was in and out but there was like, abundant of singers and no dancers what so ever.
Oh yeah, guess i sprained my leg this month too, and to think it was when they decided to perform Michael Jackson on the stage. Super sad when i heard i could only fully recover in a couple of months but i guess it wasn't as serious as i thought.
November 2010
This month is probably when my work starts to branch to some other departments in the committee, first it was dancing, i probably only contributed in suggesting MJ's dance but i was also "specialised" in it too since it took me like a couple of practice to remember the dance and follow the music, no where good though. Even with a sprained leg, i guess i just have a lot of passion to dance and my life long dream to perform on a stage and in front of an audience.
My family said i was probably the first one to have the guts to get up on stage to perform, which was true, my brothers don't have that kind of interest.
I also branched to the "marketing department" of the committee i guess which Marcus and Mei Yen were in charge of, they needed my help as a sponsor wanted an ad to be designed by the committee's "designer". Since the sponsor was paying RM3000 for that ad, i guess my task seemed really serious and important but in actuality, i did little as to just compile the ads and demands the sponsor gave me and gave it a simple detailing to it. I felt a sense of great accomplishment though.
I did some help with the "Prom King and Queen" which Mei Quin was in charged of too, there was voice over scenes that needed me to do and introductory videos of the nominees too. I don't need to mention this, but you probably know why i say i really dislike one of the nominee, doing the person's intro vid was just disappointing.
The booklet, 70% of it was also made by me, strangely i didn't put my signature or anything to indicate i made them. Probably because it didn't really matter? i don't think people would steal my work though, that would be silly.
Last but not the least, the final day, i essentially do miscellaneous stuff, a bit of controlling the videos, guarding the door, performing on the stage, helping around etc.
I didn't quite stop working until the very final day, if there was an off day i probably would remember it because it was study and work for me everyday, probably a break or so but nothing i did for personal interest. Quite amazingly, time spent on the committee probably changed a few aspects about me, new experiences, new courage, new friends, new people i dislike, essentially i saw how i matured or probably how i deal with problems with increasingly effective ways. But for my final say, this kind of experience, i think i would gladly say i would only want it to happen once in my lifetime but then again, i probably be hypocritical and say i miss the times how i spent with the members, it was different than the usual hang outs; gives out a much more purpose in it.
The best thing about it has to be meeting people you occasionally see in college, but never seem to get to know each other, or talk in my case. A chance to know the capabilities/talents of this people when you'll never be able to in our normal daily lives and a chance to know more about a person. Even though i'm still quiet around them, i guess it didn't felt like i was left out, i actually felt like i was part of the group.
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