Its done. Do enjoy. A n D is the first place I am officially desiminating this before we send it to MTV in India.

 

Silent Movies_Sajid And The Lost Boys from Kenny Png on Vimeo.
I hope you guys will enjoy this song as much as all of us have.

Its been great, the film has been developed and we will be going into telecine tomorrow ( basically transferring the film into a video format so we can edit)

I msut say I am pretty excited about seeing it come together really.

This is one of those things when you know in your bones that it was a great shoot and you just can;t wait to see the end result.

In the meantime, here are some more intimate look at our filming process, all pictures courtesy of Jason Tan Yan Soon, a good friend and fantastic crew boy on set.


This is Charmaine, a dancer who is playing the female lead who finds out that someone is across the wall and she tries to speak in the only language she knows.. dance. some moments here:



Of course at some point, I needed to craft human moments after using such form and style devices. Here, a still shot of her playing out a quiet moment.

Then there is Farid, the male lead who communicates using hand shadows. I met Farid when he acted in a play by close buddy Tan Kheng Hua. Now Kheng is a fantastic woman who just gets the best picks in town when it comes to new talents. But thanks to her, I found Farid, an incredible talent of great energy. I love his work.
this is part of the climax scene where I go through with Farid about how I would like him to play his part. Also , very indie concerns about what's left of our film stock given our tight budgets =p


here some more pics of the charismatic punk.


look out for this chap man, he is going to be in a lot more productions from what I hear.

It's been quite a while since I have updated this blog so apologies for the silence.

Well, the reason is quite simple. Sometimes there's so much work that things have to prioritized over jaw jaw really.

I have been working on another music video for Sajid And The Lost Boys from India.

The premise was very simple, I will get Indian camera guy Husain to shoot Sajid for me while we film the other parts of the video here in Singapore on 16mm film.

The song is called Silent Movies, and I decided to put in my own take that it is about the natural failure all we human beings have when we try to communicate to each other.

Some times, it seems that everyone is speaking in a totally alien language even if we all speak English. To me, its simply that everyone has a different point of view, and that all human beings are unique. But this uniqueness is also both our greatest triumph and tragedy as sentient beings.

After all, if we are all so unlike each other, where do we find the common ground to understand each other?

So this music video is very simple. I have two characters trying to talk to each other through a wall, only catch is, one uses hand shadows while the other dance. That's as if being separated by a wall is not tough enough! But hey don;t you feel sometimes life is like that no matter how close you are to the person?

Anyways, we shot it over the weekend after a long bad and hectic week at the day job.

You can check out some behind the scenes pictures here.




The best part of this shoot is working with the ultra talented Jaye Neo from FreeFlow Productions. Now Jaye and me go back a long way since school days and he has always been a great DOP and cameraman. And this is the first time we are working together again after 6 YEARS!



The whole shoot was great, it was fun, we probably drank way too much but hell, it was worth it and a good break from all the daily shooting I have to do as part of my job.

Best part of it was that Sajid gave me a very nice surprise a week before we were supposed to shoot. The album "Kid Without Candy" actually made it to the top ten of Inidan indie music on none other than Rolling Stone Magazine! Here you can read it here, he is at number 7.
I actaully have more behind the scene videos and photos, will try to put them up soon while you chaps wait for he finished product to hit here and everywhere else. I loved the energy and what was done. And I am sure the music video will be exactly how we all intended it.

Its Boxing Day and as luck would have it, some chaps have to be at work here in Singapore.

But hey, not me which gives me time to hang out here and post silly stuff. Well not quite silly stuff.

This is more like a confession. I made a couple of chaps terrorize what we know as a Singapore Heartlands... basically housing apartments in the suburbs

Well, I told them it would be good publicity, And besides I was itchy to try something.

The boys are a band called Ugly In The Morning, and after hibernating for 5 years since their acclaimed debut album in 2003, the lazy bastards finally decided to do a second album. I like their music and I love their punk attitude so this is what I did.

A bit of a Wayne's world rehash in a one-take MTV shot on 16mm. Now every indie %&@# film makerloves to brag about their one take scene which usually is a whole wanking exercise, so me and my DOP decided ...ok let's do it as well.... imperfectly and the best part our one take is 3 1/2 Minutes across 13 floors! Well you watch it your self yah?

 

 

Ugly In The Morning Singapore from Kenny Png on Vimeo.

ok folks,

  its the festive season again. and as usual my holidays aren't really holidays given that there's always somethingto do when I don't have to do "office work"

  This time round, its a new single I produced and arranged for Singaporean alternative band LGF (Little Green Frog).

  This is probably on eo fmy most trying experiences given our tight timelines, my constant travelling and the fact thatthe band needed to release this single as a free download for Xmas.

  Personally I really like this track, if you are into Rasputina, MayDAY, Tokyo Incident or even Velvet Revolver, you should take a listen.

  Don't like it, just trash it but if you like it, always feel free to share it with your friends... all you need to do is to click the picture below of the handsome drummer.

  Its the perfect catharsis for this dark recession plagued Xmas. =)