Right. I had a local showing of my movie, Web of Lies in my house two days ago. Almost everyone I invited turned up (save a few exceptions, and 2 cast members were unavailable). Not much is needed to say. I’m not that satisfied with how the movie turned out (the boom microphone picked up [...]

Ah…time for some teasers on what’s to come in this blog (and from me in general):

As I was arranging for a local showing of my short film (with the cast and crew), I came across a trailer that I had meant to upload to YouTube, but didn’t. So here it is:
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I’ve a confession to make. I’m an Internet social retard. Whilst most of my friends have some form of social networking membership like Friendster, Myspace or Facebook, I have none. I don’t even have a YouTube account!
Social bookmarking sites? I’ve got a del.icio.us account, but nothing’s in it. I don’t use Reddit, I don’t use [...]

Here’s a plug to Ecogreen, a very good organic vegetarian restaurant in Taman Tun Dr. Ismail. Not only because they have okay-tasting vegetarian food, they also provided a scene for my movie. Look at the edits below:

See any difference?
Remember.. it’s Ecogreen! They have nice organic vegetarian food which you will love.

What do you do when caught with your pants down (or with someone’s mouth at your crotch)?

Why… you look up and say ‘huh?’ I didn’t know you were filming us!
Yep. Don’t worry guys. Progress is well. I have completed some 70% of the film.

Just a picture.

Tools used: Color Finesse on AfterEffects, Magic Bullet Looks Suite to give me that nice final touch.
Somehow, the resolution also got bigger along the way. I think that was my setting error. But the cropping was intentional – to make Alfred’s head look bigger, and cut the boom mic from some frames (heh, [...]

Two words for Green Screen keying: Keylight and CC LightWrap
Two words for long renders: Match-Grain and Rack-Blur
Two words for awesome color correction: Absolute Curves and Color Finese (and Magic Bullet to finish it off)
Two words for masking: Tedious and Tiring
Two (thousand) words for before and after:

Shuba in front of a green screen, and after.
A professional [...]