Ambush - New test film, more action!

Hi there, 21st of March, almost Easter, Almost lived in this house a whole year now, plus thats over a year without drinking coca cola or pepsi cola, now I can drink it again, I just dont feel like it haha, man time flies when you are trying to make things happen.....

 Bunny King demands sacrifice! kawaii lol

Got a cheap soundsystem for my car, now I can finally have a little boom in my speakers :)

Still, keeping busy and sustaining my self progress, on the Last set of my days off -sprained ankle or not- I needed to keep shooting so I recruited a couple of friends and made a day of shooting a short film. We made all our busy windows fit which meant we only 2 hours to come up with the choreography (Lee likes to offer ideas so I basically kept my big moves in and put the others down for another day I will shoot myself) and his style of fighting contrast with Steves great kicking which made a pretty awesome mix after we figured something out.

AMBUSH is the result. Starring Lee Ah Yen and Steve Heke as 2 badasses on different sides of the law, so basically, an excuse to shoot a fight scene on a beautiful day at one of my favorite locations and edit the shit out of it. Below are 4 screenshots I took during Editing. Slowly getting the hang oof Adobe Premiere but only the basics plus time stretching/colors/tracks etc, I need to learn all the other cool stuff it surely offers with technical words I will never remember ;)

 

Here is the finished edited video for your viewing pleasure on youtube :)

Turned out pretty good for on the fly shooting. Looking forward to finishing the carnage script today so I can start location scouting for that and casting it up, heaps of action in this one I promise!!!

I'm going to sleep now, Got up early to take the wife to the airport as she went overseas this morning, So jealous, I want a holiday too haha, will have to wait til my sydney trip in June I think. Can't wait til Im rich and can travel anywhere, that would be awesome, anyway thats my bit for this week, leave you with a couple of feel good pics, one is why I wanted to be an actor, Johnny is living it!!! and the other is about keeping positive, It can make all things that seem impossible possible :)

 

 

 

I'm gonna be 27 this year so I want a feature film by the end of the year, no more 3 minute test films, so lets see if we can make it happen :)

Jeet Kune Do and my upcoming projects...

After I upload My SAE project to you tube tomorrow I will have no videos to share for a couple of weeks. My class assignments right now involve a music video, a television commercial and our class 3D project that we all add our own alternate endings too. My own projects require me growing my hair (for SF) and finishing writing my demo/show reel film. I also have a test tomorrow for lighting which I'm not terribly confident about seeing as i missed the classes on the subject but like water i go with the flow.

Richard holds Rhubarb for Sifu (first picture) I'm holding the wood that Chris punches through (above)

Last week our JKD club held a little demonstration for viewers of Bruce Lee: My brother at the opening night of the NZ HK festival. Apart from the other strikes, traps, holds and ground fighting that they demonstrated, Sifu Bruce Chen and Assistant Instructor Chris Zhang also showed off Nunchaku skills and the one inch punch respectively. Very cool :) (for more info if you are interested in learning and live in Auckland check out www.jkd.org.nz for more info)

And lastly for those who have read my earlier blogs, the 'Inevitable' project i have planned for 2012. I am in the middle of writing a short feature 45-60 min (not sure yet, depends where the story takes me) at the moment it's tentatively titled 'Chase' after the main character. The purpose of this film will be to show potential investors of Inevitable the style of film and action that i plan on doing. So There will be alot of HK style shots and fight choreography, I aim to finish the script this weekend and start doing location scouting and casting during next week with a finish date of the last week of October. I figure If you are going to gamble on a crazy dream you are better to go all in. ;)

Anyway, til next post, Enjoy life and get some time with your families and have a picnic or something, every moment counts :) Here is the full video of the HK festival night.