Everyone's A Loser When It Comes To Love - Now on youtube!

Below are the links to both the Uncut version of the short film and the Out takes/Making of the film. Hope you enjoy them, My first attempt at directing anything with serious drama and not the comical stuff I have done in the past, Also my first scene I've choreographed and Directed without actually being part of the action, It was different being on the other side of the camera, but I learned from the experience. Anyway please watch the films and leave a comment on the channel for what you would like to see more or less of and then I'll take it from there :)

Making of and Bloopers of Everyone's a Loser When It comes to Love.

Also below is the show-reel of the Lead actor in this production, Lee Ah Yen, As you can see he has a very strong screen presence in his work and I'm sure the world will see more of him soon :)

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.

TigerXCobra: Prologue - The Videos are online :)

Like I said a couple blogs ago, i have finished editing all my projects i had shot previous to my Christchurch Trip. TigerXCobra Prologue is now online, with the intention of maybe doing a short film or feature film in the late future. The whole purpose of shooting it was testing out action comedy timing in terms of musical stings, cuts, story etc, so in the end it turned out good for what it was, what do you think? Check out the videos below :)

TigerXCobra: Prologue

Making of And Out takes

The Christchurch Trip and shooting my first drama :)

The whole purpose of my late July trip was to visit family, catch up with my nieces who are growing up fast, get my King style footage (which now thankfully is uploaded) and spend time with wifey. The Snow was a bonus :) All in all A fun, eventful trip :)

Having stayed an extra week in Christchurch I missed a lot of school work, which thankfully, didn't affect me too much. However, I made it back to Auckland in time to help Nazim shooting the rest of his SAE short film 'Pass it Down the line' of which he has finally relented and uploaded onto you tube for your viewing. How did I do? Not my script so i worked with what i had but for something non action i thought It was a pretty good effort. I guess you could say that I'm looking forward to my next acting experience now :)

Pass it down the line - video.

King Style, Silent Shadow is here! :)

Long time no see :) Been to Christchurch 2 weeks ago, came back last week and spent the last week catching up with finishing assignments, finishing editing TigerXCobra and Finishing King Style, Silent Shadow now that i had the footage, So finally after much more taxing work It's here for your viewing pleasure. Special Thanks to Sam Vine, Matt Palmer, Lydia Zhong, Rosina West, and Melody Kinsman, without you guys it wouldnt have been as fun as a shoot as it was, good works! :)

Click the image below to watch the intended cut of King Style, Silent Shadow. Our Superhero genre entry for 48 hr film festival 2011.

Watch the Making Of King Style, Silent Shadow

Watch the King Style,Silent Shadow Out Takes

So The process in a nutshell, 48hr weekend shot it-->tried to edit in windows movie maker, then had to convert it to .mov (competition rule which sucked cos thats macs default, not pc, especially moviemaker) which took us overtime by half an hour so project handed in at 7.30pm, footage to large to take back to Auckland so could only retrieve it next visit which was at the end of July. Once in Aux tried opening movie maker file, failed, as was XP version and not 7 which is what i have, so redited it using a free program called Pinnacle Videospin (which doesn't allow zooms, any more than 1 track for audio, video, or remapping and loading time was slow) Finished editing it, took it to school and put on the macs and used final cut to add the soundtrack and fix the zoom on one shot (where a script is in shot etc) and remapping [which sucks compared to Vegas, i miss Vegas (I used to have a cracked version which was by now obsolete and usable and i'm trying to be legit about every project now anyway) lol will buy premiere when i can...]

All this while Juggling the last stages of EWALWICTL (which was due today and duly handed in) and TigerXCobra (finished today but will post next week) and my training for and taking my JKD Level test, which are all things I will talk about next post when i buy batteries to show you guys the pics i had taken of my trip :) In the mean time, I hope you enjoy King Style, Silent Shadow! :)

Streetfighter: Ryu vs Fei long - Week 1 and 2 Recap

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Streetfighter: Ryu vs Fei-long is my new short film project in the works. We are aiming for a late August Shoot. Lee Ah yen will be playing Ryu and I will be playing Fei Long.

I had written maybe 4 different scripts, some involving a cross with Jin in tekken, Chun Li and Jann Lee (Which is from a dead or alive pitch i had been planning to do later this year once i find the right actresses to play Hitomi and Lei Fang), One script with Ryu vs Sagat and One script with Ryu taking on Guile in a warehouse. It was quite hard to find actors to match the physiques of some of these characters so i decided we would shoot a film first to show prospective actors/actresses what the finished idea looks like and hopefully we can do maybe a web series of Streetfighter like Mortal Combat (and i don't mean the SF series College humor did either, i mean serious action not comedy).

I know of 2 very well made and received Fan Films of Streetfighter (Legacy and beginnings end respectively) And though i will be nowhere near their equivalent regarding equipment, cast or budget (read; no budget :P) Our enthusiasm for Streetfighter as well as the choreography and script i have written should win us some fans and maybe some name recogniton for future works, original or made for fans.

So Its been a week since Lee has agreed to the script and since Lee and I have decided a rough shooting date I spent yesterday shooting myself as both characters (not in costume though) doing some test choreography for the SF project in order to test after effects effects regarding Hadokens and hits and Powered moves. However all the footage is uploaded on the school computer so i wont be able to share with you guys the results for a couple weeks as i cut it up and add the effects, in the blog that follows i will go over the project.

Anyways thats the news. This past week i have been editing Everyones a Loser When It Comes to Love and TigerXCobra as well as our school project with flying cars aka Michael Bay haha. Always editing, now if i had final cut at home these would be long finished by now but i don't, so don't expect Ivy Investigation for a wee while yet.

In other news got to spar again on Wednesday, however the safety equipment is quite restricitve in terms of ducking and eyesight, i got hit by so many punches simply because i couldn't use my peripheral version, but in good news we were allowed to do front or sidekicks which is my middlename! so as you can see in the video of the spar that Chris uploaded i exploit that, hope to do more combos and punching overall next time out, i was far too passive in this one and quite disappointed in myself. Anyway, Christchurch next weekend, I'll blog again then :) Have a good week.

Coming Soon :)

Tiger X Cobra - My first Aux Action/Comedy Short

That is a picture from Friday on which we shot some scenes for Nazim Khan's (a Classmate who shares similar interests and is funny too) SAE project 'Pass the line' in which he has cast me as the lead character 'Bill.' This was an awesome opportunity as you know from my films i only ever do action roles without much dialogue so if i am to be taken seriously the more drama pieces i can get and practice with the better i will be. In Theory anyway :) Anyway i talked to him about doing a short film on sunday if he and his friend who used to go to SAE as well Ruchir and they were both keen so that night i wrote a script for an intended web series called TigerXcobra.

I haven't finished any films since moving up here to Auckland so I was looking forward to shooting this. After watching Wu Xia on Saturday i spent most of the night changing the script and story boarding it for the Sunday shoot. I also spent it swearing at the Streetfighter IV boss 'Seth' all night but that's a different story and in the coming month you will figure out why i'm playing it so much right now. Anyway, Sunday came around and I met up with Nazim and Ruchir outside Nazim's place. We shot it over about 4 hours due to much joking around at the locations and stuffing up our lines but the footage we walked away with was awesome and we will digitize them tomorrow, so god willing the film should be on my youtube channel at the end of the week. Some pics from our Exploits are below :) next time i hope to be able to get my hands on some fake guns so i can play with some after effects, but for now enjoy the buddy action/comedy i have written... see you next week :)

TIGER (above) as played by Ruchir Joshi, is the brawn of the team, He is forever doing the legwork and was up for a promotion when COBRA joined the team, The position of Chief of police is open again, he just prays his new partner doesn't screw it up, cos the pay sucks and he really can't be stuffed running after crooks all the time....A desk job is his main goal....

COBRA played by Nazim, is a new detective on the streets of Auckland, The Brains of the team he uses his skills to get out of work wherever possible, slacker is what most people call him, Hero is what he prefers...

X is the Main villain played by me, A Good guy by nature and a Bad guy by choice, X (his real name isn't known) is wanted on various crime sprees and for breaking the law. Somehow he always escapes from crown custody and the team is always stuck with the short straw of getting him back. The Police are thinking of using him as a source for information on key players in the local black market but they need to bring him in to see if they can get him to bend to their will.

STAY TUNED til next week when i should have a link to the finished video :) below are some fun shots we took while filming....

The new A-team :) TigerXcobra