In Labourious Post-Production.

Thanks motu. :)

A friend all the way in Bournemouth very kindly set up a fund-raising site for my thesis film. :D

And that, was the beginning of all the good things I hope will come as I start shooting in a week's time.
So if you have some cash to spare, help me realise this film!

I am a filmmaker, not an academic.

But I'm also a filmmaker completing his education in a film school, and this dissertation of the spatial representation of Singapore Cinema I must write.

CASTING CALL

We are currently opening a casting call for a thesis short film titled ‘In Labour’. Workshops and rehearsals will begin late December while the shoot is scheduled to commence at first week of February 2010.

We are looking for:

‘Zoe’
• Female, 28-35 years old
• Works in the photocopy shop in Singapore
• Speaks Malaysian-accented Mandarin, Cantonese and Bahasa Melayu

‘Purple’
• Female, 25-32 years old
• Study-mama working in Singapore
• Chinese accented Mandarin, and any dialect preferably

‘Ibu’
• Female, early 50s to mid 60s
• Landlord and motherly figure to Zoe and Purple
• Speaks Bahasa Melayu
• Preferably stout and plump

‘Ah Yi’
• Male, 9-12 years old
• Purple’s son, studying in Singapore
• Chinese accented Mandarin

‘Old man’
• Male, late 60s onwards
• Speaks Mandarin

Acting experience preferred but not required.
Audition period: 25th October- 3rd December 09

Please make an appointment or contact us for any enquiries.
Contact: Norma (96261359)/Kimberly (90909035)|Email: psofilms@gmail.com

Thank you.

1 more to make it 10.

Once in awhile, I like to put up a list of things I need to do.

1. Thesis Paper on the relevance of social and cultural context in the cinematic city.
2. TVC storyboard and pitch this week. Shooting in 3 weeks.
3. Directing Exercise with the Musical Theatre students. Shooting in 2 weeks.
4. Post Production for Documentary module, due in 3 weeks.
   
5. Funding proposal for thesis film, due in 2 weeks.
6. Casting opens for thesis film starts this week.
7. Script drafts for thesis film.
8. Pre-production meetings for my thesis film and 2 other Thesis films that I'm ADing for.
9. Reading up on Poitiers and Paris and practising my French.

Now I feel slightly accomplished.

Up above my head.

I feel like half the load on my back (which by the way, is straining from carrying my backpack around town with my wretched macbook pro which weigh half a ton, stuffed in it.) is gone now that my freelancing works are finally seeing the end of the tunnel and I can move on with life. I cleared the mess on my desktop, hard drive, email inbox, table and mobile phone.

Me can finally concentrate on school work!

The thing is, I spend more time in school than anywhere else. I lepak in school half the time when I'm supposed to be doing my work; hiding my smokes from those annoying security guards when they walk past. I picked up melayu lingo like rabs, jangan, berak...I should stop here. It's also my new aim in life to try every single thing that is sold in the vending machine. I try to smoke less, too, and drink less milo peng, which is dangerously diabetic. We try to spy on potential hotness that may waltz by and judge the ones who are walking fashion faux pax.



Five more weeks to the end of the semester and my internship would begin. It may possibly be at SIFF, which sounds exciting, really. I need a break from shoots for awhile though.