that Gianna visit

This is the most difficult video so far... Video cam head became dirty at the very last min, very little material to work around, Subbing blindly as I know nothing about the Korean language and could only trust the translator on it while hopping that I didn’t lose anything in translation when I reedit what the translator said.

Haiz then waking up and see a 1 star rating on youtube… even before I get to publish this video at the Mx channel… it just felt rather disheartening. Is it really that bad? I don't even know what's wrong with it that the video deserve 1 star ... or was it my competitor's handiwork?

Updated

i went on to add the mx logo ... a good excuse to remove that 1 star video with a new one ....

Bad Day for Covering a Movie event

I had one of the most lousy day in covering a movie media event. Felt so discriminated upon and so many things screwing up for me.

1st ) The Video cam I been using, suddenly got problem with playback. Then I realize the recording device wasn't working. All this happen right before I make my journey to the venue. Panic Mode and rush to get a head cleaner to solve the problem.

then encounter a orchard rd electronic uncle trying to convince me that no point saving this camera ... i think he want to sell me one but not in a million year will i buy from them. Only delay time .... then I went to other store and managed to get it for 26bucks !! damn ex the cleaner!! but the uncle seller was "nice" enough to sell me for 3 bucks cheaper ... was 29 at first

2nd) rush to the venue and waited for 45 mins for Gianna Jun ( Jun Ji-hyun ) appearance. That main press con only lasted 15 mins! then ask us to wait for about 2 hours for one on one.

3rd) No food provided. and the venue is at some hush hush hotel in sentosa which i was told a night stay there cost 600 bucks and onwards ... notthat the view is that great

4th) when to find food at sentosa ... was directed to this overpriced hot dog stand and a car park that charge 3 bucks per entry... still not that bad until when i try to get out ... the exit barrier can't detect my entry information! Got stuck there for a while as I couldn't get thru the ppl in charge

5th) during small group interview ... while i was video-ing ... i was told to stop recording! at first they say no photos but i didn't know they meant no video too ... which is quite funny cos we are not using flash... upon questionning, the organiser told me that only TV could film this group interview!

So Stupid !!!! Tv broadcast only last a day or two while my youtube video will last so much longer on the net !!!

very sian ...

but I must admit ... Gianna Jun ( Jun Ji-hyun ) was quite nice and when i was holding mic for my Japanese Radio Dj friend, she even offer to put the mic beside the her.

and the parking error turn out to be a free exit for me .. so save 3 bucks

Interview with Richie Ren (or Jen?)

Another interview session with the cast of the Sniper.
One of the coolest Hong Kong Actors that I ever spoke to…

This time, focusing on Richie Ren and the difficulties he faced while filming this movie

it's finally done .. the start of the end of this batch of videos to edit

Mx029 Dante Lam talks about the making of The Sniper 神枪手


Finally it's done ... thought it was going to be easier but as I tweak here n there, it just got longer n longer ... overall pretty proud of this one ... see if you can spot the extra stuff that I added to this video ... hopefully the rest of the Sniper videos could be posted by this weekend

The Second Video for Shinjuku Incident

I thought it would be easy and could finish a couple of them by Good Friday but ended up finishing only one more video for this interview session. The reason was that I find that the flow was going well and there are some problems in the recordings that needed to be clear



But it's done so take a look and leave some comments ... up next, I hope I could finish up the video in which they talk about the Japanese actor and the triads that got "involved" with the making off. Plus a couple of extra with Jackie Chan talking about the deleted scenes / his past films and Daniel Wu talking about Fame, meeting his Hero Jackie Chan for the first time and how he is attracted to dark characters.

First Shot

The Sniper 神枪手 Gala Premiere @ Shaw Lido ...

The female Fans of Edison Chen are pretty crazy but hey ... at least they make it worth the while for him to come to Singapore for the constant grilling from the Local n Overseas Press

First Video for Shinjuku Incident

First time trying a new video editing software and although it's not as fancy, it did a pretty fine job ...

Video Camera Thanks to Victor Poo

So I met Sandra Ng, Raymond Wong and Vincent Kok

This Post is made possible by the kind management of Moviexclusive.com. Kindly click the above banner for the write up or watch this flick (All's Well End's Well 2009)during CNY this year

This post would also like to Thank my pro active partner in crime. His aggressiveness in asking to snap a picture with the stars resulted in the picture below. If only he was around when we interviewed Andy Lau ... I would have a physical proof that we were in a room with him before.


Sidetrack a bit: as I was scrambling around for victim to help us take this picture, I arrowed this lady who was using this big ass professional camera (should be from those major media). I assumed that she would be "expert enough" to take a good shot for us. When the picture came back to me ... I was kinda shock that she cut all our feet off ... with our knees still intact in the picture ... was rather shock to see such composition from someone holding such a professional camera.... or maybe she wasn't happy that I "used" her when she wanted to snap shots of Sandra Ng and Raymond Wong ....

Also with My Pro Active Partner's help, I managed to get signatures of Vincent Kok (who was surprise I got Double Tap for him .... not sure why but I hope I didn't get the wrong show for him to sign)


Sandra Ng (tired but still very nice and very classic Sandra Ng)


and Raymond Wong who aged a lot since Happy Ghost days (but still very nice to small time photographers like me)


thanks once again to my super duper pro active partner in crime ... with you around, I don't have to be that thick skin anymore ... hahaha

a pleasant connecting encounter

After hearing my fellow folks from mx recounting their experience with Louis Koo, I thought my encounter with him will be like the dark & stormy encounter with Stephen Chow (too depressing to post but someday I will).

But surprise surprise ... it didn't turn out all that bad ...

He still sound / behave / look rather restless answering questions from the interviewers. Not exactly a very energentic person but there are times when he would crack some jokes to lighten up the mood ... I guess he must be tired from the series of questioning.

anyway, paired with my new "intern" (as a reporter from My Paper would called it, I prefer the term > friend), we managed to get a small group interview with him (private joke/ Thanks to Shaw n Faith, I will definitely save you first over the other lady /private joke ends).

Before they (the reporters) could even get to start asking him question, he took my friend's dvds (which was supposed to be returned back to me so I can pass it back to the webmaster) and checked every dvds out. hmmm look like a fellow movie fanatic leh? or maybe he too bored?? ... anyway my friend who is doing interview with a celebrity for the first time managed to find a common topic that interest him and that topic turned out to be his first feature "Troublesome Nights"

along the way, he constantly joked about "Troublesome Nights" and the interview session didn't turn out to be as bad as we were expecting.

Since the mood looked good and no one was there to chase us after our session ended, I took out my Election 2 Dvd for him to sign ... which he nicely obliged

Kinda look like caterpillar right?

after he signed my dvd ... and since no other reporters came in yet ... I shamelessly (a requisite as I learned from the Andy Lau encounter (too lazy to post abt it but someday I will)) asked if we could snap a picture with him ...

surprisingly, his reply was a rather chirpy "sure" and even during the time when I was teaching the photographer how to use my camera (cos my lcd screen wasn't turn on), he put his arms around my friend and made small talk about "Troublesome Nights" again!

I was thinking of doing some photo editing after seeing this picture with him ... noooo not the removing fats off my face type of photo editing (I am not that skilled yet) but maybe i could darken my face a bit ... so I won't loook like a small pale face beside him ....

haiz, he is too good looking ... i think my camera is in love with him

Updated Edit : I realized I mention "Troublesome Nights" so many times but never even mention the movie that he was here for ... anyway it's Connected and you can check out more of his photos n his co star + director at

moviexclusive connected page

CJ7 Press Conference

Trying to beat the CNY Dateline and was pretty proud of myself as I was able to complete it before I got for my reunion dinner ... overall not bad ... what do u think ?

Meeting Eason Chan

Fanboy Rant Alert ...

After days of scheming, plotting and manipulating ... I finally met one of my favourite Chinese Singers at Singtel Comcentre ... initially it wasn't even clear whether will he be turning up at all and there were people telling it that it might be a pure product promotion and no artist appearance at all ...

Well that rumours was all laid to rest pretty early as the moment I stepped into the venue, I was given an autographed poster ... things were definitely looking at and chances were high although MX/I were not given a one on one opportunity...

so I schemed ... hehe knew that roughly when the most likely opportunity to get my stuff signed and perhaps a photo with him ... after scanning the grounds and the escape routes that he might take ... I figured my best chance would be when he was coming off stage and perhaps before he would be escorted to those infamous back lanes where I would most likely be unable to enter ....

After all the product promo and the stars chatted about the film Pye Dog, it was the finale Photo session time and I packed all my stuff with me, all ready to do that last minute "Can you sign for me" before the body guards (which was only a couple I think) could react ...

Initially I was pretty slow and before I could get to him, he and the female star had left the hall ... pressing on, I went out to the reception area, half expecting that he would have been led out and that's where I hit pay dirt : ) hehehe he and other folks were hanging around

NO WAITING LIAO !

hehehe i approached him and tapped him on the shoulder ... told him I am a fan and if he would kindly sign my CD

and boy he was kind enough to obliged and even asked if it's ok to sign the interior instead of the other cover that I requested ... hehehe well it's your CD : ) (actually after the whole encounter, It made sense to sign the interior as it's less likely to fade off) ... after which, he even asked if I liked to include my name on it .... hehhehe the picture will tell u the outcome right ?

the sensing there's more time since no minders had actually zoom in to stop me, I tried to get him to sign another item which is more dear to me : ) and that is ....

Yup , this cheaply newspaper cutting ... worthless to most but gotto be one of the most precious item to me .... following which, I told him it was one of my favourite film and I gave it 4.5 stars (which I pointed to him)

If I didn't remember wrongly, both our faces brighten up at that moment ... and he inspected what was quoted and read out loud for a while ... hehe he then went on to sign the item ... kept one side for Miriam Yeung : ) yeah .. (Miriam Yeung U r my Next Target! )

afterwhich, my next plan was taking a photo with him ... but this is where I made the most stupid mistake of the day ... as he was signing the newspaper ad, the event organiser came to take him away for the one on one .... the pretty organiser gave me the "no no no" finger signal and not wanting to offend them or reveal to them my fanboy's antics ... i started to relent .... and tried my luck for one last time by asking her (with hand signal) if it's possible to snap a picture with him ... of cos kanna a Bigger NO from her ...

a self note to my fellow autograph and celebrity photo seeker and myself ... minders and organiser are to be ignored if the celebrity look willing to obliged.

so before he left, I shook his hand and well being the nice celebrity he is ... he gave me a big smile and wished me a Happy New year ... regrets sort of flood in that I didn't ask for "more" but I guess I should not be that greedy

in the end, I decided to move on as i think must stop these fan boy mode or invitation might not come our way anymore ... and u never know ... i might just have another chance again in time to come .... : )

Andy Lau & Xu Jinglei in Singapore for The Warlords Promotion

First of the 3 clips planned ... the first one without subs yet...

I reckon if I include Subs to this clip, it will take my life siah... gotto take a break, get on with my life and get back to it later .... haiz these few days leading up to the openning of The Warlords will see me working on their promo clips every day and night

So Don't bother to ask me out ... got 3 clips to work on ... 1 clip take 5 to 8 hours and that not including add subs which I got no idea how long it will take ... still left with 3 subs and 2 clips to work on

third clip

Meeting Kurt Busiek

Meeting Kurt Busiek , creator of Astro City

more to come

Photos Thanks to Stefan

It's getting Longer and Harder

No, I am not talking about the length of the clip (or length of any other things that you might think of .... : ) actually I wasn't thinking had any dirty pun when I came up with this Post Title but after when I start writing this post, I realized it could mean more than one thing ... other than the point I wanted to make about the video clip length & editing process

Lost ? haha Don't worry about it ... I am just rambling to myself

anyway, the second video for Peter Chan exclusive interview was just posted ... the longer and harder bit referred to the editing part. At first, I thought it's going to be easy ... the front n back bits are already done for the first video and for the second video, I thought I could just modified slightly from the first one ... but it turn out to be so much harder than I could have expected

the last time I worked on the clip, it took me 5 hours (yeah 5 hours of my life that I can't claim back and not paid for!) and this time round, it took me slight more than ... 8 HOURS !!!

actually come to think of it ... I am not sure why I took longer than before ... the length of this clip is shorter compared to the first two and yet I spend more time cutting it, extracting the audio (which took so much time! 6 mins per clip, a trick I found out was that it's faster to rip the whole audio clip out and lock it to which ever clip u want) and trying to save more file space ...

the auto shut down and inability to read titf files didn't help with the morale either ....

I feel so tired right now I could just fall asleep and sleep thru my dinner .... (and I didn't have my lunch yet cos my Sister's Maid ate my leftover pasta that I cooked the other night but that another story)

haiz there still another one more to go and although I am expecting it to be even shorter, I got a feeling I might just spend more time editing it ... at least I know what will be on my third clip liao ...

Enjoy the clip ...

More Vids that I edited for MX

The Second Video that I edited for MX ... a one on one interview with Peter Chan for his upcoming film, The Warlords ... it will be in three parts .. the first will be the director talking about this film, then the second clip (schedule to be screen next week) will talk about the cast n the character they played and wrap it with the last clip which I got no idea what it will be yet ... hmmm maybe I will work something out like what King Hu did with A Touch of Zen

So what do you think ? Personally, for my own weird reasoning, I am less proud of this than the first one ...

and I posted another video for the Rock Press Conference ... it's a re-edited video which I touched up most of the in between moments ... it just bugged me too much to see the first cut that I got to do it tho no one asked me and I don't think anyone really care about it ... (come to think of it ... I will be editing the video above sooner or later ... maybe after I submit the second video first)

actually there was supposed to be a video montage of The Rock answering questions that are irrelevant to the movie "The Game Plan" but was pretty funny. However one comment woke me up and for the near future, it won't be out (or worked on) ... at least till I have submitted all the Peter Chan's interview video first

as for the Ekin Cheng Video that I mention during my last post on the first video I did for Mx, I didn't do it in the end ... anyway Stefan did it and U can find his video posted here ... of course he is a faster worker compared to me

My first Video that I edited for MX

I Did This ! hehehe

The Rock came to Singapore recently to promote his movie The Game Plan ... so part of Moviexclusive duties, I filmed it and somehow landed the chance to edit the video ... It's my first time editing a video clip and had fun doing it ...

enjoyed the final product and process very much ... hope you will too ... do drop me your comments about the video

hopefully with your comments, the next video will be better ... (akan datang ... next one should be with Ekin Cheng for his Huo Yuan Jia Tv Series)

Cheers
Richard

Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek n Gail Simone coming to Singapore!!!

Remember Colleen Doran ?? Stefan just told me the greatest news this morning !!! one that I would say it's a wet dream for all Singapore Comic Fans!!! the above 3 comics writers (greats) will be coming in town for the same festival!!!!


it's like going to a "comic con" trip except it's cheaper !!!!

check out singaporewritersfestival.com

Should be on the First of December !!! I am so going to be autograph Whore / Cam Whore* (Just Added ... thanks Stefan) again

Side note: i just realize that i Havent posted any new stuff in 2 months ... no worries ... they are coming

I am with Ah Wang !

^ I am with Ah Wang!

My HK TV series hero ... AH WANG !!! or better known to the rest as Roger Kwok ... Was lucky enough to interview him today after being "appointed*" by Sir Linus (*some might say Arrowed) ... normally nowadays, i don't take pictures with stars anymore but then, i enjoyed his Wang Fu Cheng Long, Ge Shi Zhui Xiong & Mei Li Zai Wang very much so asked for one

Later on ... while waiting for the next star to interview ... I was thinking of a caption for our photo and the Title that I thought of cracked me up ... "I am with Ah Wang" with an arrow pointing to the left ... hehehe (the joke here is that it's another version of "I am with Stupid")

No Disrespect here hor ... I really like his performance as Ah Wang ... just amused with the play of words here!

(of cos .. need to thank Linus for the pic n opportunity!)

I was on TV with Fann Wong!

If you think U saw me on TV tonight, shaking Fann Wong's hand, don't need to ponder about it : ) it was me !!! hehehe oh yah look at the picture carefully > Loki is standing behind me!

Was dispatch by Moviexclusive to cover the opening ceremony of Jack's Neo latest film “Just Follow Law” with Gurmit Singh and Fann Wong! It was pretty early for me, still suffering from CNY "fever" and lost my way to the venue of the opening ceremony (had Mental Block of the location and the Old Road directory in my car does not cover the venue) but still the overall event went well : ) wasn’t late and got to chat with Jack Neo and Gurmit Singh some more ...

hehehe tallying the number of celebrity hands shook:
Jackie Chan ~ Checked
Fann Wong ~ Checked
Gurmit Singh ~ Checked
Jack Neo ~ Checked

Check the write up on MX page soon. (should be up by this Friday)