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Art Dept on China Press. ( 中國報 )

2011-11-17T21:06:00.000-08:00

搞設計女將勇闖男界

http://www.chinapress.com.my/node/267821

Basically about 'yours truly' working in a male dominated Art Department world for films.
Talks about the experiences and conditions that we hope to improve for all crew behind the scenes.

Would like to clarify here that some of the photos were misquoted.
The Room at 1st page was the attic and the parangs you see on page 3 are not tools but props in PB2. Same goes with the cars, they were proposed action vehicles.. Not our transportation.
Also the bridge on Ice Kacang was not designed by me, but the Art Director , Mr. Too. I can't swim to save my life..hahah.. So I support the boyz from dry land.

In Art Dept, we work as a team and credit goes out to all who has contributed.

2010-10-10T22:10:00.000-07:00

China Press on "7 Square" My Short ( 中國報 )

Cover Story on :

心見聞．電影不是拍給自己看的…

http://www.chinapress.com.my/node/105274

2010-08-28T21:47:00.000-07:00

HANYUT the EPiC ....

A movie that took almost 6 months to Prep and 3months to Shoot..
The Biggest movie I've worked on yet.. with a movie budget of near to Rm 18million .

The Art Dept took tremendous effort & research time to find props & set design for this 1800 Epic Period movie..

With a mixed crew of local & international team, the team consist of skills from Australia, Poland, Singapore & Canada.

My role was Set Decorator,
working closely with
Production Designer~Sam Hobbs
& Prop master ~ Nick Wong.

All sets & villages were build from Ground Zero in the Jungles...
Indeed a HUGE effort.

Set in the Jungles of Pahang: Kuala Lipis , Kenong & Kuantan.
The Movie is adapted from the famous "Almayer's Folly" written by Joseph Conrad. 1895

Here's a Video of the Art Dept in the Making :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-b5XEf36MU&feature=related

Latest Star updates news..

http://ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/15/movies/20101015082418&sec=movies

Hanyut official website :

http://hanyut-almayersfolly.com/

Tune for more...

Simply Siti Commercial.

2009-10-24T05:51:00.000-07:00

A cosmetic range by Siti Norhalizah. 3 commercials shot at her place and Klang Valley.

Role : Art Directed for this TVC.

A very nice humble lady indeed!!

to watch it..click on :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8r0zqAdFJ4&feature=related

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_c5tGmboY

"初恋红豆冰" a.k.a - Ice Kacang Puppy Love (Chinese Movie)

2009-06-17T03:12:00.000-07:00

My 1st pure Chinese movie that has a 100% Chinese script..
The challenge? I ain't a Chinese dictionary. ;)

The era we were shooting in..was 80s & 90s in Penang & Tronoh, Ipoh..
A scenic little town that has preserved the old British Colonial influenced architecture in Malaysia. A lot was done to beautify the place while maintaining its beauty.
Classical indeed with a FeelllL...

I was Set Decorator for this movie. Due to the confidentiality of the Sets b4 the Movie is premiered.. I can only post a few pics till the movie is out... 15th April 2010!!

Here is the transformation that Art Department has done..

on RHS : Village on sea..Penang

Pisau Cukur.. ( Movie)

2009-03-20T02:18:00.000-07:00

A.k.A Gold Diggers.

Prep in June 2008, Finished shoot in Dec 2008.

Coming soon to cinemas in Nov 5, 2009.
It's a love boat movie consisting of comedy romance, drama & suspense...
Greatest challenge? shoot everything on land, even though the story is set on sea..

It was indeed my 1st, to built sets that looked like a cruise ship.
Was Art Director & worked with Production Designer: Ting Lam.

U can check out the trailer at :
http://www.pisaucukur.com.my/cerita.htm

here's behind the scenes..for Art Department..
From the usual, designing, to budgeting then getting the sets in..
A lot of hands-on for prop making & set decorating..

The last Supper scene.

With Art Department..

THE PREMIERE on 14th OCT Cineleisure 8pm.

Exciting Nite..with the cast & crew.
Very entertaining movie indeed..

GODA the Series...

2009-01-01T07:51:00.000-08:00

Goda Drama

Art Dept
Behind the scenes..

Sazzy's Room
The Reporter

The News Agent & Burhan's Room

The Wedding Scene

The Finale.....

Who is M?

Press Conference

Directing Shorties!

2008-04-11T03:31:00.000-07:00

My directing debut for a short started in Feb 2007. "Vroom Vroom & Boot Boot" was made in conjunction w the inaugural of BMW shorties. Theme: Mobility. A cute romance comedy.

It was top 21 shortlisted in the judge's list. Made it's debut at Malaysian shorts- March 2007 & at Film Anonymous 3 in April. It was a 2 day shoot w 2 men crew including myself.

Director & Producer : Law Gwo Yunn
Videographer & Editor : Kok Kai Foong
Story : Law Shu Yunn

In July 08: It won the Jury's Award in the Indie Youth Fest, Inconjunction with the ESWC 2008 event.

Year 2 : Made my 2nd Short for the BMW shorties 2008 w the theme : H2o.

This time round, we upgraded the equipments & was also extremely technically challenged.
After many takes & reshoots, this was the best version amongst the 1 take WONDER steadicam shots.

7 square (7 x 7) is born. It was an average of 22min per take.

7 Square: Top 10 Finalist for BMW shorties 2008..
Steadicam Operator / DOP : Haris Hue
Story : Law Gwo Yunn
Editor : Tony Wong
Music : Chong U Fu, Eugene & Ian

See Short : http://vimeo.com/22395782

' 7 Square ' in STAR news.

BMW NITE MAY 2008

Top 10 finalist. (RHS) The Team who helped out in my short!

Breakfast Show- NTV 7

15th Lyon Asian Film Festival 2009

It was nice surprise when I got an email, telling me that 7 Square was selected for its International Premier among the 8 short films to be screened at the 15th Lyon Asian Film Festival..
It made my day was when they told me 7 Sq won the JURY AWARD! ( ranked 2nd) in the short Film Category! among the 200 entries World wide last week!

It was Screened on 8th Nov 09 and the Jury liked it.. Brilliant!!
Cheers to my team again for making this happened!!

KAMI the Movie - Behind the Scenes

2008-03-25T01:48:00.000-07:00

Art Department

Was Production Designer for this movie. PrePro started back in Nov 2007. Production was in Dec 07.
A lot to do for Art Department .
Recently won the SHOUT Awards 2009: Break thro Movie of the Year!!

KAMI at FFM22 -THE AWARD NITE: Sabah Aug 8th 2009

Nominated in 5 categories - Won : Most Promising Actor & Jury Award.
Congrats to all in KAMI's Team !!!

With Cast & Crew..

Directing 3R & SadiQ

2008-03-25T00:22:00.000-07:00

Oct 2007..

Directed & Written 3R Season 13 .
Ep 5- Arggh Period!!

( Highest rated Episode of the season!)

3R = Respect, Respond & Relax, a chic mag show that targets young ladies & issues with society..

Ep 5- Highlighting the problems with period crams, endometriosis & How does men deal with this women issue? Got Melissa to Play the role of the gal who experiences dysmenorrhea.

Nov 2007

Directed SadiQ & Co ep 7

My directing debut for a Drama series.

Ep. 7 was on Harian Metro News.

Office, house

Outdoor

Pantry - W Dee, Eja & Tony

SADIQ & Co ( behind the sets)

2007-11-13T06:54:00.000-08:00

So.. not much time to breath b4 we hop on to another drama.. This time round it is a new legal drama series call SADIQ & CO . It premiered Fri, 9th Nov on NTV7, 8.30pm.. This time round, I was the Production Designer & had an opportunity to Direct an episode as well.. yes Ep7..So do catch it if U can.

Anyways, Story revolves around a lawyer, Sadiq, his son & 2 of his partner. In ep1, Sadiq dies & the plot thickens from there. Was it an accident ? or was he murdered. So Sadiq's death brought the 3 young lawyers closer together and the story moves on from there.. it has got a witty & interesting script with a strong cast. Aaron, Tony Eusoff, Eja & Dee..( My all time fav idol!)

Anyways, down to the concept for Sadiq's office, he was obviously OLD SCHool, British Victorian & what a challenge it was to turn the old Wreck we got into a Cosy ,warm and unique law firm. I luv how the wallpaper colour turns out on screen and the furnitures complements the carpet really well.

You can see the changes from an empty space, we built partitions and changes it into 7sets/ rooms.

Next we have Bakar's Receptions area, played by Dee... ( luv that fella..)witty & sarcastic. Very colourful & eclectic person. Red carpet certainly makes the place feel cosy & warm. All these beautiful mess & files were made possible with the help of Bernard who has donated alot of his furnitures & junk to us.. hahah:)

We then go into Ben's room, played by Tony Eusof. The neat freak & quirky character who is the back bone of Sadiq.
See the before and after..

Shikin's Room, with a feminine touch. The non- conventional design for a female lawyer's office. Played by EJA. A human rights lawyer, believes in helping the less fortunate.

Next is the pantry.. which was built right behind Sadiq's room. So it is a cosy place where they lawyers hang out , gossip & have discussion. Nice bright wall paper with little flowers on it. Very british, but unfortunately doesn't look very obvious here.

Conference Room- Not much here except tht it shares the same place with Libary.
Partitioned it up & walaaaa..turns out perfect.

Last but not least, one of my favourite set, The LIBRARY:
Luv the colours, the wallpapers.. big difference in b4 7 after..

We have a bar specially designed for lawyers to hang out, a.k.a THE BARRISTER. muahhaha. this is a cool & classy hip place where lawyers gets to chill out, socialize & go karaoke-ing to unwind.. like Ally Mcbeal... Luv Audrey Hepburn...the set transits fr an old cafe(prev set) into a Sexy classy Bar.

So yep.. that's all for now. Stay tune..
We hav 13ep.. 1 down, 12 more to go.. Till the next project.. Chiao!
Gwo's ..Nov 2007

THe BIG Scenes behind GOL & Gincu .Season 2.

2007-09-27T01:29:00.000-07:00

ARt Dept ...

So lets look at the few interesting scenes we have er at G&G..
Where things looks simple, but took a while to get...

1st UP - Fake Jakarta Scene-
Adibah Noor- Cool lady plays Haikals Mama.. Reading the Jakarta Post & magazines..that we flew dwn to Jakarta to buy..

Then, we have Ep3/4- remember the flat tyre scene at Gombak w gang BTB? Oh yes... took 3 crew guys to help us w that.. James ,Chu & Wan.. Kheong on van for accident scene....

Ah then we have the Reza's cycling scene where he fell & cut himself
... watch the blood... Accident scene w the truck ...

THe Finishing Line!! -Putri & gang waiting for Reza's arrival tonnes of balloon being blown up, the long banner sewn by hand (took 1 wk) & the buntings, tonnes of cyclist & extras....

Ep 3/8 - Mia Leaving & Coming bac to Jeff.....Our director Bernard engrossed in the "Permission to Kahwin 2 scene.."

Moving up to juicy eps 7-9: where HAikal vandalises Irwans' car... Or in this case, Art dept messes w our Boss' HOnda? ooooooOOooo

Then HAikal goes slaps SHasha @ t mamak.. sooo drama...Well .. have to say after 20takes..it is hard not to see red marks on both Sazzy's & Razif's face..very professional. No worries..Touch UP of foundation always does t trick....

Then of course Shasha gets into an accident with our cameraman & Boom !! she lands herself in Hospital....blood scene was quite tricky... having to conti t blood flow on her face & make sure it doesn't dry up.... Sazzy was very patient indeed...layed there for like 4 hrs.

& of course any drama w an accident is ALWAYS linked to a Coma... So ...Shasha goes into a Coma!! but not for long... only for 45mins..cos she gets up by the end of the episode..Hooray!!

Haikal tries to reconcile w balloons & flowers, (some passersby tot he was proposing..ahhaaha) but it was enough for Shasha.. I havta say despite the crazy hassle of the helium balloons, this scene was pretty emotional.. I had a tear in my eye when Shasha cried.. sooo emotional...The Balloons were hard to control w t wind blowing fr. all different directions & our cameraman had to try & capture it a few times as they float away...

The next big scene was the Wedding organized by Mia w Putri for Jeff & Ruby... colour theme: Green & cream White.
My 1st experience w Bunga telur & getting Malay wedding stuff.. had to hand make most things to save budget.. Turned out pretty well I must say: Prep- 2 wks

All these stress has lead into giving Mia a BABY Shower... oh yes..a surprise party..no not by showering a baby as many do not know.. This is a western culture where ppl celebrate a mummy to be ...

Then we have another romantic scene w Reza & Putri on top of our office roof... a very challenging scene indeed. After a month of prepping, 600 or more folded origami, 50 tea candles & lanterns and 4hrs of set up.. we finally shot the roof scene at 1am .... Once the origamis were up, we had to becareful not to step over them after..
the effect was perfect: we hav turned REZA into a romantic fool... all the viewers shall fall in luvvvv w HIM.... ")

In the mean time, Haikal got all depress and flew back to Jakarta drown in sorrows..
He attempts suicide or more like fooling ard w a blunt knife & fakely cuts his wrist... We did attempt to poke his finger to get more blood, but apparently Razif has got real thick skin ahahah, was unsuccessful & we ended up using Art Dept edible yummy blood... ")

So What happens to good old Dearie Irwan?... ah ...poor Shasha.. who does she pick? He pours his heart out to her near a lake...HOw romantic & she has to decline... Funny thing was, we stopped rolling after many takes & left Fahmi & Sazzy to do 1 MORE take on their own.. so they went on & on with their lines for 5 min & the crew CLeaRed the set.. & they were still oblivious that we were just watching them fr afar.... :) soo funny...

EP13- The finale.. we have Mia finally givin birth to her baby ..
Eddy Grows up & is serious about being a man!! As usual , the smallest baby we could get was a few wks old. Have to do some touch up on him while he was sleeping... Owwww...

In the mean time, Ikan had made a few blunders along t way in trying to get Dayang. Later on, ends up w Ayu. Si Ayu had this plan bout her & Reza being tangkap basah which will force them to get married.. Ikan was upset of course.. Remember Ayu's lipstick found on the cup.haha..guess who lips was the one tht did it....

Well , all's well & ends well.. final scene was shot at Sports planet... Yes a crazy big scene where
once again we turn Reza into a romantic fool..shot this big scene from 10pm till 5am .He proposes to Putri! The clean up after was crazy from all the mess they made..poppers, spray,petals.. And since it was the last shot for Pierre , the crew decided to throw flour at all the cast.. In the end everyone looked like they just came out an icing factory... Yes we can get pretty CRazy too...

LAst day of shot - Aug 10th!!! It's a WRAP WRAP WRAP!! Finally... the 3 1/2months of shoot is OVAaa!! So the team went off to TGI & have a BIG MEal... it was GREAt work, strong team, hard working bunch.. GOGO G&G!!! It has been a great Season!! Bernard, Kheong, Angie, Peng, Sharon, Chu, Zol, Wan, James, Jessy & Jenny!!

Goalp0st n Lipstick 2 !! The Beginnig.......07

2007-07-14T06:48:00.001-07:00

The Sets ..

So, word was out when 8Tv decided to do another Season of Gol & Gincu II ( a.k.a G&G).. After the Big success of Season 1. HOw very exciting for the fans out there...

Took up the challenging job of Art directing for the latest season of G&G 2. Not only do we have to worry bout getting the look within the budget, but I needed to Conti back many old rooms & props for these characters as well. The good thing was.. Putri was shifting & we could set up an entire new look & design for her house & her room.

Shasha too gets a room, along with Mia's, Haikal's, Reza 's & Ayu's room that was never established in Season 1.

See the Before & After shot abov..( magic..looks the same )

It was a killer tho havin to set up the previous rooms from scratch. Needed to get the right paint colour & props.. even flooring as well. Was glad when we shot the final scenes of old Putri's Room. Cos tadaaa.. in comes her new room. For the more mature Putri. ( Fazura)

Putri moves away from too PInk & Green to Little pink, purple and hint of Gold this yr..
Room concept : Butterflies..

Next up we have :

Shasha's cool & sexy ReD room. The wall design took me a while...

But was happy with the end result!

End Result: Sexy red splash with a twist of goth for Sazzy's character Shasha..

MIa:

Ahh Sweet old Mia ( Melissa Maureen).. the dearie who gets married & moves in w Jeff.. Yes she gets a room too .. As we all know Mia is girlie purple too, but more mature this season. Her room was Sweet dreams & passion in colours.. White victorian finish & furnitures on the side.

Haikal :

HIs Indonesian Room.. not suppose to look like his room cos he's never there.. Cold & Distant . Yet at the same time boyish cos that is how his mum would expect it to look .... A lot of temper flaring scenes we have in this room, played by Razif.

Datin Aina

Definitely a mature wood tone for Putir's mUm ( Bernice Chauly). Comfy morrocan green with a hint of Balinese for her room. Cool Paintings done by Sarah Soh for finish.

then the living room: Putri's Home.

BReeeEZE Playground

2007-07-02T03:31:00.000-07:00

BREEZE PADANG PINTAR ( Breeze Play Ground)

Role: Production Design : A Kids Programme endorsed by the washing Detergent Breeze.
Highly commended Award for Best Kids Programme at the Asian tv Awards in 2007
Prepping took 3 months and it got larger & larger as it went along that I tot it would Never stop.. n if it did, it would have burst.. Games got more & more complex, set up & construction got more n more Canggih..Changes were Humongous compared to the 1/5 budget we had in mind.. From a 300ft x 150ft empty space, we transformed it into a Kids wonderland in 2 days. Scaffolding here & there, lorries & construction. 66 huge banners to be hung around the arena & thousands of stickers. We had an 15ft Pool to fill up w Guar gum at Knee level & that took us like 7-8 hrs to make.. we had 10 pails, 8 assistants stirring continuously..it was Crazy... We then added red colouring for the BreeZe effect.

6 HUGE set ups, 12 alterations 6 Episodes, 2 days, 18 teams, 54 kids, 18 adults to shoot in 2 days. We r ready!!

精灵 - Seed Of Darkness.......

2007-06-28T10:49:00.000-07:00

( Chinese Horror Film)

The Premiere of Seed at Cathay Cineleisure!! Damansara BU!! 2006 Dec
Actors: Amber Chia, Vick Teo, Wong Sze Zen & Alvin Wong.

My 1st independent film which took 6 months to prep in between my day job as a producer. Took 2 months to shoot & 9 months to get it out there nationwide.. It was quite an experience & a long journey. Pre-Production Started in Nov 2004.

I was Production Designer for the film and due to the small number of crew, I got 1st hand experience from brainstorming shots for storyboard drawing to playing a small role in the film.

I was also in charge of Costume designing, special effect make up and the wardrobe stylist. It was a handful!

The set for living room & the storage room.

The costume design for the ghost family

Experimenting with ghost effect make up.
Painting the ghost ( Bok Lai) who plays my hubby. Here's me half done in make up as well..Yes I was 1 of Ze ghost ...Ooo Spoiler..

The Foundation...

2004-06-06T09:12:00.000-07:00

In the world of Norm, we r taught to believe that form follows function. As an Industrial Designer, I believe that function is secondary, due to the crave for form & aesthetics. When designers strike a balance between the 2 and both is achieved, we have a great design!

Designing - college days..2001. The Projects that we have endured- was from Nothingness... into something. Start to scratch, from model making, sanding, spraying to hands on drilling ..it was great.... below r just a few eg....( yup hardly see a gal with a tool in a workshop Ainit? )

pedy care
Chang Er-Lantern Design Comp. Special Mention & Consolation Award

incense marble holder

Collabrative work :

Stel - Home COncept Mag / Rtm 2 intrest teens

Personal :

My E -txt - 3D max rendering & hand made model

In Aussy 2005

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY of TECHNOLOGY,
Melbourne, Australia .

Clusters

Sooth Bug -Design

Finalist - Australian Design Award 05
Dyson Student Award

Australian Design Awards Gala Nite,
Melbourne. 2005

Sooth Bug was displayed at Sydney Powerhouse Museum in 2005-06
goto :
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/awards/awards05.php

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