[VPR] Blue Valentine: We'll Be Missing You

February almost comes to its end, and thankfully I succeeded to finish this project by February 26 :)

Hello! Welcome back to VPR! 
Continuing my previous blog, I was finally able to invite some people helping me with this project. It took a week to define the project details and scripts. Finally, we decided February 18, 2012 as the shooting day!!!


Albeit lots of problems coming on the shooting day, we're finally able to wrap up all scenes in 5 hours. It's not perfectly ideal as planned (less people involved, no couples, inadequate properties), yet we've given all of our best during that limited time :)


[I] Story Behind The Scene

Talking about the story behind this video,  commemoration of Valentine's Day was the key inspiration of this project, yet I wanna picture it from other perspective.
For Couples, they re used to celebrate it with flowers, chocolates, Teddy Bears, and any other love proofs. Meanwhile, for the Singles, it's just a simply ordinary day. Sometimes they even feel so bad and depressed to be lonely in that day (not me anw :P). 

On the other hand, there are people who re hardly able to celebrate it. They deadly want it but they can't. They have just lost someone closest in their lives. Children, spouse, siblings, parents, or maybe best friends are not in their sides anymore on this Valentine's Day. This story is essentially what I wanted to lift as the video concept...

... which is then translated into 3 chapters:

1. Memory in Lunch [Opening], where...
   the man (Mie) came for lunch yet unexpectedly received unknown package from ....*let it be a mystery* :P . The package urged him to recall his memory of his ex-girlfriend (her diary, phone, pictures, etc) and suddenly there's a call coming in to his mobile phone.
   
   OSTs: Tulus - Merdu Untukmu (Intro), Depapepe - Horizon, Nina - Someday
   
2. You Wouldn't Answer My Call [Core], where...
   the woman (Maya) called Mie inviting him to come to her apartment for celebrating Valentine's eve dinner. Mie was really surprised to hear her girlfriend's voice. Astonishing joy pushed him to run as fast as he could, while Maya was preparing herself and her room.
   
   Arrived at her apartment, what Mie found was bunch of officers investigating the crime scene. He couldn't believe it's real; Mie tried to break through the barricade, yet blocked by the policemen (Dannu, Riko, and Kico).
   
   As soon as he was moved to 'ward', he tried to call Maya again... it's connected! While Mie tried to get Maya's exact location, someone knocked Maya's door. Mie told her not to open the door, to stay away from it... Yet, Maya thought it was a part of his surprise. Maya threw away her phone, opened the door, and ..... she's gone.
   Mie kept trying to call her, yet her phone was completely out of reach.
   
   If you notice the different date while Maya decorated her room and when Mie cried out loud at the end of this chapter, you'll understand essentially this is about love hallucination.... which might come from the Man who keeps blaming himself for his girlfriend's death.
   OST: 2AM - You Wouldn't Answer My Call
   
   
3. A Walk to Remember [Ending], where...
   Mie got back to Cafe for picking up the package he left yesterday. He still couldn't believe all things happened yesterday. He tried to open back the diary in big hope that the call would come again. However, it didn't happen. He then decided to leave the cafe.
   
   On his way home, many people came to give support in his grief... that friends will always be in his side, no matter how difficult life is. "Friendship Last Much Longer Than Life Lets Us"
   
   This chapter is basically bringing a Friendship message. I once made promise to my buddy who just passed away 100 days ago (when I decided to make this video) that I would make a video for him. I didn't want to bring a memory back of his death, thus I made the scenes different from his life story. I just hoped he was smiling up there while watching this video and realizing that we will always try to support his wife, daughter, and family...
   We are missing you, Po :)
   OST: Vocal Point - I'll Be Missing You

[II] Thank You Note
This time I would like also to give much credit to:

1. Shana Fatina (@pickbird) - for the Cafe (All the best for "Never Been Better". Check their FB page here, it's nice!)
2. Bin Anindita (@binanindita) - for the apartment and Pizza Hut! Thank you to Dzikri & Zaidan too, sorry for being too loud :P
3. Mirza Harun (@miie_) - who volunteered to be a male lead role!
4. Christina Maya (@maydut) - as the only female coming on the D-Day and surrendered herself to be a female lead role! :))))
5. Mico Suryo (@micoatmahadi) - for the amazing job as the second cameraman! & killer :)
6. Dannu 'ontime' Danil (@dannudanil) - for the first to come!!!! Thank you as well for the willingness to seek gas balloons in Ragunan (thou null) and policeman role!
7. Riko Ringgoanto (@rikoringgo) - for all of the supports from planning til the eXXXecution!!
8. M. Ardiansyah (@aldud) - for the tripod and additional camera!
9. Rahmat Syahrullah (@rsyahrullah) - who came from Kuningan to Kemang yet directly go back to Bin's apartment (Kuningan). Uhuy, red hairs! :)))
10. Rizky Arief Rahman (@rizkyrahman) - who still came to Bin's apartment after long 'tiring' day! :)
11. 2AM - for inspiring "You Wouldn't Answer My Calls" MV
12. Vocal Points, Nina, Tulus, Depapepe and FCP sound effects for the OSTs!!!
13. WongFu Production for the idea of shooting the box from its bottom. COOL!
14. ... and all of you who were already involved directly or indirectly with this project.

[III] Final Note
Unbeknownst to me if it's a coincidence or not, yet this February is quite different for me. It's the most unromantic romantic February. Too many sad news came true this month. My deep condolences and prayers for all of you who re having hard times this month. I and your friends here will always be there for you... Be strong, pals!

I know this video is not perfect. However, with only 5 hours of taking and all of those limitation, I am very proud with our works. This is my first time making short movie with 2 cameras, couple of shooting venues, end-to-end script, and lots of properties... Hopefully, I can make a better one in the future :)

Enjoy!!! 

VPR - Occupy Bandung [Pt. 1] & Season's Greetings

Helloooo…ooo…oo….

Okay, that greeting simply just made me getting more terrified now with this lonely ambience. Yes, I went to my office on January 1st, 2012, SUNDAY! and Client's Office on December 31st, 2011! Awesome, isn’t it? 

Unfortunately, No… I came by there and spent couple of hours just to upload my latest 2011 video project: “Occupy Bandung [Part 1] & Season's Greetings” Yeeaaaaayyy!!! *gimme, gimme that high five*

 Occupy Bandung Trailer

Right 1.5 month after the trailer came out (too long? hahaha), Finally it’s wrapped up :) The scenes were taken about 2 months ago and I finally got the chance to finish it by the end of 2011. As I mentioned about my prolonged problems in my previous blog (READ IT!), I took almost 2 weeks to finish this project. I once promised to finish it before New Year, hopefully might be a great New Year present for all of you! Cup Cup Muah! *sign my thongs* *give them to my fans*

STORY BEHIND THE SCENE

Alright let's talk about the video. At the beginning, I got like almost 40 clips in total. They all took place in 2 days of our trip. The main focus is the Running Man Games (we played about 3 games). Yet, each game cost about 5-15 minutes per game. Meanwhile, I haven't had YouTube Premium Account, thus only able to upload at max 15 mins per video (I thought only 10 mins - it's just been upgraded). Hence, There's a need to tweak this snag. That's why I decided to separate this project into 2 parts (with continuous storyline). Now... let's start talking the first part :)

Soundtrack is the most critical part for this video since I had to admit the scenes were quite boring & long. Well, before we didn't have plan to film it. As usual, they trust me to think and develop the end-to-end project (Q: should I be proud or depressed? A: Both...). Thus, I decided to research songs with "Night" or "Tonight" keywords as the OSTs. Then, here were the nominees:

1. Give Me Everything Tonight - Pitbull feat Ne-Yo
   
2.  Last Friday Night - Katy Perry
3. All Night Long - Afro Blue (The Sing-Off S03)
4. Yeah 3x - Chris Brown
5. DJ Got Us Falling in Love - Usher feat Pitbull
   
6. Silent Night -  Susan Boyle !@^*$&(#*!

And finally, I went with..... wait... let's talk per chapter :)

[1] Wedding & Departure

The 1st Part's main storyline is playing around with all clips outside those RM games, i.e.: departure, visit Sarwang, drop in on ITB, and the Wedding itself. However, the games (which will be the 2nd part) came about between the 'ITB' scenes and 'Wedding' scene.
In order to trick on it, I used a reversed mode at the beginning. Wedding scene came first, then the rest went onwards as per the reality. I knew you noticed that my clip was different than others - Open Vacancy for Co-cameraman & Co-editor!!!

The Casts!

Soundtracks:

• Wedding: AJ Rafael - Here, Tonight (Intro) -> Really perfect for the opening, love his album! (Original Video, click Here)
• Departure: AJ Rafael - Emma Watson -> the melody fits well with "Here Tonight" since in his 'Red Roses' album this song comes second right after 'Here Tonight'. He is coming to Jakarta this January anyway, guys! Go buy the tickets! Talented Musician & YouTube Artist :) Original Video, click Here)

[I.2] Dinner Time - Sarwang

This chapter was the second most difficult chapter to be made. The final concept finally popped up after at the same time I heard Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight, Tonight" and watched Riko's scene while he was tying his shoelace. Aha, Bingo! The lyrics fitted well with Riko's expression. Then, here comes the difficult part which is trying to compile all scenes gathered into only about 20-30 seconds frame. At first, I put all of them into 1 scene (9 small windows). However, after watching it back over and over, I decided to change it into 6 small windows per scene. Thank you for the experiences of watching YouTube videos a lot (too much, I guessed)! :)

Historical Gaze!

Soundtracks:

• Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight, Tonight -> apparently at the early stage of video editing, I deleted this song from my nomination list. Yet, as somehow I figured out some scenes might fit well with the lyrics, so let's welcome the return of........... this song!| Click 'Like' for the UNO DOS TRES :)

[I.3] Character Introduction

Hey world, this is the introduction of SeX! :)) Inspired by our friend's mate's twitter, seX (= sekali = very) has been our chat topic all night long. Well, apparently this is the most difficult part! At first, I only thought of compiling all of the se-X scenes (previous OST nomination: I Just Had Sex - Akon feat Lonely Island).
However, I suddenly got an idea of showing our characters through this freak food-ordering conversation. Just a glimpse of story plot to be combined with our crazy silly absurd actions! So unfortunate we didn't capture the waiter's laugh after hearing our 'seX' games :))

The Most Foreseen Character

Soundtracks:

• Guy Sebastian - Natalie King Cole medley - Someday (Live - YouTube) -> this part is tricky. It was really difficult to find perfect slow-yet-fun song. The clips have very witty messages, yet it went in slow tempo (lots of conversations). Thus, the winner goes to....... Guy Sebastian's live performance at one of the cafes in Australia (the original video's link here)

[I.4] ITB, Here We Come!

Soundtrack played its key role here. We got additional player who joined at the end of our dinner, Mirza Harun. That night, we thought of our next destination and somehow somewhere it ended with our campus! What the heck do people think that the alumni come by their campus on 1130 PM?! No, we didn't come for Ospek. The reality was we were thought as Student Cabinet's representatives or Rector's delegates to monitor Ospek in ITB -__-" We got caught by Arsi's alumni ('Swasta') and  our recordings on their 'Swasta Night' had to be deleted :( I was caught alone, then Kico came to support me, yet the rest just went away since they didn't know that I was kidnapped. *WHO THE HELL IS THE ALUMNI??!* #exaggerated #our2ndCharacter #PartI.3

Section 2 - Boyband Scene

Anyway, basically there are 3 sections in this chapter. [1] Background of our campus visit, [2] Boyband walk (just for fun, found not on purpose :p), [3] our activities at 'current' Industrial Engineering Student Association's base. We've got a lot of fun time here thou it's 2AM already, see how we even made some drama with the Bamboo sticks! LOOOOL!

Section 3 - Riko acting as Batagor seller

Soundtracks:

• Mario Bros Soundtrack -> the idea was to use Mario Bros' soundtrack when he got mushroom as an indication that we got an additional player. After hearing the whole song, I think it's a good soundtrack for the whole story of our campus visit.
• The Committed - I Want It That Way -> Sing-Off season 2 winner brought their amazing A Capella version of BSB's song which is also one of our favorite karaoke songs.
• Sam Tsui - Summer Medley 2011 -> almost all of the nominated songs are packed into this 1 amazing mash-up made by Sam Tsui & Kurt Hugo Schneider. Really love the beat! FYI, Both are YouTube Artists, Sam Tsui even acted as additional MC for The Sing-Off Season 3! (go check their YouTube channels! lotta cool stuffs there! Original video click here)| Click' Like' for the perfect fit of Dance event ads with "Party Rock Anthem" part :)

[I.5] Alien's Invasion


My favorite chapter! Hahaha. Took around 6 takes with monopod for this freak absurd scene. The idea was how to connect the first part with the 2nd part. Since there's only 1 person editing this project, this shy guy needed to volunteer himself for this chapter. Showtime, Baby! :]


After downloading the iLife Sound Effects from torrent (took 2 days! geez!), I thought it might be the best chance to play with some sci-fi sounds effects. The idea was to show that there's a technical problem and I got noticed by an Alien from outer space that my 10 mins is going to expire soon (time limit for normal YouTube account), so I need to fix the error. After I fixed it (shown by the return of the previous soundtrack), I urgently needed to give the final message, i.e.: Chapter 2 to be launched on January 2012 :)

Me with Flying Holograms

Some interesting facts behind this part, i.e.:

1. Technology trend infection: This time I also tried to use the 'screen and motion' effects like the current technologies trend [flying holograms]. Thou it's not perfectly edited, hopefully it still looked cool! huahahahaha
2. Alay words: it was actually meant to be Alien's speech telling me that I only had few minutes left for this video (Non-Alay word: "Ten Minutes Limit Expires Soon!"). Yet, due to the technical error, it became alay :P
3. Wardrobe: I really wanted to use futuristic glasses / wardrobes, unfortunately I didn't have it *huaaaaa*. Since it's already December 31st! (which was planned to be the launching date of this movie, yet it was failed due to some technical errors -> eventually it did happen for real -__-"), I decided to use normal properties :| Next time, Next time! I am going to rent Barney's outfit!
4. Clone Effect: Again it didn't came out perfectly, we're not close enough in kiss scene. Dont know why the lighting became different, yet due to limited time... I needed to relax my OCD for now.

[I.6] Season's Greetings

As I mentioned in the previous blog, I really wanted to make Christmas video. And finally I decided to put this additional scene. Although the Christmas has passed for a week, yet I still wanted to say Merry Christmas :) And, Happy New Year for sure! I took the clip from my family's Christmas trip to Bandung. A giant glowing xmas tree in Congo was quite appropriate for this occasion. Since I had a mistletoe with "Merry Christmas" greeting in the previous scene, I picked Bieber's "Mistletoe" as the OST. YEAAAY :)

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Final words, I really want to thank you mates for all of your supports along 2011. Now, 2012 is coming and I really wish able to make more & better videos :) All the best for all of us in Twenty-Twelve! Amen. 
Dotting Our Communities, God Bless Us and Enjoy the Video :]

Link to the Video: "Occupy Bandung [Pt. 1] & Season's Greetings"

Cheers,

Edo

VPR - "Occupy Bandung" Trailer

Hi!

Welcome back to my Video Project Review. This time, I just finished a trailer for my next movie, i.e.: "Occupy Bandung". The reason behind this trailer production is actually I don't have time yet to produce the full-version movie :P, thus I decided to go with some teaser first to depict how insane our trip was!!! :D

October 21, 2011 - We went to Bandung to attend our college-mate wedding, Uchi (Congrats, Uchi!) - married on the day after. After 2hours Jkt-Bdg trip, we went directly to Sarwang with tonnes of "jeroan" ready to swim into our stomachs. Along with some 'classic' jokes and birthday call for our friend in Japan, finally the food came! I won't talk much about the food, will just show you some pictures here:

Legendary Perkedel Cemplung

Definitely Unhealthy Tasty Cuisine

Full stomach, time to get some exercise. We then picked our university, ITB as our next destination. Walking & playing around at campus on midnight was one of our most unforgettable moments! 5 mins after, we got bored and tried to figure some excitement. Inspired by the popular-must-watch Korean Reality Show, Running Man, these 6 boys were ready to blow up the midnight silence of the campus!!!!

Boys Ready to Shake the Campus!

However..... Full stories and movies on it will be published later... :]
For now, let's enjoy the trailer! Check the epic ending how we finally got caught by the ........ :S

See ya on the final version of "Running Man in ITB" episode!
... and some movies/another trailer 'bout our randomness during the trip!
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