VPR - Kico 25th Birthday

Another Video Project! YEAAAYYY!!!!

Dealing Process with Uqi!

Berhubung blog ini dibuat di sela-sela kesuntukan bekerja, jadi ada baiknya untuk berbahasa Indonesia saja #padahalGaAdaYangPeduli :|

January 12, 2012 (D-11)

Sooo.... hari itu Aisyah Khulqi (Uqi) DM saya bertanya mengenai adakah rencana surprise ulang tahun ke-25 untuk pacarnya tercinta, honey bunny sweetie alalabumbum Kico. Dan, saya pun membalas "engga" *polos*
Tapi, karena cintanya yang tak terbatas, Uqi pun melanjutkan perbincangan dengan menanyakan berbagai kemungkinan untuk surprise si honey bunny sweetie *pret* ini.

January 13, 2012 (D-10)

Keesokannya, cobalah saya lontarkan e-mail ber-rantai ke beberapa orang sembari memberikan beberapa opsi. Sebenarnya, saya sendiri condong dengan ide "kasi karangan bunga" atau "...... (ada ide dari yg lain?)". Namun, apa daya pungguk merindukan bulan, opsi yang terakhir itu seperti biasa tidak muncul, sedangkan waktu tinggal 1.5 minggu lagi. Jadilah harapan kasi karangan bunga, tapi melihat cinta yang begitu besar dan keinginan Uqi memberikan video (*katanya Kico belum pernah dapat video*), jadilah saya..... .... lu... luh. *menunduk*

Terinspirasi oleh video ultah ke-32 David Awiee Axioo (link here), terpilihlah ide untuk membuat video "25 things about Kico". Mengingat waktunya uda mepet, saya uda selesai cuti dan tingkat kesulitan konsep ini rendah, jadilah undangan langsung disebarkan bagi yang mau ikutan. Tantangan video ini sebenarnya cuma 2:

1. Apa saja 25 karakter si birthday boy, dan...
2. Semua harus shooting di tempat yang sama (backgroundnya harus sama) --> jadi ga bisa shoot sendiri-sendiri

Point 1 berhasil diatasi segera berkat memori indah (& sampah) dari Uqi dan teman-teman lainnya via email ber-rantai tersebut. Tapi, point nomor 2 ini jadi meluas ke mana-mana, khususnya terkait masalah TEMPAT. Setelah apartemen teman-teman kita tidak available, akhirnya dengan manuver cantik dari sang Pacar dari Jepang (Uqi), dibooklah sebuah kamar di hotel Avissa Suites Kuningan. RUAAAARRR BIASAAA!!!! 

Our Shooting Venue

Perluasan point nomor 2 lainnnya adalah adanya orang yang shooting di Jakarta maupun di Jepang, serta mereka yang tidak bisa datang ke lokasi shooting pada hari yang dijanjikan itu. Sampai dengan tgl 13 malam, solusinya adalah: yg di Jakarta akan kasitau backgroundnya apa nanti yang dipakai, jadi bisa sama ama yang di Jepang. Sedangkan, yang ga bisa ke lokasi shooting, tidak bisa ikutan video :'( #maap

Januari 14, 2012 (D-9)

Berkumpullah orang-orang yang ingin join video di hotel yang ternyata Oke Bet ini! 1-2-3-.....-12 orang akhirnya berhasil di-shoot dengan adegan kocak sinting seperti biasa. Yet, it's always fun :) Yang di jepang pun sudah dikabarin untuk shoot dengan background tembok putih dan shootnya setengah badan.

Geng Jakarta

Tetapi.... baru keingatlah nomor 2 ini potensial meluas lagi! Hampir bisa dipastikan lighting di Jakarta beda dengan yang di Jepang, belum lagi kalau resolusi kameranya beda. Akhirnya, diputuskan ada 'sinetron'-nya biar berperan sebagai 'bridge' kumpulan klip yg di Jakarta ama yg di Jepang. Sekaligus, solusi agar videonya ga kependekan PLUS memang tidak kesampaian mengumpulkan 25 orang :))))

"Kico Itu...." by Geng Jakarta

Nah, kebetulan malam sebelumnya ada nonton video youtube ini! Karena keingetnya telat, jadilah coba dibuat seadanya adegan yahuuud ini dengan bantuan orang-orang yang tersisa di hotel malam itu. Bikin film seperti ini is my second experience untuk project mini movies, setelah yang pertama untuk perpisahan Ranco dan muemang SERU SEKALI! :))) Thanks to Riko, Vidi, Berlan, Mie, dan Eja!

Akhirnya setelah berlangsung selama 5 jam, seluruh shooting selesai 0830 PM! Wooohooooo!!!! Hingga..... Dalam perjalanan pulang, terlintaslah pemikiran.... siapa yang shoot guwaaa?!@#&%$*@)!*@

January 15-16, 2012 (D-8 & D-7)

Saatnya konsolidasi, rename dan grouping files. Jangan lupa, eh eh, jangan lupa, koordinasi dengan pihak Jepang. Berkat fasilitas dropbox, diambillah file-file dari Jepang sambil harap-harap cemas jangan ampe jadi top 5 internet users di kantor T.T hahahaha...

Geng Jepang

Reaksi pertama yang didapat setelah lihat video dari Jepang: "ADOOOOOH!" karena miskomunikasi, jadinya karakter yang uda di Jakarta nongol lagi di Jepang. Reaksi ke-2: "ADOOOOH!" karena ukuran kameranya beda resolusi. Reaksi ke-3: "AHAAA!" untung kemarin iseng-iseng shoot adegan-adegan itu untuk bridge. Hahahaha... So, all is well, all is well... *tepuk2dada* *tariSaman* *uhYeah*

"Kico Itu...." by Geng Jepang

January 17-21, 2012 (D-6 - D-2)

Optimasi otak kanan dimulai. Saatnya kreativitas diaduk dengan Final Cut Pro. Thanks God, I was able to re-install my lost iMovie. Thus, I got back all my sound effects! Hohohoho.... *sambil kembali harap-harap cemas menjadi top5 internet user*

Fokus editing terbesar dan terberat ternyata ada justru di adegan pembuka ini, bukan yg ucapan-ucapannya. Took around 3 days for editing this part. then, the next 2 days focused more on the characters & greetings. Karena editing ini bukan bagian yang menarik untuk diceritakan, jadi takkan dibahas lebih lanjut, hehehe.

Lebih menarik mungkin untuk sharing sekitar ide dasar video ini ~ yang mana sebenarnya baru benar-benar dapat konsepnya pas editing. Banyak kilas kurang lebih beginilah ceritanya:

1. Ide dasarnya adalah bagaimana menciptakan cerita yang bisa memunculkan 2 kubu rangkaian video, which are: rangkaian video Jakarta dan rangkaian video Jepang
2. Lalu, kepikiranlah ide untuk memakai acara TV sebagai penghubungnya. Jadi, Kico lagi nonton TV tapi tiba-tiba tv-nya ada gangguan, eh.... nyambung2 jadi muka-muka kita ini
3. Nah, seperti yang dibilang tadi, bahwa saya terinspirasi oleh video "Dreamers"-nya The Dreamlapse Project, jadi pengen menjadikan mata Kico ini sebagai lensa kamera!
4. Akhirnya, dirangkailah cerita mini... di mana Kico yang terhuyung-huyung *caileh bahasa guwe* mendatangi kawannya setelah bonyok dikeroyok ma doyok #siiiing.
5. Masuklah kemudian ke kamar, dimanjakan ditenangkan dipijet-pijet biar pegelnya ilang boossss! Hingga kemudian dia ditinggal di kamar sendiri, misteri pun sontak terjadi... lampu mati, tapi tv tetap nyala namun channel-nya hilang sinyal *imposibel emang*. Nah, mistis-mistis gerimis kelimis gini kan bikin shock si Kico. Pingsan lah si doi! Gubrak! mimpi-mimpi tiba-tiba dari tv yg ngaco ini, keluarlah video kita-kita...... yang mana diawali dengan my showtime! Huakakakakakak *adegan memalukan* #sigh
6. Setelah semua video yg dari Jakarta, Kico yang tadinya mimpi pingsan tertidur tiba-tiba kedatangan teman-teman lainnya. Teman-teman yang peduli akan dia yg pingsan ini kemudian nonton bareng video ucapan-ucapan yang dari Jepang hingga greeetings rame2. So, it's also about friendship :) 

Preface & Bridge Scenes Snapshot

Di samping adegan-adegan di atas ini, sebenarnya ada beberapa scenes yang akhirnya terpaksa tidak jadi ditampilkan ~ bukan karena di-delete (Edo mah orangnya ga suka delete kerjaan orang ;) #pencitraan) tapi karena enga sempat disyuting. Ada 2:

1. Adegan Pengeroyokan (awal video): ini mau difilmkan oleh Dannu (yg kemarin ga sempat join syuting) sebagai pengeroyoknya dan yg terkeroyok adalah Kico sendiri...Caranya?
   Saat Kamis pas Kico ajak kita ngumpul itu, gw dan Dannu sudah sepakat sebenarnya untuk menipu Kico. Bilang bahwa kita disuru Moli kasi surprise untuk pesta bujangnya Akom. Surprisenya adalah bikin video untuk pesta bujang-nya Akom dengan skenario Akom mau diculik oleh kita-kita! *tiba-tiba Akom&Moli dibawa-bawa*
   Nah, Kico, sebagai yg perawakannya paling mirip Akom, ceritanya akan dikeroyok oleh Dannu & the gang. Dikeroyok, dimasukkin ke mobil, dibuang ke jalanan, terus....... baru lanjut ke adegan di video sekarang.
   GAGAL KARENA yg bisa Kamis ini sepi, jadilah batal. Dannu pun sedih :(
2. Adegan Tertawa Bahagia (akhir video): lagi-lagi dengan dalih video bujang Akom, pengen sekali minta Kico untuk memegang kamera terus membalikkan kameranya lalu tersenyum dan tertawa. Rencananya ini ditempatkan di akhir video sebagai penjelasan bahwa yg menjadi kamera selama ini adalah Kico dan dia pun bahagia setelah menonton TV berisikan ucapan2 selamat dari teman-temannya :)
   GAGAL KARENA alasannya yang sama ama #1

January 22, 2012 (D-1)

Dua hal penting terjadi di hari ini, yaitu:

1. Uqi memberikan kabar tidak sedap bahwa...... surprisenya sudah ketahuan sama Kico. TIDAAAAAAAAAAKKKK!!! *ngais-ngais ubin* *garuk-garuk pasir* *dorong-dorong kuya* Berawal dari perjalanan cinta mereka dengan kereta ke luar kota, Kico kemudian meminjam iPad Uqi dan dengan jari jemarinya yang terampil, dibukalah program "email". Toweweweeenggg... boing boing boing, nonggollah email ber-subject-kan "Surprise-x Kico". Kemudian, sebagaimana dilaporkan oleh saudari Uqi, Kico ini pun 'senyam-senyum dikulum'.... lalu mengembalikan iPadnya, tanpa mengaku apa-apa. Tapi, Tapiii... TE... TA.... PIII! Uqi telah menjadi saksi bisu.... suuu... suu... su... u.... *bergema*
2. Lemas sudah hati ini melanjutkan editing. Namun, untungnya sudah tinggal finishing touch. Akhirnya siang harinya, video ini sudah jadi. ditonton ulang, kemudian ditemukanlah.... kesalahan dalam bahasa inggris. *pakai kemeja* *hitung kancing* *ulang, engga, ulang, engga, ulang* #PerfectionistWon

January 23, 2012 (D-Day)

Akhirnya, hari yang ditunggu-tunggu telah tiba. Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Fat Fat Cai! #eh

Sesuai rencana, kita berkumpul jam 9 di AlfaMart / IndoMart / Mart-Mart lainnya (MART-ENGADING #siiiing) dekat kosan Kico. Sekitar 9:45 invasi ke kaamarnya pun dimulai... Pintu dibuka, dan.. dan... daann.... seorang pria sudah rapi dengan rambut gel sudah menyambut. bahkan, sudah siap dengan korek api di mejanya. #failed

Setelah makan-makan, minum-minum, ketawa-ketawa ga jelas di atap, berpindahlah kita ke kamar Kico. Kamar kosan untuk 1 orang pun berhasil dimasuki oleh 10 orang lebih *soWhatGituLoh*. Akhirnya video pun disetel. Sayang sekali begitu ya kamera aye endak dicharge jadi ga sempat merekam kejadian selama nonton. Namun, yang pasti terjadi adalah....

1. Kico dan penonton lain tertawa puas
2. Kico terharu dan menangis :)
3. Setengah jam seusai video disetel pun, masih menangis...
4. akhirnya, ga lama kemudian Kico pun berkomentar "gw ga bisa ngomong apa-apa... gw beneran ga tau mau ngomong apa... bagi gw, kalian ini teman-teman paling ga jelas yang gw punya..." 

Birthday Boy Tak Kuasa Menahan Tangis Haru :')

Tear of Joy from the Birthday Boy (check his right cheek!)

That's it! Thank you so much to all participants!

Great Time, Lots of Fun and Nice Performance! Hope you enjoy the video =)
@Mie & @Aldut who recorded a lots on the D-Day, please Upload! Upload! Upload! :D

See you all in other projects :) GBU!

@edodotcom

DotCom - DOTting our COMmunities

Life, Love and Miracle

"One-week leave has brought another new life perspective into my eyes"

it's a romantic sweet cheesy title with What-The-.... opening :))
Easy, Guys! Ain't talking bout something corny here. Huahahahaha..

How r you all doin? Hope all is going well, guys :)

 2 weeks after my first 2012 blog post, here comes my another writing. Yes, I'm now on the edge of my leave. It's going to expire soon :(, time to get back to my Sudirman office, get prepared to rumble back with Jakarta traffic madness. :'((((
Well not purely sad thou, "The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing" (Somerset Maugham). And, somehow someways, I found some new life excitement livin in my future world after some same shits happened. I don't know exactly what it is going to be, yet instantly many good things (read: "blesses") pouring my past few days. It's been my biggest passion since past few years ago (esp. after graduation) and glad tidings came! nothing to be mentioned now, yet big hope for this big miracle could really happen. Amen! #crossfingered :)

Going to AJ Rafael concert on the last Friday the 13th was one of my inspirations to write this blog. Who is he? AJ Rafael is a very very very successful YouTube Artist (Singer & Song-Writer). Best word to describe him might be: the pioneer of Am-Phil YouTube dynasty. Internet has literally brought his dream into reality, took him here across the world to South East Asia for album promo tour. 

Starting his MySpace around 6-7 years ago, then YouTube came along and Facebook and Twitter, now his album was nominated for the next Grammy and his channel now has already had like 242 videos with almost 400K subscribers and more than 80 million views! AWESOME! I still remembered his speech on the concert bout this new generation:
"... and, Those things (mySpace, YouTube, FB, Twitter) kinda sound dumb for parents and stuff like that. But, Hey, this is what we lived on right now! This is a new generation of music, a new generation of entertainment!"

Despite of those non-stop crazy teenagers screams (!!!!), It was a nice concert! It really amazed me (and AJ Rafael as well, I guessed)... 5 years ago who ever thought that YouTube uploader from the opposite part of the world might sing in front of hundreds people here, in Indonesia, and they sing along with you! The crowds surprisingly memorized almost all his songs' lyrics, even the ones outside the album! #HailYeahYouTube!

I recorded around 20s videos during the concert, including his performance with other talented YouTube Artists, i.e.: Krissy & Ericka (from Philippines) and Audrey & Gamal (from Indonesia). Really want to compile them all and publish the snipets soon, yet something more urgent waiting :) If this snipet is classified as ASAP Project, then it makes 3 projects To-Be-Finished by the end of January!!!! In-SANE.... .. ... ...... . .  .   ..  . _________ #KO

The other 2 projects are:

1. Occupy Bandung Part 2 now is still in editing process. Current Progress: Finished editing up until Round 2 (of 3) Game 1 (of 3) --"
2. Secret Project. Hehehe, just finished all shootings yesterday (Saturday). Frankly, this is my inspiration to put "Love" in this blog title. Just feel amazed how big L.O.V.E. can move a girlfriend to work hard for her boyfriend's present :) And, am glad to be a part of your both love journey. Hope I won't disappoint you two and all participants ;)

Alright then, time to say goodbye. As the ending, I would like to share one of AJ Rafael's songs. This song has stuck in my head since yesterday. And, it's called "Without You". As usual, when the song was stuck in my head generally not because of the lyrics, yet due to its melody & beat :P  

As I got a bit free time later tonight, finally I got the chance to check out its music video and lyrics, apparently it fits with what happened recently.

This is what AJ said about the story behind the song:

"My Godfather, "Kuya" Frank, passed away last October after a 4-year long battle with cancer and it struck a familiar feeling in my gut. My Dad passed away when I was 10 and the reailty of losing another father figure really hit me hard.

I wrote this song not about a death or losing someone to an illness, but about wanting to be with someone so bad that you couldn't go another day without them-- but this song spoke differently to my Kuya Frank's wife Ate Rhea. She told me that she listened to this song as if it was Kuya Frank singing to her, fighting for her, and wanting to be there for her through all of this. Thus, the original concept for this video was born and it stuck in my head-- and I pray that this video helps you realize that you are not alone in your struggle, whether it is you or a loved one going through it.

This video is based on The Five Stages of Grief (Kübler-Ross model). Everyone who deals with a life-changing or life-threatening event has a unique journey to go through, but I still hope that you all can relate to this in one way or another. 
  
Don't forget to let your loved ones know that you love them... We never know what tomorrow might bring."

 

Thus, I would like to dedicate this song for those who are now striving to survive in their difficult times, especially in the state of serious illnesses. Recently I got couple of sorrow news of people dying. I dont know them, never met them before, yet it's still shocking every time hearing those sad news. May God bless be upon you all and your family. Amen!

Keep connecting the dots, make our dreams coming true and.... "If there's a light in everybody, send out your rays of sunshine" (Mraz)

Let's finish these projects! Smile :)

NB: for you who are interested on psychology article and with what AJ Rafael meant by "The Five Stages of Grief (Kübler-Ross model)", check this article: http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

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 :)

_____
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

YouTube Christmas Toplaylist!

Hi All!

it's been a while since my last blog. As an update, I am now still working on another movie project, hopefully I can publish it soon :) Nevertheless, the best thing to be thanked first is: I got my internal hard disk data recovered!  YEEEEAAAAYYY! *VmarkFingers* Thus, all those unedited n finished projects now officially are Safe and Sound! HUAHAHAHAHAHA! *plak*

And.... as Bieber said that this was the most beautiful time of the year, lights filled the street spreading so much cheers... this time, I would like to say Merry Christmas to all of you!!!! 

Inspired by Axioo's Christmas video, there was a big hope at the early of December to make such Christmas music video / comedy yet unfortunately due to those prolonged strikes - broken HD, busy works, no Christmas event invited me :( :P - I have to delay it to the next Christmas(es)! 

As a compensation (& as something to be updated on this abandoned blog :P), here is my pick on the top 10 Christmas songs covered by my favorite YouTube Artists (in random order):

• Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday (N'sync) - Jason Chen & Joseph Vincent

• Mistletoe (Justin Bieber) - Legaci

• Let It Snow - Gabe Bondoc & Kina Grannis

• The Christmas Song - Peter Hollens

• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - AJ Rafael, Tranley & Peter Martin Jr

• Silent Night - Cathy Nguyen ft. Travis

• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Andrew Garcia ft. AJ Rafael

• "Ho Ho Ho" - YTF (Kevjumba, Ryan Higaniga, Andrew Garcia, JR Aquino, Victor Kim, D-Trix, Chester)

• The Christmas Song - David Choi, Inch Chua & IYCA

• Home: Word - Magnetic North ft. Taiyo Na

In addition to that, don't forget to check my favorite Christmas short movies:

1. Axioo Christmas 2011
2. Ho Ho Ho - Kev Jumba
3. The End of Wong Fu: A Christmas Story - Wong Fu Production
4. Off The Pill (Christmas Spirit) - Ryan Higaniga
5. T-Mobile's Home for Holiday Spirit Advertisement 

____

As usual, Am-Asians always dominate my YouTube favorite list :))

Alright, time to go... Hope You Enjoy! Merry Christmas!!!!!!! Peace on Earth :]

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!
Subscribe  edodotcom channel :]

Friendships Last Much Longer Than Life Lets Us

Roller-Coaster Week ! 

Nothing's more decent to describe what took place on my last 7 days. Sadness, Mournful, Intense, Laughs, Joys, Memories, and tears assembled my heart pulse up & down. Opening this week by losing my best friend, Dipo, my pilgrimage was continued by an tense and hectic time on work. Nevertheless, as birds always singing after the storm, happy ending then just came on the scene to incur my smile at the end.

I have the greatest friends I could ask for!
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world!

Saturday, November 5 2011, I had my 26th birthday!!! YEAH 3X!
Thanks God for being healthy in my birthday after 5 years of having health problems (2007, 2009, 2010 - stomach ulcer & 2008 - broken wrist). Maybe I was just feeling too nervous to welcome this day to come :p

It does always feel good when friends start crowd into our days, no? ;) Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement that delivered us from the anguish of loneliness! To all birthday calls, walls, tweets, live greetings and the most legendary one: BIRTHDAY VIDEO (!), I would like to take a bow and thank all of you!!! It's such an honor to have you all :D

Birthday video form people we love... something that I always think as the best birthday present we could get. It's much more important, lovely, and memorable than physical gifts (IMO). And, to know that some people willing to make that for us, it is a.... BLISSFUL BLESS!

EPIC Star-Wars introduction, HANDSOME & COOL slideshows (STELLAR "BELAH TENGAH", isnt it! -__-"), CREATIVE 5 words/5 greetings ('5', isnt it? hahaha, just my guess), and SWEET dubbing marathon with FRIENDLY soundtrack! My credit goes to....

1. Mirza "Mie" Harun. Thank you to take a role as director, editor, uploader, and (maybe) coordinator as well for 2 times in a row! This year's video is more ROCKIN! Long Live Buku Angkatan!!! (you just reminded me what I wrote on that book, haha) Love all parts of the video! thank you, thank you, thank you! Off The Hook, Bro!
2. 'Silet' Riko. Bau, ko! hahahaha, thanks ya! where should we flush this weekend ;) Looks great Ko to do dubbing video! Let's make it laaah! *yyy-th invitation*
3. 'Silent' Nurul. Wooow! the ballerina is in the house!!! What a turn at the end! hahaha... Thanks ya! Let's have another impulsive event!
4. 'Ninja' Atiek (*kasih nama sendiri*). Pilla a' Pila a'.. *brings flashlight* :)) Thank you for being the light to guide me :] | The nurse costume is not bad anyway *auuuum* *raawwl*
5. 'Professor' Batari. Thank youuuu, Gtalk mate! Ameeen for all wishes (thou last one seems also like 'curhat' :p).. Don't study too much, you just miscounted your greetings. it's not 6!!!! Or, did it mean 26? Grrrrrr.. hihi, Thanks ya, MoCheek!
6. 'Duo' AkoMoli. November couple! Thanks ya! @Akom, next time please count correctly - 4, 3, 2 not 4, 2, 1 :P Wish you all the best as well for your both grandeur plan :]
7. 'Nigachinese' Ranco. Ahiiy, xie xie, Niga! huahahahaha.. Great effort to find someone writing words-I-dont-even-know-what-it-is, learning the pronunciation-I-dont-even-know-how-to-spell-it-properly, and singing full of soul til blinking your puppy eyed dogs many times (no need actually, no more effect now, hahaha). Thanks n enjoy your study & forbidden love ther!
8. 'K-Freak' Boteh. iiiih, K-freak!!! huahahahha, where's my running man!!! Nice background anyway booh! And, of course, Awesome wishes! AMEEEEENNNNN!!!! Ji hyo man se, ji hyo man se, ji hyo man se!!! 
9. 'Sr Assistant VP' Rahmat. Thanks, Gay! I forgive you for a while this time. Stop bullying and cheating on me!!! "Gw update juga lo"
10. 'Not-Cute Panda' Rifqi. 1st, Thanks for EMPHASIZING my age & face picture | 2nd, thanks for the guitar play some humming and your wife's hand-count | 3rd, please give me the PAAANNNDAA!!!!
    NB: not a bad idea to play guitar every time we have singing section in the video, since you always came as the ending n played such a solo significant part!!!!! (refer to Bin-Dz wed video) - 'halalkan segala cara'!
11. 'Where's the cam' Aldut Nadya (thou Don't understand the nickname). nice job, couple, to enlarge your eyes! Seems like mine is not much different with Nadya :P Thanks yaa! Get married soon...
12. 'DJ' Ben. Golden wishes! Thanks for bringing along your same-age friends into this video!!! l4m N4L y4cH! I think I know where you got this idea, hahaha (stil have the recording anyway :p || should we publish? huahahaha) Thanks for your sharing and caring :]
13. 'XXX' Abid. Thanks, bro! Good luck for the wedding :) *close the door slowly*
14. 'Pegelbos' Kico. Pegeeeel, Bosss? Hahaha, Thanks Coooo!!! Thanks for the birthday call too on Saturday late night! Let's plan the Anyer trip :D
15. 'Ontime' Dannu. 1st wish - no | 2nd wish - YES! | 3rd wish - Where? | 4th wish - AMEN | 5th - Okay, Boss!  =] Nice boyband punch ending!!! Thankxx, Blexx...

Thank you all! Friends forever Enemies Never. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. "You can always count on me like 1, 2, 3... I'll be there".  Will always remember this video :)

I always believe that "What we do to our fellows is what we do to our own selves and God". Hence, all happening this week alarmed me of good deeds, indeed. Despite of different life orientation & perspective we hold, I think: The more we ignored our fellows, the more apathetic we are, the more abandoned we will be; and vice versa. At the end of our life, people will remember more of what we do for and with them, not what we do for ourselves. Let's Live highly to share and care for and with others | much worth it :]

All of these experiences made me really grateful and realized how beautiful life is. I just remembered what my Pastor told this morning: 

"There's a story (parable) of animals and human beings. When Cow asked for grasses, God gave them wide pastureland; When Lion asked for meat, God directly provided the fresh flesh; When Eagle asked for food, God immediately offered fish; When fish asked for food, God straightly supplied worms, and so on so forth.

Then, human started to get jealous. He asked God to ease their ways in finding food (happiness). But, God didn't easily give it to us. He wants us to keep looking and trying our best during our time here, in this world. That's why God creates us to be able to stand up and look to the sky comfortably while most of animals can't stand up and move their head simply to look above (always look down). They re destined to look to the earth, while we re fated to glance at the sky - heaven - our final destination where eternal live will be found."

____

Happy Ied Al-Adha (for my Moslem friends)! 

Happy Sunday (for my Christian friends)!

Rest in Peace for Dipo & Romo Wi!
Happy days ahead and GBU all :]