Best cinematograph and editing award!!!

The short movie Art of Flying won the award for best Cinematography and Film editing at the very first 48 hours film project in Hong Kong. Both cinematography and editing were done by Chung Dha, who actually went to the 48 hours network meeting just to do some networking and see what the 48 hours project is all about and now ended up winning both cinematography and editing. Also this is the very first short movie Chung Dha have ever filmed.

Congratulations and thanks to the team ( which include Chung Dha, Quentin Kwong, Jessica Wiklund, Katarina Ivarssen , Maggie Hou, David K C Wong, Jeff Chan and Connie Yeung), could not have done it without them and thanks for Arne Venema who actually hooked Chung Dha up with this team.

There were teams with probably people with way more filming experience than our team and using way better equipment or actually have a full film crew.
While our team only have Chung Dha as most experience of filming and acted as a single person filmcrew, cause Chung Dha actually have been filming events with his Canon EOS 500D, also assisted filming for Alan Leung and have actually assisted few films and learned allot from them. We were using the Canon EOS 500D with a custom picture styling which made the film already have great color grading which in post production we did not had to edit and change the coloring of each scene. Editing was on done a 4 year old HP tc4200 tablet pc with Sony Vegas Studio. With winning these award we could imply that better gear does not mean better looking movies.

For those who have not seen the movie yet watch here below.

48 hours movie project

During the Halloween weekend on 30th October 2009 till 1st November 2009 Chung Dha helped out filming and more with a crew and made this short movie called the Art of flying, which successfully made within 48 hours and entered the contest. Only 11 out of the 15 teams made it in time.

The script was written by Katarina Ivarrsen and Jessica Wiklund. Leading role by Maggie Hou and David K C Wong. Side roles Jeff Chan, Quentin Kwong and Connie Yeung. Director of photography, editing, lighting, voice recording and more done by Chung Dha.

This version is the entry version which was made within 48 hours, in the coming week will work on a final cut with the material shot during the 48 hours.

Update: This short movie was awarded with best Cinematography and editing.

Perspective vector car

First time I had to make a car from such an perspective but was pretty intersting to do. This was actually a small project where I had to make this illustration of a car draw with vectors. I pretty much learned that there are not really that much photo's or images of a bottom of cars. Luckly I have acces to press photo's of racing event and found few usefull pictures of the underside of those cards, but totally could not use them as back to draw the vector over. I basically only use the picture as reference and had to calculate or use my eye to get the shapes and sizes correct.

Heres is a view of all the vector lines that was drawn that makes out the illustrations you could see the wheels and underside use allot of line to make them realistic as possible. Also all the shines are loose oval. Basically all the skills from making hundreds of logo's were used to make this car realistic as possible and also make it gloss realistic as possible. What is great to have a vector is that I can easily change the car color and also resize it to tremendous sizes without loosing details. This illustration is made for Spotz Media Group.

Dreaming my death

This morning I dreamed of my death, the dream was short as many of my predictive dreams which might happen. It was daytime on a roof terrace that I never have seen before, I sat there looking at buildings (which has a feeling that is was in America). All sudden someone say don't look over there and I did look. It was a old man in an apartment, standing behind the window. All sudden I saw some people rushing toward the terrace from that building and I started talking with a girl doing as if I was looking at and talking with this girl and not at the guy. But then a black guy walked to me and pointed his gun at me I turned my head away and he shot me in my ear and I fell down and closed my eyes and everything went black. And when I opened my eyes, I just woke up in my own apartment.

It is a myth that if you die in your dream you would really die. As I have died countless of times cause most dreams which are long dreams I have control over, when ever I realize that is it just a dream I want to wake up ASAP, I have a trick to do that just think of and cliff and just off of it. However this was the second time I was shot in my dreams, but this one was different from the first one which I knew the person holding the gun and also the surroundings.

However a dream of death alternative meaning is not death at all. Cause most dream explanation, is that death is meaning a new begin or a new life. Most things in dreams are opposites of life.

The girl who said don't look have short black hair but did not saw the face. The whole dream were no other Chinese people in it, except me and also there were no 3rd person view of myself which often happen in odd dreams. The second girl who I talked with got dark red hair which is bit curly and remembered the face for quite a while but forgot it now.

So either I have to avoid places like that or just go with the flow if destined it shall happen, if not then not.

Dai Fu Lou X Cotton Candy

Dai Fu Lou x CottonCandy Plush!!! This plush is not for sale but is made to be printed on a tshirt, which will be showed on October 28th from 8pm @ Prologue on Cameron Rd 8, Tsim Tsa Tsui MTR exit B2.

I have been experimenting around with learning how to sew stuff and actually done quite allot making different things. I actually wanted to learn sewing stuff for a quite while cause I thought there might be something in it, cause I have been using allot of materials making packagings but sewing fabriques I might find new kinds of packaging. However sewing stuff also help making fashion, but also toys like plushes.

I am experimenting with plushes first cause these think often have difficult shapes which I can learn allot from. The matter of sewing things and how the fabrics reacts and bends and twist is quite interesting. However I still need to learn allot.