Student Short Film Making - S.W.A.Y Production

It is tiring but fun. I'll get some pictures and tell you guys about the process of out film making. Anyway Why the name S.W.A.Y? It's actually an existing word but we used it as our production group's name but coincidence. It was formed by the initials of our group members: S - Stezon, W - William, A - arashi, Y - Yuki (me). Click here to find out the definition of the word.

Ok I know you guys are excited to see the pictures. But here's a short summary about what our story is about. Let's begin! It starts when Dammit (Stezon), his girlfriend Stacy (Joo Yee) and his friend (JC) were playing snooker. Dammit and JC made a bet, or rather a gamble that the loser shall pay for the snooker game. Dammit keeps missing the shot while JC kept scoring. Dammit then accused JC for cheating and they went into a fight. JC fell and was helped by Stacy. They then went off, ignoring Dammit. Dammit was furious and cursed them. He later drank alchohol till he went into a drunken condition. He met a drunken beggar (arashi) who was singing beside a dark back lane. The beggar asked for some beer from Dammit but Dammit violently kicks and steps on the beggar. He then pours the beer onto the beggar and went off. He continued walking till JC, who was stalking him, went over Dammit and kicked him. Jc then robbed Dammit and left him lying on the spot. After a while, Dammit woke up and kept walking, still weak and slightly drunken. He was then hit by a car while crossing a road and fainted. The car sped off without helping him. Dammit woke up at the side of the street and it was raining. He went to seek shelter at the shoplots. When he settled down and sat at the corner of the shop, the beggar then came. Their eyes met. The end.

What the ending actually meant was that Dammit stumbled upon the beggar's territory without realising it. But it's up to the audience how they want to imagine the ending to be. It's a story without any meaning or usual storyline where the good people wins and bad people loses. Heck it's fun although it doesn't mean anything. ^^ And now for the pictures... Sorry for the long wait.

I present you... S.W.A.Y Production's film making in process!

The location - The back lane of the shoplots behind The One Academy.


It's actually quite dirty, has rats and cockroaches.


Fion's car. We borrowed it.


The lighting setups.


Brigtened up.


Stezon. Our lovely director viewing and adjusting the video camera.


Lights. And that person behind the light bouncer is me. See even a screen like that can cover me up!


S.W.A.Y Production group members.

Lots of things happened during this nine hours. Yes I mean NINE hours none stop filming and set ups. From 11 p.m. till 7 a.m. in te morning. Funny thing is, during this nine hours, we only managed to capture less than 20 minutes of movie shots. Cool right? Now you know what it's like to produce a film? So don't buy pirated DVDs and stuff ok? Anyway due to few interesting angle shots, such as high angle and bird's eye view, some of us had to sacrifice ourselves to climb up the second floor. It was pretty dangerous though. Kids, please don't do this... I won't post it up here because I don't want you guys to see the danger of it and going "OMG what the hell are you doing!?" or "How did you guys managed to climb up there?!" and things like that.

The Sunway securities even came with their motorbikes to question us. I think someone reported that we might be stealing things because we were still up at 3 a.m. and looking suspicious. But come on... No thieves would carry lightings and audio equipments with them right? =_= No big deal. Worst thing is we felt that we might be robbed anytime. There were crazy people coming to that spot from time to time. Some tried to talk to us and some standing to see what we were doing. It's scary.

Anyway I am happy that I'm of help. I wished to help out more but I'm not very good at filming and things. Although I was in charge of the audio. ^^ It was fun as we get to have dinner together as well. Love you guys~ Pictures are credited to arashi. =) So that's the end of today's post. It's a pretty long one. So, enjoy reading and have a nice day ahead~