TNP: FiRST magazine features the students in the V1k1 team

First publicized news is out!

Be proud, Dreammakers! :D

Later ya'll

Austin

Behind-the-scenes of The Making-of-V1k1 interview

After the V1k1 secret screening. We got the chance to interview Director Tzang Merwyn and Producer Miss Janice and Editor Miss Tang and as well as the cast, Amanda, Del, Leanna and Lyon. Our interviewer, Zul got the chance to ask them how they feel about the movie, how the casting goes by and all sorts of things regarding their roles in V1k1. It was crazy fun!

As you can see, the film is ready and it's about to be shown to the world. So stay tuned for one of the most exciting film by cult director Tzang Merwyn Tong. V1k1 - A Techno Fairytale, to be out soon...So buckle up people and always remember folks, you heard it first from Austin Theng, your friendly V1k1 blogger.

Till then!

Later ya'll

Austin

Behind the Scenes - The Dreammaker Experience

Behind-the-scenes of the V1k1 Project.

DAVP Students of ITE College West living it up - working hard - sweating out - to make it work - one way or another. We were there and we made it this far. Audition. Casting. Pre Production. Planning. Location. Art. Props. Makeup. Costumes. Production Design. Setting up. Shooting. Actors. Staff & students, Year ones and Year twos, working together.

Here's a shared experience that we'll not forget.
Montage put together by Dreammaker Dexter.

"There are those who speak of dreams, & those who do whatever it takes to make them happen." - Dreammakers Code.

Dexter's Interviewing

This video was shot during one of the nights during shooting. Dexter was the interviewer. Watch it and you'll laugh your ass off!

Dreammakers Jersey up for Pre-Orders NOW!

As said from the title of this post. Dreammakers Jersey is officially up for Pre-Orders NOW! Check it out at our Facebook Event, 'DREAMMAKERS' JERSEY', page.
DREAMMAKERS' JERSEY

Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123184377725324#wall_posts
MORE details, click on the link above.



Info and 'How-To-Pre-order' steps are given in that link. Thank you. :)

Later ya'll
Austin

:: LATEST UPDATE FOR JERSEYS ::
Last order taken on August 14. xx10.
Thanks for the support.

Exclusive Dreammakers Lab Jersey Coming Your Way

Team!

There will be a exclusive Dreammakers Lab jersey coming soon.

It will be up for grabs soon as our team is trying to place an order and check out some stuff, etc.

STRONGLY encourage everyone to get it when we are ready to place an order ASAP.

The purpose for this jersey is to remembrance we as a part of V1k1 team, we are going to be capable of more. It shows UNITY in the team.

So when you look back next time, you open up your closet and you see the jersey, it will flashback to the days we storm through the nights and sacrifices we've made for this project. Remembrance of all our team mates...

When this project is over... Our team is never over!

Dreammakers Lab Jersey....

COMING SOON!

Dreammakers Awards Night

DREAMMAKER'S AWARDS

1) Most Cool-Under-Pressure Dreammaker
To be presented by Samantha Sng
(Replaced by Deva)
- Pradeepa
- Tina Lee
- Muhd Afiq
- Adisatrya
Winner: Tina Lee

2) Most Popular Line yelled on Set.
Presented by Del & Seth
(Replaced by Farhan)

- Negativity begets Negativity!!! (Oberon)
- Silence Please (Deva)
- I want more blue (Tzang)
- Atinallalaah! (viki)
- Marker please (abbdul)
Winner: Viki - Atinallalaah!

3) Most Efficient Crew MemberTo be presented by Richard Tan, Dexter & Farhan
(Replaced by Miss Janice)
- Amad
- Nyiyaz (lighting)
- Shawn Ong
- Ruth Tay
- Safar
Winner: Ruth Tay.

4) Walkover award for Efficiency in Publicity
To be presented by Richard Tan, Dexter & Farhan
(Replaced by Miss Janice)
Winner: Austin Theng.

5) Most Unexpected Dreammaker
To be presented by Tzang M/ Abbdul
- Emoham
- Ruth Tay
- Marcus
- Christina Koh
Winner: Emoham & Chrisitna Koh!

6) Most Quiet Hard-worker Award
To be presented by Janice & Fee
- Ramdhan
- Falaah
- Esther Tay
- Entire Post Production
- Ms Janice
Winner: Miss Janice!

7) Noisiest Dreammaker Award
To be presented by Farah Parlan
- Muhd Afiq
- Farah Parlan & friends
- Dexter & voice
- Nuliana
Winner: Dexter & voice!

8) Dreamaker's Favourite Dreammaker Award
To be presented by Viki & Donkey
- Deva
- Abbdul
- Farhan
- Dexter
- James Chong
Winner: Deva!

9. Scariest Dreammaker Awardto be presented by Seth Adams/ Oberon
- Donkey
- Oberon
- Shirley & Creatures!
- Farid
- Miss Fee
Winner: Miss Fee!!!

10) Best Essay to be presented by Tzang M.
- EmoHam
- Farah
- Abbdul
- Farhan
Winner: Abbdul
(prize collected by 2nd AD on behalf)

Special thanks to all who made it (esp. christina, janice, richard) - through the dark unknown sandy rocky path uphill to the party. Sounds metaphorical of our project doesn't it.

To Sam, James, Fee, Seth, Mei Huey and Del, we know you're there with us in spirit even though you cannot be there. and we salute you

Special appreciation goes out to our location sponsor - Deva's family, also for the special meaningful and inspiring night tour of the inspiring War Memorial. Deepa & Deva for being the organisers of this. Falaah, Leanna and Lyon for entertaining us so much, and dexter for just being dexter.

Rock n' roll Dreammakers!

cheers,
Tzang M.

The Wrap Party + Remembering Soldiers at Kranji War Memorial

V1K1 Wrap Up Party Aftermath

After Production and it's into Post Production process right now. While busy doing all the Post jobs. We have ourselves settled and a appreciation for all our Dreammakers by having a BBQ Wrap up + ton the whole night party at Deva's house, our awesome 2nd AD.

Deva: Silence on SET!!! SILENT PLEASE!!!!!!!! It's party time~ Chill out.....

It happened on the 8th of May 2010, Kranji War Memorial Office, Deva's house, Evening.

On a breezing cooling weather, clouds are slowing moving in to block off the sun, train arrival... Doors closing*. I went off to meet up with Shawn, Tina, Dexter, Emoham and the rest at Kranji MRT Station at 6.40pm. We waited for the long awaiting bus for 20 minutes and we were totally excited on that night's event. So the bus came and we took it all the way to the Kranji Memorial. Well, except for the part that we over-missed some bus stops which we should actually alight at the 2nd stop. So we walked along the road side from the 5th stop back to the 2nd stop at Kranji Memorial. Turning our right, a long wide deserted road with little street lights. The sky is turning dark soon. As we step in to the memorial cemetery, "woohoo" I said! I sense something is close.. DEVA's HOUSE! As we try to enter his house, 'Viki' Leanna stopped us. Leanna: "Hey! 10 dollars please for entrance fee!!". We got away of course but actually it's a joke. Laughs*

The sky turn bluish dark, the entire place was absolutely quiet except for us. Crazy and happening! People eating their food while Farhan and Joy were cooking for us. A big thank you! Photographer like myself and some others, took photos during the event. Music blasts* And at the so call 'Studio Dj Station', there's DJ Shawn and DJ Falaah, commenting through the whole night, giving us away with music and DJ rock! Oh wait, there's RAP?! Definitely there is when Falaah's around. So we enjoyed our way until one by one, more Dreammakers made their way here. Leanna called Pizza Hut and we really love it! Well, that's of course cause who doesn't? When Tzang arrived, everyone got high!!! "Mr Tzanggggggg!!!!"

Night time~ Leanna and Lyon hosted some games for all of us. First we played the BOMB game!!! Dexter got hit quite a lot of time cause he's always there shouting, "Dexter BOMB Dexter BOMB Dexter BOMB to Everyone BOMB!" and we bombed back to him making him misery sad until he had to take off his shirt. Poor guy~ Then after that we played some guessing games divided by two teams. Team Lyon and Team Shawn, I was on Team Lyon and we won the first game! Following up, musical chairs and the losers will have to be forfeited. So basically, me myself got forfeited as well as Shawn, Tzang and the others. We got forced to dance individually when the music starts to play. It was insane... Cheers and laughters spread across the whole area.

After the game, we chilled out more with food and music as usual. Then Tzang played us a video made by Dexter showcasing the Behind-the-scene during the V1k1 shoot. Looking back, it was fun and thrilling. I missed those shooting days experience.

Soon after, we had the prize presentation for the Dreammakers Golden Fairy Kachang Puteh Award! I won a Walkover Award for Efficiency in Publicity. Absolutely proud of it even writing it down now in the blog. Somemore, it was presented by Miss Janice for my award, my own class adviser. Touched to flooded tsunami tears... Hahas*

:: BEAT BOX BATTLE BETWEEN FEX & ACTOR LYON ::

After prize presentation. It was an honor to have Deva's father to tour us around the War Memorial at an unearthly darkest hour during midnight 12am. A thrilling experience definitely! To be honest, I really show respect to the heroes of all the soldiers, doctors and nurses and the helpers who died during the World War. They were not even Singaporeans, they were from UK and some other countries and they had to make such a huge sacrifice during the war. During the tour wasn't scary but rather interesting even though some of the girls proclaim that they heard some weird music there. While we were being toured around. Richard was walking around ALONE taking photos. Oh the professional crazy photographer that would do anything just to get great photos even at the cemetery. An honor for Deva's father.. A huge thank you for everything. After the tour, we slacked and eat, eat, eat, eat!!!! Took lots of group photos and Deva sang for us! Yahooooo!

Crazy night...

Only a few stayed back... and when morning air fills through the house, I felt refresh. Cleaned up and we helped Deva pack up everything then we left with Deva's dad sending us to the station. Thank you Deva and your dad and your little cute brother, Sathish. Dreammakers, it was FUN FUN FUN!

Go Dreammakers Lab!!!!!

A Story awaits...

'Best Essay Award' Nominees (Vote Now)

After six days of shooting. We had our reflections from everyone in Dreammakers and we had chose two 'Best Essay Nominee' to give him/her a little award of appreciation from Tzang.
And now... Presenting...

Abbdul Kather and Emoham as the nominees for the 'Best Essay Award'!!!

Do vote for your favorite nominees by clicking the 'like' icon in the Facebook link below

Abbdul Kather: http://www.facebook.com/notes/tzang-merwyn-tong/abbdul-kathers-reflections-of-a-dreammaker-best-essay-nominee/387107532524
Emoham: http://www.facebook.com/tzang#!/tzang?v=app_2347471856

Reflections By ABBDUL KATHER

Name : Abbdul Kather
Desired Credited Name: Abbdul Kather
1st Assistant Director

The first time the news regarding the proposal of a short-film is being made reached my ears; I was excitedly waiting to be part of it. I confidently knew the role I was going to undertake, as an assistant director which I know best. My experiences working on a featured-film gave me strong confidence that I can do this job with ease.

At first, things were quite wild for me as I didn’t know what was going on at the pre-pro department. When the dates got nearer to the shooting, things were going on the right pace for me. I had to be with Mr Tzang- the director of the film. On lay-man terms, I am the 2nd hard disk for the director. Tzang was very straight-forward in the initial stage that he clearly wanted to concentrate on the shots and with the actors. As an A.D, I had to make sure the talents came for rehearsals on time and the items they need to bring are checked and finalized for the rehearsals. In this moment, with my honest intentions, I would like to thank Tina A.K.A Swee Lin who was a tremendous helping hand for me. She actually helped me with the calling and arrangement of time. Thank you very much Tina.

I had to make sure everybody received the schedule for the 6-day shoot. The art-department was actually at snail’s pace at the start but things got fired up during the last 2 days. They erected a beautiful set for Gabriel’s office. I helped the pre-pro department to get some stuff for the shoot and we were doing some last minute shopping at Little India and Mustafa Centre. The last day arrived before the cameras started rolling and everything was just in place. My instincts told me things will not be right during shootings but I was ready to fix anything that fell out of place.

I worked under Tzang himself and I had to say that he is a damn cool guy. From the first day I saw him in school, he had this very good vibrating energy in him which attracted a lot of people towards him. Class B even wrote a petition to the section head when they found out he was not going to teach them anymore. That is the kind of attachment he has with people. I read his script and he has full control with the command of the English language. I liked the way he wrote his dialogues and the creative mind he had for the creation of V1K1 world. I would say he is a kind of a spiritual being too. He always welcomed good ideas. I never saw him saying ‘No’ when someone proposed to him any idea. He can work with actors. The ability to transform his thoughts and convey the idea to the artist has got him some good acting shots in V1K1. The one thing I loved most was the patience he had. I will not say he was quiet all the time. He will rush people when things are getting slow but not in a loud or grumpy manner. He will say it in a clear and subtle tone. Once a while, when the crew is getting tired he will boost them with words of encouragement. I would to like seek an apology from him because there was a day where he had to raise his voice when the crew was making a lot of noise when moving the props from the roof-top. I am sorry I did not control that situation. That was the only time I heard him raise his voice. The other days, he was cool like a breeze and getting exactly what he wanted.

I didn’t receive any scolding from anybody throughout the whole period of shooting V1K1. There were times when I sensed Tzang was unhappy with me. I don’t know if I am wrong but I felt it during shoots when I was not there when he called out for me because I will be handling some stuff outside. I was very late during the one of the days when we had rehearsals, but Tzang explained to me clearly I had to be there with him all the time to aid him in whatever he needs. I took that seriously and I hope I maintained that throughout the whole shooting experience.

Pre-planning, Teamwork and Execution of a product you want to achieve. The bold words are what I took back after the shooting of V1K1. I felt they were like triplets and had to depend on each other. Your pre-planning is very important for any projects you undertake. I had to say the Pre-Pro department did an excellent job of planning it properly. You cannot do everything on your own and that is where a team is worked to help you get what you want. You have to build a strong bond with your team so that the boat will be strong if you have to go through huge waves. There is no point of having done a wonderful pre-plan and combined a good team when you don’t know how to execute your shots. Storyboarding was really helpful and that is one of the things I admire of Tzang, the ability to draw his visions. Sometimes I don’t know understand his drawings but nevertheless it was really helpful on set.

I would like to thank God and am proud of myself for getting the blinking LED lights for the lead characters. It gave life to the whole project. I am not really an electronics guy but with the help and advice of some of my colleagues, I was able to land myself at Sim Lim Tower to get the device ready. This is one of the things Tzang was very happy with me. Well, that is where you prove if you are a good A.D or not.

Firstly, I work like to thank my wonderful 2nd A.D Deva for helping and covering during the times and days I was not around. I wanted him to learn as much as I have learnt. I hope this has helped him and able to put in front what he has learnt when he works on his future projects. He was very good and had this ongoing adrenaline rush going on to learn more. Secondly, I would like to thank Tina again for helping me with the calling and arrangements with the actors and crew. She was really stressed during the shoots and I always told her on set that she was going a fantastic job to make her feel better and it did. I like to thank Miss Fee for helping with the pillows and green cloth during the last day of shoot. But in return, she was thanking me for coordinating with her. Miss Fee is a nice and helpful lady. I thank and bow my head to the pre-pro, art and wardrobe department for getting the things right at the right time. They were really efficient especially the wardrobe department. Thank you very much Christina and Ham. Thank you very much Richard and Fat Fat James. The eyes and ears of V1K1. Sam, how can I miss you? I was happy she was around to guide everyone. Many years of experience in the media industry was evident when she did the schedule or arranged for the food. She was a good advicer when shoots were over-running. Thank you very much Sam. I would like to thank the captain of the ship, Tzang for giving me the opportunity to work with him as an A.D. I would say it was a very good and unforgettable experience. Your creativity led us to the birth of this project. It really helped to push everyone beyond their limits and gave them a wonderful learning experience. A Dreammaker Experience. I wish you all the best for the feature-film you are going to direct. We have another Quentin Tarantino in the making.


Reflections By EMOHAM

Name : Heidi Wong Suet Yin / Av0901N
Desired Credited Name: Emoham Saddist Topper
Wardrobe Leader

My role in V1K1 is Wardrobe Leader, Has to prepare Talents or Creature clothing. I need to responsibilities of talents needed like Makeup, Wearing and their accessories also have to make sure they had their dinner and manage their things to be done on the schedule. When Talents was in shooting had to standby at the side to get prepare when the ‘cut’ stop has to give them some drinks, fan them when there is really hot and sweat has their clothes is thick and hot, also have to follow them to the places where is their turn to shoot so when they need anything’s I could get it faster.

I work under a Professional Makeup Artist Christina, I had learnt some skill from her example: patiently & carefully put on the crystal for Viki hand, How to put a fake bleeding injured wounds also abit of hairstyling. She also teaches me some of the reality problem we might face, the attitude to treat everyone. When we had done our own stuff we could help others departments so can push the process much more faster. Although the process thru this whole project is tough and tired but I still enjoy in the process thru learning different and new skill. Thru this whole week of filming the V1K1 I knew more friends and some professionals, we had laughter in sometimes as in thru dinner or supper times. When times up get back to work everyone was very serious, this is the great moment to saw everyone doing their although we had lots of problem in sometimes. In the end, we still success to finish almost whole things, we left abit more to go.

I didn’t get scolded but I learnt a very precious stuff that is use the faster to get the own things complete as fast as possible, also TeamWork is much more important from the start till the end. So we do everything’s on time, although the 1day of the filming we got lack of 1 scene due to most of the people don’t know what to do but at least we still able to make it back to the schedule. I had learn what is real production and we still can know when is time to play jokes and fool around, when is the time to get seriously and pay attention the assistant director instruction. I didn’t contribution much cause I only teach some of the year 1 some stuff that I had learn.

Gonna thanks Yanni alot she helped me a lot in the last day of filming of the creature that day, if not I think I would really gone crazy if going do those things alone, Ruth also help me also for everyday moving stuff or help me take stuff for the wardrobe.
Lastly a very big thank to Mr. tzang given me a opportunity to join in the DreamsMakers family although i am last minutes join the team.

Hi! My name is Ruzaimi. You guys can call me Zai! Well, my role in Dream-maker is Publicity. My job of being in Publicity is to snap photos and take videos behind the scene. I learnt alot of things through this experience. The process was like a tornado chasing us!! (MR TZANG =0) We were not able to even take our own sweet time cause when a tornado strikes us, it really strikes us big time!! So, we needed to rush for everything. Though we had a tornado constantly striking us, I really enjoyed taking pictures of the talents. I even learnt new skills in photography too. Dexter, our senior, told me, "If you got any opportunity to take nice pictures, just shoot it! Don't waste anytime!" That sentence really inspired me alot. At first when i got to duty, I lost my self-esteem. But after hearing advices and encouragement from Dexter and the lecturers, I gained my self-esteem back. Thanks to Dexter and the lecturers for their constant encouragement which has mould me to be a true DREAM-MAKER!!

Heyy, i'm Falaah the sound-man for VIKI shoot. Afiq was a sound man too. We had James along with us being our mentor. Being the one to hold the boom-mic, it was challenging and tideous. But i survived the shoot eventually. I had a great experience in recording sounds for filming. There are no easy way to get out of this but I learned how to endure along with it. There was teamwork and strong bonding among the year 2s and us. I liked working with them as it increased my responsibility level. The efforts put together was well. There was a fair chance to learn and enjoy myself as well. If i have a chance to work with this team again, i would really love to :)

Signin off,
Falaah, ur soundman

Shooting Days of V1k1 - Part 1

There they are, in a 'Mad-scientist' laboratory, standing around with hacked computers, books & chemicals, just as we'd imagined them. The air of Gabriel's office hangs in the air as I drink in the details of the scene. Lots, lots & lots of books on the shelf, trophies in glass-fronted display cases. On an upper floor, I spot a life-formed creature, squatting on top of a long glinted glass window, staring at Gabriel. It's eyes shines brightly like a diamond star, its arms and legs moves steadily, ready to jump.

Somewhere, someone shouts "Cut!"

Standing amongst them, cameras, lights and all the crew members were there silently watching as they shoot. Yes! The shooting days has started. The costumes and props are amazing! I am overwhelmed by the depth and detail of what I'm seeing.

But more than that, it's the commitment, the passion and the desire to make all these things right.

It's time to work!

Our shooting nights goes on.....

Later ya'll

-Austin Theng

From the pages of the Director's Dairy

-Concept Art for 'Fairies'.

Auditions are over. Thank you to all Actors.

We thank all actors who have participated in V1k1 Casting Call.

Response has been overwhelming. And we've seen some really amazing people with amazing talent. Many people we want to see but are not able to due to our really short production timeline. Nevertheless... Thank you for making contact. Thank you for the support. We look forward to possibly working with you again in future.

- The V1k1 Team

Sneak peek at the location scenes

One of the scene in the rooftop

An office laboratory scene

The locations are found... More photos up soon! Our shooting will begin very soon at April 5th~

The War March of Dreammakers

The War is near...

The auditions are over...

Stressed and worried...

But we, Dreammakers, believe that we can win this through soon!

Here's some quotes I've gotten from the leaders of the Pre-Production & Post Production Team recently on what's the situation now. More quotes to be up soon! Stay tuned! :)

"Right now, we are actually finding the locations which is very difficult but I believe we can pull this through together." - Pradeepa, leader of Pre-Production Team

"For now, we are feeling quite calm but we are always ready for some actions when we are called." - Marcus, leader of Post Production Team

"I always believe in the power of dream and that you are only what YOU are because YOU dare to dream!" - Tzang Merwyn Tong

Taking the first step forward...

Greetings... fellow people and all Dreammakers of V1K1 - A Techno Fairytale.

I am Austin, your cool & friendly crew member from the Publicity Team and I would like to give you a head start of what's happening and what's NEW?! of this big project that we are doing.

Well, first off. We call ourselves, Dreammakers, people with dreams yet to realized, play on the word 'Filmmakers'. We are active! Passionate! Excited! and people who dare to dream and desire to make this film a success!

By taking the first step forward. We had weekly pre-production meetings, gathering of all our crew to plan ahead before we go into action! Just last Tuesday, on the 9th of March 2010, we had our third meeting together at the Production Studio with a beautiful and creative lady, Samantha Sng. Well, what can I say... We are soon to be ready! Planning ahead is very important for us before we have our shooting plans.

So whose involved?

Year 1s and 2s students of DAVP from ITE College West . Richard Chen, Samantha Sng and of course... Our director, Tzang Merwyn Tong.

Dreammakers consist of five departments. Pre-Production, Publicity, Filming Crew, Art Department and Post Production

Pre-Production. We are people who make sure things are going according to plan, planning schedules, choosing up locations of where to shoot, etc.

For Publicity. Basically, we are the people whose doing all the behind-the-scenes, documentations... Boosting our morale of our team!

Filming Crew. Of course, how can we make a film without camera men?! Their job, cameras! Sound! Lightings! "3, 2, 1... Action!!!"

Art Department. Costumes, props and more props! A character needs a costume to identify who they are. Make-ups & costumes for our actors/actresses, they are always ready to take that!

Post Production. They are the ones doing editing and sound design. Any cool and special effects, video editing, that need to be done?! They are the right people to approach to!

Everything is really coming together. Sooner or later, you'll see our film up, in success! But, more on that in future posts...

For more, here's some photo taken during the meeting by the Publicity Team.

This is our meeting room. We used this room for meetings during Pre-Production.

Discussion time...

The Art Department showcasing their pre-design work of the art & costumes, etc.

A piece of an art work.

I will post a series of photos to show you what we've been up to. I know you guys must be excited and curious to see what we're showing up to to all our audiences. More updates coming up soon! Please stay tuned!

Later ya'll

Austin