I can't believe I'm doing this.
I've always been rather hush-hush about the stuffs that I do (did) at Uni since I can remember. You'll find me shoving my research paper somewhere at the bottom of the pile when handing in an assignment or just replying a simple "I'm grateful" in response to a dear classmate's concern about my results.
But I'll admit it, I am competitive, and I am rather hard on myself when it comes to assignments. For the sake of brevity (and dignity), let's not go there.
Today, a dear friend of mine just reminded me of a little stop-motion video project we embarked on as a tribute to the late Yasmin Ahmad back in 2009. If you don't know, stop-motion basically means compiling a bunch of drawings sequentially to create a motion picture, just like how they did it back in 1912 (don't quote me on this).
More and more, I've come to realise that me being discreet in the stuffs that I do isn't helping me much, especially with the prospect of my fledgling career in mind. I'm thinking of posting some of the stuffs I've done in the past, but let's start with this one.
3 Sekawan Productions, as the name suggests, was birthed firstly, out of friendship, and then out of an almost magnetic work chemistry. Leonard, Mei Yen and I formed the team, each contributing to a specific (yet not exclusive) role i.e. Leonard in creative/art direction, Mei Yen in photography and videography, and myself, in writing.
This tribute to Yasmin was done so last minute by 3 Sekawan that I could still feel the gasps in my breath today. It was due at around 9AM and we started at maybe 3pm the day before? And may I add, the drawing, colouring, shading, scanning was painstaking to say the least. But in any case, I just remembered having so much fun, and it being one of those moments I felt truly alive.
One more thing, I must say that though I'm embarking on this self-promotion business, this video was made by ALL three of us, each deserving equal credit to the work.
Here goes nothing!
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