Lego Donor.

45 years later…

These are screenshots from the short PSA video I made for my final Videography assignment.  The video was made entirely by me. I cant upload the pre-rendered clip yet because the whole friggin thing is already 2.6gb freshly rendered by Adobe After Effects to ensure video quality. The aim of this PSA is to encourage people to opt for organ donation by introducing the lego bricks concept throughout the video. I hope because of the short due date it wont end up as a rushed work and fall short on expectations, this is the reason why I post this up for my fellow group mates. The picture only the first half of the video and YES it is in BNW to illustrate the nostalgia during the old years, while fading through 45 years of time with colors and such on the second half.

Total runtime is about 2 mins.

What most photographers didnt realize.

Scraped from my previous shoot.

Sometimes I ask myself, whats the difference between me and other photographers. The difference between professionals and amateurs. Is it because people who takes good photograph know how to make their photos more appealing to the mass or just because the were plain gifted. If you can compare my work from the day I began taking photograph until today, why the leap? some people are born with it, some have to earn it. I think in my opinion, the key to take good photograph is to read and see lots and lots of references, I admit I do try to copy other people ( yess, I know you’re smirking right about now haha ) no matter how much you try to copy, name it from techniques to processing it wont be exactly the same, from that experience being the copycat you’ll refine it yourself your own way, its always going to be your style. If people start copying what you do, that’s a good sign you’re doing good. Getting used to seeing good images will eventually propel you forward with the “this shit is not good enough, must work harder” mentality. This is the biggest case yet, what are the similarities from all those well-known photographers in their picture? None! They’re styles are totally different from each other and that is their key to success by being UNIQUE! Bear that in mind, why follow other people while you can make your own, I’ll take Crocs ( the sandles yeah :P ) as an example, people dont call them sandles they call it Crocs! the same on how you define ( im pretty sure you’ve heard of this one too many ) “Dave Hill”. See? They’re branding they’re styles!. I am not trying contradicting myself here, I said copy them in order to receive experience and use that knowledge to your advantage. Sadly, that’s the problem with our local ( including me ) photographers, taking good photographs doesn’t ensure you to make a living out of it unfortunately.

The problem doesn’t only exist in Malaysia, same goes to every country around the world. How to make a living out of photography. How do you charge something that might not cost as much money, but some might cost a whole lot of money?. How are you going to avoid from falling too short, or going too far?. The million dollar question, a question I’ve searching from the day I started thinking I’m going to take this seriously. One of my lecturer who was a fresh grad from SEGi College, recognize my work and told me ” kau dah pandai tangkap gambar, asal tak terus kerja je? ” I told him “I dont expect much learning photography from the course either the reason why I went to college because I at least have a solid network after I graduate.” People that matters, then he told me his story when he first graduated and went looking for jobs, he had gone everywhere even with his papers no one would take him. Now he’s doing part-time lecturing, while working in a retail store in OU. Why is that? Portfolio, our portfolio is the most important thing when you’re venturing in this industry, having a good social network helps a lot too that is why first impressions and a good attitude also contributes your chances of getting jobs. Selling pictures are like selling sand in the middle of the desert, you have to convince them in any way possible.  It’s sad to see, most of my juniors doesn’t even have a clue what gonna hit them when they finish their studies. They have no passion, not even worried about what lies ahead. There is no such thing as easy money.

Taking good photographs just isn’t enough nowadays.

Stills to Videos.

Mmm, what does this button do? :P

Longing for an update, I’ll show you what’s been causing my twitching eyes restless for 2 days straight. This 17 seconds clip is a sneak peak of my assignment 3 Videography class. The confusion relived when I started to use Adobe After Effects, and I thought Photoshop was difficult :P. We had to come up with a 2 minutes trailer for a movie that didnt even exist. So Eizat, our Director & Scriptwriter & Actor ( whey so short of people mah, plus its a non-profitable trailer :P) came up with the cheesiest Malay love drama ever.

The people who are involved with the production are ;

Director & Script Writer – Eizat
Producer – Saufi Nadzri
Art Director – Zeke Roland
Director of Photography – Edinor Yaziz & Mdon Roslan