Shooting a fight scene

A director friend of our tok guru wants to shoot a documentary on healthy activities....

Which he did.

A throwback to last year, around July or so.

We arrived at Kajang around 8.30p.m and shot until 10p.m. When we were there, the production crew was already there so there was not much time for rehearsal. It was more of an impromptu. Wearing the sampin itself took some good ten minutes. That cut some rehearsal time for us. We were like a magnet, stuck to each other until we got comfortable of being in front of the camera. I won't call it camera shy. I'd like to call it 'adjusting to a new experience'. That sounds more awful.

Following the director's orders as we go, it was fun but embarrassing in the first place as it was quite new and awkward. To be recorded while you have to maintain a cold face when you are ready to laugh. To act poise and feminine while looking tough and gangsta. All in front of a big video camera. We were stunned to see that thing in real life. Talk about noobs. The final video, we haven't seen.I guess none of us were excited or curious to see the result. Until right now, the mention of the video is never heard again.

Since the production crew was friendly, we got to play with the camera (thanks to our 'unshamefulness' as well) There was so many buttons on it and we dared clicked none. Its pricey weyh. Who among us would pay the  price to fix it if anything happened? We played it safe. Kotakfilem, a group based during Bengkel Remaja Kreatif, or us was happy. This little group consists of me, Ilya, Farzana and Sakinah. At first it was just a group name at the workshop, but it got us closer and we stuck by it. Going anywhere by referring the four of us as 'Kotakfilem'. I guess that's our branding?

We recorded nothing as to oblige to the term of 'play safe'. After lots of playing grown ups, the director asked us..

"Ada rakam tak?"
"Tak"
"Kenapa tak rakam?"
"Boleh ke?"
"La.. boleh"

So much for keeping it safe when it could be a keep sake for us huhu. If you noticed the banner at the back, you probably are wondering by now. We were at a Muay Thai training place. We are under silat hahah. We came there to learn Muay Thai only that night, we had to be silateers. The owner of the place didn't mind as he was a friend of our tok guru. See, connections help.

We were told that the director was the one that directed 'Keluarga Iskandar'. He did give us a few know hows on recording a short film when we were at a restaurant filling our stomachs. At that time, the television was airing Akademi Fantasia and the Singaporean singer won. I was too busy eating sate to care. So did everyone else. After that, we all went home. Arrived in Shah Alam at midnight. The next day it was exam. So safe to say, we didn't revise for the paper. Hahahahahaha oh man. Bad example.

Thanks a bunch to the crew for having patience while dealing with us. Thanks for the time and effort. May we see you again in the future! Regards, Kotakfilem.