What is professional?
professional is 101% perfect. the challenge, though, is not reaching that 101, but instead knowing when to stop, when to be satisfied with 95 or even 90.
I could spend 10 mins or 5 hours edting a 5 mins piece. And only I will notice the marginal difference.
How far can I go when I push myself that far? I feel pain stretching now.
Last 2 days of production. Hanging.
on my desk I have:
1 pair of very loud speaker,
2 computers,
3 mouses and
5 monitors.
I sold my fujitsu laptop. Finally my boss successfully converted me to a power Mac user.
This is Niaw (pronounced as “neo”), my new filmmaking companion.
It is named by its Godmother Jipei, and the name means “the one”.
It is a 2002 Hyundai Accent 2-door Hatchback Manual Transmission. 37 per gallon and only 67000 miles!
I love it. I am a very happy person.
ps. Notice the liscence plate is “HKv” !!
What is workaholic?
Workaholic is being able to work productively for at least 10 hours a day.
Workaholic to me is sleeping only for 4 hours every night. Yet every morning the mind will wake up automatically (no joke, w/o alarm clock, even weekends) at 8am and yet being very excited to work. I felt the tiredness, but couldn’t go to bed.
Workaholic is when my mind is ignoring the need of my body, and controlling it to finish the work.
Despite all that, workaholic thinks that work is still a very pleasant task.
Click here to see all MaskMan Productions works.
There will be a lot lot more. I promised. Just haven’t have the time to put them up yet. I will also later develop it as a youtube channel. stay tunned.
(in case i haven’t said enough…)
after ~5 years of searching and wandering, I found my passion. and i m more determined to dive in the world of video production. forming MaskMan Productions was only a beginning to advertise my skills. my biggest/best production is coming out on May 28. (more information on: http://insidecocosworld.com) Last Friday i won a Carleton video contest, recived two prizes and gave two speeches. All of a sudden i become famous, that i m one of the the most talented, skillful filmmaker in school.
feeling good.
I love filming.
My friend Sean loves editing.
I enjoy the creation of the footage.
He enjoys the manipulation of the footage.
I enjoy the freedom the camera grants me, capturing the most interesting thing to me on site.
Sean likes the limitation, selecting the best footage within the tape, and condensed to an exciting form.
I like filming because it only takes definite time to film.
Sean enjoys putting unlimited effort to perfect his editing.
Conclusion? We are a good team.
ps. Kelly commented I dress like Hirai Ken today. That makes me happy.
I proudly announce that we just formed my video production company today! 2 graduating Carleton College senior Chris Courneen and Wain Yee finally decided to devote ourselves of this meida world… With our hard work and talent, we will be the cameraman, editor and producers of any sort of productions. We work efficiently with MultiCam, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, DVDStudioPro, Motion, LiveType, SoundTrack, and WebDesign. We are working on our logo and website http://MaskManProductions.com…
(Alright enough for the advertising… hehe… I m too excited… more will be coming next)
The first challenge we have is that we have a big postproduction that has to be finished in 2 weeks. Time is tight, and stress is high. I am learning how to maintain a balance between more efforts or less perfections, to best estimate how much time I should put into certain part. The technical challenges are easy (which I will write later).
The difficulty is not letting my passion drown myself.
Keeping myself on track.
Just a preview list of the projects of MASKMAN PRODUCTIONS in the next three months:
-Inside CoCo’s World DVD (2-disc special edition)
-The Colored Museum DVD
-Women in Black DVD
-Carleton College International Festival 2007 DVD
-youtube channel: United World College Cultural Days highlight
June 20 ~ July 14 (tentative)
ROAD TRIP!!!
I am DRIVING to the east coast this summer! The plan is NYC will be my base. Hope to see as many people as possible whoa are in a reasonable driving distance.
July 18 ~ August 30 (tentative)
BLAKCSMITH!!!
I am not sure about driving or flying. But I will be in New Mexico doing blacksmith again. Possibly going to Colorado for a blacksmith conference. Possibly stop by the uwc reunion.
May also drive around to USC, LA, San Francisco, and Portland.
Drop a note if you think you will enjoy my company and grant me a place to stay.
2:05pm @ Scoville.
In my world of filming making, there are three things I value the most:
Skill, Idea and Commitment.
Skill can be learned, can be practiced.
Idea also can be learned, can be brainstormed.
But commitment cannot be achieved unless you have really committed.
Commitment means being responsible, positive and passionate to me.
I honestly love to work with anyone who is committed to the project; even they have no ideas or skills at all. Creative partner can be fun to work with, but skillful partner sometimes will be a great pain.
Skill, Idea and Commitment represent
Talent, Luck and Effort
I think they are increasingly important in order.
quote from 明報 5/5/07
「好演員不是一出道就學人嚴選劇本，他們起初都是不介意演任何角色，與不同的導演合作。不同的是在取得足夠經驗之後，有些演員不思進取，愈演愈滑頭，對自己愈來愈無要求。有進步的演員，會自我提升，與質素高的幕前幕後合作，對自己愈來愈有要求。」
That is the correct attitude for everyone in any fields.