” ~ wain~

July 7 painting the apartment, building the set
July 9-17 finding filming location in nyc
July 18 drive to Virginia to meet the screenwriter
July 19-21 screenwriting
July 22 drive back to Maryland to pick up the cameraman, then drive back to nyc to meet the leading acteress

RED Coffee credits

Producer Wain Yee
Co-director Teddy Wolff & Wain Yee
Screenwriter David Hogue & Wain Yee
Starring Sungyeon Lee, Teddy Wolff & Wai Kuen Yee
Cinematographer Teddy Wolff
Music Producer Claire Chun
Special Thanks to Van Tran & Ryan Kelley

*filming schedule
July 23 Sung’s apartment
July 24 Sung’s apartment
July 25 Marriott Execustay
July 26 Korean restaurant, Queensboro Bridge, Manhanttan apartment
July 27 Downtown Manhattan

So I did it. Filming a 30 minutes movie in 5 days. More about RED Coffee later.

so next up:

July 28 drive to Baltimore to see Claire
July 29 drive to Virginia to see David
July 31 drive to Kansas City
August 1 drive to Carbondale, Colorado
August 2-5 Rocky Mountain Blacksmiths Conference (blacksmithing!)
August 6 - 18 Blacksmithing in New Mexico
August 19 - 26 USC, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara
August 26 - 30 more Blacksmithing in New Mexico again
August 31 - Sept 2 Carbondale then Boulder
September 4 Northfield, Minnesota. School starts, *Graduation trip ends.

Work Hard & Play Hard. That is the plan.

summer: Graduation trip. Road Trip. Chicago, NYC, LA and home sweet home New Mexico. Mainly seeing friends that haven’t met for 4~5 years, doing blacksmithing, and forget about all the work in Scoville. Disconnect and reconnect. Rest, relax and enjoy.

fall: reform the equipment checkout system in the Media Lab. also helped Paul complete complete as many projects as possible.

main study: this definitely has the HIGHEST priority. will take more CAMS classes. Intro, film theory, documentaries, seriously anything. I just need to theorize myself, my knowledge, my passion, before i make my own film.

side study: prepare level 1 JLPT. aiming at level 1, should at least pass level 2. also should practice better mandarin.

future plan: apply to film school/grad school. need helps from Michael, Carol, John, and Paul. also apply to Cathy Pacific.

I am not going to spend much time on any easy project. there are much more to study.

Last but not least, hopefully if all things go well, I will be able to make a film about the NGO-Osmosis in Brazil. Finger crossed.

I am proudly announce (finally) that Wain Yee is

the Educational Associate of Cinema and Media Studies

for the next academic year 2007 - 2008.

i understand the whole world is expecting me to take that position even before i apply. but it is still exciting to finally receive that confirmation from my boss, whom I have work for for the past 4 years. So yea~! very soon I won’t be a Carleton student but a staff! and Carleton is going to continue paying me to go to school + giving me millions of production equipment + giving me a studio! YEAH~~
(^o^)v This is simply my dream job.

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.

: A Culinary House Production
: 4 years of college &
: 1 cup . cake
(4 mins 18 sec)

This is my newest film, which is about a ordinary student’s simple life. This is my most professional work so far. Every second and every frame is intentional and carries a message. I hope that you are watching this film with very high expectations, so be as critical as you can. Please give me your constructive criticism.

Leave a message and I will email you the password.

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one day, i will work in RTHK.

2:23 am. @ my room. Alright. Finished the very first rough draft of the film. Can’t say I m not discouraged by it. It came out exactly the way I imagined in my head. I may need to work on the angle and the continuity a bit more. But pretty much it did come out what I planned.

What is not working is really the story. And the way I m telling it. I admit it is not a solid story. My friend’s and my boss’s concern is right. And I m now finishing the film for the sake of finishing it. Not necessarily a bad thing. At least I treasure the learning process. I learned that what’s working and what’s not. My working altitude and hard work is correct. My vision maybe correct, that I need to hold it stronger next time. But my collaboration may not be right. Yes I do need other’s help and I do want team spirit. But IDEA has to be ONE. I could invite other’s contribution, but essentially that is my work. My idea. My film. My responsibility.

Added on Feb 13. 2:33am.
Finished my second draft. Its not THAT bad really. Besides the story and continuity as a whole, there are quite a lot of stuff I like in the film. After all, that’s really my first draft. Thanks to stephen: 好一句 “next project after this growth”. Yes, the next one will be better and is always better.

風景不轉心境轉

記住，記住 and focus: only one thing at a time.

an interesting movie: the girl in the cafe. simple but direct. for those activist and those who care about G8 summit. also visit www.one.org.

http://www.hbo.com/films/girlinthecafe/synopsis/index.html

9:18pm @Scoville. I saw “A Beautiful Mind” again. It’s a coincident that 3 years ago I saw the same movie around this time of the year. I was so much in love back then. I loved the movie, I still remember on the night I watched it, the moment I turned my head and saw Tenzin sleeping. All I got from the movie was the power of love.
Today, I watched it again and saw it in a completely different way. I saw the strength in both John and Alicia Nash. The schizophrenia was killing everybody. But it is more a personal problem to John Nash has to fight with it. At the end, it is only he decided to apply a new formula to his mind to ignore his hallucinations and not feed his demons.
I was lucky enough to have someone to fall in love with. Now its gone, but the memory remains. To turn that memory into things that I can keep nicely in my heart or I can mourn about the past is up to me.
I need to keep feeding to keep the bad memories alive. They are not haunting us, we let them do. We assist them. I was responsible for partly letting myself depressed. I m sorry.

11:46pm @Avianne’s house. Writing gives me strength but it was so easy not to write and I am getting lazier. Why? Is that simply there are so many distractions or again I don’t believe in writing? Can’t I get more determined to continue doing the right thing? Can’t I keep my promise?
I have been thinking a lot about life again. It seems to me that I am getting over with Tenzin, and it should be time to get out of the depression. I have spent more than a week in Trinidad now. Living with Avainne’s family has slowed down myself and taught me another way to live. I remember on my birthday, was the day for long that I wasn’t worrying about anything. No work, no pressure to work, and more importantly no guilt for not working. It was a simple day that hasn’t any particular excitements. And now I should call it normal. That was simply a normal day. After all these of overseas adventure, living surrounded by some of the most talented, determined students, and being much in love so blindly, it is probably true that I forgot what normal is like. The feeling is really quite… normal. There isn’t anything great or bad about it. That is how we live.
I am who can be easily contended, for I have few wants or not being ambitious. I believe I could live on a salary as long as I won’t starve. I watched “Moulin Rouge” tonight and the main message is “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love ad be loved in return”. We live to love those we care. We share to show whom we love. I like the Bohemian idea.
I am starting to put back my values and strength inside. I should not deny what I am. And I should recognize what I am capable of and what I lack for.