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It's that time again...
The Kelab Seni Filem Malaysian shorts thingey's happening again this March, and I feel a tingling in my filmmaking scrotum. Whilst my feature length film, whatever it may be and whenever it may be produced, is stuck forever in limbo land, it doesn't mean I can't spend some time behind the camera doing my thang.
Yet again, the question of what to film comes to mind. The last one was about cigarettes. What now? Alcohol? Masturbation? Gerbil obsession?
What I do know is that I want to film something where I can test techniques I have in my head and whatever actors I'm thinking of using in the future. I already know what Paul can do, I want to see what my other friends are capable of, acting wise.
In the meantime, I've got an ad to figure out by today. Any of you guys know any teeth scenarios which don't involve fighting or dentists?
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15.2.05 03:37
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Research is Key.
If any of you have clicked on Warren Ellis' site, you'd notice that he puts up a lot of his research there. At first I used to click on his blog for shits and giggles, all the weird-ass stuff he'd find on the net (which would somehow turn itself into some aspect of his latest comic book in due time) would amuse me.
However, with my current writer's block which has been lasting a lot longer than it fucking should, I thought I'd start posting up whatever I find of interest for possible writings in the future. Bear in mind, this section probably won't be as interesting, sci-fi oriented and messed in the head as Warren's, but it'll help me. You just happen to be watching.
Kinda like pee-ing at the side of the road.
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15.2.05 07:48
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The Malaysian Horror.
Creatures, ghosts and spirits of popular Malaysian folklore and myth. I had a lot more links when I was writing this earlier, but the ever crappy Apple of mine crashed halfway. Bastards. Strangely, I was only going to concentrate on the vampire-y spooks, but I found a whole lot more than I bargained for.PontianakHehe. Unlike the rest of the world, our vampires are solely female and hot to boot. I dunno about you but I'd rather have the blood sucked out of me by a hot chick than an Eastern European man in a cape.'It is said that a woman who dies while she is with child will rise again as a "Pontianak", a fearsome nocturnal undead being who will bring violent death on anyone she meets. Such a being resides inside the trunk of ancient trees, but will revert to her old human nature if an iron nail is driven into her neck. The nail remains in the woman's neck until she dies and is buried with it ... should the nail ever be removed, she will once again become a Pontianak and embark on a killing spree. Due to the frightening fighting prowess of one of these creatures, few are willing to attempt to tame one. For this reason, it is considered unlucky to strike a woman, especially a married woman.' - Taken from The Singapore Paranormal Investigators website. The most comprehensive site on pontianak's I've managed to find on the net, and it's from Singapore. Typical.Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam review from the Star - '...Since I wet my pants, almost flooding the cinema, from the shock of it, I feel I should give you a gentle warning: Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam (PHSM), which translates as Nocturnal Aromatic Vampire Bitch – if my Malay serves me right – boasts what could be the scariest ever opening scene in movie history. In case you’re wondering, I’m referring to the shocking display of Azwan Ali’s acting talent (or rather the lack of it) at the start of PHSM. Was he secretly having a diarrhoea? Was he struggling to uphold the integrity of his fake moustache from the pull of gravity (I sincerely hope it was fake). It is so beyond bad, that even Gollum and William Hung, two of the world’s foremost CGI actors, would be mortified. And so disturbed was I by Azwan that no menacing pontianak appearances thereafter managed to spook me...' I love it when they don't pull any punches.LangsuirThe myths of pontianak and langsuir have, over the years, crossed paths and gotten all tangled up. When they'll get the 'facts' right, I'll never know.'After forty days a woman may become a langsuir is she died in childbirth or if she died from the shock of hearing her child was stillborn. This stillborn child becomes a pontianak.' - Taken from Walking the Night.  'It was said that this vicious Langsuir or pontianak had possessed and terrorised a girl in Melacca. The Langsuir was said to have made a cotton tree (pokok kapas), which grew near the girl's house, its home. The man, whom had the ability to capture this thing, was called for help and was only captured after about an hour or so of 'fierce fights'. The 'creature' was said to have the ability to transform itself according to its surroundings. At the time of its capture, it was said that the creature was on the cotton tree..... ' Penanggalan The Penanggalan is a rather obscure female vampire that comes to us from Malaysian folklore, its legend tenuously handed down through the gauntlet of time, leaving us with only a tattered remnant of its original horrific glory. Foul in both appearance and behavior, the Penanggalan consists of a woman's head that floats through the air with its entrails hanging below it. Yet, this is where the stories vary... - Again, from those Singaporean ghostbusters.Bajang'It is a demon creature which is brought out of the body of a stillborn child by a witch or sorcerer. It is a male demon which most often appears as a pole cat.' - Again from 'Walking the Night'.Pelesit'Some say that the pelesit can be created from the tongue of an infant's corpse. It is also possible to capture an existing spirit. It appears as a house cricket. It enters the body of the victim (usually to prepare the way for the polong) and causes illness and/or madness. It is sent by its controlling agent to torment people. The controller must feed it either saffron rice or blood drawn from the fourth finger. A charm can be used to compel the pelesit to leave its victim. No information is available on the destruction of the pelesit. - Yup. 'Walking the Night' again.Polong'A polong can be created by placing the blood of a murdered man into a bottle with a narrow neck, which you must then pray and recite spells over. After a time period ranging from seven days to two weeks has passed there is the sound of chirping birds within the bottle. The creator must then cut a finger and place it into the bottle for the polong to suck, which creates a bond between them. A tiny woman-like creature approximately one inch tall. With the aid of its companion spirit the pelesit it causes illness and insanity.' - 'Walking the Night'.Toyol
'Toyol is a still born that is exhumed in the dead hours of the night. It is then brought back to life with incantations of the unholy and the sacrificial blood of a pure white rooster. Incense is also burned as an offering but doubt it has any merit to the gods(seems that the incense mask the reeking smell of death). Then it is housed in a large jar and set on an altar. It is then released from its jar after the bewitching hour and will heed any commands that the owner wishes it to execute. Toyols will kill, steal, maim and create havoc in small villages. Easy to do because they are in actual fact a little fetus. After it has done its deeds it will come back to the owner. The only catch in owning one is that it has to be fed with the blood of a white rooster and incense at midnight. But beware that all it takes is for you to miss one meal and it'll go delirious and certain death will befall the owner.' - Taken (together with the badly animated gif) from 'Singapore First Online Ghost Stories' (SFOGS). Funny how the Singaporeans are so damn interested in Malaysian ghosts whilst the Malay's won't say shit. Either we don't know enough, or we know it's best to keep our mouth shut.'Some toyols have special 'needs' as well. If the spirit is that of a child, you'd usually have to provide it with a couple of toys to play with. If money goes missing and white ants (or termites) are found where the money should have been, the toyol has just done its bidding for their master.' - From yet another Singapore site'I saw one the other day... stealing from my cash box. I wasn't able to do anything, but a spirit, one who has always been around, was able to scare it away... anyone know anything about this ugly green freak of a demon?' - Why don't you ask the spirit that's always been around?
'Got this from a friend. My email title said it's either a 'setan' or a 'toyol' that someone caught. Really mysterious! And the hair! Scary! Thanks. by: MissDarkness aka Annie' - I'm not sure whether it's a setan (devil), toyol or one of those lucky troll toys after a crack binge.Click here if you can read Malay and want to buy a toyol. Excerpt translated from the site: 'In the old days, people used toyols to get rich. But where do you get a toyol now? Aha... I have the solution to make you all rich. You can get money everyday from RM100 to RM1000.' Anyone else reckon this is a cheap gimmick for a pyramid scheme?Orang MinyakDirect translation: 'oily man'.'There are several version of the orang minyak (literally means 'oily man'). According to history, Satan offered to help and grant worldly desires if the "orang minyak" raped 21 girls within seven days and worship Satan as a God. During the 1960s, the orang minyak existed around several towns of Malaysia raping young women. They covered their nude body with oil so that it would be difficult for anyone to catch them. Although the orang minyak of the 1960s were definitely human, there were countless stories of the orang minyak that was related to the supernatural as well as black magic. Below is an account of such story contributed by Blue Oyster. The orang minyak is actually a normal person but he has to rape virgin women to accomplish certain powers of the black arts. He would be nude and covered himself with oil. Anyway, this particular orang minyak I am going to tell you about is the one terrorising a higher education institute in Shah Alam. The story goes like this.......' - The rest of the story tells of a woman being raped by a man of dark complexion who I assume is oily. Taken from SFOGS.Sumpah Orang Minyak - A movie on the above by my favourite director in Malaysia, P. Ramlee . Won best black & white cinematography in the 5th Asia Film Festival in Manila, Filipina (1958).Hantu TetekThe Malays call it Hantu Tetek which means 'Breast Ghost' when translated to English. 'This ghost is a female ghost and has a huge breasts. She uses her breasts to attack its victim and make full use of her huge breasts to suffocate them to death. Some says, the Hantu Tetek's breasts is at the back instead of the front. There are many different version of how this ghost came about. Some people says she is actually a Balinese witch. Mothers in kampung villages usually warn their children of this ghost and tell them not to play outside during the dusk period for this ghosts favourite victim is young men and small children. Once caught, they'll never be seen again.' - The more I find these articles in my research, the more disturbed I get. Courtesy of SFOGS.Hantu Bungkus'The hantu bungkus, also known by many as pocong. It is usually found in villages wandering around and jumping off as though in search of something. Its jumps can range from 50 meter per jumps or at most 100 meter or more. The hantu bungkus got its name from its physical appearance. Its body is wrapped with 'kain kapan' (a cloth made for wrapping the dead in Malay culture) and its face could not be seen. Mostly, the hantu bungkus wouldn't bother anyone around it, so if ever you stumbled upon one. Don't bother it or even try to disturb its path...don't give it a reason to do otherwise.' - File under 'Most Useless Ghosts of All Time'. From SFOGS.Hantu Tinggi a.k.a. Hantu Galah'Hantu tinggi or in English means the Tall Ghosts. Usually this type of ghost is not so tall when one encounters it. It only increase in height after somebody approaches it. Soon after, it will increase it height little by little until a person can barely look up to measure its height. One word of caution when, if by any chances encounter this ghost...never look up when it has beginning to increase its height. Because once a person look up, their neck will be stuck and could never be move down again!!' - File under 'Possible Applicant for Supernatural All-Stars Basketball Team'. SFOGS.Hantu Lilin'Hantu Lilin means the candle ghost. It carries a candle around to wherever it goes. Why? Nobody knows. Hantu Lilin first made quite a stir on the newspaper somewhere back in the early 90's when a group of youngster was taking picture by the sea at early dusk. The ghost's form appeared on the picture that was getting developed as a very old and ugly lady holding a candle. Although it didn't bother anybody, but at least it is also some proof that there's spirit around us that we can not see. So, just beware of where we step our foot into at strange places.' - Also file under ''Most Useless Ghosts of All Time'. From SFOGS.Mambang Kuning'Mambang Kuning or known as the Yellow Spirits, dwell during sunset. At this time, they are at their peak and most mischevious. For a bomoh ( a witchman ) to summon them to do their bidding, their power must be at least as strong as the Mambang Kunings or more than that. It is believed that if the glow is brighter, the danger is more apparent. If a person happens to spot it, then he or she in order to avoid trouble must take a mouthful of water and spit it out in the direction of the sunset while throwing a handful of ashes ( where do you get that? ) at the same time. He or she then must chant an invocation to the Mambang Kuning explaining that he or she is 'putting out the brightness'. If someone is sick after a particular sunset, then it is believed that he or she is suffering from weakness of spirit. To avoid this, one can follow the procedure' above.' - SFOGS. To all Malay's out there, remember this: 'Hai mambang kuning, mambang hijau, mambang biru, mambang cokelat, mambang kelabu, mambang biru air laut...' (quote from P.Ramlee's 'Pendekar Bujang Lapuk'. It's funny if you've seen it).Click Here For Other Malaysian Ghosts For 'other', read 'lesser-known' and/or 'unimportant'.
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15.2.05 10:30
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Warren Ellis...
...never ceases to amaze. If you've been clicking here and never clicked on Warren Ellis' blog in my links section (choosing instead to click on the blogs with names that may or may not gurantee sexual release), then you're missing out on some brilliant writing and fucked up net discoveries. I wouldn't be plugging it so much if it weren't for the fact that the whole week I've been clicking on it there've been some wonderful articles to read. Check out his brainjuice section and read Future Underground and Tumour. then, for those lacking in inspiration, read his answer to the eternal question posed to every writer at some stage in their lives, where do you get your ideas?Finally, he's also got a section called Old Comics Zen, which has, amongst other gems, this:  Enjoi.
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16.2.05 03:49
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Duhnuh NuhNuh NuhNuh... Duhnuhnuhnuh Nuhnuh... Duhnuh NuhNuh NuhNuh...
...Ghostbusters!... Nuhnuhnuhnuh Nuhnuh Nuh! The International Ghost Hunters Society: 'Welcome to the largest ghost research organization on the Internet. The IGHS has over 15,000 members in 87 countries. Join us as we record EVP voices in the Southwest USA. Discover the truth about EVP, not the Hollywood version of demons killing EVP researchers, but the fun and enjoyment of recording ghost voices at historical sites. EVP research is a good clean family hobby that teaches about life after death.' At the time of writing, the site tells me that our solar rays are 'active' and the geomagnetic field is 'quiet'. Good to know. Also has these interesting banners: 
 MESA (Multi-frequency Energy Sensor Array) : 'We are a multidisciplinary group dedicated to the scientific study of haunt (haunted) and poltergeist-like phenomena. We have designed a computer system that measures physical energies in "haunted" places where people experience these phenomena. Haunting phenomena have been described as visual, auditory, and olfactory hallucinations; sensed presence, or a touch or the feeling of not being alone; erratic functioning of mechanical or electrical equipment; unexplained strong emotional episodes; and object movement.' The Egon site.GhostGadgets.com: ' I have found that because of the lack of physical evidence of haunt phenomena - outside human-based phenomena such as RSPK, etc., I believe that every haunting has to do with the environment more than a ghostly presence. Researchers such as Persinger, Roll, Wiseman, Spottiswoode and many others have found environmental ties (outside visual cues) to places that are considered "haunted" - from varying magnetic fields and infrasound, to correlations with Local Sidereal Time. Whatever the correlation, they all seem to point to the human brain as being the key to accept these triggers and create anomalous experiences. With the invention of a highly advanced environmental monitoring system, Arcadia, I have found the same correlations to be true - many haunted sites show environmental variances, especially in static and AC magnetic fields, as well as other odd fluctuations. These variations can play tricks on the brain, creating a feeling of sensed presence, cold chills, "tingling" down your spine, etc., that are synonymous to hauntings. With innovations such as Arcadia, I developed my own investigating techniques, mimicking that of many peer-reviewed studies. The only difference is I have written these reports in an layman's terms (somewhat...), so the general public will be able to finally understand these correlations.' Kinda like a DIY site for ghosthunters. Society For Psychical Research: 'Founded in 1882 by a distinguished group of Cambridge scholars, the Society for Psychical Research was the first of its kind to examine allegedly paranormal phenomena in a scientific and unbiased way. Today the Society continues with its aim of understanding events and abilities commonly described as 'psychic' or 'paranormal' by promoting and supporting important research in this area.' The Ghostly Gateway Paranormal Search Engine. 'Nuff said.All links taken from the Ohio Paranormal Investigation Network.
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16.2.05 04:55
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Weird Science.
'In the story of humanity is replete with myths and legends, as both are one and the same. Mythological characters often are representative of entities that lived on the Earth thousands of years ago. Some of these entities were referred to as creator gods who seeded this planet creating the environment in which we experience in the magic and illusion of time and emotion. All of mythology has a basis in the creational stories of each culture - all represented by the duality of our reality. Every culture has its myths about pantheons of gods - good vs. evil - the duality - reflected in each story - yet all the same. It is all a myth - brought forth to experience.' - Taken from Crystalinks Metaphysical and Science Website. 'Religious faith and religion offer the idea of absolute, of a total and finished truth that has not been achieved by science since ancient times. We know that even in physics the theories are relative and questionable as to their universal reach, such as the laws of gravitation and the quanta, which have not been integrated in a single theory for macro and microcosm.' - Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Religious Faith
by Jorge W. F. Amaro'The Loogaroo can leave its own skin and turn into a flame which haunts the night searching for blood for the devil. After it collects enough blood, it can return to its skin, resuming human form. This creature is apparently compulsive and must stop to count grains of sand spread upon the ground. So, a defense against it, if you were bothered by such a monster, was to leave a pile of rice or sand near your front door. Hopefully, the creature would take a long time to count it all, and the sun would eventually return with the next morning. By then the Loogaroo would have to return to its skin without making an attack. The Loogaroo is an example of how a vampire belief can result from a combination of beliefs -- here a mixture of French and African. The Loogaroo is also evidence that not all vampires have Slavic accents, although many certainly seem to. With the vampire having been found in many lands, naturally it has many names.' - Taken from meta-religion.comAnthropology of Religion: Common Elements in Relgion: 'One of the hallmarks of religion is belief in supernatural beings and forces. These take a variety forms, not all of which are found in every religious belief systems: 1. animatism 2. animism 3. ancestral spirits 4. gods and goddesses 5. minor supernatural beings It is important to understand that many of these beliefs are held by followers of the major religions despite the fact that their religious leaders may deny them.' 'Man, prior to modernity, was in tutelage and his universe of thought was a premature attempt to guess about the state of life and his own in the great scheme of things. The collection of all these premature thoughts, reflections, guesses, and conjectures are nothing but the great achievements of pre-modern humanity classified as 'myth'.' - Existentiality and Mythicality: A modern dilemma? by Seyed Javad'There are an enormous variety of spirits: with good and bad and all the range between. Humans have associated with many of these, knowingly and unknowingly, since the dawn of humankind. This is reflected in language to a certain extent. Many old sayings and clichés indicate knowledge of spirit/human interactions.' - Spirits, Angels, Origins & Relationships By Robert Bruce'...hallucinations can occur due to increased levels of neural noise or spontaneous activation of various neural circuits. For example, if an area of the neocortex is abnormally activated that area in turn may act to interpret its own neural activity and may even assign emotional or religious significance to whatever is perceived. However, the degree and type of interpretative activity depends on the type of processing performed in the region involved. For example, tumors or electrical stimulation of the occipital lobe produce simple hallucinations such as colors, stars, spots, balls of fire, flashes of light. Tumors invading the parietal lobe may induce somesthetic hallucinations, including burning, engorgement, stiffness, or electric-shock like pain.' - Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuroscience by R. Joseph, Ph.D'More than half of Americans believe in ''anomalous phenomena'' like clairvoyance, unexplained coincidence, prayer healing and psychokinesis. Yet mainstream science remains unconvinced. After all, these anomalies appear to fly in the face of everything we know about how mind and matter interact. But that may be about to change. This year, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, introduced a conceptual model to explain seemingly inexplicable events scientifically. In 1991, Mayer had her own brush with the anomalous. She was searching for a stolen family possession and, on a dare, turned for help to a man 800 miles away who claimed to be psychic. To her astonishment, he was able to tell her precisely where to find the missing object. Mayer wanted a scientific explanation, and she embarked on a decade of research. Mayer's research and writings eventually led her to Robert G. Jahn, a science and engineering professor at Princeton. Since 1979, Jahn had amassed a mountain of data demonstrating people's ability to alter the outcome of a random event generator -- essentially a machine designed to replicate a perfect coin toss over and over -- in a minute but statistically significant way. Comparing the latest research from the fields of neuroscience, psychoanalytic psychology and quantum physics, Mayer and Jahn found some intriguing overlaps. Just as psychologists have spent the last century exploring the unconscious mind, physicists have been exploring that netherworld of physics called intangible dynamics, where string theory and quantum mechanics lurk. Both of these shadow realms violate our everyday understanding of logic and physics, space and time. Jahn and Mayer say they believe that anomalous phenomena may be a result of some type of information exchange between the unconscious and the intangible. ''Clairvoyance'' may actually be snippets of information from the physical world slipping into the unconscious mind and percolating up into awareness. Moving in the opposite direction, the unconscious mind may have the ability to subtly alter the physical world, explaining Jahn's data using random event generators. For now, the model is more a way to think about the problem of anomalous phenomena than a solution. ''Though we're still far from having evidence which proves it correct,'' Mayer notes in a public lecture she began giving this year, ''we can find tantalizing grounds on which to find it appealing.''' - taken from Coincidence Theory by Jason Felch'Henry Fuseli Sleep paralysis, or more properly, sleep paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations have been singled out as a particularly likely source of beliefs concerning not only alien abductions, but all manner of beliefs in alternative realities and otherworldly creatures. Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop of to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out. This may last a few seconds or several moments, occasionally longer. People frequently report feeling a "presence" that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil.' - taken from meta-religion.com'Nightmares and nocturnal attacks have been closely connected to myths and monsters across time and cultures. It has even been even suggested that the night-mare is the origin of all mythology (see Kirby, 1901). Although few modern scholars would be quite so bold or sweeping in their claims the pervasiveness of the nocturnal attack in mythology, religion, and legend is quite striking.' - taken from meta-religion.com
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16.2.05 08:01
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In the words of Bam Margera...
...I've got an idea. Just finished a script for a short film whilst waiting for these blasted FA's I'm supposed to check (and I've got rehearsals at 8pm) based on a previous short film I wrote but never shot except for one scene at Jordan's house which took the whole day and one tape. It was about pontianak's back then, it's about pontianak's now. With a twist. If you noticed in one of the earlier posts, there's a bunch of 'rules' imposed by the censorship board with regards to making a horror film. They are: 1. It must imply a dream element 2. It must not be too scary 3. It must not be too gruesome or violent 4. It must not be too bloody 5. It must defer to religious sensitivities (like not showing dead body rising from a grave) 6. It should end with a noble gesture or an element of good Taken from Zeta Lu's review in the Star.Whilst researching I came up with a possible way of doing a horror film whilst still abiding by those rules (the plot of which I won't chit-chat about yet, hehehe... it shall be a secret until actual production is under way). I've written up a 12 page script for the KSFM Shorts thingey (which I'm going to have to find time to shoot) as a testing ground for the storyline, the characters and the concept. Meanwhile, I'll also work on the script of the feature length version. The only real problem I have is rule 6: ' It should end with a noble gesture or an element of good'. Why? Why why why? Why can't everyone die in the end, eh? Must there be a repentance scene of some kind? Actually, now that I'm really reading these rules, 2, 3 and 4 kinda piss me off too. 3 & 4's 'no blood no gore' ruling's a bit on the annoying side. I like blood, guts and gore (in moderation, of course). Why must everyone else have all the fun. 2's just silly: ' It must not be too scary'. Hmmm. Kinda defeats the purpose of the genre, doesn't it? Fuck it. I'll deal with that when I get there. I've only written the short film script so far, still a long way to go. Further knews as it is filmed. Anyone interested by what little snippets of information I've already let loose and want to take part on this wild torpedo ride, feel free to message me.
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16.2.05 11:55
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Peepshow Stories
Just when I linked Pagan Moss' Peepshow Stories on my site, she went and posted a lot of art instead of her wonderful writing. Whilst I do like the art she's been posting, I'm quite glad that Dr. Menlo has gone and organized all her written blogs into nice little categorized links. Click here to sneak a peek into Pagan's world.
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16.2.05 12:26
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On the Filmmaking Trail.
So far two people have read the 12 page script tentatively titled 'Eye See Eye Believe', which is a terribly shit name, but I couldn't think of anything better at the time. After all, 'Star Wars' was almost called 'The Adventures of Luke Starkiller'. But yeah, two people read it, and so far the response has been alright. They did, however, bring up a few problems that I'm still trying to figure out:
1. How am I going to do the make-up for the pontianak's?
2. How am I going to make it seem like the pontianak is levitating?
3. Where am I going to get two girls who would be willing to play pontianak's in the first place?
Yes. I'm doing a horror film. A pontianak horror film. With a twist, I might add, but not of the M. Night Shamalamalamalamalaman variety.
The locations had already been figured out in my head when I was writing it, but not the cast. I know I'm probably gonna cast myself in the lead as I usually feel a sense of security knowing that the only person who can fuck up the most is me, but I still need women. Two. With long black hair and can pull off scary. Hssss...
Dammit, I need to figure out effects, make-up and how to shoot at night.
This will be very helpful, however, when it comes to writing the feature length. This short film is designed as a test run for the bigger picture, both in story and scope. If I can pull off the short film and get an audience hooked for 12 minutes with no budget, it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to pull off the feature length.
And don't worry, boys and girls, when I'm comfortable with the story and everything, I'll give you all a sneak peek.
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17.2.05 04:35
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