5 Minutes: Episode 1

Badran was late and he knew it, the digital clock on his dashboard indicated 4:30 am, he was running out of time. "This is bullshit...how could he expect me to deliver in such a short space of time!" Badran thinks to himself. Badran steps on the gas of his Satria GTi, he had to make it in time for hersake. Suddenly Badran's cellphone goes off, Badran reaches for his cell and realizes the unknown number on his cell's screen. It was him. Badran immidiately answers the call " Yes?" " Do you have the package?" a deep growly voice on the other end asks. "I'm on my way now, I'm going as fast as I can!" answers Badran. "Then better step harder, because in another 5 minutes your little girlfriend here is gonna fly out the window", the call ends. Badran stares at the phone, he has to make it in time to save her. He then regroups himself and presses hard on the gas.

TO BE CONTINUED...

The Rush Hour

Got home around 10:00pm, called some of my mates to hang out. As I was laughing loads with them a received a call from my COD saying that an e-mail I sent didn't reach its intended receiver. Now this was near midnight, I was at eatery in my hometown Taman Tun with no laptop in sight, suddenly the night turned into an episode of Die Hard. I sped to pick up my mate at One Utama, came back to the eatery, thought for awhile and then zoomed back out to go home, the only place that I knew I had access to the internet. I managed to send the e-mail in the end but boy, was that a Rush Hour moment or what!

1 Hour of Sleep on a Monday

Work...work...work. The human system that has been going on for centuries, the set system of human beings. Well I got one hour of sleep, went to work, went for a small shoot at Jalan Kelang Lama, came back edited another episode of the TV show I'm doing. Owh, and I managed one or two flirty sms's as I was working all in all it was a good day. Kind of sleepy though, just couldn't fall asleep yesterday...something didn't feel right. Oh well it was an ok day, gonna go home at 7pm, watch some TV, Youtube, write in some forums and prepare for a big day tomorrow.

Quarantine me from this movie and never let me out!

So there I was at the office, finishing some stuff for the week and then I get a phone call from a good mate of mine who said he bought tickets for the movie Quarantine. For starters I didn't know this movie was a remake of a Spanish movie called "Rec" and I saw Quarantine's trailer and thought "Hey, this things got that Blair Witch vibe" so I decided to go see it with my friend and these other four people. So I reached the cinema with my mates, got into my seat and in all honesty, probably watched the weirdest zombie movie ever. For starters, the cinematography was too shaky, don't get me wrong I don't suffer that bad from motion sickness but that crap at times made me want to vomit. The story was suddenly in your face, didn't really know anything that much about the main characters just that the camera dude and the reporter are doing some piece on firemen. Would I suggest this movie to anyone? Well if your cool with shaky cams sure go ahead, but I must admit I was entertained, the little girl biting her mom was just too hilarious. I give this flick a 6/10.

Woah...just go away now!

One thing that I have always disliked is having to do work in front of people. The feeling of somebody peeking over your shoulder watching what your doing just irks the hell out of me...I do not like it one bit, but as an editor I guess I have to learn to control it. Basically I have always hated that feeling, makes me feel like I'm already doing something wrong, like right now, clients are hogging the editing suite how I wish they would just go away, they annoy me like nobody's business...ugh..GO AWAY!!! I'LL SHOW YOU MY SHIT WHEN I'M DONE! GOOOO!

The art of waiting

7 Minutes to 1 and 3 hours before the client arrives to preview again the TV Show we're doing for them. Kind of nervous, did some closing credits for them last night (i.e. 10 pm +), got some names wrong and languages started becoming more and more rojak (I have this thing when I don't know what it means in Malay I just write the stuff up in English). Before that I did some retouching of the promo's, I seriously do not know what these guys want in their promos so I'll just do them then. Blogging at the office, how cool is this?! Slept kind of late last night (had to wait for some names and logo's to be confirmed) woke up near noon. Scary..really scary.

A New Life, A New Beginning.

So I haven't written a blog since my birthday that was over a month ago. The reason being is that I have made a big change in my life and finally now I am beginning to understand what it takes to grow up. It was during that week of my birthday that I started my new job at Lineclear Motion Pictures, as an editor working under the wing of my former lecturer En. Faizul A. Rashid who now acts as my Chief of Department. Now let me get this in the open, editing was never really my strong point in a production hierarchy, I was hoping to get some position in the more management departments such as production manager or location manager cause I have always felt that those positions were better for my minimal skills. So here I am, 1 month plus into this new job as an assistant editor and to be honest with you I was put into the "war" early on, my first week I had to cut a 30 second commercial and woah...what a scary thing that was. I have hardly touched an editing program in almost 2 years and this was hardly the start I was craving for. So there I was in the editing suite knowing nothing about Final Cut Pro or DV Capturing alone (the COD went shooting with the second editor) , I panicked started calling my old University mates who have become professional editors. And those guys were really life savers they put me into a crash course editing program through text messaging! LOL! And as I went through the week the things I learned during my editing course at the University started coming back, although I have to admit I'm still basically horrible at cutting and meshing but hey, if Picasso ended up becoming an art great so can I. A few weeks in, the job has been interesting, done some commercials, becoming a regular goer to Sri Pentas TV3 (sometimes I prefer to send the items in the morning cause I can drop by the TV Station when I'm on my way to work, did some subtitles for an upcoming movie (*cough**cough* just one line...), and right now making my first TV Magazine.

Its a great experience I must admit but it's also killing my social life, I mean I hate it when I have to tell my best friends that I can't hang out with them cause I have so much work to finish. They've called me so many times but at the moment I am so bloody busy, wow, this is getting too Cat's in The Cradle for me. A freelance editor told me last week, "Once your in the editing biz say bye bye to your social life" I really hope thats not the case here, I mean I think I'm gonna end up liking this job but at the same time I don't want it to destroy something that cherish a lot, my friends.

My love life is in shatters, I kind of have a weird feeling in my gut right now, kind of sad, depressed but it's not because I'm lonely or anything but more about some things that you hope and wish for don't come true. You promise to become somebody more than you are but when you finally reach that place it's too late. The thing is without those simple words of inspiration, I wouldn't be here right now, so should I be angry or should I just let go. Maybe I was too late, maybe I was just fooling myself, I can only hope that the future will bring better fortunes for me in this area of my life.

So here I am, Wan M. Amin...ready to face to adult world after so many years. Here we go people let the show begin. Oh yeah, be sure to check your local TV listings for some of my upcoming work, keep an eye out for the 5th of December on Fridays, 7:30 pm.