[PICSPAMS] JAG Shoot 17th April 2008

How long has it been since you last seen pictures of JAG?

Anyway, these are pictures from the shoot of Episode 2.

I got my cellphone tucked in my bag at the dressing room,
so not much pictures here.

I was lucky enough to smuggled my phone during one of the scenes.

 

 

JAG - Third Shoot - Ep1 (12th Feb)

I will first start this post with:

Gerard oh Gerard,
What would we have done without thou?,
What would we have been without thou?,
Where would we be without thou?,

Oh, just for a free ride to BTP, will you?
That’s all we’ll ever ask of you.

* I fail at flowery languages. So there goes my attempt at anything poetic.

It was the first time that Gerard couldn’t come for shoot.
This means that Marvin, Gus, and I had to struggle for our non-existent transport to BTP.

We have all gained a new level of appreciation for Gerard,
the only man on Earth who is able to transport us to and from BTP.

—–

It was finally the third and last day of shoot for JAG’s Episode 1.

It was only for one scene in the conference room.

As usual, it was freezing in BTP, we had to switch off the air-cond again.
And I think we’ll keep doing that for the following months to come.

When we entered the room,
we were delighted to see 2 cameras!
Meaning: More efficiency, Less shots.

If shooting indoors would mean having 2 cameras,
I’d gladly comply with that.

And another plus side
— we were mostly sitting throughout the scene.
Meaning: More concentration on movements/continuation,
less tiredness.

The 1 hour and 45 minutes we took to perfect that one scene doesn’t feel like a drag.

But I was eager to finish it and move on to the next chapter.

—

When we got all the shots done,
Amie and Gus looked over at Suras (director),
who was contemplating on whether or not to call it a day.

“Come on Suras.
Shout out “It’s a wrap!”
Say those 3 words that all the big, cool directors say!”

The only thing that came out of Suras was,

“…
…
Olait! Dah boleh balik!”

Although disappointed, this doesn’t stop Amie and Gus.
They took on the burden and repeatedly shouted out,

“It’s a wrap!
IT’S A WRAP!

IT’SAWLAP!!!”

We have finally completed the first episode!

Which gave me the rights to collect my pay!

$$$$$ Ka-ching $$$$$

… Except that, I forgot to hand over my contract to Suras.
Which gave THEM the rights not to pay me until I did so.

Guh.

Jazreen still has a very very dry pocket for the months to come.

“Take your time.”

It was the third day of shoot at BTP yesterday.

And since Gerard can’t give us a free ride there,

I had to ask my dad to send us there.

The plan was to pick up Marvin and Gus from Bangsar station before going straight to BTP.

Marvin sent me a text:

“I doubt that Gus will make it at 4.
More like 4.15.
So take your time coming out of the house.”

I was reading that text to my dad while he was driving.

Then he immediately took a sharp turn and headed to the opposite way!

JAEZ: Wargh?! Ayah, where are you going?!?!
DAD: What? He told us to take our own sweet time, right? Hehehehe.

As the evil cackles ended, I found myself in Low Yat Plaza, accompanying my dad doing his window shopping.

He took his time at the laptop shops, asking questions from the workers there.
I looked at the watch, 20 minutes till 4.
I dragged him out telling him that it’s almost 4.

The next time I looked at my watch, it was 10 minutes till 4.
And… he was still looking around at the laptops!

I urged him to please hurry,
we walked to the escalator and had to stop at the Memory Cards section because some new model have just came in and my dad was fascinated by it.

It was 5 minutes till 4.

“Ayah! We’ll never get to Bangsar in time!”
“Relax, if all goes well, we can reach there in 30 minutes.”
“Then I’ll be late by 15 minutes from the designated time!”
“Relax, we were SUPPOSED to take our own sweet time, right?”

Help.

5 minutes later, I got a text that both Marvin and Gus have reached the station- it was at 4pm.
Knowing that they’ll have to wait for more than 30 minutes, I got twitchy and panicked.

JAEZ:
They’re already there! THEY’RE ALREADY THERE!

DAD:
Yes yes. It’s good that they’re punctual.
*looks around*
Hmmm… Are there any mamak restaurant nearby?
I think I’m going to have my cigar.
And a cigar wouldn’t be complete without a teh tarik!
Come to think of it, I haven’t had my lunch yet.
So I’ll order some roti canai too!

JAEZ:
Nooooooo! That would take forever!

DAD:
Nonono. The PLAN was that we were supposed to take our own sweet time.
Didn’t your friend said so?

We were there at about 4.45pm.

After Marvin and Gus hopped into our car,
my dad turned back,

“Hi guys!
And don’t worry!
We are taking our own sweeeeetttt time!“

And he flashed his evil grin and cackled,
as I cover my face chanting- “Oh God.”

[PICSPAMS] JAG Shoot Day 1-2

It was shot on the 15th-16th January 2008 (Tuesday-Wednesday)
at Taman Pertanian Malaysia, Bukit Cahaya (Shah Alam).

Don’t expect to see much of my face in here.
I’m the one who’s snapping the photos and
I have long grown out from the days of ‘camwhoring’ by myself.

This will be a very brief spamming for fun.
I’ll later give out the link to the COMPLETE set of photos for those days.

“I Told You So That You’re Gonna Laugh!”

I’ve watched one episode of Snips before.
I watched it alone and stared at it in embarrassment.

I looked bad. Real bad.

Jay (Snip’s make up artist) applied too much make up on me.

When filming, I was aware that the make up was too thick, and my hair was done in such a way that I look hilariously bad.
The grown ups all said that I looked okay (probably not to make me flip out)
and that it’s the usual basis of ’screen’ make up.

So I went on with it and just cooperate anyway.
Hoping that maybe those thick cosmetics on my face would look better on camera.

To my disappointment, I still look awkward with those make up.

If you’ve met me, then you’ll know that I can look about 4 years younger.
When I was filming this, I was 16.
Minus it by 4: 12 years old.

Imagine that!

A primary kid, wearing heavy make up!
Those obvious red-pinkish blusher made me look even more ridiculous.

The Kementerian watched it and they praised me,

“Wah, very good ah. Primary school kid also can already act!”

Aoskdpkdfeijgfep?!?!
The fact that they thought I was 12, I don’t mind.
But I’m just grossed out by the equation of THICK make up and a PRIMARY KID!

After the end of JAG’s fourth rehearsals,
it just left me, Gus, and Gerard.

Then Gerard invited us to watch 2 episodes of Snips.
I dreaded for that since someone else (Gus) is going to watch me on tv.

While the credits were rolling, I turned to Gerard,

JAEZ: Gerard, don’t you think I look bad in this episode?
GERARD: Huh? No! You look okay. You’re just insecure.
JAEZ: No, Gerard. I look bad. Admit it.
GERARD: No, you look okay.

Then BAM!

The first thing that came on screen was my face.

Then throw in together the thick make ups
and a headband that pulled my hair all the way through the front of my roots,
Revealing my gigantic wide forehead!

LAUGHTERS ROARED IN THE ROOM!!!

Of course I was expecting Gus to laugh,
but man, even Gerard exploded at that point!

So much for, “No, Jazreen. You look OKAY!”

Then 20 minutes after that, I nudged Gus,
“Are YOU laughing…”

Gus, covering up his mouth, muffling and CHOKING BACK his laughter,
“NO! I’M NOT LAUGHING! Kekekekeke!”

And Gerard laughed. Again.
Gus, on the other hand, NEVER stopped laughing as we watched through the 2 episodes.

This just encourage me not to tell my friends and families when the show is scheduled to air on tv.

 

Hah, Gerard! I told you that you’re going to laugh at me!