[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.

[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.

The Slippers-Nipping Monkey.

The other crews went to shoot Marvin’s and Gus’s scene at the edge of the ‘pondok’.
They left only me and Sharidah alone at the entrance, together with our bags and stuff.

I was playing around with my camera,
trying to utilise my ‘hidden talents’ for photography (cheh cheh).
I played around, outside of the entrance, at the end of a walkway.

Sharidah, on the other hand, was playing around with her handphone, and sending sms-es.
She was in that pondok.

Of course, it was such a peaceful time for both of us.
That tranquility was destroyed when Sharidah screamed!

 

I looked back and was surprised to see a wild monkey jumped and landed right in front of me.

* Click ‘more’ for mine and Sharidah’s POV
* Also contains the shorter version, Gus’s and Marvin’s point of view- right at the end

JAG - First Shooting Day - Ep1

I’ve just went through the first shooting for this show.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t as stressful as I thought it might be.

Let’s face it, we’re still stumbling through our scenes,
We couldn’t really work out to look as a close-knit pack together,
and there’s only ONE camera!

With all those going on, you would expect pandemonium on the shooting day.

I was expecting it to involve lots of shoutings, scoldings, and complainings from the director and scriptwriter.
And I was expecting our performance to just crash down with time.
One camera for the four of us, would involve us working at a longer period without breaks for one scene.

And… Nothing like that happened.

Tired? Stressed? Yes.
But it wasn’t massive and we were able to shake it off when we were acting.
Instead, it was filled more with laughters than stress for me.

Alright, now I’m off to the details…