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Behind the Zombielious Scenes
 Alright, first and foremost, I would like to thank all of you guys who have voted religiously for me! Fate of winning or not has already been determined and we'll just have to wait till the awards night! Anyhoo, let me get to the main point of this blog entry. Yes, it is going to be about the Pringles Krrunch video, and more of what you don't get to see in that two and a half minutes of action. Gotta warn you first though, it's gonna be a photo-intensive entry! It all started with me texting Audi if he's interested to work together to enter the Pringles video contest. He was very excited about it when I told him my ideas UNTIL he found out the dateline. "When's the submission?" he asked. "Oh, it's on the 11th," I replied nonchalantly. "WHAT?! Isn't that like one and a half weeks from now? Are you crazy? Cannot lah!!!" The next thing we knew, we were at Heeren talking discussing the storyboard!   That is Audi's illegible handwriting for you. Storyline done. Storyboard done. ...the actors! And thankfully, Audi's resourceful enough to gather a bunch of friends to help out. I had initially managed to get Peggy to star as the main lead! Unfortunately, she had to turn the role down last minute due to some personal commitment. If not, this zombie flick could actually become a hawt Tomb Raider-ish action flick! Anyway, fast forward a few days, we were all on set, ready to shoot this zombielious video. Here's the video taken on-set during lunch break! I LOOK OMFGISH CHUI INSIDE THE VIDEO. PLEASE DON'T JUDGE HOR, YOURS TRULY ONLY SLEPT LIKE A FEW HOURS PRIOR! We started at 10am so when it was lunch time, Fabian and Nick were kind enough to walk all the way out of the jungle to buy food and drinks for all of us!    Zomie eating chicken rice, bet you've never seen this scene before! Haha! Oh, by now if you're wondering why there're like vast differences in the photos, well it is because some of them are my own edits and some are Audi's edits of the "production shots".  Make up's done by Gigi.   It's freaking awesome, isn't it?!  Looks like Jeff needs a "MTM treatment" pronto! Hahaha! Our zombies are a tad too white, but well, we are not professionals! Still have got a lot more to learn in the future! Now that our zombies are well fed, it's time for some action!        KENA HUNTER! There are 3 main action "hype" in the video. Glass smashing, gun shots & the flying "ninja chip". And thanks to Audi's resourcefulness again, we actually have that kind sugar glass that people use in professional productions!    Awesome stuff! Next up for the revolver gun shot scene, we had a *erm* conveniently placed *erm* dead police man. WHICH IS ME CAMEO-ING IN THE VIDEO! Sorry I'm shameless, but I had to find a way to be inside the video right?! MUAH HA HA.     I WILL HAUNT YOU IF YOU HATE ME!     If case you're wondering, yes, it's those old school Mediacorp gun shots! Sparks, smoke and bursting of blood packs! Not CGI okay!    On to the NINJA CHIP! Well, for that, I'd came up with the idea to green screen a spinning Pringles chip and make it similar to the gun shots in The Matrix! Here's how we did it!  Video of spinning Pringles chip...  Chroma-keyed the greens away on After Effects.  HAAAAEEEEEEE-YAH! Flying ninja chip!  Jeff's a superb actor! I don't have to repeat how convincing is the main zombie right?! Mannnn, we should really star him in some serious role soon! So anyway, the rain started to come in and we had to finish shooting asap. Thankfully, we're on our last scene (the funny zombies dancing one) and we quickly cleared up and managed a group photo!  Nick's missing though, he went to get Fabian's car to fetch us.   Looooooong walk out of the jungle! But we're not done yet! After the actors and photographers went home, we washed up at Audi's place and headed back to my house to shoot the ninja chip clip and the Pringles tubes scene!    My grey wall rocks! :D  It's a wrap! And from there was intensive post production! ...and doing the trippy scene was just madness!  Well, for the last time, IT'S KRRUNCH TIME, GET PLAYFUL! :P 
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