Chasing Lights, The Saturdays - republic polytechnic final year project

The song, 'chasing lights' by the saturdays isn't owned by me. The song is used for nothing more than educational purposes.




Role: Actor, Director, Editor.

About This Film
Chasing lights is a music video themed short film. I wanted to explore the art of making a proper music video, the humor in cross dressing and visual effects. This film was a backup film that has been shot in 4 days and edited in 10 for our final year project submission. The original idea was to create a doumentary but the commitee disapproved the script 8 weeks into production and therefore had no choice but to scrape the plan and come out with something quick. Nevertheless we still managed to produce this short film which is, although of a smaller scale, still professionally done.

One.
The film consists of three singers lip synching to the song chasing lights by the saturdays. Getting the actors to sing in sync was a challenge for me as a director, while acting.

Two.
The song tells the tale about a girl who has had enough of the boyfriend. Personally I felt that the plot is thin and will improve on that.

Three.
The editing style consists of many fast cuts, a straight to the point editing.

Four.
Visual effects was the main focus of this film. I wanted the film to have a desaturated to vibrant flow from the start to end. What better way to express it than with a sin city styled desaturated background.

Five.
Towards the end of my film, the singers began performing in a white space. Light streaks were used mainly as a visual treat, and to compliment the song title at the same time.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• chasing
• lights
• the
• saturdays
• ryan
• boey
• short
• film
• music
• video
• singapore
• republic
• polytechnic
• interactive
• digital
• media
• 2010
• final
• year
• project
• leong
• wene

[lamerlizerryan]

we were all embarrassed, but eventually we embraced the attention it brought us :)

[amiramimi]

Hahaha. This is my favourite song... Omg.

[lamerlizerryan]

@amiramimi lol it was my favourite till I started doing this project, I had to hear this song hundreds of times over and over again during editing! Lol

[deviantdanny]

this is great stuff.. :) thumbs up from the USA

[lamerlizerryan]

thank you soo much, wonder how it went all the way from singapore to the states though! lol

[lamerlizerryan]

thank you thank you thank you!!! whoa this is tiring!

[dauct]

wa EPIC SIA.... LOVE IT

[chonghoe]

This is super good for just a FYP project, no A also got a B+. Professional work, thumbs up!

[zhenwenn]

HAHHAHAHAHA WHAT THE

[Mir0Panda]

Nice dresses btw :)

[Mir0Panda]

Omg how do you guys film this in public without feeling embarassed? XD

[amiramimi]

@lamerlizerryan Haha. Anyways, nice vid! Hehe. It got me laughing badly...  Wait. Did u act in this?

[akanaito90]

arnd 3:28, gt mistake. e girl wearing sport shoes suddenly instead of slippers she worn earlier on.

[deviantdanny]

studying here now.. :) am from Singapore... keep up the good work