SAE Institute Thailand - Professional, Practical Training For Your Future
SAE Bangkok workshop and activity
Behind the scene "Being found, Getting lost"
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| Our first day of shooting was on November 11th, 2008 on the beach in Cha-am, Thailand. The schedule was not too tight and we arrived on set early. Weather conditions were perfect, our only worry was getting the camera into the water... |
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| How do we do that without a proper water-proof casing? Indie-style. We spent a day before the shoot building a case from cardboard. We cut out holes for the cables and lens, wrapped each cardboard piece with tape, attached the cased Panasonic HVX202 with Letus lens adapter onto a shoulder mount with an external monitor, and pressed the recording button before putting on the lid and walking backwards into the water; Sugi, Vo and Max always on the ready to keep the camera from falling in. |
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| So far so good had the wind not been so strong that waves kept coming in over our heads. By that time Andre had taken over the camera as he, with his 6'4, was the tallest man on set. Not quite tall enough though so that every time a wave came in somebody shouted "CAMERA UP" and everybody lifted the heavy camera as high as they could while holding their breath. |
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Many times this was not quite high enough, in which case "CAMERA UP" was followed by frantic shouting "JUMP JUMP" as a huge wave started building up from behind. But hey, we got our shots and the casing held tight. Good job everybody! ; D |
Acting workshop
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| We had the great opportunity to partake in Acting for Directors workshop where the participants learn from the perspective of the actors. With the guest lecturer, John Morengo, a trained actor with many theater and film experience under his belt, the sessions were very rewarding. By pairing up with a partner or in groups, participants take part in different dynamic exercises like improvisations, objectives, subtext, moment before, etc.
It was exactly what the acting workshop set out to do as aspiring directors got a taste of being in the position of an actor. The skills gained from theses sessions will be useful as participants can apply them in making their films. As this is the first but not the last acting workshops we will come back to have other sessions soon. |
Make up Efx
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| Make up on the set of “You Asked For It,” a short film by Savitree “Tah” Intasoon and Bess “Lee” Barlow. Very good job. |
Scriptwriting Workshop Oct 2008
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| Guest lecturer by award winning German film director, producer, and writer, Niko von Glasow (www.palladiofilm.com). Seminar theme will be on writing screenplay from a Buddhist perspective, with exercises and discussions on Interdependence and Cause and Effect. The seminar went on for 3 days. Amazing time we had with such a dow to earth award winner director. Thank you ! |
SAE Sound effect Workshop with Kam Cooney
| One of the coollest things about movies are the special effects. Ever wonder how a car flips over when shot at the tires during a high speed chase? Or a knife thrown and as the camera pans hits bullseye at the victim's chest. These are the things that Kam Cooney designs at his workshop. Fake Knife, grenades, arrows, rubber chains he uses to make the action looks real on camera. With many years of working experience in Hollywood Kam shares many of his stories of working in the industry. Thanks to Kam Cooney for showing us a glimpse of the special effects side of moviemaking. Surely we would like to have those cool effects in our films. Thank you Sugi and team!!! |
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