sat was funfunfun.



imagine a midsummer night’s dream theme set in the zoo and there u have it.

yup, our rates have been revised to include the music copyrights fees from RIPS.

OMG. THE ‘XI GUA TIAN BU TIAN’ audio is driving me nuts. Shall let Carrie explain it in her next post as that’s her shoot.



a-flo-who-has-to-listen-in-to-carrie-converting-her-unedited-footage-into-dvd-format-for-clients.

6th was THE day for weddings.



It was such a hot date that we had to send out 3 teams of videographers and force carrie who usually does our edits to go on her first official solo shoot. (hooray! she’s no longer a shoot virgin.)



All 3 couples engaged our services at such a short notice that we were unable to meet up with them.



So imagine my surprise when I stepped into Charmaine’s bedroom and realised that she was my junior from sec sch. (it wasnt easy trying to connect her bridemaids’ faces and names to who they were in sec sch. 12 yrs such has made a huge difference.)



Charmaine and Michael’s wedding was a simple and ‘no-frills’ event (in his words). There was no ra-ra games nor any proclaimations of love. But her friends came together and produced not only a photo album of their ROM ceremony (photos contributed by whoever were there for their ROM n they even included photos of Charmaine posing in the hotel toilet. Don’t ask.) and also a short video clip. Just like what Charmaine’s mother said, it’s moment like these that are the most precious.




Flo

So I’ve just watched Carrie’s draft edit of Dinah and Roland’s day.
As I had mentioned previously, they are a simple, straight forward and … shy couple.



-grin



remember your first date?
all that uncertainty and churning tummy of emotions?
and how u have to try to contain everything in?
yup, that’s exactly how it was like for them.



it’s reallyreallyreally sweet.

Flo

awhile back, i was DOP for a short film which jeremy directed for the spore men’s chorus so today we
headed down to lee foundation theatre to catch the boys (and the short film) in action.



the one song that i really enjoyed was ‘the pink panther theme’ (u know, the ‘da-dang,da-dang,da-dang,da-dang,da-dang,da-dang,da-dang,da-da-da-dang?). they screened the opening of the movie while the boys sang(? no words leh) to it while trusting their conductor, jason ong. they were spot on with their da-dangs.



footnote: Carrie and I took half an hr to 1)spell the ‘da-dang’s 2) count the ‘da-dang’s and 3)sing it out loud to make sure.



i like jason ong. he moves while conducting like he’s doing his own solo dance.

A yr ago, when Eileen and I first found out that Wedding Paparazzi was run by a bunch of females, successfully at that, we had always wanted to meet up with them. We knew it wasn’t easy working in a male-dominated field and we wanted to know how did they manage to do that.



We finally had the chance to meet up with them on Thurs.



Ami,
Blossom,
Eva,
Mylene.
(and Duke Orange, of course)



One thing they had in common, besides their sharp sense of humour, is their unusual names. For a person like me who has difficulties in pronoucing names…. theirs was quite a challenge, I didn’t quite dare call them by name for fear of mispronoucing it.



Though you could say that we were compeitors, the girls in Wedding Paparazzi were very candid and willing to share their past experiences with us. It was an eye-opening afternoon for Carrie and I and we do greatly appreciate their openness.



Hopefully, this is a sign that there’ll be greater things to come for us all wedding videographers.

ps: Duke Orange is their in-house cat, with his own facebook. absolute royalty, in a class of his own.



(i need a cat)
(Flo wrote the above)



(Carrie continues:)
The very efficient Redhat Media guys (Eil and Melvin) tagged us non-stop on facebook with the following 2 photos so we’ve decided to share them with you too:




from L to R: Blossom, Eva, Mylene, Ami (TWP), Eileen, Melvin (RHM), and the 2 cats




from L to R: Carrie Cat 1, Flo Cat 2, Eil and Melvin (oh if you realise, we’ve got bright cat smiles while the other 2 have got non-cat smiles. cute hor?)

Video has been removed due to bandwidth reasons. Please contact carrie@meoworks.com.sg if you wish to see the video.
Thanks

Never had the chance to meet Darren as he’s working in Perth till 10th of May.

-grin.

He’s quite the talker so it’s not a wonder how he won Colleen’s heart.

Gate crashing with him was hilarious and it’s quite a pity that my editing didn’t do justice to him and his brothers (or rather lack of, due to his extreme independence during gate-crashing games.)

(video used to be here)
ps: his brother has a lovely voice

pps: don’t u think that his bro looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle? (the red one)