SMIC Movie Industry Club » Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com Everything about the Movie Club Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 The SMIC Promo has been released! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/08/the-smic-promo-has-been-released/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/08/the-smic-promo-has-been-released/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:52:58 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=393 I don’t need to say much. Watch the video and enjoy =)

Thanks to EVERYONE who supported us, including the cast, the crew, Dr. Han, and of course, the evil genius. ( ;) He’ll know who I am talking about)

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]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/06/will-you-be-in-shanghai/feed/ 38 Day 1 of filming the Promo… Wow! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/05/day-1-of-filming-the-promo-wow/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/05/day-1-of-filming-the-promo-wow/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 16:48:02 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=386 I just can’t tell you how pleased I am with the filming today in school. It took us only 1:30 hours to finish the 5 scenes that we planned that we would shoot for 2:30 hours.

The combination of Mr. Shall and Ms. Hsu is simply great. It is always fun to hear them go insulting each other. Mr. Hsu would always say about “You[Mr. Johnson, Mr. Shall] promised to love Andrew [his son, Michael Tao] when you married me[Mrs. Johnson, Ms. Hsu]!”. In addition, Mr. Canfield loved introducing the “Wonderful exit signs that lined up across the hallways”. Hilarious!

I am really looking forward to film with you guys again sometime next week. Good job!

Thanks to all the people who showed up today, especially Yvette, Thanakrit and Jason. You guys helped me so much!

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/05/day-1-of-filming-the-promo-wow/feed/ 2 Justine the Best Director of S2F2!! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/04/justine-the-best-director-of-s2f2/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/04/justine-the-best-director-of-s2f2/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:27:57 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/2009/04/justine-the-best-director-of-s2f2/ From Justine’s Email:

Hey guys, this is Justine.

As y’all know, yesterday I went to SAS Puxi for the S2F2 with some of the members.. And congratulations to us, our short film Runner…

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won the BEST DIRECTING award!

Can I get a woot woot???

Okay, anyways,

all I want to say is that I’m so thankful of having every single one of you and I’m so very proud of you.

Yin and Jason are going to be one of the greatest movie couples ever in the movie history of the world like Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn from Roman Holidays or Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman from Casablanca. Which, by the way, are both awesome movies, go watch them. Seriously. You guys are so amazing. Pardon my French, lol. I can always enjoy my times around you guys and honestly filming with you guys is….way more than just fun. Oh and Yin, you have done way much more than you need to and I am so thankful for that. I love ya babes :)

Peter, sigh, I’m still in the process of convincing him to be a movie editor. Actually, people why don’t you join me? Peter, you really have the talent to be one! So don’t waste it, you! And, haha, I know that sometimes we really just hate each other, but I also really hate to admit that you are, in fact, the best editor/nerd I’ve ever seen. Your skills blown me away. Thank you, honey. :)

Thanakrit, first of all I really need to say that I love you so much. And I’ll love you more if you could just stop talking to Yvette. :D . Just kidding laaaaah. Anyways, thank you for being so awesome and always yell at me when I need it. You always give me the best suggestions in filming and seriously you’re just great. Indescribable great friend and after effect-er and Thai ;)

Ethan, Miffy, Paul, Christie, Stephany, Simon, Shirley and everybody else who helped in making this possible, thank you so so so much. The Runner would never happened without any of you. And sorry that you don’t have your individual paragraph, but y’all are getting a fatter paragraph than any of them. Ha sucks for them. ANYWAYS, lol, you guys made this possible and each and everyone of you are so good it amazes it. I’m serious, that first scene where everybody’s just busy and stuff, you guys are so good. I know because you guys pulled it off perfectly when I know that I really suck at explaining the entire situation. Miffy, thank you for lending us the awesome camera, which, by the way, is so good that my computer actually froze 3 times while I was trying to watch the original movie. Paul and Ethan and Christie, you guys are (y). Thumbs up for you guys. And Paul, sorry for the little incident that happened  :( You’re so cute, Howdy lol.

As for Yvette, really, what’s there to say? I love you <3

Anyways, I guess all I’m trying to say is that, this would never be possible without any of you. I don’t think that’s grammatically correct but I don’t care. You guys are truly the greatest friends one can ever ask for, and the best crew a director can ever ask for. If I can choose again, I’d still choose you guys.

This award is dedicated to all of you.

And I will definitely mention your name when I’m receiving that Oscar. :D

I love y’all. :)

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12.30 MVC meeting with RFC FULL HEADS MEETING at MVC room

discussing ideas.

3 minute Promo

Theme

Fundraising Plan

Canceled, email needed (Paul)

Because main leaders aren’t going to be there for half of the time.

The Hwa Chae was refused without a reason.

Peter needs to make a formal proposal by tonight. And arrange another meeting with Dr. Han, to make sure that we get a permit for the budget.

School Promo

Script due Monday.

Small Films

Thanakrit: Remedy Plan Abandoned.

Thanakrit’s New Plan: due two weeks later.

Limited amount of actors.

The script does not fit the time.

Regarding the Tools that will or will not belong to us.

SCREAM WITH A SCREW-YOU TONE

We should balance out the time for our personal films and the school promotional meeting.

The French Club Event is canceled: an email is needed regarding the cancelation.

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/mar-16heads-meeting-notes/feed/ 0 [18 Mar]RFC PROMOTION VIDEO COMMERCIAL http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/18-marrfc-promotion-video-commercial/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/18-marrfc-promotion-video-commercial/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:49:03 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=375 We’re here to talk to discuss the ideas regarding the RFC film.

AMY: What we want in the film? “portray music,having fun while helping people.” FOCUS ON ROCK MUSIC, ACCOMPANIED WITH HELPING. to get people interested.

Start with a funny/comedic scene, solemn towards the end.

- Opening doors to see instruments.

THANAKRIT: Song Empty (slow). Footage of the Si Chua charity at the first part.We show that we are going to use music to help.

Start off watching TV, knowing that people are suffering but no one’s helping. Maybe enter into the act of helping.

Maybe first part should be hyper, two focus.

JUSTINE: film melancholy sound. Then…shows people looking for the music. Finds the band playing, transition to Word-Picture, with the studio version behind.

Requires an upbeat song, with a strong bass: Parellizer

NEEDS VARIETY OF PEOPLE FOR THE RUNING PART.

Deadlines

- Screenplay: Yvette writes the screenplay.

- Start Filming next week

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/18-marrfc-promotion-video-commercial/feed/ 4 [RELEASE] Justine’s Runner for S2F2! http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/release-justines-runner-for-s2f2-sneak-peak/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/release-justines-runner-for-s2f2-sneak-peak/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:37:54 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=356 It’s out it’s out! Yes, I am just probably as excited as you are, but IT IS OUT! Justine’s Running film, after 3 weeks of production is finally out to public.

This film is going to be submitted to the Shanghai Student Film Festival on April 17th. For more information of this video, visit this post.

Film updated on 18 March. Enjoy the vid! (Youtube seems to darkened the film by a bit)

Download it now: iPod (22M), Medium Quality (30M), or Loseless Quality (866M, through torrent)

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/release-justines-runner-for-s2f2-sneak-peak/feed/ 38 Website & Faculty Member change http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/website-faculty-member-change/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/website-faculty-member-change/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:30:01 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=337 As most of you are probably aware, we now have a new website domain http://www.mvcstudios.com. We will continue to update the website, such as putting more contents in it. So please check back regularly! Also, responding to Christie’s comment, I added a small “wall” section for you to just shout… anything. It is in the sidebar —>, titled “Wall”

Secondly, we have a new Faculty Advisor for our club! We were so delighted to have Mr. Carroll as our new faculty advisor! We had a meeting with him this afternoon, and it was certainly great to share some thoughts about the club between each other. Let’s hope we can do better with the new advisor =)

]]> http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/website-faculty-member-change/feed/ 29 Plans screwed up. Plan B http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/plans-screwed-up-plan-b/ http://mvcstudios.com/2009/03/plans-screwed-up-plan-b/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:32:44 +0000 Peter Zhang http://mvcstudios.com/?p=332 We were just notified that the S2F2 deadline has been changed to March 13, which is next Friday. In order to maintain qualities in the film, we decided that it is the best not to film both videos (Remedy and Running) at once, but only focus one.

We have decided to keep Running and move Remedy to later. More news will come up, and the calendar would definitely be updated.

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  • Story from 4 different perspectives:
    • Kindergarten Family
    • Graduated Student
    • High School Family
    • New Teacher
  • Four families arrive at school at the same day to explore the school with a guide.
  • Through them, we will show the information such as College Acceptance, Facilities, etc.
  • There will be a “story-within-a-story” in each families/individual, such as:
    • Kindergarten: Sees the Kindergarten facilities, while the student accidentally falls in the corridor, and the nurse takes care of him very nicely
    • Graduated Student: Sees Facilities improve, involves in a fundraising event he used to be a part in, dinner with the friends
    • High School Family: Sees curriculums and college acceptance information while being touched by the details and care of the counselor.
    • Teacher: Sees hardworking faculty and be motivated.
  • Four stories is going to happen at the same time with cuts to each other almost randomly. Time is what linking them together.
  • At last, they will all be witnessing the RFC – our school’s special and unique event
  • No narrator is needed
  • Interview will be done in conversations between the perspectives and the respective teachers (such as counselor, etc.)
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