AC Photography & Video Journalist Malaysia

Intentionally we was going to gem island for a leisure and relaxing trip. Being in the media industry can be very stressful and this island is a place to get away from all stress and enjoy ourselves. Also we are there is because of invitation for star gazing and photography activity. When we arrive there, even before we move from KL to this Island, we have not really heard about this Island. This place is not a great commercialized resorts like Pulau Redang or Perhentian. It is a Small Island but well protected and only small scaled of accommodation available. \

When we arrive here, we thought that this place is really great, especially the sky at night. Its the best stary night sky I’ve ever seen in my life. It is impossible to see so much stars in the town I live in. Therefor, We made this video to introduce this whole island. The Island is opposite Pulau Kapas, only can accommodate about 90-100 people  only. A very well kept beach and island. People who love nature, sand, beach and water, should come here and relax.

This tourism like video idea just struck us as we felt that good things are meant to be shared. As not many know about this place. We use a video steady cam to mount a Canon 550D and start shooting. All footages are all shot in full HD quality and the entire visual quality is really awesome. Besides, we also capture some photograph to incorporate into the video. The Star timelapse you see in the video is made out of 500 over SLR images

Below is the introduction video to this entire island.

Gem Island located at Terangganu Malaysia is a best place to relax and get away from stress. Recently I spent 3 days and 2 night there to take a break for a moment from work. Though it is suppose to be a break from work trip, but I didn’t leave work completely, I still carry my camera together with me. And when the sun goes down, this place really surprise me very much with the stars during the night sky. I manage to capture star images and also the milky way. Below Is a time lapse video taken. This video took us 3 hours to shoot, every shot 30 seconds exposure at 3600ISO with a 18mm efs lens. After taking about 500 shots, I open all the image with Quick time player, “Open Image sequence” and you will get a complete time lapse video like below

Above, an image of the milky way captured from earth. No telescope use, not picture from NASA, just a photo shot using my DSLR

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AC
Visual Artist, Photographer

Was invited to photography an event for ladies theme ” No Man’s Land” at Over Time Club Kuala Lumpur. This event was sponsored by many corporate bodies. Including I Skin Solution. AC was also invited by I Skin Solution to cover this event. The event was all night long entertaining female. Activities and shows was design for ladies interest. That night, the most screaming show was guys sexy dance, throwing off clothes and getting girls on stage to strip the guy’s out fit off and dance together with them. Body builder’s show, wearing only underwear and showing off their muscle to make girls scream. Fashion show and also Hair do Show by Muse Studio. All these was photograph and capture by AC and team working on 3 cameras. 2 cameras to cover the photo shoot of the event and one more to cover the video. We shoot video of the entire night’s event. Video will be up soon and readers can see how wild the event went that night. Below are some of the event pictures

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AC
Photo and Visual Journalist/Blogger

Basically I’m just reposting this travel log that I once did 6 month ago. Hong Kong is known as Pearl Of Orient. Yearly, this place attract millions of tourist to come and visit. For its famous shopping spree, food and culture every one is desperate to visit this place. I came here to visit like any other visitors but also I try my very best to capture the best images to fulfill my photography craves and passion for visuals and images. I visit many places in Hong Kong for this 4 days 3 night trip. Seeking every corner and back lanes for food, nice photographic view and for shopping. Places Like Hong Kong Island, The Peak, Kowloon, Causewaybay, Sham Tseng(famous for its roast goose), The wax Museum and all the markets in Hong Kong are my targeted places to explore. Below is some of the videos that I shot and for best reference of where to go when you visit Hong Kong

To elaborate further, Places I strongly recommend to go it Sham Tseng, for its famous Roast Goose. You can reach there by several ways. You can either take MRT, Bus and Taxi. I personally felt that taking the minibus is much convenient because those buses is easily found. Remember to take those with green roof not the red ones. In Hong Kong island, places you shall see is the Peak where you can get a glance of the entire night scenery on Hong Kong. Wax museum is located at the same place too. Then you can spent the late night hours with friends in Lan Kwai Fong to drink and chat. Places in Hong Kong Island that worth to visit, there is also Causeway bay, a place of great shopping mall with best branded items around such as gucci, prada, LV and so on

Coming back to Kowloon area where the most food and street markets are located. where Sham Shui Po, Ladies Market, Jade Market, Sports Shoes Street and delicious deserts are just easy to reach by MRTs. Take a look at my video below

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A short film that we recently did get great response from social networkers. Great sharring on facebook and also youtube making our film and the character, master Mo Ment an iconic name for people who have watched it. This film can reach out to so many people and get their appreciation is not because of a single person’s work. Its a team work which is extremely precious. Without them, this film would not reach out so fast. The power of networking has impressed our sponsors and they are really really happy with the performance of this short film as they started business not long ago but today, after this film it out, IT WAS RECOGNIZED in MALAYSIAJOKES.COM. We are really proud of that as our experimental is proven to be shared by many and for the sponsor’s side, they also belief that new concept of branding works. Therefor they also encourage more corporate to do such concept as it is in high entertainment value and Social Networkers will share it for the sake of entertaining their friends and family. AC Creations being the first  in our country doing such idea which combining drama and branding + social networking .

We will continue to produce more entertaining films and we also hope through of social networking we will get more sponsors to make film and get branding for them self. AC Creations is looking forward in making Long Format/Feature Length Film and get it to the Cinema if we have come to a stage of great financial sponsors and also experience in film making. We hope that more corporate bodies would be willing to sponsor and support local made movies and improve this industry and in the same time build their brands making a win win situation.

Below is a small celebration after the success of Our very Own Ip Man 2 Parody – MoMent

Thanks for supporting us by sharing and linking our productions. This post I would like to share our behind scene experience. looking at the video above, really makes me think back all our experience and hardship dealing with actions and camera angles. I can imagine that many action movies are not easy to do. A single scene like this took us a whole day to shoot. The though part is actually choreograph and memorized the moves my own.. And also on camera angles, it is also a challenge to get good angles to make the action look much greater impact. Any way. This is just a preview of the behind scene.. We will have one longer version coming up covering commentary and also the making off. Stay tune on our site for more updates and stories

after weeks of promoting the trailer. We released the full 3 mins length film. This particular film is an experimental film making. We are lucky that we got sponsors to support such works. To our point of view and even our recent sponsor, I Skin Solution, mention that more corporate should not look down on web networking. Besides just paying for advertisements to create brand awareness, They should also do some thing that could benefit people. For example entertaining people. This concept of Short Film + Branding creates more awareness as people are more interested to watched it because they are entertaining. Just like “Mo Ment 2″ we give it a twist towards the end and make it hilarious that any one who watch this video will remember the brand I Skin Solution. Film making industry can be categorized in many, TV Advertisement, Drama, Long Format Film, ect. Branding in film making is called TV commercials.  One of the most costly branding way and people may switch to another channel when advertisement comes. Thats a Fact. Less expensive and higher exposure branding is through Internet media. Plus having entertainment value, people will sure watch. With today’s technology. Web branding must not be place in the back seat. Making fun and entertaining films can draw alot of public interest.

And AC Creations will further venture into more experimental and entertainment Short films and looking forward for more sponsors to sponsor us and get a branding for them selves or their corporate brands. Any one is interested to sponsor a short film, contact us directly

Behind The Process Pictures. (Thanks To Wong Shang Shen)

We finally finished our first round post production and presented to our sponsor. I Skin Solution. They are extremely happy with our work and we had an interview session with them. In the interview, We discussed about the concept, the idea, film and the feed back that they are hoping for. They also encourage more corporate to look into sponsoring short film and get a publication and exposure about their brand at the end of the film. That is what I Skin Solution gets at the end and with this kind of sponsors, they encourage more creative and media people and in the same time, get more people to know about them. A win win situation for creative bodies and also them as a client or business parties. They also mention that entertaining their own client can prolong and keep a good business relationship with them.

From the previous post of pictures and articles about behind scene that we shot Ip Man 2, a Parody version, Name changed to Mo Ment, The film is almost finishing and the trailer is done. Back and forth, we spent about 1 week to make a short film from scratch. From no idea, to getting inspiration, plan, prepare, rehearse shoot and post production. All these in one week. Thanks to I Skin Solution who sponsored us this short film. We are looking forward for more corporate to sponsor such art to promote the art of film making and also in the same time getting advertisement for themselves. This short film is although short but every scene is our hard work, time and effort. We have gain to reach a new experience in film making after this Mo Ment was made. We can go further in future and we are hoping one day we can make it to the big screen.

Take a look at Our Trailer, Stay Tune for the Full Version

For the first time, I, planned to make and action film. A  short one ofcourse. Don’t have the budget yet to make a 2 hours length film thats why experimented to make a short one first by replicating a scene in popular wing chun martial film lately. Not being arrogant, full and proud about ourselves but I would really like to acknowledge and salute my team and my self that we can manage to finish an action film in not longer 3 days. FROM SCRATCH.. We got an idea on Wednesday, Confirmed to make it on Thursday, Rehearse not longer than 30 minutes on Friday, buy props and outfits on Saturday and finally shoot on Sunday.

Sunday Morning at 6am, I woke up and got ready. reach location at 7+ and have our breakfast and start shooting. We start off rehearsing the action move and camera angle in about 15 minutes and we started shooting the stuff. The way we work was, played the original video and memorized the first few move and shoot. We played and shoot several of times, infact many times before we can get a good one.

Half way through it rains.. and we have no choice to stop the shoot. During rest, we manage to play back what we have shot and we are more excited to continue on. After the rains stop, we continued to shoot and finally finish the whole project. Only using 6-8 hours to finish from set up to rehersal to the real shoot.

Below are some images of behind the scenes… and No I did Not Film Ip Man, I filmed a titile called Mo Man

Stay Tune to my Blog for further updates on this film

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AC
Visual Artist : Photographer, Cinematographer