The Sales Pitch:
E-mail me if you would like to have a video produced for your
special occasions, be it wedding receptions, birthdays parties,
graduation parties. Photography coverage for special events
is also available. Contact me for details.
The Story:
It was in 1999 that I first
won an honorable mention for best Original Screenplay at the
Young Performing Arts Festival in San Francisco for my first
screenplay, Foster. I wasn't there to receive the
award, but my friend Matt Chou, nominated twice for best actor
and a bigger winner that night, accepted my award on behalf
of me.
Later, Matt and Lucy Silverstone,
a musician friend and festival attendee, sat down and wrote
a song. At the end of Foster, the title character
gives up his non-Christian girlfriend for God. Matt contemplated
how it must have been like for Foster on the day after, when
he woke up to face the world alone again. With a new life
ahead and so much of his past still lingering in his mind,
Foster was a January man. A man who is living in a new year
and yet still can't quite let go of the past.
The name serves both as a rememberance
to my first work and also as an inspiration to face each project
with a new mindset, a new perspective. Encouragement for myself
never to be complacent but always push my creativity to the
limit.
Past Videos:
Jeff and Elaina's wedding
slide show. (July
2th, 2004)
"Our wedding"
For Man and Joyce Ng.
Production complete. Full day
wedding coverage from preparation to the end of reception.
The Lives of Jenny and
Paul
Production is complete, this
is a wedding slide show project comissioned by the groom for
the wedding reception and will be premiering on June 28th.
Congratulations, Jenny and Paul!
The Video: A straightfoward slideshow / interview video with
material from both the bride and groom.
The Music:
I chose some old and new Jazz vocal songs and also some pop
rock from some independent contemperary musicians for this
video. Here is the list of songs.
1000 THINGS
Jason Mraz
"Live" 2001
www.JasonMraz.com
MORE THAN THIS
Performed by Norah Jones
With the Charlie Hunter Quartet
"Sounds From the Analog Playground"
Blue Note 2001
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
Jackie DeShannon
"This is Jackie DeShannon"
Imperial Records 1965
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Louis Armstrong
MCA Records
THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
Frank Sinatra
Reprise Records 1960
WHENEVER I CLOSE MY EYES
Skip Peri
"Into the divine" 1999
www.SkipPeri.com
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
Burt Bacharach
HAPPY TOGETHER
The Turtles
Sundazed Records 1967
CAUGHT UP IN YOUR LOVE
Ari Hest
"Come home" 2001
www.AriHest.com
Appreciation
The Video:
First conceived as a parody of Adaptation, the Charlie
Kaufman film with Nicolas Cage, Appreciation gathered steam
through its development and included comedy segments inspired
by American Idol and emotional scenes inspired by Mike Figgis's
Leaving Las Vegas. It was comissioned for Sisters
Appreciation Night at Harvest South Bay and was shown on April
19th. Appreciation is currently streaming
online and being distributed on CD-ROM.
The Score:
Appreciation utilized several key pieces of Music. First of
which is Koji Tamaki's "Mr. Lonely." The song was
first used in a Japanese soap opera "Konnani Koi no Hanashi"
("This love story") in 1998. Second is Mozart's
famous "O Fortuna," a popular piece of classical
music, usually known for its overwhelming, scary choir vocals.
End credits are rolled over "Fascinatin' Rhythm"
by George Gershwin, this piece came from a Herbie Hancock
CD, "Gershwin's world," and I think it is originally
from the opera "Porgy and Bess."
