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In streets selling nostalgia, bargaining folks find shelter in quiet shadow. I dream of neon lights against an iron sky, bold colours boxed in a corner. Cheap, sprawling buildings intersecting from childhood, seeing the future in store, the boundless symmetry. Natural, old and new places coexist, the Yin and Yang Sanctuary in this tranquil garden city. Melting pot: the cosmopolitan city of colours washed to tears when rain pounds, constrained by gritty wires. Manmade panoramas atop these quiet hills dominate the skyline where history lays flat.

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Day 2

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Day 5

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Day 3

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Photos from Hong Kong

Day 4

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Travel Photography Montage - Turkey/Greece 2023

It's my first time doing a project of this nature.

I did not have an Instagram page when I was on this trip, so I was less concerned about taking photos all the time.

Most of the time I put away my phone and enjoy the sights like I usually do, and I only take photos when I feel inspired by the environment around me which is often the case here.

What I'm saying is... I had NO IDEA I was gonna do a photo montage, or at least I didn't know I was gonna be the one doing it.

As such, my photos were... Limited

So not everything you see here was shot by me, but most of it.

Process

As it was my first time with such a project, I really did not know how to make heads or tails of the whole thing.

Do I start each segment with explanation slides? Or more photo captions? especially when there were lots of sites and relics that were significant.

As a musician, I wanted to be very intentional with my choice of music and exactly how it is used in the video.

With my previous experiences with films, especially with that Point-and-shoot project where I had to stitch together multiple disjointed footage to form a cohesive story (that project was a cringe failure but it has now paid off!)

Fast forward 7 Years later! (wow, time really flies!)

I made the conscious choice for the first draft to only have raw visuals, with music and some sound design added.

Since 80% were static images, music was REALLY important, so that was the first thing I had to put in.

Throughout the production, I used a technique I now call, "Visual Association".

Basically deploying visual misdirection by having 2 photos from 2 different locations side by side, tricking your brain into thinking that they are from the same place but soon finding out that it's in another place.

For a split second you'd assume that the 2 photos are the same place, but nope!

This one's a bit more on the nose that you can feel yourself being teleported to the restaurant!

This one's less obvious, I wanted to transport the viewer from Mars Hill to Plaka Market, so I used the image of the Centurion dudes juxtaposed with a chess set that featured a Centurion Pawn Piece

Yes, I do 'cheat' with some "creative freedom", that chess set isn't event from Plaka Market and as a matter of fact, not all of the shots in the video were 100% in chronological order but who cares?

Closing Thoughts (Goodbye 2023)

I'm really proud of how the whole thing turned out, I never liked those kind of influencer vlogs where you are viewing as a third person seeing how much fun these people had.

This "film" approach was so much better for me, where I transport the viewer together on the journey as well.

Show don't tell! No need to over-explain or narrate anything, let the imagination take over!

I sure had fun doing this project, even if I had to buy FOUR albums off iTunes to do this 😅💸

Art really does come from paying attention! I now have come to remember this trip more fondly than I would have otherwise.

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SGG Roundtable

An intimate roundtable of esteemed game developers from all over Singapore having a fruitful discussion about playtesting in games.

Video Editing, Audio repair and polishing done by Ian Ngoh

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Mixing and Mastering on this track done by me

Used with permission from URM Academy

Producer: Tiago Canadas and Rodolfo Jaca Additional Production and Vocal Production: Vasco Ramos Engineer: Tiago Canadas Original Mixer: Tiago Canadas Original Mastering: Joel Wanasek

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Short Film for Christmas. This was a much more ambient mood piece

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A commercial that I have done recently.

Sound Design and final Mixing by me

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My Berklee Projects plus my Diploma FYP.