RRR - Rapid RED Respond unit
RRR - Rapid RED Respond unit
if you liked it you should put a ring on it
love is in the air, lets the spring begins!
it has been awhile since I shot this… 15 months ago to be exact, it is finally out! Man, that’s when I was still fairly new to advertise myself as a DP…
Proud to be filming the feature length Rap and Rhyme with my RED via a smallHD DP4-EVF in Greensboro, NC just miles away from their headquarter!
dailies from day one production of Rap and Rhyme, a feature film written and directed by Maurice Hicks
the stunningly talented Abby posing for her first RED shoot.
I had been back from Hong Kong for over a week now and finally spent my Friday night editing this video, partly because I had been extremely busy between traveling to different shoot, filming and catching up on editing deadlines.
In the meantime, I was debating if I should edit this at all. Most of the footages were fairly personal to me, I filmed it at my grand parents house, who help my parents to raise me up as an infant; the other location was my other grand parents place which I spent pretty much all of the festive time during my childhood. Many things changed since I moved to the US, and this was the first time I was to capture these memories as a filmmaker.
Additional footage that I shot weren’t at all great, they were rather generic montage of a very tiny fragment of the city which I had grown so familiar to, but now so distanced. It was a very busy trip coming back for the first time after six years, so I rarely have time to film on the street, I mostly shot in transit from one dinner meeting to another, three times a day, to reunited with families and friends. There wasn’t even any night footage, which I was most ashamed of, but I prioritized my time in Hong Kong to spend with my families rather than filming.
Therefore, as a result, this is more or less a b-roll doc montage on how the city is today and a very personal collage of memories, but more important for me to accept the new normal.
Somewhere over Alaska
Watching the night race from the club house at the Hong Kong Jockey Club… This is like @Bourdain cool