As promised, here are the details for the second screening of Shut In at the Substation:

Shut In will be screened along with the other audience favorite films for the rest of the months. There will also be audience voting for the First Take Audience Favorite of 2008. So do help spread the word and come down if you can!

Here’s an email from BK (First Take’s Programme Manager who screened our show in July):

Hi Pam,

I know this is way late. Thanks for making it for the July First Take.
Also, congrats! Your film was the audience favorite for July First Take and will be screened in December for “The Best of First Take 2008″.

Below are comments from your voters!
- Very nice, moving story! Exceptional score, apt acting.
- Interesting story and good cinematography
- Good story and photography
- Great attempt! Layered
- Female lead great acting
- Very good
- It is a very interesting short film. Very good.
- I thought it was pretty brilliant = fantastic actors
- This is one of the best nights I’ve had in Singapore. Thanks!

Looking forward to your future productions. And do come for First Take in September!

Cheers!
BK

Low Beng Kheng
Programme Manager – Moving Images
The Substation

This just goes to show how much we owe it to the crew and cast =) thanks again guys! And I bet Johnson would be estatic to hear that someone thinks his score was exceptional! =D

Here’s the ad…

Shut In is screening at The Substation along with two other short films. Be sure to be there if you’ve missed out on our earlier screening!

The Substation’s Moving Images Presents :
First Take

• Dates: 7 July 2008
• Times: 8pm
• Venue: The Substation Theatre
• Admission: free

More details about the other short films here.

Johnson Zhang, our music composer for Shut In, surprised us with this soundtrack on our screening day! (Looks damn cool rite! hehz!)

Okay, I’m just too lazy to type out how the music came about for Shut In, so here’s an exerpt from our final report:

Composing the music score for Shut In was another challenge due to the complex emotions portrayed by the characters in the story. To enable the music composer to better understand the feel and emotions of the characters and story, we had the composer on set during production to give him a head start to envision the right tune and melody and even before the rough cut; our music composer already had the main titles ready. It took two months, from conceptualisation to final scoring, and during which, the composer was inspired by a few music scores. The original score for Shut In was inspired from Danny Elfman’s Corpse Bride (2005) pitched percussion and vibraphones and Yann Tiersen’s piano-strings in Amelie (2001).

I was happy to hear that many who watched our film loved the music too! As an OST fan, that to me, is very re-assuring. Great movie soundtracks allows one to relive unforgettable scenes (and its emotions) and I hope that Shut In’s music would be no different for our audience. Here’s to Johnson! Thanks for your wonderful and unforgettable music.

On the 2nd and 3rd of May 2008, we had the first private screening for all our video (and one audio) FYPs at the Singapore Arts Museum.

Let’s just say that after months of gruelling work (and some bouts of depression in between), we were extremely happy to hear all the great reviews some of the audience gave our film. Day in day out of staring at the same pix over and over again (or hearing the same audio replay over and over again for one of us :p) sort of desensitised us to the whole process of filmmaking. It was this nite (and the audience) that truly reminded us why we even bother to do the things we did or to work as hard as we did. You guys were entertained and hopefully enlightened as well (we are after all a comms school ya know; no message, no gain, no point -.-”) and that is what really matters.

Thanks a bunch to our cast, crew, friends and relatives who joined us on the first day when Shut In was screened. You guys were, as usual, fantastic! Guess you guys know that already, needless to say without our power cast and power crew and all your invaluable advice (albeit given at the gunpoint sometimes ;p) none of this would be happening! Pictures will be posted somewhere sometime soon hehz. So stayed tuned!

Next stop, film festivals! hopefully… -.-

We’re proud to announce that a new page for Shut In’s trailer has been added. Enjoy!

Hey all,

We have recently completed our short video drama Shut In. Please do check back to this website for further updates soon! In the meantime, do check out our Video Fact Sheet. Thanks much!

Luna Pictures

Let Me In

(working title)

a short film about living, and not really living life

A Final Year Project by students of
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI)
Nanyang Technological University

SYNOPSIS

Let Me In is a suspense drama about a young adult who withdraws from society and locks himself up in his house. After four years in reclusion, he desires to resume a normal life but is unsure how, UNTIL a stranger comes along..

CHARACTERS

JASON

- male
- between 17 to 25 years old
- about 1.68 to 1.78 metres tall
- Chinese
- pleasant looking, but must be able to look unkempt, unshaven with messy hair
- Jason is extremely quiet and painfully shy, talks only when necessary

JANICE

- female
- between 17 to 25 years old
- about 1.48 to 1.75 metres tall
- Chinese
- sweet and pleasant looking
- Janice is extremely bubbly, friendly and talks incessantly

WHEN

Tuesday, 30 October 2007 @ 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Friday, 2 November 2007 @ 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Tuesday, 6 November 2007 @ 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

WHERE

Nanyang Technological University
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI)
Small TV Studio (Basement 1)

HOW

Interested talents, please call Hashirin Nurin on 9154-7389 or e-mail a headshot, a short write up of any acting experience (if any), and your contact information to lunapictures@yahoo.com, as well as to schedule for an audition. Those without acting experience can also apply, you might just be the one we are looking for!

Join us, be part of our short film.
We hope to see you at the auditions!

* Filming is tentatively scheduled for the second or third week of December 2007. As this is a student short film, we can only offer a nominal or token fee for our talents but if there is a talent that suits the role perfectly, we are open to negotiations. Meals and transport fees will be provided for on location shoots.

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