Friday, August 25, 2006

Laser subtitling

For me, laser subtitling is not what I can see everyday. I found it quite interesting. The film that you normally see in the cinema usually being sent to this subtitle company for etching process, meaning using laser to etch the subtitle on the film before being screen in cinema.

It may seems like an editing suite. But this machine is for keying in the timecode where you want the subtitle to appear. Luckily Ah Sai film is just 10 minutes. Getting all those in-point and out-point for every line of subtitles for normal feature film is insane!

This is where the etching process begin, I guess the green light is the laser beam. And the projection on the wall is what you get from etching machine. After this process the film will be clean and dry up in another machine.

Close up of the laser beam. If it is a 2 hours feature film, it will take at least 10 hours for etching. Yeah.. It works frame by frame!




Bangkok Again!

Went to Bangkok again to settle some stuff with Ah Sai preparing for Venice Film Festival. Congratulations! Although I didn't contribute much in the film besides doing opening sequence with Ivan when he was in Amok Films, Im still getting excited about it.

If you are alone in the hotel, seriously... you do not know what to do besides watching TV whole night. That night was nightmare, I heard someone renovating and climbing stairs fixing rooftop whole night. The sounds seems like a loop. Non-stop! Couldn't be supernatural thing... if it was, I just want to scream at it and ask him to shut the hell up. I couldn't slept whole night.

My hotel was quite near to Patpong at Silom Street. This is the place where all the friendly lady will try their best to approach you. Sometimes you don't even know they are the real lady...

Silom Street. Hanging around with DSLR to spent another lonely night.

Never ending night for Silom Street.

RM15 (150 baht) for 40 minutes of foot massage. Really dai dou lan!
Yup! I went there every night!