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Dear Monday... I thought I've finally got a breather from the kids, but I still have to face you.. 🤪

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Masa RMO ni aku tengok balik dokumentar favourite, ada mamat ni tengah cakap pasal editing, dia kata great editing skills akan protect seseorang pengarah dari bunuh diri. Mamat tu nama dia Sean Penn.

“The essence of cinema is editing” tu kata Coppola pula.

Dulu aku terjebak dengan film editing sebab aku terjumpa fasal Sergei Eisenstein, salah seorang pengarah terawal dunia yang menitikberatkan skills editing untuk menyampaikan maksud dan menyuntik emosi kepada penonton. Eisenstein antara geng-geng Soviet filmmakers yang memperkenalkan idealogi formalism ke dunia sinema.

Itu benda paling basic tentang film editing. Kemudian, seorang lelaki telah mengembangkan Soviet technique ni dan terus jadi salah seorang pengarah paling berpengaruh di sekian alam, dia adalah Alfred Hitchcock seorang genius yang berjaya crafting psychology ke dalam seni filem untuk mewujudkan rasa suspense.

Dunia semakin menjadi complex. Teknik penyuntingan juga semakin evolve. Lalu muncul editor era modern cinema sekarang ni. Aku letak sikit list film editor yang masih aktif kat sini untuk siapa-siapa yang minat research fasal seni menyunting ;

1. Thelma Schoonmark, ni nenek orang dah ni bro! Umur 80 tahun, tapi steady je dia edit The Irishman. Dia start jadi editor untuk Martin Scorsese masa dia belajar kat universiti lagi. Lebih 50 tahun punya collaboration.

2. Michael Kahn, seorang atok berumur 84 tahun yang masih lagi aktif mengedit sampai ke hari ni. Dia ni penyunting untuk Steven Spielberg.

3. Walter Murch, seorang figure paling penting untuk community editors & sound designers sekarang. Dia ni berjaya connects the dot between science & art into his crafts. Aku rekemenkan untuk korang baca buku dia, In the Blink of an Eye. Sebab ni buku yang terpenting untuk seorang editor zaman moden.

Kenapa aku guna tiga editor ni sebagai subject yang boleh dijadikan rujukan?. Sebab ketiga-tiga editor ni ada kekuatan masing-masing untuk kau faham kerja sebagai penyunting.

Thelma Schoonmark ni mementingkan tentang leadership in the cutting room. Macam mana dia control powerhouse director macam Scorsese untuk dengar cakap dia tu sangat amazing. Thelma bersifat keibuan sikit, tiap hari dia akan ke film set untuk lepak dengan conty girl. Dari situ dia akan dapat information apa yang Scorsese tengah buat kat set tanpa kacau pengarah tu. Dan benda penting Thelma ajar, seorang editor kena banyak mendengar, cuba faham betul-betul apa yang director explain sebelum kau argue. Cara dia mendengar seorang budak tengah bercerita, sebab seorang director tu memang bersifat expressive macam budak kecik, jadi kena bagi extra attention kat dia. SEORANG EDITOR PERLU MENDENGAR.

Michael Kahn pula dia menekankan tentang feel bila susun shots Tak macam Thelma Schoonmark, Kahn tak turun ke set. Ini supaya dia boleh bagi pure new perspective to the story. Editing adalah puzzle toys yang Kahn main dari dia muda sampai la tua. Edit film main dengan every frame. Raw footage - sekadar ambil contoh - durasi 10 saat, kalau pengarah shoot in 24fps, jadi total frame untuk shot tu adalah 240 frames. Then another raw footage - just put any number - 120 frames. So total adalah 360 frames tu adalah playground untuk kau adjust here and there. Then, tolak sana, tambah sini follow apa kau rasa. Other advice, if you never make alterations to your cut, kau confirm tak akan dapat the best cut. Nasihat dia paling penting ialah don’t edit from knowledge, edit from feeling. SEORANG EDITOR PERLU ADA FEEL.

Walter Murch pula berjaya create workflow yang sangat effective untuk editing. Dia cipta the rule of 6 (google sendiri) untuk kau buat analyzing dapat cut best ke tak. Dia juga suka edit tanpa audio even ada dialog sekali pun, so dia read lip apa actor tu cakap. Cara ni kau akan dapat purest cut untuk membantu kau judge yang cut yang kau buat tu tanpa ada extra element. Maksudnya, bila cut kau tu tak ada apa-apa perencah lagi dah best, so bila kau tambah benda lain konfirm create attractive cut yang ranum ditengok. Tapi jangan terlebih letak macam-macam. Masakan pun jahanam kalau letak benda pelik-pelik. Murch kata yang edit filem sekarang ni semua orang boleh buat, sebab dia sangat simple akan tetapi untuk menjadikan editing tu ke higher level, it requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does. SEORANG EDITOR PERLU ADA ANALYTICAL MIND.

Okay borak fasal technique ni boring sikit la, sebab bukan semua orang kisah tentang art of editing pun.

Aku rephase balik kata Stanley Kubrick, “I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.” Sebab tu la ramai yang setuju hakikat bahawasanya films are made in the cutting room.

Aku bukan kata proses lain tu tak penting. Tapi editing proses terakhir sebelum filem dijadikan tontonan kepada umum. Kalau skrip kau salah, kau boleh adjust masa kat set. Kau shoot salah, then kau boleh adjust kat edit. Tapi bila edit kau salah? Kau nak adjust kat pawagam ke apa? Tapi jangan la jadi pembaris sangat untuk interpret yang kau boleh ambik ringgan bahagian yang lain atau suka main petik the famous word fix in post!.

Tanam ni dalam kepala otak semua ya, kalau bahagian scripting dah problem lepas tu shooting problem jugak, maka itulah neraka paling jahanam untuk editor. Segala beban tu dah berlonggok kat editor. Maka muntah hijaulah mereka-mereka ini.

Hatta muntah pelangi sekali pun, adalah menjadi tanggungjawab editor untuk pastikan filem tu dalam keadaan yang paling baik. Maka dengan itu, producer pun kena la bagi something sikit. Kalau tak dapat adjust budget, adjust lah timeline yang lebih panjang. Kalau best dapat bagi dua-dua sekali gus. Happy editor can create good movie kan?

So editing ni adalah tempat yang menentukan movie itu made or broken. Banyak filem diselamatkan dan sebenarnya lebih banyak dijahanamkan secara tak sengaja dalam editing room.

Jadi tahukah anda mengenai peristiwa tentang satu filem yang berjudul Annie Hall atau judul asalnya Anehonia (tak best langsung nama tajuk ni). Filem ni hampir jadi mimpi ngeri buat Woody Allen. Nasib Allen selamat sebab ada Ralph Rosenblum kat sebelah dia, a skillful experience film editor yang dah kerja dengan sorang lagi director power, Sydney Lumet.

Original duration filem Anehonia ni 150 minit, plot asal pasal murder mystery. Tapi producer/co-writer, Marshall Brickman naik angin bila preview final offline edit. Dia guna kad producer untuk suruh Rosenblum buang semua crime scene then go with different direction, sampailah final output jadi 93 minit dengan genre yang lain terus, rom-com!.

Korang tahu kan apa jadi next?

Woody Allen menang Academy Awards for directing, Brickman menang best original screenplay, dan filem tu sendiri menang best film. Tok Woody Allen menang untuk semua major awards untuk tahun tu. Hanya dengan kuasa Tuhan sahaja yang telah menyelamatkan filem ni sampailah dia jadi cult movie yang bagi huge influence pada ramai filmmaker sampai ke hari ni.

Tapi ada lagi benda kelakar dorang buat.

15 tahun selepas kejayaan besar Annie Hall, Allen dengan Brickman buat balik filem yang dorang buang half dulu. Depa adjust-adjust idea dalam tong sampah tu jadi filem Manhattan Murder Mystery, another masterpiece yang bergolek-golek datang kaki dorang.

Selain tu, sebuah filem yang menjadi landmark counterculture dan juga antara karya terhebat sepanjang sejarah peradaban dunia. Filem tu berjudul Easy Rider, ia juga dibikin dalam cutting room. Filem tu mengambil masa setahun untuk diedit, dengan footage yang nak dipilih sebanyak 80 jam dan dijadikan sebuah cerita berdurasi 95 minit.

Another story berlaku pada Februari 1977, George Lucas ajak kawan-kawan baik dia untuk tengok rough cut filem terbaru dia. Antara diajak ialah Spielberg dan De Palma yang masing-masing excited dengan air tangan Lucas lepas kejayaan filem American Graffiti. Then dorang pun layan lah rough cut tu. Lepas habis preview agak krik-krik, tapi dalam ramai kawan-kawan tu De Palma ni asshole sikit, dia kutuk Lucas sebab bikin filem sampah. Semua orang dalam bilik preview tu mengumpat pasal Lucas, kecuali Spielberg yang dia kata “wei aku suka je filem hang ni, tapi nampaknya aku sekor je la yang suka ni.” Begitulah Spielberg sopan santun orangnya. Lucas tahu je Spielberg tengah ambik hati dia yang tengah kecewa tu. Next, dia pun terus buang editor yang buat dia kena kutuk tu. Tapi ni kan George Lucas bro, so dia tak ada problem sangat nak settlekan issue editing ni, sebab dia kenal ramai editor yang power. Dan lagi satu, Lucas ada trump card kat poket, bini dia sendiri pun awards winning editor, Maria Lucas - tapi tengah berehat sebab baru keguguran. Lalu dengan penuh rasa dendam kat kawan-kawan yang tengah ketawakan dia, Lucas bawa masuk antara editor terbaik era new hollywood, Paul Hirsch, Richard Chew dan Maria Lucas sendiri yang kena kerja. Akhirnya lahirlah filem yang menjadi kegilaan satu dunia, iaitu Star Wars.

Jadi ingat, classic case Annie Hall, Easy Rider dan Star Wars ni. Director hebat-hebat semua tu ya.
So dengan kata mudahnya, hal-hal macam ni kalau nak jadi, director power macam mana pun tetap akan berlaku juga. Dalam production film tak semua yang kau rancang tu berjalan lancar, confirm ada hiccup here and there. Kebanyakkan damage ni kau tak nampak lagi masa shooting ya sahabat.

Then hakikat yang paling kejam ialah bila kau dah habis shoot, pastu baru start masuk editing room, now tangible damages can be measured accurately. Di sini ramai filmmaker yang terduduk, termasuk lah aku sendiri yang pernah beberapa kali kena. Saat ni lah penyesalan tu datang berlumba-lumba!

Akhirnya, kita semua cuba set up the best plan dan masa execution pun dah terbaik kita buati. Tapi semuanya dah bergantung pada Tuhan. Kalau Dia setuju, maka tercipta lah filem tu ikut macam mana yang Dia kata okay.

Kalau Tuhan sayang kau lebih sikit dari orang lain, Dia bagi secubis cabaran untuk kau harung. Biar reflect pada diri sendiri sebab lepas ni kau jadi lebih kuat untuk masuk next level pulak.

Jadi itulah kasih sayang Tuhan bagi kat Nam Ron dan Bront masa nak siapkan One Two Jaga.

Filem yang menang kesemua anugerah dalam Malaysia dan ditayangkan dipelbagai festival filem luar negara ni mengambil masa dekat dua tahun di post production untuk disiapkan. Aku jadi saksi tengok darah, peluh dan air mata yang tertumpah. Masa tu, hari-hari muka Nam Ron jadi macam pak cik umur 70 tahun dah, Bront pulak putih habis misai rambut dia. Tapi tu la filmmakers ni, hati dia kering, redah je sampai habis walau pedih mana pun.

Jadi bila time macam sekarang ni, time aku baring-baring tak buat apa-apa. Baru la paham apa yang Tuhan suruh aku ponder sikit pasal benda yang jadi depan mata hari tu.

Kalau aku rajin, aku cerita pulak cara kami solvekan problem ni.

Salam!

Asher's latest painting of his 大姐, 二姐 and himself.

He has been acting up in the last two weeks and demanding that Mummy stays right beside him in art class. Every time I attempt to go out or even move away from him, he would whine, refuse or start to cry. If I try to step out of the class, he shouts, rushes up to me, hugs my leg and follows me wherever I go. Yup, reminds me of his koala days when he just started school.

I think the main cause is because there is a switch of teachers and he is still trying to adapt to the new environment and me being there helps to assure and calm him down. It can be very trying not to lose my temper when he makes a big fuss and chants "I want to go home" or worse, starts hitting me in a bid to vent his frustration. Argh.

We stepped out of the studio yesterday and sat outside for some time. I wasn't sure if I was trying to calm him or myself down but I think the time out did us good. Then we went back to class together and when he refused to paint, I sat down beside him so that he could see me at eye level and I gave my best shot at being a patient mum while I passed him the brush and guided him to continue. Well, that was after I had said things like "Why are you behaving so naughtily?" and "You won't get any candy later while your Jiejies will have" etc. Yup, I still find it hard to hold my tongue at times and end up saying things that I wish I hadn't.

I've realised the soft method works much better on my kids than the hard way. After talking to him nicely again and asking for the nth time if I could go out after he paints the next facial feature, he surprisingly nodded his head and said okay. I could see how close he was to tears when I stepped out and he kept looking at me through the vision panel on the door. So I stood there for a while before I moved out of his sight. No tears, no screams, no whines till the class ended.

I think when these kids are ready, they will spread their wings and fly. Some might just take longer than the rest and instead of forcing them to take their first flight, I'm hoping to nurture, encourage and show them more ❤. It's what I would have wanted too. Love you, dear Asher.

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The Cavaliers finally located their missing 7-foot-3 center.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas, mostly forgotten in Cleveland's offense, scored a season-high 18 points with 15 rebounds, and LeBron James had 25 points and 11 assists in a 108-95 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.

Ilgauskas came in averaging nine points per game -- six below his career average -- and the center hasn't been as involved in Cleveland's new offensive schemes as much as he or Cavs coach Mike Brown would like.

"My fault," Brown said before the game.

Ilgauskas scored just two points and took only two shots in Friday night's loss at Indiana. He and Brown met in the coach's office about 90 minutes before tipoff with the Sixers, and whatever they discussed became Cleveland's gameplan.

The Cavaliers did more to get Ilgauskas the ball in good scoring spots and he responded by scoring 12 points in the first half. He had his 18 by the end of the third quarter, when Cleveland opened an 82-70 lead.

"It got to the point where we said, 'Screw the offense," James said. "There were some (play) calls we made that had nothing to do with our offense. We've got to find a way to get 'Z' in a comfort zone."

Ilgauskas tied a team record with 12 offensive rebounds and had five blocks. Cleveland's big man also dived to the floor several times for loose balls. The Cavaliers, playing their fourth game in five nights, have won six straight at home.

"'Z' did a tremendous job," Brown said. "He got on the ground three or four times going after loose balls, that's a heck of an effort for a guy that's 7-foot-3. His points and rebounds were tremendous, but his five blocks is what I like to see."

Allen Iverson scored 31 points on just 10-of-28 shooting to lead Philadelphia. Andre Iguodala added 17 and Willie Green 13 for the Sixers, who played their fifth straight game without Chris Webber.

Coming off a 123-108 win over Chicago, the Sixers started fast and built a 13-point lead in the first quarter but couldn't sustain it.

"We gave the game away," Iverson said. "We just stopped playing. There ain't a whole bunch to say. We jumped right on them. I know games have two halves. But we had that game. No way are we supposed to give that up.

"Honestly, I feel like this is the worst loss that we've had this year. It's just a complete breakdown."

Trailing by 13 early in the fourth, Philadelphia pulled within 94-86 on two free throws by Samuel Dalembert with 5:24 left. But Ilgauskas came back in off the bench, and although he didn't score, his return sparked the Cavs.

Eric Snow hit a jump shot, Drew Gooden scored in the lane and James completed a three-point play to put the Cavaliers, wearing orange throwback uniforms from the 1980s, up 101-86 with 3:04 remaining.

With Ilgauskas leading the charge, the Cavaliers outrebounded Philadelphia 49-36.

During one sequence, Ilgauskas played a solo game of volleyball around the rim, outreaching Sixers defenders to keep the ball alive.

"I got off to a little bit of a slow start, but they kept calling plays for me," said Ilgauskas, who played a season-high 36 minutes. "It was nice to get back into the offense."

Cleveland trailed by nine points after one, and the Cavaliers began the second quarter with a lineup featuring Ilgauskas and Anderson Varejao but not James. Without their superstar, the Cavs rallied and opened the period with a 13-2 run, taking their first lead on Sasha Pavlovic's three-point play.

Later, Ilgauskas scored six points and Damon Jones drained a 3-pointer during a 10-0 burst that put Cleveland up 46-36.

In the final minute of the half, James gave the sellout crowd what they came to see when he grabbed an alley-oop pass from Jones, and rising to almost eye level with the rim, rifled his dunk through.

Carmelo Anthony found his rhythm just in time for the Denver Nuggets.

Anthony scored 15 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter, including a three-point play with 38.4 seconds left, to lift the Nuggets to a 105-99 win over the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night.

Allen Iverson had 22 points and 11 assists and Marcus Camby had 14 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks for the Nuggets, who won their third straight and fifth in the last six.

Anthony, who has struggled with his shot over the last week, was 3-for-17 early but was 7-for-11 down the stretch.

"I've been trying to get my rhythm back on my shot," Anthony said. "I thought my shots tonight were good, they just weren't going in."

That was the case in his previous three games, when he was 24-for-69 from the field.

"I know it was frustrating for him in the beginning because he couldn't catch a rhythm," Iverson said. "He was getting beat up on some plays and they weren't calling it. It says a lot about him to stay with it and keep playing."

Anthony scored 12 of Denver's last 14 points to help the Nuggets pull away. His two free throws gave Denver the lead at 93-92, and he hit three straight shots to make it 99-96.

Chris Paul, who had 30 points and 12 assists, made a 3-pointer to tie it at 99, but Camby's tip-in with 1:41 left made it 101-99. Anthony then made a layup and a free throw to seal the game.

"The last rebound that Marcus tipped in, we did a good job on the defensive end, and we had two guys there, but somehow he got it and put it in," Hornets coach Byron Scott said. "That was a great play on his part, bad play on our part."

Anthony said he attacked the basket the whole game but the shots weren't falling. In the fourth, he was 5-for-8 and seven of his points came when he went to the basket.

"In the fourth quarter, I made it my priority and forced the refs to give me some calls," said Anthony, who was 11-for-13 from the line.

The Nuggets where happy with their defense in the fourth, when they held the Hornets to 33.3 percent shooting in the fourth quarter and outscored them 28-18.

"I think it's one of our best games of the year, to not play offensively and still score 105 and win a game with a defensive dimension down the stretch," Nuggets coach George Karl said.

The Nuggets trailed 86-80 when Iverson converted a three-point play and Anthony and Eduardo Najera made consecutive 3-pointers to give Denver an 89-86 lead.

"In the fourth quarter, they had more intensity," said Paul, who has 10 double-doubles this season. "We matched it for the most part, but for the last five minutes or so, we couldn't' contain them. I think it was more their defense."

The Nuggets' defense came alive late in the first half. Denver trailed 59-45 with 41.9 seconds left in the second quarter before surging. Najera made a jumper and Anthony's put-back dunk with 35.9 left in the second ignited a Nuggets run that reached 15-0 with 9:17 left in the third. Butler ended the drought with a layup, and David West scored six of his 25 points to make it 71-62 with 6:34 left in the third.

"At the end of the first half we started to show some life, and the energy level was high. We carried it on to the second half," Iverson said.

Paul and Butler did most of the damage in the first half. Paul had 19 points and seven assists and Butler had 14. Butler, who was 4-for-21 from 3-point range since Nov. 16, was 4-for-4 from long range in the first half.

Game notes
Hornets F Melvin Ely was elbowed by Martin with 9:49 left in the first half and had a bruised left eye. He did not return. Martin was hit with a technical for the elbow, one of three technicals by the Nuggets in the game. ... Camby and Tyson Chandler rank second and fifth in rebounds in the NBA, while Paul and Iverson rank first and third in steals. ... Hornets G-F Morris Peterson (strained back) and G-F Peja Stojakovic (groin pull) sat out their second straight games. ... Najera has more 3-pointers this season (18) than he had in he had in his seven-year career combined (14).