One day I saw my friend posting on Facebook wall about cast recruitment for a kid's drama in Singapore. She is also from Penang but studied in a polytechnic in Singapore after Form 5 in Malaysia. There was only one character that suits me - a 20+-year-old elder brother of a kid. I really did dare myself to go for the audition and so I went for the audition at the film company (Oak3 Films) at MacPherson.
Well, my friend is the assistant director for the drama and at there I was given a script which I need to sort of memorize and act, then they recorded that as reference. My friend and the main director was there for the audition and he said I sort of shivered when I was talking, but I have a very accurate and clear Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. He even asked whether I'm a stage drama actor. ^^
A few days later I actually heard from my friend that there're about 17 other people went for audition for the same role I went for. Oh my goodness, then I thought never mind, just take the audition as an experience. However, I was told a few days later, that I was selected to play the role!! That was surely one huge good news for the narcissistic me. Haha...
My casting took place at Block 562, Hougang Street 51 on a Wednesday during the reading week. I'm only background acting so it took only one day to film my 4 scenes with other main scenes. I'm not sure but, I would regard myself as 茄哩啡, a very popular phrase in Cantonese, which means 'extra' or '臨時演員'. However I did have a script and I need to memorize and speak while acting.
I reached there earlier than the crew and spent one full hour there studying PC1432 Physics IIE (I tend to be more productive out of my room with no laptop distraction). I was quite shy when the crew reached the venue as I didn't know all of them. The two kids I'm acting with, a boy and a girl, they're really cute, and the girl is really cute and pretty. Hehe...
These are my scenes (I'm playing Jimmy by the way):
| Episode & Scene no. | Script (Dialog in italics) |
| Episode 4 Scene 18 | 室外。Joe的家門口。 日 Joe回到一組屋外，拿出鑰匙就要開門。時鐵門打開。一個二十多歲的男生，Jimmy已經打扮好，準備出門。Joe看到哥哥，開心的樣子。 Joe：哥！你在家？晚餐…… Jimmy：我要出門了。晚餐你自己去買。記得看門啊。  Joe失望的樣子，看著哥哥離開。 Joe：（不悅地喃喃）看門？我又不是小貓小狗…… Joe沮喪地打開門，在關上。 不遠處，瑞玲和小黑正在觀看著這一切。門一關上，瑞玲和小黑對望一眼。 |
| Episode 4 Scene 23 | 外景。Joe的組屋外。 日 瑞玲來到Joe的家門前。她站在門口，正在思考要怎麼開口，這時Joe家的門打開，Jimmy出現在門口，和瑞玲對望。 瑞玲：（打招呼）Hi!請問，Joe在嗎？ Jimmy：他出去了，你找他有事嗎？  瑞玲遲疑表情。 |
| Episode 4 Scene 27 | 外景。組屋樓下遊樂園。 日 瑞玲和小黑在滑梯上，看著不遠處的兩兄弟。 小黑在玩滑梯，玩得開心。瑞玲正東張西望地，好奇地想知道兄弟倆在聊什麼。 時Jimmy和Joe已經談好。祥瑞玲走過來。 Jimmy：瑞玲，謝謝你。 瑞玲：（不解）我？ Jimmy：Joe已經把全部的事情都告訴我了。他明天會主動去跟老師道歉。  一旁的Joe卻沒有反應。 Jimmy：因為我太忙，沒有時間去關心他，也沒有注意到他缺乏些什麼。他不好意思跟我開口拿多一點零用錢，才會把別人的文具拿來賣。以後我會多關心他，不會再有類似的事情發生了。Joe，對嗎？ Jimmy看Joe。Joe有點無奈地點點頭。 瑞玲：（會意）原來是這樣啊。（對Joe）我家樓下的雜貨店在請兼職呢，你要不要去面試？我跟老闆很熟的，我可以幫你問！ Joe沒有出聲。Jimmy對瑞玲微笑。 Jimmy：謝謝你，瑞玲。天要黑了，你也回家吧，不然你家人會擔心。 瑞玲點點頭。看著Joe和Jimmy離開。 瑞玲：（喃喃）就這樣？！ |
It's a wonderful experience working with the professional filming crew. They really have the equipment a that the professionals should have. Every cast has a mic tacked on the inside of the clothes. Yet they still have boom mic, external monitor for director, lighting, reflector. Every thunderstorm and lightning will make them stop the roll.
I was paid only $60 but I'm contented. I don't even mind paying them to let me act if I have to. LOL~~ I know I'm a narcissist!!
The drama will be broadcasted weekly on Channel 8 10:30am starting from 30 Dec 2012 (Sun). My scenes are in episode 4 so if everything goes fine, episode 4 should be on 20 Jan 2013. Well, I actually wonder which friends of mine watch kid's drama? On Sunday morning some more. Haha...
UPDATE: Here's the video
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