Drive For Food Competition

hmm.. I meant to blog about this earlier.. but I've just been sleeping too much XD! Any way last
Saturday we went to Penang (3rd november) for the Star Drive For Food competition. Its a video competition for the Star. Thus the name Star Drive for.... you get what I'm saying. :p

It was heaps of fun... well for team Kuachi (Joe, Jian Hong and Kok Hoong and myself) it was any way. We stopped by a couple of places in Perak, Ipoh. A few of the restaurants we wanted to visit were closed, but we improvised and did our best with what we could. It was quite a long drive all the way to Penang. All in all, it took us about 12 hours. Shooting plus driving I mean. We spent the majority of our time in Perak, with four different locations spread out in Perak.

Our concept for the video was quite simple. Two guys get harassed by the Star Ninja, while they travel to Penang looking for good food. Kok Hoong came up with the basic idea, and I improvised along the way.

The hardest part about this video was probably the vegetarian restaurant 'Heong Pun' scene. We arrived there around 3.45pm. They wanted to close by 4pm. We had 15 minutes to choose our food, shoot, eat and get out of the place! Luckily we managed most of the scene in a few takes. The place was well creepy as well. Really dark and old. It reminded me of some run down jail in UK!

update: ok... its been like 3 weeks since I wrote on this post.. the results are out on friday... tommorow is the last day you can vote... go to www.drive4food.com to vote. Choose kuaci and penuts (ryan and u jinn's group) and a third group of your choice.

We'll be attending the prize giving ceremony on Friday

thank you to all of those who have voted for us for your support and your time.

If you haven't seen the video yet, go to the website to check it out... its one of our better videos and I'm proud of it considering the time constraints we had to produce it (24 hours).

Wish us luck :)