FB In Action! Segment

This will be the first segment in the lineup of the DVD programme. This segment introduces Foreign Bodies as a tertiary dance club based in Nanyang Polytechnic. It also showcases snips of performances that were done over the years. Basically this part was to kick start things and hopefully display the club as a very performance oriented club.

Like they said, music inspires many things. When skimming through the music that i have chosen for this clip, there was this one part at 21 secs that has this dreamy sound effect at the music background. This part of the music gave me an imagination of clouds skimming by over the buildings of NYP. Thus i hesitated no further and ran out of my lab to get the shot.

That Cloud Effects Thing

I found this to be pretty interesting because many people have no idea that cloud patterns could be this beautiful when we see the world at speed. I took me a whooping 30 minutes under the sun to capture this shot. I feel bad for my camera who had to take a sunbath. Had a good chat with tyron while the tape was rolling on this one. Beautiful.

After Grunge-ness, comes the DVD Cover Draft!

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Here is my first try in trying to churn out a possible feel for the DVD cover design. As the name of the project is still pending, i simply just used the 'School Of Groove' tag as a tentative title for now. Notice my use of colours in an attempt to generate a some energy out of the composition. The silhouettes are taken from a FB photoshoot taken 2 years back. I composite the silhouettes to form a very crowded feel as FB is in fact one big happy family anyway.





The prototype fits the casing just right but the tips were a little bit running off the cover. I generally like the feel of it. And i will continue to work on it within the next few days.

People. I need help with the name of the DVD. Its Urgent!

Grunge Is The Answer - FB Tees Print Treatment.

Though this may not be a video related post. I still feel it all connects as branding is something that joins all aspects of things related to a club together. A change in style of print and logo will definately affect the project. As i have also been behind the design of the deep-traditioned FB Tees, i felt it was my responsibility towards to club to 'pimp' the new designs to suit today's style.

In my opinion, grunge is the answer. People have been telling me that they like the format and the text of the shirt. It works. But it is somehow 'too clean'. For more of the 'street' feel, i added scratch textures and paint marks for a manipulation of a paint work or a stencil worked against a rough surface.

This is not the final design. This is just an experiment.

Old design

As you can see from the past design, the bottom reads 'Hip-Hop, Street & Pop'. Due to a little lack of education in the past, we did not realise that Hip-hop culture and Street Dance culture is pretty differnt. By mentioning hip-hop & street seperately might also mean differnt things out of dance. The whole presence of the 'Pop' word is pretty subjective. Some object to say that we do pop dance. Others might mistake it for 'popping'. Thus the new footer 'Nanyang Polytechnic Street Dance Club' pretty much sums up all that we do. As Hip-Hop dance, Funkstyles, House and such is under the umbrella of Street Dance.



Did some colour trial tests for schemes that we do not already have. Here are what's feeling me tonight.

Past Colours

The first sets ever produced came in red based shirts with white print. (2005 - 2006)

Seen here is the white based & black print version (2005-2006) and the black based & green print (2007 - 2008) version.

The black based & white print FB-TV special (2007 - 2008) and white based & purple print (2007-2008) versions.

These sets are said to be the nicest produced. The black based & orange print (2006-2007) versions.

The highly subjective brown based & white print (2006-2007) version.

A Sweet Rhyme - Rap by 'Flow'

A really sweet rhyme by a former member, Prasad aka Flow. Was pretty impressed by how well he could spit out rhymes on the spot. This was shot during the Club Crawl CCA Orientation 2007.

Yo! Foreign Bodies got the moves so slick,
you gotta move it right, we aint sayin' no nothin'.
We gonna flow like the sea.
People wanna follow me.
But you're never gonna be there, this's how it's gotta be.
Foreign Bodies, you gonna shake your body,
we'll get it right naughty, yo!
The video is gonna get it right.
It's like MC's they gonna say' 'Wassup! aite!'
I aint messin with you now.
Foreign Bodies Night!
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That's what we are..

Felt some sentences in the lyrics describe us pretty nicely. Especially ' We gonna flow like the sea, people wanna follow me '. Heads up to Prasad.

Outtakes - The Victory Feeling : Trademark's Funkamania 08 Win

More recently was a proud and historical moment for FB as our team, Trademark has clinched the Champions in the prestigious Funkamania 2008. It was a moment of surprise and rejoice for the team and the whole club. I thought it would be nice to include a segment that could relive the cheers and hysterical cries of joy. The above segment was displayed just that. Well done Trademarks. A proud product.