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A few days ago, artist Steven Ma made his directorial debut in directing his own music videos. In preparation to release his music album next month, he at one go directed three mvs within 22 hours namely : 《給媽媽的倦》,《心照》and 《如願》giving him a taste of being a director. His new album will have 10 new songs with a bonus track Christian song. Presently, he is in the process of recording the last three songs for his album. Among the three mvs, the song 《給媽媽的倦》is dedicated to his late mother who has passed away for 14 years. He says: "As an expression of my missing her, hope the song can also bring comfort to those who have also lost their mothers, to comfort their hearts at the same time mine too."
Steven says that the whole process was both tiring and stressful. He personally handled the whole process from groundwork preparation to location, to setting, positioning, lighting, to editing and all other post-production work. His hands-on immersion reinforced to him that behind-the-scene work is indeed not easy. He said: "First time as a director, my feeling is that one must be able to multi-task, be able to think on the feet while shooting, quite exhausting but also very exhilarating and very satisfying. The finished three mvs are right now being edited. I hope in the future I'll have the opportunity to shoot different mvs."
Steven jests that during the editing process as he sat there repetitively replaying every single shot, he had unconsciously taken the form of a fossilized statue with eyes unblinking, much like a dummy whose accupoints have been pushed. (tn: as in wuxia) During those times, the crew did not dare chat with him, actually he was only pondering on how to shoot the next scene. Steven reveals that he will experience shooting a short film pretty soon. In fact, earlier this year he was invited by an investor to film a short film but in the end he rejected the offer. But now having experienced directing these three mvs, I'll take on directing a short film. "I've a few completed script at hand, ready for filming, I hope I've time to do it. But probably I will only direct because if direct and act, I worry I may encounter technique problems. Still undecided on that."
Songs inspired:
《給媽媽的倦》=late mother. "倦" by Deanie Ip being his mother's most favorite song.
《心照》= friends
《如願》 = Mandarin love song composed by Singaporean songwriter, 梁文福
related material link SM dedicated new song to late mother
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