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Raymond

Masterplan Productions

About Me

My music video submission for the Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts Film Festival
These are films I've worked on, fulfilling various film making roles: director, writer, editor, music composer and actor.
If you can't view the videos, please click here to be whisked away to a place of much happiness... much.
Masterplan Productions my film page at YouTube

Kiflow my electronic music, Kiflow myspace.

Kiflow Website Kiflow website.

Diverz Palace my metal music, Diverz Palace myspace.

Freddy vs Jay and Silent Bob fan/homage film website

Flickr my photos at Flickr


I make films. My main goal and dream is to make a living from directing and composing music. For now, I mostly do editing, which is another great passion of mine. I have been creating films since the age of 13, when I took control of my dad's Hi8 camcorder so that my friends and I could have a laugh... Little did we know we'd go on to create the greatest series of films that no-one has seen...
With the help of my friends, I wrote, directed, edited and acted in a feature length film when I was 15 years old. The film was, "The Devil's Eye" - a fantasy, comedy, kung-fu, horror film. It ran for 1hour 20minutes, with an additional (epic) credit sequence which contained 20 minutes of Jackie Chan style outtakes of our stunts that went wrong, and the lines we messed up.
I am constantly aiming to improve my ideas, execution and post production techniques.
I also like to compose music. Recorded and self-produced my own metal album at the age of 19, and have written original scores for short films and a feature length documentary. I have recently created a full length electronic album, 'Kiflow - Model 101'. You can find links to Diverz Palace and Kiflow on my profile page... They're everywhere. If you can't see them, you must be blind.
I'm currently helping my film making friends with their projects, and I look forward to further developing my own ideas.

My Interests

Main interests: movies, music, martial arts, video games, computing
Other activities I enjoy, although I don't do as much as I used to: Ten Pin Bowling, Cycling, Basketball, Badmington, Swimming. I like reading philosophy, having studied Plato, David Hume and Rene Descartes and Kant. Unfortunately, I have a memory like a sieve at times... so I tend to forget a lot of what I read.
Favourite comics: Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Beau Peep, Far Side.
I love playing the guitar, mostly metal music, and the piano/keyboards. I compose a lot of music, which has been used in short films, and a feature length documentary. I've recently created a full length electronic album and I'm currently working on a follow up to my demo album, for my band 'Diverz Palace', which I recorded and produced in 2001.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's interested in my crazy movies.
Famous people? Jackie Chan. Arnold Schwarzenegger (really just to get an audio recording of him saying "Oooops!"), Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Stephen Chow, Mike Patton and Metallica.

Music:

Faith No More, Soundgarden, Extreme, Fear Factory, Metallica, NIN, Pantera, Sepultura, Nirvana, Prodigy, Mike Patton, Deftones, Korn, Pixies, Soulfly, Nuno Bettencourt, Slayer, The Mad Capsule Markets, Pillows, Devildriver

Movies:

Terminator 2, Police Story, Die Hard, Evil Dead 2, Spaceballs, Mallrats, Robocop,Total Recall, Hard Boiled, The Killer, Blazing Saddles, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Armour of God, Project A, Fist of Fury, Enter The Dragon, Nightmare on Elm Street, Predator, Labyrinth, Goonies, Back to the Future.

Television:

Sledgehammer, Southpark, The Simpsons, The Wonder Years, Quantum Leap, Family Guy, Police Squad, The A-Team, X-Files, Eerie Indiana, Moonlighting, Dream On, Frasier, Futurama, Father Ted, Brass Eye, The Mighty Boosh, Monk, Robot Chicken, Greg The Bunny.

Books:

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, and Mort by Terry Pratchet.

Heroes:

Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

My Blog

NIN Ghosts Film Festival - Making of a music video pt. 4

Ok, so we're on the same day as the 'Jogger' segment - that's the 9th of April. To recap on what's done so far; the Cyclist and Jogger sequences has been filmed. It made sense to film the 'Old Couple'...
Posted by Raymond on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:14:00 PST

NIN Ghosts Film Festival - Making of a music video pt. 3

The cyclist segment of the music video was now filmed, leaving 3 more parts to be done: Jogger, Driver and Old Couple.  It was now the 9th of April. Today I'd be filming the Jogger and Old Couple...
Posted by Raymond on Sun, 18 May 2008 02:05:00 PST

NIN Ghosts Film Festival - Making of a music video pt. 2

& and continued& now. Previously on this blog series (I want to do a re-cap for some reason) I was talking about the Nine Inch Nails film festival, coming up with ideas for it, doing some camera rig t...
Posted by Raymond on Wed, 14 May 2008 04:29:00 PST

NIN Ghosts Film Festival - Making of a music video pt. 1

In March, Nine Inch Nails announced a film festival on behalf of a recent instrumental album release of theirs, entitled, "Ghosts". They teamed up with YouTube and have asked for anyone to create thei...
Posted by Raymond on Sun, 11 May 2008 11:23:00 PST

Creative Brainwaves

Indeed, it has been a long time since I've posted my thoughts online for complete strangers to see. It's that part that amuses me most. I do reckon that some people I know will check this out, for whi...
Posted by Raymond on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:42:00 PST

music compilation cds...

A wee while ago I created a compilation cd that I gave to a few of my friends. They too had to come up with a compilation of music they'd want me to listen to. Now, my taste in music is mostly of the...
Posted by Raymond on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:03:00 PST

Who would win?

Ahh... I've got ringing in my ears... no, that wasn't what I was going to write about. It's ok. It's gone now.It's been a while since I've seen action in films that have amazed me. Most recently I've ...
Posted by Raymond on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:34:00 PST

all apologies

It's been on my mind for a while now that I should write a proper blog. Check me out  concerned about what to write in a blog. That shouldn't be& or, maybe I just like writing, so why not?... I'll te...
Posted by Raymond on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:25:00 PST

More decisions

This shall be my final writings before the inevitable decision process. Whittling down over two months of collected ideas. Will there be any point or meaning? I await the quality but don't hold much h...
Posted by Raymond on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:14:00 PST

Disposition

My usual frame of mind. To renounce everything that I have built around me. A forced smile. For a cause greater than myself. Nothing is overlooked. My freedom is limited. Living in a plastic age. Arti...
Posted by Raymond on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:53:00 PST