Filed under: broadcast, directing, documentary, film, journalism, Kampung Baru Alaf Baru (AKA: New Age New Village), The Malaysian Insider, writing | Tags: 1malaysia, documentary, fat bidin, film, journalism, kampung baru, kuala lumpur, malay, malaysia, ntv7, video journalism, zan azlee
In spite of all the work that I’ve been swamped with this whole year… I managed to make another feature film! Damn I’m good! It’s called KAMPUNG BARU ALAF BARU (English Title: NEW AGE NEW VILLAGE)! It’s DA BOM!! Watch it on ntv7 this National Day (31st August 2010, 10:30am)!
Kampung Baru Alaf Baru
By Zan Azlee
AUG 27 — Kampung Baru has always interested me. For the unacquainted, it’s a Malay village situated in the heart of the city of Kuala Lumpur. So there are traditional wooden Malay houses with chickens running around, and in the background are concrete and steel skyscrapers. I like the juxtaposition of urban modern and rural traditional that Kampung Baru has. And so what do I decide to do? Yes, folks, I decide to grab my video camera, drive down to Kampung Baru and shoot myself a documentary film solo-journalism style! [Click to read the rest of the article]
Filed under: internet, journalism, new media, The Malaysian Insider, writing | Tags: fat bidin, journalism, literacy, media, The Malaysian Insider, video, zan azlee
Imagine a world where the video literacy rate surpasses reading and writing. I can make money giving tuition to school kids! Hahaha!
A video literate world
By Zan Azlee
AUG 20 — When television started, it was a very exclusive industry. Only those who had the resources (i.e. money) could be involved. This was the case for all media. The Internet comes around and turns the whole business model upside down. Basically, barriers of entry like cost and technology disappeared. Twenty-four hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Mega news organisations like CNN and BBC use user-generated content and call it citizen journalism. There’s nothing wrong with user-generated content. In fact, most people know that I am a big advocate of it. However, only a minority is of good quality while a majority of it is crap. [Click to read the rest of the article]
Filed under: internet, journalism, new media, The Malaysian Insider, writing | Tags: chinese, fat bidin, islam, journalism, malay, malaysia, The Malaysian Insider, zan azlee
Poor Zain! He’s so confused. Read all about it at The Malaysian Insider.
Zain, the confused kid
By Zan Azlee
AUG 6 — Six-year-old Zain Azri was going to school for the first time. He was like any normal and chatty kid, making friends easily and loved running around for no reason. Now, Zain comes from a pretty liberal Muslim family and is of mixed parentage. His father is Malay and his mother, Chinese. If you grow up as a Muslim in Malaysia and go to public school, then most definitely you would have had to take Islamic studies. Zain had to. On the first day of class in Standard One, at a certain time period, Zain was led by an Ustazah, along with other Muslim students to a different class. [Click here to read the rest of the article]
