Stories after hours
Muhammad Danish
Year 2 · Film & Media Studies · Singapore I make short documentaries about the city after midnight: the people who keep it running while everyone else sleeps.
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Selected work
Last Bus, First Light
First-year brief: a 10-minute documentary about work nobody notices. I picked the bus captains on the last and first services, who see the city empty twice a day.
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Slide 1 of 3: Last Bus, First Light
Experience
Production Assistant
Lowlight Pictures (independent production house)
- Assisted on a 12-day commercial shoot: call sheets, batteries, and holding a reflector for very long periods.
- Logged and organised 3 TB of footage for the editor.
- Got to operate B-camera for one afternoon.
Weekend Barista
Corner coffee bar
- Four years of opening shifts. This is where I learned the city at 6 am.
- Trained three new baristas.
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Shot list wall
Index cards, blu-tack, and a lot of crossing out.
Slide 1 of 3: Shot list wall
About
I've always been a night person. In secondary school I walked home after late training past the same 24-hour shops, and I started wondering about the people inside them. Film gave me a reason to finally ask.
I'm interested in quiet observational documentary: long takes, real sound, and letting people finish their sentences. I try to spend time with people before I film them, and to show them the cut before anyone else sees it.
When I'm not editing, I play bass in a two-person band that has performed exactly twice, and I'm trying to visit every 24-hour prata shop on the island.
Education & community
Bachelor of Arts in Film & Media Studies, Year 2, Singapore.
Modules: Documentary Practice, Cinematography I & II, Sound for Film, Film History, Ethics of Representation.
Member of the student film society's screening committee: we programme a free film night every month. Volunteer camera operator for our hall's events.
Skills
- Camera & light
- Sony FX30
- Low-light shooting
- Gimbal
- Practical lighting
- Post
- DaVinci Resolve
- Premiere Pro
- Basic colour grading
- Sound clean-up
- Story
- Observational interviews
- Consent & release forms
- Paper edits
- Zine layout
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