A team of four Limkokwing University students won the ‘Most Popular’ award for their video at the Merdeka Video Competition 2013.
A team of four Limkokwing University students won the ‘Most Popular’ award for their video at the Merdeka Video Competition 2013.
The competition, which started a week before Malaysia’s National day, required film makers to produce a short film depicting unity in Malaysia.
The group, made of Kathiravan Maniam, who studies Interactive and Multimedia Design, Harintharan Manoharan, studying Creative Multimedia, Kavinas Muthooraj who studies Architectural Studies, and Satish Raj Kunasangaron, a Sound and Music student, said even though they are not film students, their mutual interest in film making got them together to start making videos.
Their 2013 winning video was a montage sequence of footage depicting themes: we play together, grow up together, eat together, study together, work together, cheer together, achieve together, and help together. They used 132 talents made up mostly of Limkokwing University students, and was shot around Cyberjaya, Seri Kembangan, and Kuala Lumpur.
Because they entered the competition late, the hardworking trio had to shoot the video in a very short time, sometimes working 24 hours nonstop.
They learnt about the competition at a three day workshop that was held in Limkokwing last year, and they immediately entered the competition, winning the most popular video.
The 2012 winning video was a short story of a Malaysian who had been living abroad happy to be finally home after a few years, very much in line with the 2012 competition theme, ‘I love Malaysia.’
Speaking on the local film industry, the trio agreed that it needs a lot of improvement, especially on the quality of the movies produced. They also believe that it was time the industry gave the younger generation a chance to make movies, because most graduates, like Limkokwing film students, are up to date with the latest film making standards, and what is needed to bring the Malaysian film industry to international standards like Bollywood, or even Hollywood.