My portfolio

Hey! I'm Jason Loong, a year 3 student from Singapore Polytechnic's Media, Arts & Design school, specialising in Story & Content Creation.I love the adrenaline of production and telling stories through different forms, be it through writing or video. I am currently looking for an internship role in either video editor, assistant producer or factual writer. When I'm not doing work, I love taking nature walks and reflecting about life's deepest intricacies.This page is a collection of my production and writing works.

Video Production

In production, I usually bounce between the two roles I'm most proficient at - producer & editor. Click on the button below to view my work!

• My Videography Work

Journalism

I have written and produced factual content in many forms, including a profile feature, a podcast, a short form video and a magazine article. Check them out below!

• My Journalistic Work

Illustrated poetry

I also run an illustrated poetry account - sky.intricate. Here's one of my posts on the right, but check out my instagram for my other posts!

• sky.intricate

Get in touch!

I am open for both production and content creation work.

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Beyond Faiths

In June 2025, as part of an overseas documentary filmmaking module, I traveled to Mojokerto, Indonesia, and filmed a documentary about the inter-faith present in Kampung Majapahit Bejijong.Roles: Assistant Producer

Cosplayers' Guide to Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park

An infotainment video about different photo worthy spots which cosplayers can consider when visiting Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park!Roles: Editor & Motion Graphics Artist

Forever Young - The Ageless Spirit of Hobbies

A documentary about a toy photographer, Ms Pei Zhen, who still chooses to keep up with her hobby as an adult.This was the first video project I took on the Producer role! - find out more about the entire process below.

• More about this production

Instant Laughter

A romantic comedy about a girl with a weird laugh crushing on a guy who's already taken.Roles: ProducerFind out more about everything that went wrong in this hectic shoot below!

• More about this production

The Beloved Secret

Two friends each have a secret - which will be revealed first? This mockumentary video was shot entirely on 3 separate phones (so do bear with the inconsistent audio quality) and conceptualised and filmed within two hours for a class activity!Roles: Editor, Camera Operator

Uranophobia

A reality short following a student band who are preparing for a gig - that ended up only having 5 audience members.Roles: Line Producer

Foot Fetish

A mockumentary about someone with a foot fetish. (I promise I don't actually have one in real life!)Roles: Talent, Editor

3 ways to destress in school

This video is about 3 different things one can do when stressed.. while in school!Roles: Camera Operator, Editor

Cheese Sausages

This video was filmed as part of an assignment where we practiced narrative video production for the first time. The script was pre-written by our lecturer.Roles: Producer, Editor

Peer Reviews

Our school requires us to give feedback to each other at the end of every project. Here's some I've received from my peers that have worked with me for production!

Get in touch!

I am open for both production and content creation work.

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Pre-Production

This was the first video project where I executed the process of casting. Considering our tight timeline, my group decided to conduct casting online, where auditionees would send a short video clip acting out one part of our script that was the essence for their character. On the right is our casting poster, designed by our production designer.Pre-production was generally smooth. One of the bigger issues we faced was planning our shoot days and schedule, as each of the crew was concurrently working on a different video project at the same time. Eventually, we were able to lock down the weekend of 14-16 February 2025, and stated this clearly as the filming dates when we sent out casting. We were also able to find a common day to conduct rehearsals with the cast before the filming period.We were also given a small amount of budget for this film. After script breakdown and rehearsals, we came to a conclusion that no additional props or costumes would have to be bought for our production, so we solely used the budget we were given for cast payment.

Production - everything that went wrong

Shoot days itself really kept my group on its toes, as there were many unexpected situations we faced.

Firstly, on the morning of day 2 at 7am, one of our cast texted us that their black headphones, which was a prop needed for all 4 scenes, just broke. We had already shot the first scene on day 1 with the black headphones. Some of our groupmates thankfully also had black headphones, so we chose the closest looking one as a replacement, in hopes that it would not be as obvious to spot in the final edit.

Swapping schedules

When we arrived at our first location in school in the morning, there was evident construction happening nearby. As we were shooting this in school on the weekend, it was expected. We had done a location scout on the weekends previously before the filming, albeit the construction during the scout wasn't as severe. While we had initially planned to film our third scene first in the morning, followed by the second scene in the afternoon, we decided to swap around and film our second scene first. Thankfully, we were able to do this as while one of our cast only had to be present for the morning for the third scene, she was still available for the rest of the day.This experience made me reflect on the importance of cast availability and flexibility as well as being tighter to foresee issues and plan contingencies during our location scouts.

Backup locations

In fact, only the first scene in our film was shot in our original location planned. Due to a mix of heavy construction, heavy rainfall and lighting conditions that were not as ideal, we ended up using our backup locations for all three scenes after the first. And each came with their own challenges.

This photo was taken during a rehearsal one week before our filming. In the background you can see the original location that we wanted to shoot at for scene 3.

The lift scene

Wondering how we timed the lift scene for Ryan to walk out of the lift at the precise timing?Our production designer was upstairs at level 5, one floor above where we were shooting at level 4. During our rehearsals before filming week, we had timed how long the lift would take to close doors at level 5, travel down to level 4, and then open doors. From this, we were able to find out that the length of Natasha's and Melody's conversation in the scene was just right that when we rolled for take, and our director shouted "action", Ryan would immediately press the lift door closing button at level 5 to time the arrival spot on.After every take, we had the fun task of sending the lift back up to level 5. As there are two lifts side by side, sometimes the wrong lift would be sent up and we would have to send it back down!

Location issues

Notice the mirrors behind the cast in the scene? This was an issue we had spotted during location scout, and since we did not have access to equipment then, we could only roughly block out as best as we could what we could do to avoid showing our filming equipment in the mirrors. When we ended up needing to use this location on the day itself, we took some time at the start to re-block out cast and equipment position, and we were successfully able to frame the camera in such a way that the equipment would not be spotted in the background.

Our editor, who helped with the lighting, and our sound recordist, both had to be on the floor to ensure our equipment weren't seen in the background!

Who could have predicted this?

Before heavy rainfall had happened, we were shooting the first few takes of scene 3 in our original location, when the most unpredictable thing happened - the "I" in the "AIA" logo in the jersey Ryan was wearing - came off!

All we needed...

...was a little masking tape. And that was thankfully enough to last for the rest of the shoot day.

As Murphy's Law would say, anything that can go wrong WILL go wrong.

To wrap things up...

There were many more things that went wrong throughout the three shoot days, but the above were our highlights. I'm really proud that we were able to solve or minimize the impact of everything that had went wrong as best as we could.One really important lesson I learned through this entire production was the importance of extensively planning out your contingencies. Contingencies are as important, if not even more compared to our plan A's.Another really important lesson I took away was the importance of building trust and dynamic with our cast. With this being the first production I had to execute casting, I really saw how when we bonded with them and made them feel comfortable with us, they would do a lot for you. They stayed back for up to 3 hours beyond our initial wrap time due to all the events that had unfolded, felt our struggle as were trying to solve problems and losing energy, but also there with us every step of the way, and this entire production would not have been possible or as memorable without them.

Some snapshots of day 2 & 3

Pre-Production

Each of my group members first had to find profiles for a documentary story individually, then we came together as a group to select the best proposal based on realistic constraints of story, access and what we could film. My co-producer Reece's story about a lecturer who still keeps up with her passion for toy photographer was selected. Reece was the main contact person with our profile throughout.Due to some initial miscommunication regarding access, we ended up simulating the environment of a house in one of the classrooms in our school. We chose the final classroom seen in the video after scouting through many classrooms. And I was the person in charge of contacting one of the school's managers regarding booking of the classroom to be used for filming purposes.Admittedly, this was a space we had to create, but our profile did have a collection of her figurines in school, in the office. As students, we are not allowed to film inside for obvious reasons, so this was the best we could do with what we had, as we ultimately agreed changing to a different story idea from our other group members was no longer possible given the time constraint.

The classroom we used was one of the more unique looking ones in the school. We tried to create a comfortable feeling environment through our set design.

friendly reminders..

A core aspect of working with me in production which has been around since the very start: frequent messages of checking in and reminders! - especially before shoot days or when we had to return our equipment after the loan period was over.

These proved to keep the team on track and on the same page and is still something I actively do in my current production projects, be it regarding an approaching milestone / deadline or just anything related to production matters itself.With closer attention to the photo on the right, our group borrowed a spare camera and tripod from another group in the class that was not shooting that day, and I wanted to make sure we took full accountability and responsibility of that.

script formatting

Ensuring neat formatting of all our documents is also something I picked up very early on from working on this project. I really saw how it helped my editor to have a much easier time being able to reference off a clean script compared to one that has messy formatting.

A snippet of our paper edit script.

Looking back..

While this certainly was not the most intensive project that I've done as a producer, but with it being my first, it was certainly very memorable. I learned a lot about coordination, organisation, teamwork, as well as myself and my process.Having been an editor for my projects before this, this project definitely sparked my interest to take on the producer role for subsequent projects, as I saw the importance of such a role, and felt that this is a skillset which I can develop to a strength to help out with future productions in.As a producer, my work may not be as directly apparent as that of the camera operator, the director, but without a good producer, the entire production can fall apart.Ultimately, I'm grateful for the team I had while working on this project, as they were very supportive and driven too to produce the best video we could have done.

Setting up for interview

Journalism

Here are my journalistic works!

Podcast Episode

For an assignment to produce a podcast episode targeted at a Gen Z audience, my team did a concept of interviewing someone from a different industry in Singapore every episode. For this episode, we interviewed Qis Maraj, a music producer, rapper, actor and radio DJ to obtain insights about working in the entertainment industry. We also obtained street interviews to get opinions from the public.Listen to the full episode on the right.

Yellowship

A feature article I wrote about Vihaan Iyer, founder of Yellowship, and his journey to create a platform for the upcycling of tennis balls in Singapore. A large number of tennis balls get wasted every year as they are replaced in professional matches once they lose their bounce.This was written in January 2024 and remains one of my proudest writing works to this day.

• Full article

Deconstructing Reality

For a magazine assignment, I wrote a piece about one of my favourite shows - Inanimate Insanity! I also designed this particular page. Check out the full magazine (centred around screen content) which my team made below:

• Behind The Screen Magazine

Singapore's recent conservation efforts

A photo essay about two places that opened in Singapore in the last quarter of 2024 - Bidadari Park and Big Sister's Island, that were developed with conservation in mind.This was written in November 2024.

• Full photo essay

Did You Know about the Election Deposit?

A short tiktok video I made about the election deposit as part of a journalism module.I wrote, produced, and edited this video.

Once Upon A Tide

I made a short video exploring the "Once Upon A Tide" exhibition that happened at the National Museum of Singapore. This video was for a brief that angled on user experience in an exhibition.