Kamis, 28 Januari 2010

Pelukis Billboard di Jakarta

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Well, tulisan dan gambar-gambar ini seharusnya merupakan rilis resmi UAS Penulisan Feature kuliah semester lalu. Sayang, tulisan tentang pelukis billboard film kurang menarik bagi media, barangkali... Ini juga yang akhirnya menjadi salah satu faktor mengapa nilai akhir kuliahku itu menjadi D. Ha ha!

Jadi, daripada dibuang sayang, lebih baik aku membagi sedikit dari apa yang kulihat dalam proses melukis poster film yang kini semakin langka digunakan di Jakarta setelah majunya percetakan digital.

Dimulai dari wawancara di daerah Jagakarsa bersama temanku Audryn November tahun 2009, kami melihat proses melukis baliho yang digunakan untuk tayangan film-film baru di berbagai bioskop. Kami mewawancarai pengusaha lukisan baliho ini yang bernama Kemal. Dia bercerita banyak mengenai pekerjaan 'kreatif' yang kini semakin langka. Bayangkan, untuk seluruh Indonesia ini hanya terdapat empat studio lukis khusus baliho film. Kemal adalah salah satunya. Dia khusus menerimakan orderan film buatan sineas Indonesia.

Studio tempat Kemal memroses kain dan cat menjadi uang ini berisi sekitar 5-7 perkerja yang mengolah gambar dan tulisan. Terdapat tukang cat background yang bertugas memberikan warna dasar untuk gambar, tukang letter yang melukiskan huruf-huruf,dan tukang lukis yang tentunya melukis...

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Tukang Background

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Tukang Letter

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Pelukis


Pembuatan sebuah baliho film bisa diselesaikan dalam waktu satu hari, kira-kira delapan jam.

Pertama, yang dilakukan adalah memasangkan kain belacu pada rangka yang telah diberi gambar sketsa awal untuk semua baliho. Sketsa untuk jiplakan semua balih ini dipasang hingga semua pekerjaan telah selesai. Kira-kira terdapat sekitar 60 baliho yang dibuat untuk seluruh Indonesia.

Setelah dijiplak dari sketsa, barulah tukang background mengecat warna latar yang diperlukan untuk baliho. Biasanya, ketiga pelukis ini sudah membuat campuran warna dasar yang akan digunakan. Menurut Kohar, pelukis membutuhkan warna hitam, merah, biru, kuning, dan putih. "Kalau butuh warna lain tinggal dicampur," ujar Kohar. Cat yang digunakan untuk melukis baliho adalah cat tembok.

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palet cat

Kala jaman dulu, lukisan untuk film-film menggunakan media hardboard dan cat minyak. Seiring berkembangnya teknologi cetak digital dan masa tayang film yang semakin singkat, pilihan menggunakan bahan-bahan yang murah ini merupakan solusi yang paling oke.

Proses pewarnaan berlangsung sekitar satu jam dan biasanya dipercepat dengan pengeringan yang dilakukan dengan memanaskan kain dari bakar-bakaran kayu. Tukang lukis juga mulai bekerja membuat garis-garis tegas untuk menggambarkan sementara rupa para selebriti di lembar kain belacu itu. Pekerjaan tukang letter menyusul kemudian setelah dua tukang lukis lainnya sudah kelar mewarnai.

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sketsa gambar

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Dalam satu hari, seorang pelukis bisa menyelesaikan hingga tiga baliho bersama-sama.

Ada apa ini?

Pelukis baliho film menjadi jarang karena pekerjaan ini tidak menjanjikan sebagaimana yang terjadi pada percetakan digital yang kini bertebaran dimana-mana. Bayaran tukang lukis kini berpacu dengan semakin murahnya biaya cetak ukuran raksasa. Pengusaha terus mengusahakan agar usaha ini tidak mati karena masih juga dipertimbangkan faktor kemanusiaannya.

Lantas, setelah digencat dari sana sini pun pelukis ini masih bertahan. Kohar (42) sebagaimana diwawancarai bulan November lalu mengatakan bahwa tidak ada lagi generasi yang lebih muda darinya, yang bekerja serupa. Sulitnya memperlebar kesempatan pada perkejaan ini tentu merupakan satu lagi penghambat selain sulitnya generasi baru kini melukis dibandingkan 'melukis' dengan kamera digital.

Apakah pekerjaan ini akan mati? Perlahan-lahan tentu. Bersyukurlah kita masih bisa menikmati lucunya (menurutku) wajah para selebriti hasil goresan kuas para tukang gambar ini. Paling tidak sampai beberapa tahun kedepan lah...

(diringkas dari tulisan "Generasi Terakhir Pelukis Billboard"; tulisan yang tidak terpublikasikan)

Selasa, 26 Januari 2010

I Never Fall In Love Again

What do you get when you fall in love?
A guy with a pin to burst your bubble
That's what you get for all your trouble
I'll never fall in love again
I'll never fall in love again

What do you get when you kiss a girl
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
After you do, she'll never phone you
I'll never fall in love again
I'll never fall in love again

Don't tell me what it's all about
'Cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out
Out of those chains those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you

What do you get when you give your heart
You get it all broken up and battered
That's what you get, a heart that's shattered
I'll never fall in love again
I'll never fall in love again

Out of those chains those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you

What do you get when you fall in love?
You only get lies and pain and sorrow
So for at least until tomorrow
I'll never fall in love again
I'll never fall in love again

I'll never fall in love again
I'll never fall in love again

- Tom Jones

How Can't You Mend A Broken Heart?

I can think of younger days when living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do.
I could never see tomorrow, but I was never told about the sorrow.

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend a this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories do days gone by
We could never see tomorrow, noone said a word about the sorrow.

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

The End of The World

Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me any more

Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye...


The End of The World - Skeeter Davis

The End - The Beatles

Oh yeah, all right
Are you going to be in my dreams
Tonight?
...
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make.

I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Cause every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure

Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes
And thank God we're together
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever
Forever and ever

Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

I don't wanna miss one smile
I don't wanna miss one kiss
I just wanna be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For the rest of time

I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

I Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
the sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing

Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
And I don't wanna miss a thing

Sabtu, 05 Desember 2009

Song of The Open Road

From this hour I ordain myself loosed of limits and imaginary lines,
Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
Listening to others, considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
I inhale great draughts of space,
The east and the west are mine, the north and the south are mine.
I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.

These are the days that must happen to you:
You shall not heap up what is called riches,
You shall scatter with a lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
You but arrive at the city to which you were destined,
You hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are called by an irresistable call to depart,
You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reached hands toward you.

Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginingless,
To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,
To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it, To conceive no time, however distant, but you may reach it and pass it,
To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you,
However long but it stretches and waits for you,
To see no being, not god's, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labour or purchase,
Abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it.
To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
To gather minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,
To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind,
To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for travelling souls.

Allons! the road is before us! It is safe-
I have tried it- my own feet have tried it well- be not detained!
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopened!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearned!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law,
Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law: Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?


Walt Whitman - dari "Song of The Open Road"

Sabtu, 28 November 2009

You Give Me Something - James Morisson

You want to stay with me in the morning
You only hold me when I sleep
I was meant to tread the water
Now I've gotten in too deep
For every piece of me that wants you
Another piece backs away

'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
Cause someday I might know my heart

You already waited up for hours
Just to spend a little time alone with me
And I can say I've never bought you flowers
I can't work out what they mean
I never thought that I'd love someone
That was someone else's dream

'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
'Cause someday I might call you from my heart

But it might me a second too late
And the words that I could never say
Gonna come out anyway

Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something

Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
Cause someday I might know my heart
Know my heart, know my heart, know my heart

Jumat, 20 November 2009

Love of My Life

Love of my life - you've hurt me
You've broken my heart and now you leave me
Love of my life can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know -
What it means to me

Love of my life don't leave me
You've taken my love, you now desert me
Love of my life can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know -
What it means to me

You won't remember -
When this is blown over
And everything's all by the way -
When I get older
I will be there at your side to remind you
How I still love you - I still love you

Back - hurry back
Please bring it back home to me
Because you don't know what it means to me -
Love of my life
Love of my life

Kamis, 19 November 2009

Rusuk yang Patah

"Perempuan berasal dari tulang rusuk laki-laki, bukan dari kakinya untuk dijadikan alas,bukan pula dari kepalanya untuk menjadi atasan,melainkan dari sisinya untuk menjadi teman hidup, dekat dengan lengannya untuk dilindungi dan dekat dihatinya untuk dicintai..." - NN

dan rusuk itu pun rupanya melengkung, sehingga seorang pria jangan sampai berpikir meluruskan benda rapuh itu. Karena, sang tulang rusuk bisa patah karenanya.