Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 3 ~ Top 15 Favourite Photos (No. 10 - 6)

Welcome to the 2nd post of my Top 15 Favourite Photos for Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 3. I've already listed the 5 photos that occupied the bottom part of the list. So now it's time to countdown the middle half of the chart from number 10 to number 6.

I hope you enjoy this post and the beautiful photos of the contestants below.

10. Melissa ~ Episode 1: Swimwear shoot

I noticed that Melissa always somewhat hunched in her photos. Although it looks kind of weird to a certain extent, somehow I was captivated by it, and she caught my interest from this first photo of her from the very first episode of the cycle. The photo seemed unique to me from all the other girls and already she was a standout. Although she only finished in 8th place in the competition, I had always liked her photos and I wish her all the best in her modelling career.


9. KB ~ Episode 6: Zalora campaign

You can tell from her personality that KB is an active and energetic girl, and although that works against her in most of the photoshoot, it certainly played to her strength when it comes to this Zalora campaign photoshoot. She didn't won best photo for this episode though but I feel her photo is one of the strongest for this photoshoot. She looks free, active and comfortable and this picture is certainly one of her best photo in the entire competition.

Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 3 ~ Top 15 Favourite Photos (No. 15 - 11)

Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 3 was aired around March till June 2015 in Asia and it was a fun season. There are some truly amazing and beautiful shots taken during this cycle so here I am again, listing my favourite photos from the season just like what I did for the previous season. But unlike Cycle 2 in which I listed my top 10 favourite photos, for this cycle I'm going to make it a top 15 list. There are just too many photos that I like and I want to list them as much as I can.

I managed to shortlist 29 photos that I like from this cycle and even though I had add 5 extra spots for this year it was still not easy to cut down into the top 15. I will be dividing this list into 3 different posts featuring 5 photos for each post.

Without further delay, let's get started.


15. Melissa ~ Episode 7: Subaru photoshoot

I'm not a fashion expert (obviously) so I would definitely have different opinion on what looks good and what's not. So it would not be surprising for me to pick this photo for my number 15 spot. The Subaru representative that came as guest judge for this episode slammed this photo and it eventually got Melissa eliminated from the competition. I like this photo, so I was a bit disappointed by how that turned out. To me, Melissa looks good in it and her demeanor suited with the background as well.


14. Gani ~ Episode 9: Alex Perry's long gowns

This is another photo in which I loved but was hated by the judges. This photo landed Gani in the bottom 2 and almost got her eliminated. I think I like this photo because of the fantasy element in it. In fact, this is actually my favourite photoshoot in this cycle and you will see several more of the photos taken during this episode listed in my top 15. I love this photo because Gani looks like she is in the water or falling gracefully from the sky. I remembered they mentioned that Gani didn't do enough in this photoshoot so I guess compliments must go to the photographer then, Jez Smith, for making this shot happened and also for the clever editing.

What to watch? ~ 2015 movies: October

So I was browsing through the list of movies that will be released in October for this post and...wow, there are so many interesting movies lined up! Let's go through them, shall we? Here are the list of movies scheduled to be released in October that I'm most excited about.


1) The Martian

The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott, is heavily advertised in my country which is pretty rare for a potential awards contender like this movie, so I would assumed that it has quite a huge commercial value as well as being quite mainstream in contrast to most awards-type movies that we often see. I already heard a lot of good buzz for this movie so it should be good. The movie is about a guy stranded on Mars and have to figure a way to survive there alone while waiting for the rescue team who would take years to come and save him. Starred Matt Damon as the guy who stranded on Mars along with an ensemble cast which include Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Pena, Kristen Wigg, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Donald Glover and Sebastian Stan, The Martian was released in cinemas on October 2, 2015 in the US.


2) The Final Girls

Not to be confused with Final Girl (which starred Abigail Breslin), The Final Girls is a horror comedy film which starred Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Adam DeVine, Thomas Middleditch, Alia Shawkat, Alexander Ludwig and Nina Dobrev, and directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson. I've never heard about this movie before until I saw the trailer not long ago. The trailer looks good and I like the way they make fun of the slasher films. The film features a bunch of teenagers where while trying to get out from a burning cinema, slashed through the silver screen that was showing a horror film that they were watching and mysteriously ended up in the film themselves. The premise sounds fun, right? The film was screened at South by Southwest Film Festival and received positive reviews. The Final Girls was released in limited release on October 9, 2015.


3) Pan

This movie was caught in a controversy because of the white-washed casting of Rooney Mara as the character Tiger Lily (which traditionally was portrayed as Native American) for this film. While I do think this could become quite a problem for the movie's US box office performance, I don't think it will suffer much in its worldwide haul. Even if this movie doesn't do well at the box office, it would probably be the lack of interest in the film itself rather than because of the controversy. That's just my opinion though. Pan will take viewers to discover the origin of Peter Pan and Captain Hook before they were popularly known as they were in Neverland. The movie starred Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Adeel Akhtar and Amanda Seyfried, and directed by Joe Wright. Joe Wright previously directed Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, The Soloist, Hanna and Anna Karenina, so this would be quite a departure from his earlier work. Pan was released in US cinemas (and I believe in most of the world as well) on October 9, 2015.