Every Singaporean Son

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Every Singaporean Son
Country of origin Singapore
No. of episodes18 episodes (Cyberpioneer, YouTube and National Geographic Channel)
7 episodes (Mediacorp Channel 5)
Production
Running time6-8 minutes
Original release
Network
ReleaseJuly 7 (2010-07-07) –
November 1, 2010 (2010-11-01)
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Every Singaporean Son is a Singaporean documentary released in 2010. It serves as an education tool for all pre-enlistees during their Basic Military Training in Singapore. Most of the episodes were filmed at Pulau Tekong. 18 episodes were released. The first episode airs on 7 July 2010 on YouTube, subsequent episodes were released on every Tuesday, each clip lasted for 6 to 8 minutes.

Contents

The 18-part series was filmed between 5 February 2010 to 8 April 2010.

National Geographic Channel ordered the series and it will be aired in six episodes (30 minutes per episode) from 8 March 2011.

In August 2011, the season branched out to another 6-part series named: Every Singaporean Son – Epilogue .

The documentary was nominated for "Best Cross-Platform Content" at the 16th Asian Television Awards 2011, [1] but the series lost to the Indian series The CJ Show. [2]

On 16 August 2012, the series branched out to its second season of Every Singaporean Son, premiering every Thursday of the week. It was named: Every Singaporean Son II – The Making of an Officer . The series concentrated on a batch of cadets training to be officers in OCS Officer Cadet School and lasted 21 episodes. That same year, the series was loosely adapted to highly successful local movies directed by local celebrity film director Jack Neo known as Ah Boys to Men and Ah Boys to Men 2 , which were also filmed in Pulau Tekong as well.

The show aired on Mediacorp Channel 5 on Mondays at 7pm from 31 March 2014 to 5 May 2014, each episode lasted for 30 minutes (including commercial breaks), the 18 short episode series was compacted into 7 episodes.

Plot

In nine weeks, 15 young men from different backgrounds came together for the rite of passage that every Singaporean son must experience, which is to survive the 9 weeks of Basic Military Training. The documentary is split into 18 episodes allowing all pre-enlistees and parents understand the life in BMT.

Cast

Recruits

All the recruits were from the BMTC School 2 Orion Company Platoon 1 Section 4.

  • REC Muhd Nabil
  • REC Loh De Wei
  • REC Muhd Syabil
  • REC Dudley Lin
  • REC Chandra Thiaghu
  • REC Kenneth Ng
  • REC Justin Mark
  • REC Goh Qingwei
  • REC Danial Hakim
  • REC Douglas Wong
  • REC Lemuel Teo
  • REC Huang Guoquan
  • REC Daryl Lim
  • REC Shawn Lee
  • REC Dom Ang (Shaoquan)

Superiors

Episodes

Episode No.Episode TitleOriginal air date
1"My Buddy [3] "July 7, 2010 (2010-07-07)
2"Where I Stand [4] "July 12, 2010 (2010-07-12)
3"Strip [5] "July 19, 2010 (2010-07-19)
4"R&R - Run & Rehab [6] "July 26, 2010 (2010-07-26)
5"How Far? [7] "August 2, 2010 (2010-08-02)
6"Sharpshooter [8] "August 9, 2010 (2010-08-09)
7"Field Discipline [9] "August 16, 2010 (2010-08-16)
8"Cover Me [10] "August 23, 2010 (2010-08-23)
9"Breaking Point [11] "August 30, 2010 (2010-08-30)
10"Grenade! [12] "September 6, 2010 (2010-09-06)
11"Step Up! [13] "September 13, 2010 (2010-09-13)
12"The Not-So-Low Wall [14] "September 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)
13"Too Fast Too Furious [15] "September 28, 2010 (2010-09-28)
14"Book Out! [16] "October 4, 2010 (2010-10-04)
15"Personal Triumphs And Defeats [17] "October 11, 2010 (2010-10-11)
16"Island Party [18] "October 18, 2010 (2010-10-18)
17"Brothers In Arms [19] "October 25, 2010 (2010-10-25)
18"We Are Soldiers [20] "November 1, 2010 (2010-11-01)

Film adaptation

In November 2012, Jack Neo revealed he had been approached by the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) to edit footages from Every Singaporean Son into a film, and that after much deliberation, Neo decided not to use the footages and instead write a brand new script in adapting the series to film, which became Ah Boys to Men and the subsequent film series. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ "Nomination List 2011". Asian Television Awards 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-29. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Winner List 2011". Asian Television Awards 2011. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ "My Buddy". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved July 7, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Where I Stand". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Strip". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  6. ↑ "R&R - Run & Rehab". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  7. ↑ "How Far?". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Sharpshooter". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
  9. ↑ "Field Discipline". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Cover Me". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved August 23, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Breaking Point". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
  12. ↑ "Grenade!". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
  13. ↑ "Step Up!". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
  14. ↑ "The Not-So-Low Wall". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
  15. ↑ "Too Fast Too Furious". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
  16. ↑ "Book Out!". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
  17. ↑ "Personal Triumphs And Defeats". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  18. ↑ "Island Party". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
  19. ↑ "Brothers In Arms". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
  20. ↑ "We Are Soldiers". CyberpioneerTV. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  21. ↑ "Jack Neo film a NS propaganda?". RAZORTV. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
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