Friday

Today, Jy and I met early at Potong Pasir Mrt. Today the group was split up again. Jy and I were to do the recce-ing and Betty and Sholleh to meet Betrand. Jy and I were to find the exact tree we wanted and take the measurements, then tailor the swing to it. However, halfway through we had a call from Betty who told us that Betrand thought that the location was not green enough and certain pictures that we had shown him had spots/patches of brown that would not look good on the P2 camera. As such, Jy and I were sent to recce seletar resevoir or some where near there.


Thereafter, Jy and I first took a short break at Macs and then used my NEW PHONE which had wifi to look for golf courses and call them up and ask if we could shoot there as a golf course was the only place we could think of with really flat, green green grass. We also tried sourcing for pianos that were out of tune or had their internal wooden frames/spines broken. Because that would be a cheaper alternative for us to rent rather than a full working grand piano. Besides, we did not need the sound on set. The piano piece would be pre-recorded in the studio and then effects would be added to it to give it a really majestic feel. But all the companies we called up did not give us at least one optimistic reply. Most of them said that they did not have or still charged us at expensive prices.


After that, Jy and I took a bus down to Nee Soon Camp, according to the directions Betty gave us. It was really difficult to find the location! First we took the bus all the way to night safari, Mandai and missed our stop then, we got down at the wrong bus stop and had to walk a very great distance before we reached where ever we were going. Betty told us to go to the executive golf course near Nee Soon Camp but we had no cue where it was. By the time we reached Nee Soon Camp, a guy directed us to the golf course behind Nee Soon Camp which turned out to be Seletar executive Golf course. After walking a great distance again, we reached the golf course and it turned out to be a waste of time. The trees were not suitable, the grass had two different colours which came in strips (light green, dark green, light green, dark green).


However, we found a not so bad location opposite golf course. It was SLA state land. (singapore land authorities) The place was a park like place with a few lamps along the way. The grass was short and green. The trees were pine shaped and not bad looking. Overall, the place was not bad, but lacked the "endless greenery" feel and not at all enchanted. By the time we got out of the place, we were at The Bottle tree park at Khatib mrt station.

-Andrea