Friday

for today's shoot it can be considered both a success and a total failure. success because we got the footages that we needed, and failure because our scheduling broke down. but i'll explain later.

in the afternoon, at hereafter, bertrand commented that our footages were too blue, and some of them being too dark. we initially set the clour balance at blue because after looking at it, it seemed to give the grass a more greener feel. however, we neglected the other parts of the picture, like the sky, actors and their clothes, most obviously hazel, who was wearing white all the time. so now, we have to reshoot a few scenes, and save the rest by editing the colour.

now on to the shoot. we stayed in school till quite late as we had quite a bit of work to do, for example finding the cast and scheduling of everything. the shoot was delayed because we couldn't get jayden to be free in time, so we were shooting at night instead. for the role of the father, since everything was pushed back, JY's father was free and he agreed to help us shoot. so in the late evening sholleh and JY came over to my house to pick up all the equipment, and betty went to pick aloysious up.

by the time we got over to matthew's house, it was already around 10pm.when we got there, matthew wasn't home because he was still in army camp and could only be home at midnight. when we rang the bell and his mother answered, she said that she was only told that the shoot was at 4pm, and did not hear anything about it being delayed. thus it took us quite a while to contact matthew to get him to explain the situation to his mother, and by the time we got in, it was already quite late. at that time, betty had not yet came with aloysious, but was at his house waiting for him to get ready. also, we had asked them not to leave until we could confirm that we were able to shoot, so when we got the word, we called to them and they took a cab over.

the shoot itself was quite long, as we tried many things, trying to see what would work. many of our shots couldn't work becasue the room the piano was in was quite cramped, and we didn't have time to recee it beforehand. so by the time we were done it was already past midnight. i guess for future shoots we would have to make sure everything was ok before we went ahead, and also that a constant level of communication was maintained. but then again, working with people who did not act for a living can sometimes delay our shoot due to their educational commitments.

-Andrea