Sunday

The shoot today started off at 6.30. I had to prepare the logistics for the shoot and set off with all the equiptment. After filling up the water tank, loading up the logistical items and the bicycle in my father's van, we headed to mt.vernon for the shoot.

we arrived at around 8am to 9am. by then, JY and Shol were already there, and they helped to unload the van and set up our home base, which comprised of an easy-up and a tent. as the easy up was not sheltered from the sides, we used 5 sleeping bags to cover 2 sides, the 3rd side being the entrance of the tent and the fourth being the entrance to the home base itself. betty arrived at around 9+ with the cast, aloysious, 13, and hazel, 10, and after a little preparation we went on to shooting. throughout the day, quite a few people came and helped us out, like amos, out photographer, shermin, our cast's cousin who had to accompany her, sure-li, who brought some clothes over after we realised that the weather was too hot for what most of us were wearing, and jeremy, our male lead's brother, who came to help out with our production. he alone was the only other MOI video person outside of our group, and lucky for us he wasn't shooting today.

after we set up the base and started shooting, we realised that it was set up at the wrong place, as it was super far from where we were shooting, and when we needed to get something we had to go all the way back, but that had to be dealt with the next time we went back there. good thing i brought my bicycle.

so anyways for the shoot, my main role was to be the one getting lunch for everyone, and helping JY and Shol set up, so during lunch time i had to travel by bike to a faraway place to get food for everyone, then come back with the food balanced on both handles of the bike (food for 8 people) back to mount vernon, going uphill in more than one places.

progress was quite slow for today, i'm not quite sure why, but i think JY will post more about the production later as he and Shol had been there the whole time. what i do know is that lighting played a major factor in slowing all of us down, from what shol had said.

one of our scenes involved a fallen log, where our actors had to sit on it and talk, but we couldn't find any logs in our recee trips and time was running short, so in the end while JY and shol were shooting i went to scout for a place to shoot, and i ended up finding a tree stump big enough for both of them so sit on. after discussing with shol for awhile, while JY and the other guys were tearing down the previous location, we came up with quite a nice shot. but that alone took quite a while to film as well, as we had to get the girl to understand how to act and also wait for the sun. we ended up with quite a nice shot in the end, smooth, although the quality of sound was terrible.

all in all the day was ok, i didn't manage to discuss with the group about everything today because my dad came to bring me and the equipment home while the rest went for dinner, but i guess today's shoot was fruitful, as we had learnt quite a few things that we have never encountered in past shoots, and others that we had forgotten.

-Andrea