Wednesday

For today, sholleh, betty and I went to school for consultation about our progress so far. Turns out the blocked script we had wasn’t in the right format, so we’ll be changing it and showing it to Bertrand on Friday. Another thing is that after our consultation we realised that betty’s neighbour was too old to play the part of the girl, and that instead of finding a male lead to fit the girl, it should be the other way round instead. So now we’re back to looking for cast, except that we’ve lowered our age group to about 9-12 years old, depending on the rate of the kid’s puberty.

In the afternoon andrea and I got the wood for the prop swing, a 50 by 20 cm jelutong wood, 2.5 cm thick. We got our friend Gaen from PID to help us with the drilling of holes and lacquering, so by Friday night it should be ready, so that’s one good news. We did research on how to build the swing, and judging by the look of the picture on the site we found, it should be quite a nice swing.

However, later on we realised that the piano that we originally had planned to borrow from Yuan Ming’s cousin is now under servicing, and will only be back in 2 weeks, meaning we have to find a replacement for it. Andrea and I have a back-up plan for that, to approach esplanade. We had went there previously on Tuesday to look for a suitable concert hall for our shoot, but in the end, the number the receptionist gave up always went to the answering machine. However, there, we found a grand piano seating in the middle of the esplanade library, looking untouched, so we’ll see if we can go back and ask to borrow it on Friday. Hopefully, with some luck and divine intervention, we’ll be able to do it.

-JY