30 July, 2010
My god. What an amazingly exhausting but exciting day!
After a whole day of work, we started shooting at 7:30 pm. It lasted until 4:30 am. It was a very interesting shoot to say the least. I had 15 different angles for a single indoor scene at my place and we shot and shot and shot that one for about 5 hours by the end of which, the actors were already tired but they didn't realize that wasn't the worst of it. Because immediately after that, we proceeded to a night-time outdoor shoot which was not the easiest thing to do for independent film makers who have no money and therefore, no lights. Most spots in Singapore housing neighbourhoods, I realized, are ill-lit for night-time filming. We had to hop from one spot on the road to another, looking for bright patches where we could shoot without the actors ending up looking ghosts. At the end of it, we ended up shooting a single shot in about 6 different locations before we could make it bearable.
On top of everything we also attracted the attention of the Singapore Police who were patrolling around. They interrogated me about why I was walking around at 2 am with a camera and three other people. Upon being informed that we are just penniless film makers, they did let us proceed in peace.
So there. It was definitely an exciting nine hours in the night.
746 more to go.
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