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Fun Shooting

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Now then I realise what's it like to be a movie director. Zakaria asked me for my help to film a short clip about himself for his polytechnic course so I decided, what the heck, let's just try. I had no experience at all in filming really. All the ideas in my head just stayed there but I didn't use any of them because I didn't film anything.

The 1st shot that we had to do was filming a dark scary alley where seldom people walked. I found the spot near my house and started shooting. It was hard to get the angle so as to achieve the effect so we tried walking with the camera slowly and tried zoom in slow. To our surprise, the walking one had the effect. Zooming loses it because it looks very robotic and not natural.

Afterwards, we headed to Starbucks in Eastpoint because his camera has ran flat of battery so while charging it, we planned out what's the next scene going to be like. We were like animated characters, moving our arms all around, trying to get some ideas out and we tried with the FX sounds that Zak had on his Mac Book. We even planned it out on a storyboard. For those who doesn't know what's a storyboard, it's a piece of paper with many boxes of pictures depicting what's the scene going to be like in rough sketch. There we have it, a storyboard for Zak's video.

Later on, we went to his house to get a couple of scenes done. We had some fun with the knifes. The longest shoot was trying to get this scary shot of the knife being thrown back, ready to cut something, and looking murderous as possible. But we forgot to sync with the FX sound so we had to do it again. Thanks Zakaria's sister for the drink and his mother for the food...It was delicious, really. =D

Overall, it was fun yet tiring shoot. Planning everything and setting the mood and the place was difficult. Besides we did not have a crew to help us out. I want to thanks Zak for giving me this opportunity to work with him. Thanks, man! I spent like the whole night helping him out and I got home at 12:20am. Even though we spent the whole night shooting a simple 2-3min clip, we only got it like 1/3 to 1/2 done! No wonder directors usually spend a week on a scene which is only like 10 mins of the film. Now I wish I could do abit more of filming after my O Levels...before I enter my polytechnic course! =DDD

That's all for today! Thanks for reading
PS: YAY!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S COMING BACK!! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!