The Early Bird Catches Old Men Working Out Weirdly
Good morning World.
I woke up at 5.30 am this morning in order to go for filming at some playground somewhere. The aim of this shoot was to catch the sun rise and hopefully get that twilight/dawning glow somewhere in our film. This shall be one of the cool scenes hopefully.
I sat in the swing with Phoebe while the rest filmed it all down. We tried it from many angles but there were several problems:
1. There were too many early risers practising Tai Chi, or jogging, or going to school, etc.
2. There were too many poles in the way. Add this to the too many people in the shot above.
3. The sun rose but we didn't really manage to get any shots of it. Bugger.
4. I sat in the swing and swung till I was giddy. Haha.
Looking at the scenes play out on the computer today, I realised that actors have to be very very aware of their body actions, even if it feels natural or okay to be doing something, when it's captured down on film it may really look bad.
The camera person/director should be very aware of what appears on screen and rectify accordingly, if not the entire shoot's gone to waste.
I had to wear a suit for this shoot so it was kinda weird sitting in (too-low) swings early in the morning and having to recite too-serious lines. Heh.
Should have brought a change of clothes. Whole day's worth of people looking, gawking, asking, mocking, wondering what the hell I was dressed to the nines for. I like ties. Give me a break.
When we got back to the Bus Interchange, Jia Jia and Kar Wei walked on in front out of sight, so Phoebe, Rachel and I took a cab back instead. We thought we were going to be late for CS102 lecture.
In the afternoon we headed to Xiang Hong's room to shoot the Cupboard Scene. What happens in this scene is that Phoebe's character's madness begins with a traumatic childhood where she was locked inside a cupboard. Phoebe brought the bicycle chain and she sat inside the sauna while we got ready.
Her role was explained to her and she was subsequently locked inside. We turned off all the lights and began filming.
Phoebe is a really dedicated actress. She actually shrieked and bawled in fear as though she was being flayed alive. I like the little bicycle rattling part.
Man, tomorrow I've got to help Amanda's group in their filming. Looks like it's another long long week then. Till later. Hope this helped.
Cheers,
Erwin.
Good morning World.
I woke up at 5.30 am this morning in order to go for filming at some playground somewhere. The aim of this shoot was to catch the sun rise and hopefully get that twilight/dawning glow somewhere in our film. This shall be one of the cool scenes hopefully.
I sat in the swing with Phoebe while the rest filmed it all down. We tried it from many angles but there were several problems:
1. There were too many early risers practising Tai Chi, or jogging, or going to school, etc.
2. There were too many poles in the way. Add this to the too many people in the shot above.
3. The sun rose but we didn't really manage to get any shots of it. Bugger.
4. I sat in the swing and swung till I was giddy. Haha.
Looking at the scenes play out on the computer today, I realised that actors have to be very very aware of their body actions, even if it feels natural or okay to be doing something, when it's captured down on film it may really look bad.
The camera person/director should be very aware of what appears on screen and rectify accordingly, if not the entire shoot's gone to waste.
I had to wear a suit for this shoot so it was kinda weird sitting in (too-low) swings early in the morning and having to recite too-serious lines. Heh.
Should have brought a change of clothes. Whole day's worth of people looking, gawking, asking, mocking, wondering what the hell I was dressed to the nines for. I like ties. Give me a break.
When we got back to the Bus Interchange, Jia Jia and Kar Wei walked on in front out of sight, so Phoebe, Rachel and I took a cab back instead. We thought we were going to be late for CS102 lecture.
In the afternoon we headed to Xiang Hong's room to shoot the Cupboard Scene. What happens in this scene is that Phoebe's character's madness begins with a traumatic childhood where she was locked inside a cupboard. Phoebe brought the bicycle chain and she sat inside the sauna while we got ready.
Her role was explained to her and she was subsequently locked inside. We turned off all the lights and began filming.
Phoebe is a really dedicated actress. She actually shrieked and bawled in fear as though she was being flayed alive. I like the little bicycle rattling part.
Man, tomorrow I've got to help Amanda's group in their filming. Looks like it's another long long week then. Till later. Hope this helped.
Cheers,
Erwin.
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