Filming

Yesterday, Peishan and I gathered with our casts at Peishan's dad's work place which is located at Ubi Ave 3 at around 11am. When everyone has reached, we began to set up our relevant equipment first while the casts took a short break. We have invited my dad, Peishan's older brother and her sister-in-law's siblings to help us out by acting. So before we began shooting, we organised the shots accordingly from the hardest to the easiest so that we wouldn't take up too much time. (The casts had to leave at around 3pm that's why) Firstly, we filmed the part where Peishan's older brother (who acted as the main character, Sam) using the computer. We left the computer screen green in colour so that we can edit it by adding in our vfx shot during post production. Right after, we carried on to the part where two policemen and Sam's colleague would walk in and then we did a close up shot on one of the policemen (acted by Peishan's sister-in-law's brother) where he would speak his line. However, as the audio wasn't that clear in the final footage, Peishan and i decided that we should allow the casts to speak using a mic and they would lip sync as we film. After which we began to shoot the part where the two policemen would hold onto Sam's shoulder while the three of them slowly leave the place. And it was time to shoot the part where Sam's colleague would approach him from his back and he would turn would with a shocked expression as his action has been caught by his colleague. We did a close up shot on Sam as he tells his colleague to keep his misdeed a action and for the next shot we made use of two cameras in order to capture the footage at two different angles. One camera was placed in a position so as to film a medium shot of Sam passing the cash to his colleague while another camera was held onto by Peishan as she filmed the dolly shot. Reason being, we wanted to conduct an effect transition to create a form of suspense by letting the viewers to wonder if Sam's colleague did accept the money or not. For the dolly shot, as Peishan slowly leaves the shop while the door closes (two people stood behind the door as they slowly pushed it) The last shot that we did was the one where one of us would hold onto the door knob and turn it indicating that a mysterious hand is opening the door. All in all, the problems that we faced was mainly the positions of the casts. We had to decide properly which position would be most appropriate for the casts to stand at in order to caption it at certain angles. Oh yes, and the lighting as well. We had to make sure that the lighting condition for all our footage is well balanced - not too bright or dark. However, Peishan and i worked well together so we could solve our problems easily. That's all for now, there will be more updates to come!