Day 2

We met at around 9.45am and went to have a quick breakfast. Andreas was still in Colour and Light lecture. As the uploading of the time lapse we took yesterday will take super long, Nafisah took care of the camera while we went to have a quick breakfast. I told my team that today would be a super packed and tiring day as we have to catch up with schedule.

I went up with Nafisah to the E-space after capturing the time lapse video to re-shoot her scene. After some thought i decided to let Honey learn how to use the camera and how to do simple direction. Personally I feel that she is not much of a help in the group, as i seriously do not know what she is good in. Ok, she is a great help as the scribe. She is like a small little girl. It is difficult to get a job well done from her, as she needs a lot of pushing. However from the discussion with Nafisah and Andreas last night I felt that this is not the way to go on. She wants to help but she can't, so what should we do? Teach her how.

I explained to her the buttons on the camera and their uses. I also taught her how to use a tripod stand. I let her be the cameraman/director for this scene. I decided to leave for awhile as she said that she really cannot work with me staring at one side. In the end I still came back to direct Nafisah on what to do. I guess I did the right decision as Honey can now contribute to the team and help us out as camerawoman. Yay.

We then moved on to the auditorium to shoot Gary's scene. Just as i have expected, the Auditorium is not open everyday. I then called Mr Ronald to ask him whether we are allowed to change the backdrop for his scene. He gave the green light and we proceeded on with shooting.

We started shooting, but there were a lot of background noise and people walking pass. We spent quite some time trying to get the camera angle and zoom right. Andreas was supposed to be the cameraman but i took over. Andreas was in charge of all the cues, Nafisah in charge of the camera flashes while honey is our bouncer, telling people to walk past in the correct direction and don't make noise. However there are still people who somehow didn't get it. I appreciate those that automatically asked us for permission to walk pass.

We went back to the 2D lab to upload the video we just took. Nafisah taught Honey how to upload. She then left for home to do her animation. We found out that Honey left the storyboard at home so she went home first to take it while Andreas, Gary and I went to my house first. We were hungry so we bought Indomie and cooked it at my house. After we ate, we let Andreas take a 1 hour nap as he did not sleep the past night. We then proceeded to shoot my scene. Honey set up the equipments, and Andreas will be the cameraman for my scene. Argh, we had to retake so many times due to my bad acting.

After that, I allowed Gary to go home as he said that it has been a long time since he had gone home for dinner. I let Andreas sleep till 8pm. We ate some bread which my Mum bought and we set off for the beach at Pasir Ris Park.

We used the night scene mode of the camera to shoot this scene. We went to the area where we can see the Changi Harbour. I played around with the focus and managed to get a nice effect of slowly zooming out of the harbour lights. Honey will be the camerawoman as both me and Andreas will be in the scene.

We did alot of trial and error trying to get the lighting, composition and angle right. It was pretty tiring. After many takes, we decided to do something stupid since we are already there. 1. Classic Final Fantasy Battle 2. Gay. We recorded these down with no intention of including them in the video or uploading to YouTube.

We started walking off at around 9.45pm. So Tired. Andreas took a cab home as he still have stuff to do. Whew. What a super tiring day!