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Saturday, November 13, 2004

cool~ i noe everyone's excited.. coz my blogging mood is back again... !!! :D (yar.. like who cares..)

[WARNING: the following entry consists of violence language and is not suitable for children under 13-.- Entry also consists of words or sentences which might be unpleasant-_-do not carry on reading if u have little tolerance]
hmm.. k... so today went to filming.. finally.. for the past few days.. have been preparing the stuff needed for filming... called people... then think for the past 4 days... i slept less than 12 hrs in all...

so aniway... today was the fiming day.. everyone met at 7am.. then brought the stuff from des's hse to outside sch.. then we booked shawzi's ah gong van to drive us to the filming location... then we are supposed to set off from sch to there at 7.15.. in order to set up everything and like rehearse or briefing.. but waited till 8... then i was like in my heart.. really sinking man.. i was like juz gif up.. coz i also dunoe y.. juz felt so dishearted.. maeb its becoz the many failures i got from the previous batch of crew... all pan seh me.. so niwae.. the ghost arrived and we set off...

on the way there, we lost our way.. reason.. i rmb the wrong street... its supposed to be choa chu kang street 64... instead of str. 62... so niwae.. managed to find the street and the big canal.. thn tada! we reached there finally... so we alighted.. walked to the canal.. and set up our stuff.. then later went to take the train scene... there's where i got bery restless and bo chup for the rest of the filming... oh yar... did i mentioned tt i was having sorta of like high fever before i went out to des's hse this morning.. tt's y i bery restless...

niwae.. reached the train there... then wanted to try out a few angles.. but were refused by des... then i was pissed off liaoz.. coz my head was like bombarding due to my fever... then i became restless... i dunnoe lar... bery confusing one... nvm... lets continue the entry... yar... so i was like later slacking arnd liaoz.. then later went to take shawzi running along carpark.. but cannot... coz dun have appropriate equipments.. so i gave it up... then was thinking of how to replace tt scene tt time.. jacob realli spoilt my whole mood for the whole day.. he lost a screw or wadever if u wan to call it BOLT... wadever~ yar... and that screw/bolt came from the tripod.. i mean if lost it on solid cement ground still ok.. but that goon goon dun even noe he dropped it until like a few mins later.. and btw that time.. he walked through quite a big patch of grass... though that patch is consider small... but combing will at least take up 30 mins or more lor... for juz such a small screw/bolt... and so.. we gave up that thingy... and decided to pool in money to buy a new one to replace.. [actually if wan we can still use the tripod(the one with the lost screw/bolt).. we juz replace that lost thingy wif some modified stick or wadever then can use liaoz..]... niwae.. he still spoilt my mood... coz we planned to use two tripod or rather 2 cameras.. so maeb can shoot 2 diff. scenes at the same time.. but in the end.. haiz... nvm...

so we juz carried on filming.. then later me and mun mun(she came along =) thanx!) went to the yew tee pri sch to ask permission to use the sch compound for filming.. but the clerk told us cannot.. coz we no letter of request by teachers plus need gif them beforehand... so we juz decided to walk back to the canal.. ( its a 5-8 MINS WALK FOR UR INFO.. COZ FOR EXAMPLE.. the canal its at the south end of the sch.... but the sch's main gate is at the north end of the school.. and we can't use the back gate to go out of the sch... then to round-about it.. it takes a long distance... so yar.. tt's y we took so long to walk there.... !!! niwae... about to walk out of the sch's gate.. then saw jun zhong.. then he was like going to change.. so we asked him to go the general office to ask permission to use thier permission first.. then me and mun mun juz waited under some shade outside their canteen while jun zhong went to ask for permission and change.. then we wanted to call back and tell them wd happened... but des's hp no batt... then yingli can't reach also... so niwae.. we juz sat there to wait... but after like 10 mins plus later... jun zhong haven't come out yet... then we were puzzled... then i was looking arnd for him.. then i saw his head.. he was standing beside the sch's om.. at first i thought he kanna caught for using toilet.. coz he nv ask permission.. so went over wif mun mun to find out wd happened.. coz they were talking for like quite long.. then went there.. then jun zhong said we can use the sch compound... reason...: coz the clerk thought we were from cji (do we look like?) wadever~ so they dun let us use.. but then coz mdm aisha helped me looked for one of the chers there.. and i think tt cher helped us booked wif the sch liaoz... so.. WE CAN USE!!! so we went wif the sch uncle to open the back gate.. then went out of back gate... then only saw nick. at the tent... then realised to went to shoot the ghost scenes.. so we juz waited under the tent.. 10 mins later... they still there filming... then the restless me got more pissed off.. coz that scene was like juz shoot the blood flowing only as suggested by des.. but in the end... wd i saw was not like wd des said lor.... they were shooting a lot of stuff which are not in the script.. but the restless me is juz so fatigue from the fever.. that i lazy to walk over there and see wd they doing.. so juz continued to sit under the tent.. then later lied on mun mun's lap to have a nap... (sorry for making ur legs cramped =p) yar.. niwae... then by the time they came back... the sch uncle alreadi went back sch and locked the back gate.. saying he open later.... so we have to wait and then they filmed the fighting part... then me and mun mun went to the sch gate there.. then waited and waited.. for at least 3 mins.. but they were still at the tent.. they obviously dun get the reason why the tent is so far away from the sch.. its becoz i dun wan them to shoot till the tent mahz.. but they want to shoot near the tent.. limiting the camera angles.. but aniwae.. its also des film.. so i juz continue to slacked.. honestly.. i was so damn pissed off at tt time.. coz as i said.. my fever was making me bery restless... then they were obviously not filming to the script.. its like only one word to describe lor... STUPID... coz the reason of the script is also to like have a guideline to follow mahz.. then they anyhow changed it.. somemore if they filmed like in the sequence of the script then if they wan to change still ok... coz can change the behind part of the script as they proceed on wif the filming.. but they like anyhow film the scenes in no sequence.. then they change.. afterward they changed the whole gist of the story then... :S wadever... but the story muz have a meaning or rather objective to let the audience noe lor.. (for info... the main objective or rather gist of the story is :the ghost helped the boy... then later then the boy found out is his mum... ) and for info again.. a slight change in the script without careful thinking of how the behind part of the story might change is bad... furthermore.. when we wrote the script... we alreadi plan the camera angels liaoz.. then for me.. i even thought of some transitions and effects which can be used during editing.. and this will surely hasten the process of the "ONE WEEK ONLY" editing period... but niwae.. coz today i really dunnoe wd they filmed.. so i can only cou yi bu.. kan yi bu... (walk one step at the time... and see wd will happen later) yar... tt's the reason why i was pissed off... niwae... lets continue with the entry again.. so after shooting the "out of place" fighting scene.. we went to the pri sch.. then again.. i was slacking arnd while they filmed.. then sat wif mun mun... then zong ming a little off screw... kp following us.. xtra! *ah bish* =p then he kept saying " ni men you wen ti.. ~~ zheng de hen xiang...~~ ni men you fu qi lian... " as he in say me and mun mun got problem... we seem to be a couple.. :P

niwae.. after tt we went back to the tent and packed up and went off in shawzi's ah gong's van again... and that ended our first day of outdoor filming =)

i noe my expectations are high.. but sometimes i really juz close an eye... or rather lower my expectations.. coz no perfect in the world mahz.. duh... yar.. but my fever this morning really coz my blood to boil easily today.. dunnoe y.. but nvm.. juz forget about today and concentrate on the other days of filming... already thinking of how to edit the script liaoz..

oh yar.. one more thing i hate it... i only use camera angles after visualising them... as in i will visualise the images taken from the camera angles i will be using mahz.. so i will take a few mins.. then if not nice.. i will visualise another one... so sometime i will take quite a while... and there's where people will start complaining.. i also can't help it.. i used to visualising liaoz.. haiz... :( sorry

sorry. sorry to all my sva team members.(except jacob which made the whole team have to fork out money for a new tripod...) and sorry and a big thanx to my cast.. and also sorry to desmond and also thank him for helping out. =) and also.. most important!!! ~ : the biggest.. greatest thankew and sorry to mun mun for accompanying me the whole morning.. and listened to my craps.. nags... complains... and also lent me her shoulder and lap.. =)

- filming
by Dj Z @ 11:01 PM