Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - [Film and Fun]
As I explained on Monday night, Tuesday was a very hectic day, so I charged up with the new Frozen Grape from McD it's awesome.
the walk to GP was the shortest ever, probably 'cause I was munching and eating, I some how reached GP very very quickly ahahha, and I reached the Gardens Point Theatrewhere the crew was already setting up! :D So happy to see everyone again, Tom the coordinator, Gabriel the camera operator, Charlie the producer, Dan the director of photography, Leonard the acting director, Marnie the make-up artist and David the sound recordist :DD But there were a few new people I met.
1. Jimmy the freelance lights engineer, he's such a bundle of energy, he's got gaffer tape, markers, wires and a torch and all kinds of handy things for everyone to use.
2. Milan the steadicam operator, first time seeing the steadicam up close and it's functions!
3. Paul, the professional sound recordist, he had such huge booms with him (see below)
4. Rhea, part of eTV, she's a creative writer, and apparently she wrote the scripts for the shoots over these 3 weeks, she's from Dubai!
Because I'm the in charge of lights for my 2nd sem film assignment I was paying more attention to the set-up of the scene. Here's Gabriel and a hidden Jimmy setting up a flecky.
The egg crate light without the crate hahahaha, the things you do to light up the background.
A hidden blondie light to pass through the glass and light up the entrance of the theatre.
MORE LIGHT!
another hidden boom, not exactly hidden but discretely placed haha :DD yesterday was actually one of chances for public passing by to watch the filming. However it was night time about 6pm to midnight and there weren't any passerbys because the theatre is all the way behind the buildings. I contemplated texting wanjeong 'cause she once told me she wanted to come to the set to watch, but .. things are complicated now. Maybe in the future..
Our little base~ where the monitors and power supply came from. It was soooo cold shooting at GP .. the tent provided little shelter from the cold ):
Here's Milan with the steadicam, whewww that's one neat piece of equipment! Dan has a remote-controlled focus pull on him to follow Milan around as he films and also to guide him 'cause he was walking backwards most of the time. This is probably one of the most important tool in film-making hoho!
See how well-lit this place is with the lights set-up, there's one hidden on the right side of the box office you can see light bouncing of the metal frame of the door.
Paul's gear for recording sound~
ACTION!
what a bad shot this is.. LOL. actually the cast slowly walks out through the sliding doors, and the guy in the corner, he's looking to the left and he has long blonde hair, he's playing a stalker. He's gonna stalk one of the girls exiting the theatre, adapted from the movie "Shame".
I shall take more photos tomorrow and on Friday, because we're gonna film a submarine leakage! It's gonna be an underwater shoot with the cast crew and camera all underwater! I'm interested to see how the lights are placed for this and the SOUND. where will the mics be hoho .. curious? I know I am.
On a side note.. I was awoken by a pancake party this morning, and I was only home past 1am after the shoot and slept at about 3am thus I was abit unhappy and when I left home to the doctor the kitchen was such a mess.
The sink is FULL of dishes below, you can't see it but there's a hell of plates bowls and cutlery inside there.
and I couldn't take it, I just had to..
All that cleaned up, originally hidden inside the sink.
How do people live like this...
Secret Admirer's Week is back at CLV, oh dear god, the place is gonna be messy again.. I think Sophie has a very sick admirer.
It's funny I guess, but seeing these posters all over the hallway.. people need to know when to stop.. it seems like they don't understand limits.
Labels: frozen grape, lights engineer, macdonalds, messy party, outdoor shoot, secret admirer's week, steadicam
bits of me revealed at ..
6:31 PM.
