We had encountered a lot of problems and experienced a lot of hardship throughout the filming process.
1) Scouting of Talents
Here we would like to present a story with a dramatic plot twist to you. Originally, none of us will be acting for this trailer. Angel asked 2 of her secondary schoolmates to act for us and they had agreed. We decided to film during exploration week. However, when we announced the filming date, they rejected our request due to busy schedule. So, we had to change our plan to Plan B. Jia Ern volunteered to sacrifice for our group to act as the male lead and we just needed to find another girl to act for us. We had learnt a lesson from last time, and we decided to find a student from the same college. We thought that by finding a friend of us it will be more convenient for filming and everything will be alright. Like what we had imagined, everything went smooth and fine. However, 2 days before our shooting day, our female lead got ill and she couldn't make it for us. This sudden news stroke us like a lightning and all our preparations became useless again. In a nutshell, Angel had to be a substitute for her after a voting among our group was conducted. However, this incident had enhanced our friendship bonds and we think that it is worthy! :)
2) Budgets and Financial Problems
While we were filming at Kuala Lumpur, Pei Lin parked her car in the parking area near China Town. After we ended our shooting in that area, we needed to move on to Pavilion. Here comes the painful part of the story. When we entered the parking area, there's a signboard near the entrance writing something like you need to pay RM8 for first hour and RM5 for every subsequent hour. And it was written there the price you need to pay for the maximum hour would be RM26.50. After filming, sweaty and tired, we paid RM26.50 for the parking. This wasn't the end of our story. Neglecting this lesson, we parked in the parking lots provided by Pavilion. Same thing, it was written there you will need to pay RM30 if you reached the maximum hour parking your vehicle there. We arrived Pavilion at about 12pm, and we left there at 10pm because we needed to film the night view of the city. Yeah, we paid RM30. Second time of the day and we paid a total amount of RM56.50 in a day. Very painful. Also, we decided to film a mirror scribbling scene which symbolised the hatred of the protagonist towards herself. For better visual impacts, we bought a RM15.40 lipstick for that and finished it within a 5 minutes scene. While filming in FRIM, we was asked to pay RM5 per person as the admission fees and RM5 for each camera we used. We bear the weight together and had divided the fees among ourselves.
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| we were also required to write a letter to the authorities of FRIM in order to get permission for shooting |
3) Time Management
Amidst of our assignments, we need to find time and go for a small trip to film our trailer. After that, we need to edit the trailer and it really took us a lot of time because we kept on making adjustments wishing to present and hand in the best version.
Even though we had encountered a lot of hardships throughout the whole process of this assignments but we managed to overcome it and transformed them into precious memories and experiences. All of us had tried our best and we had no regrets! :D
