Starting Filming

Today, my actors and I went for the official filming (day 1) for my project The Silent Countdown. After school, we all changed into our costumes and brought our equipment with us to our filming location outdoors at the Boat Quay area.

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I asked my actor Tatim to wear dark colours and a costume that looks like she had been kidnapped and just escaped. As for Yuuto, I asked him to wear anything and brought a red jumpsuit for him to wear along with a pair of sunglasses. Initially I had a vision of him wearing a black mask and holding a briefcase. However, since we were not able to get hold of these items, we made do with that we had.

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As we expected, the area was being used by people to cross from one side to the other. Due to this, I stopped filming unless the space was empty. However, this process took a long time since we had to stop filming whenever someone passed through. Originally we had planned to finish filming in an hour and a half, which later turned into roughly three hours of filming for a few minutes of footage. Despite the challenges faced, I am proud to say that my actors were extremely patient and did not complain at all during the filming time. Though I am not fully sure if I am satisfied with the camera shots and angles I had filmed. On the bright side, my Media Theory teacher and my friend Avnay let me borrow their phone stabiliser and some microphones, which came in handy when filming outdoors to capture the noise.