Sunday 9/5

hmm, entering into the last week already. hope we can finish everything in time.

didn't have class for the week, except the first day, so didn't have much to post about. basically our group met up on wednesday to discuss about the work, but didn't really come up with much. derrick couldn't join us, cause he was helping his grandmother to fix something, can't remember what exactly. i went to the meeting with 2 ideas in mind. the first one will be shot at somewhere in town, maybe orchard, and there will be scenes of people walking around. then suddenly one person will stop and say the first line of the pledge, another will join him/her for the second line and so on. kinda like this idea actually. thought about it while jem and i were discussing it on the bus the previous day.

the group chose the second idea though, which will be shot at TV studio, where all the lights will be off and there'll be complete darkness, and around the studio will be 5 people, each lit in sequence with a single 1k light, which will make them shine in the darkness. we were thinking about shooting other scenes, and have studio segment as the multi-cam sequence, which is required in the brief, but in the end we decided to scrap it to just interviews with random people about their views on the pledge.

thursday, supposed to meet up to consult bertrand, but ended up only sarah and i came. aaron couldn't make it, not sure why, and derrick's absence was my fault, forgot to inform him earlier. so anyways sarah and i finalised everything, then went to consult bertrand. he pointed out that in order to shoot the lights coming on in sequence, a dimmer would be needed, so that the lights don't just turn on suddenly, but we didn't have that, so he suggest that instead of using the light to introduce new people, we could use the main subject to block the rest, then, with camera movement, reveal the others. have to be very well planned though.

so anyways, meeting with the rest tomorrow morning to finalised things before shoot on tuesday. we have our cast ready, just need to loan out everything first. let's hope everything goes well.

oh yea, bertrand said instead of 15 posts, it is now reduced to 10, which is good for me, since i already have 9. think i'll do about 2 more, one for tuesday and one for wednesday or thursday, wen we're editing.