Lights, Camera, Action!

Last Saturday, my groupmates and I shot the second to the last sequence for our finals video. It is the bulk of the screenplay, thus it was of great importance that we commit as much effort and artistry to its production. It was the third attempt of our group to shoot the scene since the previous two proved to yield unfavorable and inconsistent lightings. Using Niro lights and gels and diffusers is a bitch, but imperative, to make a good video.

We had to change our main actor for this sequence since we were already embarassed to ask for the services of the initial actor after he dedicated over two days from his busy schedule for our purposes. Jourdan also tagged along since we needed an actor to portray the professor in the screenplay. At first, he was coming because we were casting in one of his online girl-chatfriends, unfortunately due to unforeseen complications, she couldn't make it and thankfully, Jourdan still consented that he's still willing to participate in our project.

I had warned him that it will be relatively boring since most of the scenes are focused on EJ, the main actor (who, btw, I owe a DOTA session. - Trivia: He's one of the guys responsible why I learned how to play Counter Strike). So, to waste time, Jourdy spent the day taking pictures of us as we were working. In the end, it proved to be a fulfilling and tiring shoot. We ended by 4.30 pm, watched "Waiting" as we waited for Faiqah's (one of my groupmates) maid to hail a taxi, on our way back to "civilization", the guys were sleeping in the taxi, guess they're really pooped.

Last week for the term. Hay...

P.S. Will post the pictures of the shooting soon, after Jourdan cleans them up....