Project Making Eight-Shooting A

When things got stuck, what should we do?

Sometimes things happen fast, same as our shooting.
Because of the little time, we decided to shoot from last Sunday, Nov. 25th. It was truly hurry for us to make it as we even hadn’t found right place to shoot. Funny, isn’t it?

But we were forced by time to do it. Then we started contacting places with running tracks. From Olympic Park to Eastern Garden, to Kingsgrove, to Hurstville….but we still failed to get a place to shoot before Saturday. Meanwhile we were trying to find places with hospital treatment bedrooms. Results turned out to be the same because university was on holiday. Gosh……
So we had to re-consider, changing hospital to home…was it possible? Yes, it was. Faye’s house was the best choice we had. Why not making it?

Shooting in Faye’s house was suddenly decided on Friday. We re-thought the storyboard, script and so on. Little changes may happen but it would be okay. Alright, we started making it- I am an organ donor, are you?

Sunday morning, Ardi, Arya, Jin and I were setting out to Town Hall bus station at 9 am. The upcoming Sydney XX Parade caused traffic blocking which scared us to lose our bus. Actually buses were running properly…god bless us….
We arrived at Faye’s house around 10 am and started breakfast…camera setting up…blah blah blah…

Then Jin (organizer) started making up for Emily (Played by Arya) who became ‘sicker’ and ‘sicker’ in the following 10 mins…

15 mins later...Emily was 'diagnosed' to be horribly sick...(Sb said she looked like Zombie...did she?)

Rehearsals started at 11 am..bringing lots of fun...Amelia (Emily's older sister, Jin)'s acting needed skills and feelings, she tried almost 10 times (Really thank you!) to actually be in the scene. It was Amelia who made the movie turned over into a hopeful feeling... She may be excited to cry...to be tripped...

Anyway, rehearsing time was fantastic, humorous and helpful...We tried to find out the best angle and the best acting.

Then formal shooting started, times after times... hours after hours...

We finished shooting at 5 pm...Hu....................................

Everybody turned out to be exhausted but happy, we spent a whole day shooting several scenes. But we did learn a lot. We learnt how to co-operate, how to judge the angles and how to keep the atmosphere......