Me and my classmates had to shoot a short film for our Film subject assignment. The group members and i all agreed to adapt a story i wrote for a previous assignment. It was about a hopeless romantic guy who’s single and somehow ended up going on a date with a pretty woman who turns out to be a demon and later got haunted by her his whole life. It’s a scary story but honestly, who doesn’t love horror nowadays.
Skip to the shooting part, we went to a few places to do so; A bus stop, Sufi’s house and even a rented condo.
So here comes the funny yet shaking my head part, we went shooting at one of the members’ house, Sufi’s in the first place. But then someone in our group, not dropping the name, got us into trouble and we couldn’t proceed to shoot out few last shots. So we all agreed to invest some money in renting an affordable condo for a night at Jalan Klang.
I was also in charged of the costume and makeup so i planned out costumes for them to wear and i even did the ghost makeup for Kulin.
There were a few issues we had to face that day. One of them was there’s a scene which involved a candle light dinner at a fancy restaraunt situation. But it was too late for us to do it that time. So we set up the place ourselves in the condo! We used the furniture there and brought it up to the bedroom by the huge window as it has a beautiful city scenery outside.
Then, there’s also a scene that involved a birthday cake with a candle on top. And again, it was too late for us to find one. So what we did was we bought cake-like sandwhich from the Family Mart nearby and a candle for house blackouts at a convenient store nearby. The candle was a little to big for it too like a cake candle so Kulin and i cut it small using a knife there.
The shooting took time until around 4am that night. It was a really tiring and stressful yet fun process for us.
The presentation day came, we showed the whole class our work. They were happy about it and even the lecturer. FYI, we were mentioned as the best work out of other groups! How cool is that. We felt really satisfied and the grateful.
As our film lecturer, Sir Maxwell would say;
“No problems can’t be solved by a producer.”
-Sir Maxwell
Honestly, each one of us has a producer in our souls as we all helped each other to solve the problems and managed to work together well. I was really in shooting this short film and looking forward in doing more in the future.
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