Update 16-01
Update of Day 18-01 to 19-01
Wednesday 17 November 2005
10:10 PM
Not much happened on Tuesday. Sat at home and edited all day. Was quite hellish. Somehow Adobe Primere did not recognize the big video file so I had to spend the whole day converting all the clips (Over 4 hours worth) into 2-3 min segments so I could edit in Adobe. Was horrible. Had a GARGANTUAN argument and fight with parents over this entire filming business. They're fed up with tolerating 5-10 hour film dates, sending me and friends to random locations, cooking food for us, buying stuff for me, and putting up with other filming crap which has been uber intensive for the past 2 weeks. I can understand their sentiments but they gave me hell yesterday. This isn't a blog so I shallnt share the personal details - But one things for sure: It was the worst fight in months. Till now, they're still not talking to me.

Anyhow, filming today went okay I guess. Did all the emotion scenes. I'll be frank and say that there is a possibility that it'll turn out lame. I think we haven't reached the stage where we can become emotional-drama and all that. I think we've done more for this film than ever before and for that I'm afraid it'll be cheesy. (Think Channel 5) Anyhow, we filmed the jeff-girlfriend scenes today - The pool, dinner, and death scene. Was quite funny really. I think 4.16 would burst out laughing if they ever saw them. The death scenes were quite screwed up. No offense to Jeff or anything, but I'm not sure if it looks convincing enough. The blood, as usual, was good.

What happened today after our shoot resembled something right out of Pulp Fiction (Last part with 'Wolf' and the dead body in car). My mum refused to let us put blood (Tomato ketchup, dye, barbeque sauce, soy sauce, and other random stuff) on the floor. So we decided to do the entire thing outside at the lift lobby. Little did we know that we could not rub the entire thing off! Arrgh! It was hell. We tried like 20 cleanex wraps, a bottle of detol, and a hell lot of water before Bloke bought bleach from 7-11. The amount of blood was quite a lot and it stretched all the way from the lift to the staircase (Long trail of blood). We eventually removed it after quite a bit of work.

I should mention that despite these screwups and not that great shootings, that I pity David the most today. He left his laptop in a cab along with a copy of Vendetta and my entire first and second season of 24 (He borrowed)! Sighs. Hope I dont get into any trouble over it. Anyway, after filming, we headed towards 6th Avenue for a good meal at the local zhi cha eatery. Treated everyone to a feast of over 6 plates of whole steamed sea bass, pork ribs, ommlettes, baby kailan, pan-hot tou fu, and lemon chicken. Ate to our hearts content and talked about life. I really do appreciate all of ya'll. Jeff, Ali, Bloke, Ben Soh, Luke, David...Every one of you guys and all our actors have made this production possible. The least I can say is thank you all for helping me out. My gratitude also goes to music guys for composing music at such at late time. Thank you. This things due on Saturday and I'll have to rush editing...
- posted by BLT @ 6:15 AM