Filming

It was such a tiring experience. For our first day of shoot, we reached our director's house at 10am to start setting up equipments and decorating the party scene.
As an art director, I totally regret that I did not buy the balloon pump. I have not blown that much of balloons in my entire life. But thankfully Sheryl was there to help me with the balloons and decorating the party scene (hanging up curtain behind the couch etc)
And since the director was thinking to shoot the party scene earlier (before it gets dark), me and Sheryl had to stick garbage bags on the windows to block the sunlight. And thanks to Tom, our cameraman, who came out of the ideas of using aluminum foil when we were running out of garbage bags. (Plus, the idea of sticking the foil with just water - it saved us a lot of masking tapes)
However, our extras was running late. So we had to wait for them to arrive and make up. By the time everything is set, it was already 7.30 or 8pm..

In the entire filming process, I find that it is not an easy job to produce a good film. It requires the collaboration of a team, and time management, is also an important aspect of filming. Having a 1st AD would have been much more helpful. The second day of our shooting, we were more progressive. Although we rushed on a lot of the filming, but I think we still got it done pretty well.

As our cinematographer was not around, Tom took the position of a cinematographer. He taught us a lot about lighting. Being the person to help with lighting, I think I was fortunate enough to learn the difference in the outcome when we were using different lights. We spent most of our time dealing with lighting but I think it plays an important part in picture's quality and the feeling that is created through the image.