1.What is your role / contribution to the film in each phase?
Producer.
2.What have you learnt in each phase?
It’s the first time me and probably most of my team are shooting a film with Malay as the main language, and the only people who understand it are Ain and Afiq. But, we weren’t really worried about it, maybe partly because it wasn’t a hard to grasp story, and we felt that the story did work better with a Malay setting. There were stuff we don’t know enough about and the best people to approach would be Ain or Afiq. But i guess, doing something in another language might not necessarily be scary (one thing being we’re stepping outside of our comfort zone) if we don’t find it scary in the first place – do the research that can help, and though we cannot understand the language within a short time, at least familiarise ourselves with whatever we can. We never know what the next film we shoot would turn out to be.
Scheduling for overrun could help. We overran on the first day of shoot but the second day was better. We had more dolly shots on the first day, and setting up time took longer but now we all now what to plan for the next time.
It’s been quite sometime after the shoot that i typed this (sorry for the late post) so I don’t remember all the things that happened. But, at the end of it, yea, I know we always feel that we learnt new things that make us better prepare for the next shoot but then, come next shoot and we the same feelings of unpreparedness comes again. Each shoot if different, new things arises and we have to find out new ways to solve problems. It does teaches us this one thing, that is to embrace changes.
