Reshoot

For one of our scenes, we have encountered some problems with the footage (Seraphina's Corridor scene). We decided to have a retake, so Shahrul and I met up at around 8.45am and start shooting. We wanted to improvise so we took from various angles and multiple shots. For example, we took close ups, one from the front view and did some panning. We still stick to the original shot but we add more to make it more... dramatic. 

Here are some of the NGs

 

"Your specs!"

 Forgotten where I was supposed to go..

After lunch, we wanted to reshoot the candle falling. (I have tried various methods, one of which is keying each frame to make the candle fall smoothly and make it look slow mo but apparently it failed.) Vanessa came in the afternoon and helped us out.

"Doesn't this look like pocky?"

So we used a chopstick and painted it black with marker to stick onto the candle so we could control the movement of how the candle should fall. Used the black cloth I brought as background and started shooting. Hopefully it will work! So all of us are in post production, having some difficulties here and there (motion tracking is such a pain). What's left that needs to be recorded is the dialogue of DMM and Detective Doge.. 

 "Seraphina Fyriana....December 1992.."

zxzx

Mei Yen

HAPPY NEW- Wait, time for assignments...

!HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Mevaruling Entertainment wishes our readers, passer-bys, aliens, animals, dinosaurs A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Currently, we are doing our own VFX shots as Mei Yen has roughly done with the final editing. She has set a deadline to finish by 3rd January 2014 (the threat that was given in the previous post). Anddd, need to catch-up the remaining assignments that we didn't touch for the whole holidays xD

Once again, I thank you readers for spending your precious time reading our blog!

CHEERS TO THE NEW YEAR

~Shahrul Nizam~

FINAL DAY OF FILMING

It is our final day of filming! (YAY!). We had to retake the shot where Sera enters the dark room so.. here's a glimpse of what is happening.

Our last and final shot was the slow mo of the candle dropping. On the day where we shot the dark room, we had encountered some problems but now with the help of the strings, we are able to shoot it slightly better!

Setting up the lights and the background

 

Cameraman at work

 After this comes the rotoscoping.. o gosh. Anyway it's wrap for our filming! Now it's Post production (those VFX shots umm..) 

Good job guys~~

3 January 11:59:59

You guys know it.

xzxz

Mei Yen

Back to Mount Faber

Finally our last scene!

*yawns* Meeting up on Friday morning (7.30am) at VivoCity was very tiring~ It's a weekday, there shouldn't be any tourist, right? RIGHT?

And I get irritated

Mei Yen and Yuan Ting then suggested to shoot at the different location, as we done wasting time waiting for the tour groups to leave. Luckily, they both found a suitable, tourist-free location within Mount Faber!

At long last~ [And yeap, a sneak peek to our scene]

Different location means different shots. We improvised some of the shots and most of it were original ideas. Well, that's about it. We managed to complete a scene and left with retaking 2 shots on Monday!~

"My back! PAIN!!"

~Shahrul Nizam~

The Day Before Chirstmas

Yes, we at the "Cliff" xD

Another day, another shooting. Now we're back at Motion Capture (MoCap) Studio! Finally, we can start on Elias' scene~ Let's set up the equipments, and of course, safety first:

3 people to ensure the safety of our actress

Hold hands to prevent a fall

"Do I have an insurance if I fall?"

Very "spacious"

I appreciate them for coming for the shoot even though it's eve of Christmas. On the other hand, the school will be closing at 1pm. So, we have a time constraint for this scene. Nevertheless, we co-operate with each other and not lose any valuable time---

Erm... No, seriously. We didn't lose any valuable time... ANYWAY,...

...we completed this scene. Overall, we making progress and left with 1 scene with 2 shots need to be retake.

Majestic Goodbye

~Shahrul Nizam~

Rolling in the Deep

Camera Rolling!!

Cloudy with a chance of drizzle. A good day to film the swimming pool scene! Well, our actresses and camera person worked hard to film this scene.

"Walao, how many takes you want sia?"

Without Mr Jame's help, we wouldn't get the permission to film within the premises and on behalf of Mevaruling Entertainment, we would like to thank him.

Our lecturer, Mr Jame. Who kindly also allowed us to use his GoPro for the underwater shoot

There were a lot of mishaps happened during the filming such as people in the pool and drizzling. However, we managed to complete the filming from 2pm - 6pm. Nevertheless, 1 scene drown! (Pun Intended)

Mr Jame: *assassin mode* 

Well that's about it. Great job everyone who present during filming!~ ^^V

~Shahrul Nizam~

PRODUCTIVE DAY 3

Director Doge fans himself with his Clapper board.

Oh Well. We had filming on the 21st of December for the Corridor Scene whereby Seraphina has to run for her life. At first, we were supposed to film inside the Mocap Studio for the re-shoot of Dark Room Scene. However, we were trapped outside of SIDM. So, our group decided to go for location scouting in NYP for the Corridor Scene. Fortunately, we found a long corridor which is located inside the indoor sports hall. :)

Director and Camerawoman working hard during the shoot.

Our group worked really hard on that day. Even our dear Mei Yen and Yuan Ting had to run more than 16 times just to get the final footage we agreed on. 

Murderer chasing after Seraphina (BTS):

To summarise, everyone who was present on that day worked really hard to finish filming the Corridor Scene. One less scene to do! Yeah! ^^ Special thanks to one of our main cast characters, Yuan Ting's sister(The Murderer), who came down to help us with our production. 

Here's a short compilation of Mei Yen's and Director Doge's Demo Reels:

RUN! DIRECTOR RUN!

Kudos!

Vanessa Ye