Alright, I know, this post is long overdue. I should have done this a long time ago. I'm sorry. I beg for your forgiveness. Such sins have been committed, I wallow in remorse.
Haha, self-apology done for an assignment that has been tasked to an event that which happened months ago. I wonder if my memory is still vivid enough to recall what ever that had happened during GEMs Video Project.
OK... quick flashback, my group was doing a video production on the theme "Come Together". We managed to concoct a feasible story plot of which we filmed once we sorted out all the loose ends. Yes, I remember now, the last time I blogged about GEMs, I stopped right before the part about filming. Thank goodness for Grey Matter.
Henceforth, my post for today will be leaning towards the events of the filming process per se. I've never acted in any type of production before, and by truth, was reasonably nervous on the day of filming. Despite my jitters, deep inside I knew that we had almost got everything prepared and ready to shoot. Stage fright, I guess? Although I've never really been one for that.
Must be due to the addition of recording lenses. I don't really like taking pictures in the first place, and you want me to appear in a video which would probably show thousands of frames containing me inside them within a minute? It was definitely mind-crushing. But I thought, "What the heck, there's a first time for everything.", and so I just went ahead and tried to give it my best, as I've already done from the start. So why not continue? It was just an extra segment where a camera had to be involved, that's all.
Throughout the few days of filming, everything had not been as smooth as planned. But that was to be expected, we're still amateurs at this media matters after all. Let me just try to list out some of these problems to the best of my memory's ability.
Firstly, sound recording. As we were making our video during curriculum time, background noise was to be expected. However, the problem was thrown into the manifold when we realise our equipment was picking up more of the background noise rather than our voices. We had to raise our voices significantly, which actually made it seem quite unnatural, but that's just my opinion though.
Next, cast allocation. Many of the filming groups had to use the actors from the other groups due to the lack of manpower. Which was actually fine, initially. But then came the part when the same actors had the need to be present at two different teams at the same time. Thankfully, the issue was resolved, all that was required was some patient waiting. This was also the point where Theodora sent me an urgent S.O.S, pulling me out from my M.A.P.S project straightaway. By the way, Theodora, glad to have helped, and sorry for not being there all the time.
Well, there weren't actually much problems, not any major ones which I know of. Moreover, I was enjoying myself the entire time. Perhaps I should say that I was immensely worn out by being the scriptwriter-cum-cameraman-cum-actor-cum-director at certain times, but to me, it was really an experience to behold. Filming had shown a whole new aspect towards me at those moments.
Just to sum it all up, it has been a good move to use a Video Production to better gear us towards the English Language, writing the script itself had already been stressful, not to mention the voice screaming inside your head when the camera had commenced recording, "Pronounce your words properly, you're a GEM on camera now!" Ugh. Don't get me started on my camera fear again.
On a final note, I really hope we can meet up soon for another GEMs meeting. Last I heard, we still have editing to do on the videos we filmed.
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