SHOOTING!!

After school today, Xiangyi, Chris and I went to continue shooting what we missed.

We shot the cafe and causeway bay scene which only took a short time.

Chris wasn't in any of the scenes, so I gave him the job of video logging.

I took over the job as director since Catherine isn't here. At the cafe, we took the place of the tables where they are arranged as a la carte seats. We stationed our camera on top of a bench since we can't fit the tripod in between the seats. We took a few takes, each time alternating the exit, because Catherine still hasn't planned any of the shot directions yet. (even though i have story boarded them, shes not happy with them, and said that she's going to change it) At one point, a waiter walked in front of the camera right when xiangyi exits the scene, so that it looks like he portaled behind him. I have took special note about it on the log sheet, noting that it has the best effect out of all the takes. We left it there after that.

We made out way down to causeway bay to film the second last scene. I told xiangyi to appear behind a shop corner and disappear into a crowd of people. First time he did it, a person was staring at the camera, so we re-did it. After several takes, we got a really good shot where nobody (finaly!) stared at the camera and xiangyi exectued all the blocking sucessfully without fault. After that, we were done with today.

I thought we made create progress today. We have completed everything within three hours, taking lots of different shots as well. As inappropriate as it may sound, i think as a group, we work better without catherine disagreeing on everything we say, but just to try everything out. We always get the best results just trying and not having every single move controlled.

Problems/difficulties:
-apart from the staring passers-bys, everything else was perfect. A few more takes, and we can avoid that problem.

IB Learner Profile:
-Risk takers: We tried everything possible to ge a good take. Different angles, directions etc.
-Communicators: We all contributed ideas to each others and we all listen and we actually tried all the ideas out.
-Inquires: We asked each other our about how our ideas are, the tried them out, and learnt from our mistakes about whats bad about each take.

Regarding Ms Wong's question:
I think, all we have to do is to really voice our opinions and ask each other what they like and don't like about the idea and why so we have something to actually work on and improve on. I should also push myself and remind myself to do so, because or else, out conversation would just be. "um.." "yeah..." "no..." "i hate it" "no that's stupid" "you guys think of something, and i'll go online and look for ideas (and ends up on facebook)"