My previous entry explained what happened before the shooting of the documentary, this is what happens during the day of the shoot.
Production
Setting up
The group was blessed to have Pak Andy as our interviewee. Before the shoot, he explained to us that we could skip last period to set up the scene. So me and Min Kee were able to skip last period to set up while Shona and Luthfi weren't allowed to by their teachers.
We did everything as planned, we did two point lighting, and I sat in the chair where Pak Andy would sit at to test everything out. The group used the school's sony camera which yields high definition recordings and two LED lights, we reduced the strength of one of the LED lights to about 50% so that it could become our fill light.
One thing that we didn't do was check for audio, which we didn't need to at the moment because nothing was interfering with the audio. But what we didn't take into account is the inevitable swarm of kids who were going to be filling the hallways when the bells rang and school was up.
Interview
So when the bells rang, we agreed that it was time for us to start shooting. However, we had some trouble setting up the lights as they weren't the ones we helped set up during the workshops and Shona and Luthfi just came and they helped us redo some set ups that we did wrong. So ten to thirty minutes after that the interview started.
Being the interviewer, I asked Pak Andy questions and had to think on my feet to ask follow up questions. Andy's responses were very entertaining and satisfying.
The interview took over twenty minutes, and we wrapped it up with Pak Andy praising the school and asking us to pay for his acting services (Which was a joke). It all went pretty smoothly.
Problems
One major flaw of ours was that, we were all procrastinators. By the time we looked at the footage, it was too late. We realised a couple of things that went wrong.
Firstly, for half of the interview, there was heavy background noise and for the other half relative silence. Which caused a problem of course. I recently found out there was no way to edit that out and Luthfi couldn't do anything after taking a crack at it either. We needed to do reshoots but by then, It was too late, and the group doubted Pak Andy was going to accept to reshoot three weeks after the original shoot. However, at least we could still understand what I and Pak Andy were saying throughout the footage.
Second, the interview was too long. We all originally planned for a ten minute interview, we didn't think it was going to exceed that until the actual day of the shoot. I don't know why we didn't think about it sooner, maybe it was Pak Andy's excellent story telling skills, but now we had too many clips in our hand. It was easy to solve this, just pick a focus and cut everything else out, but the group had a hard time deciding what to focus on.
Third, we only just realised that It would've been better to show Pak Andy's whole upper body to utilise his hand movements for the film. It would've maybe helped with the visuals and the feel for the story overall.
Fourth, some of the shots showed the shadows of the crew over some parts of Pak Andy. It just looks bad and creates inconsistencies. This also calls for a reshoot that won't happen.
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