Anomaly : The Journal Entry - Post Production

For post production what I did was to assemble the team together to help Bima picking shots from all the shots that we took, and we just took what was the best of the best. The very best was going in the film and the rest we don't use. Bima and I consulted on the special effects, he made the gold, I just gave him my opinions how to alter it and make it better looking. We just kept on talking and the out come was the one we put on our feature film.

After all of that was done, as a team we all watched the film for the very first time. 

Anomaly: The Journal Entry Day 3

Tuesday, March 4th 2015

It was a school day. We wanted to shoot on the weekends but the actors couldn't. So we came up with an alternate plan of shooting it after school. We shot at a restaurant/bar. We already had the permissions to shoot there, we called the management and got the authorisation.
After we got extra film equipment that we borrowed from the school (Lights, boom pole) the crew proceeded to the location as I went home as the actors was showering at my house. You could say I was a little late to the set. After I arrived, We noticed that there were some other students that were on the location first, so we couldn't shoot. They were noisy. Since its not good to just kick them out, we just used the time to think how we could make the scene better as we set up the equipment.

After they were gone, we started to shoot. We shot the scene where I (Smith) was getting the future dweller from Haneef (John) with a little surprise. Last minute adjustments, I thought that "so I am in a bar with no drinks?" Thats where the alcohol (Iced Tea) came up the idea.

Thats one of the things I like about making movies, we could use our imaginations. If the setting was in a bar, automatically the audience would react that it was alcohol, when its really not. Really. We did a lot of takes in this scene. 

There were a lot of takes with this take. The problem was the gun prop. It keeps messing up, it was supposed to be all cool and professional but we decided to not to do it because we were losing daylight already. 

Anomaly: The Journal Entry Day 2

Saturday, 7th February 2015

Day 2 of shooting was a day that we were on point at our film game. We were very serious at getting the shots we wanted.  Good thing the place were shooting at is our friend's place. I slept over so I could get a head start at looking at the set (house) or what could be done better when we are using this amazing set. So we can discuss as a team to where the scene is going to take place. I tried recording a timepiece of the sunrise just in case we needed it, to extend the film but I totally failed. I used a GoPro to film it, and its just to noisy and I deleted it shortly. As our team arrived at around 11 o'clock we were also expecting the other actors  to come, but unfortunately they were late. We didn't waste that time though. We were productive enough. We discussed about how the scene is going to be, and where is it going to take place. Then, eventually the actors came. We gave time for them to prepare as they are getting into character. At one point of the shooting, we finally used the 'Dutch Angle' where it present a 'dramatic effect'. Since Gio was the cinematographer and he researched about it a lot for a recent assignment, we decided to use the Dutch angle on a scene where Haneef (the actor) was going up the stairs (You'll see it in the movie). We managed to shoot 3 scenes that day. It was a wonderful day, it was sunny and it didn't rain at all. There was a scene that we had to use a dolly, it was the first time I used a dolly and probably Gio's too. When the first time we used the dolly, we didn't expect that there was going to be a reflection from the windows, but fortunately we have a awesome VFX guy that goes with the name of Gabriel Bima. He blurred the window refection as so the audience couldn't see the camera as we are shooting the scene. 

Raw: 

 After retouching:

Anomaly: The Journal Entry Day 1

Monday, 12th January 2015

For me the first day of shooting wasn't the best day ever. We planned to shoot at around 8/9 a.m to get the sunlight. I myself have only slept for one hour. My plan was not to sleep at all and be the director for this spectacular upcoming film. Whilst waiting for the actors we, the crew (Bima, Gio (Azriel was away)) was talking about what scenes are most likely to shoot on this day. Then, which part of the house that are we going to use for the shoot. Then, when the actors came not long after that, it got cloudy at around 10 a.m. Then we guessed it, it rained. We were thinking of cancelling the shoot for today, because the rain was going for hours. But, we decided to use the time remaining for rehearsals instead. We rehearsed about how the actors are going to talk, and fight. We choreographed the fight so it wouldn't be to violent and too long for the movie to proceed. Then when the time 12-1p.m came, it was time that the actors were called and went to a different shoot. We didn't have a lot of time on that first day. The rain was the main problem. But I wonder what was I going to think with only an hour of sleep.