Good, Cheap, Fast

Over the past few days, I've been working on the budget. In fact, I'm still working on it.

How tough can it be to punch in the numbers? Well, pretty much easy, really, unless you come out with such a high figure that you know it's impossible to start the production anytime soon.

Speaking about starting the production, Eng Tiong and I have made a decision. We are not going to rush this production.

The initial plan is to finish the shoot this year so that we could enter this film for the Singapore International Film Festival. But the deadline, for at least some sort of a rough cut, is mid-January.

That pretty much means that we have to shoot by November. With such a timeline, that means that getting investors and/ or sponsors will have to be all ready by end October. In turn, that means that we have to get the package up by, erm... yesterday? Or was it last week?

If we're to rush out a rough cut for "Exposed!" by December, it'll probably mean that we can't secure enough sponsors or investors. So that means the numbers I've punched in are less likely to be reduced and therefore we'll need to strike lottery and 4-D at the same time to make the film.

So we decided to forego the SIFF 2006. We're going to postpone the shoot to 2006 so that we can have more time to find investors, partners and sponsors.

It didn't feel good that our 2005 New Year resolution is going to be delayed a year. I was looking so much forward to making our first movie, to finally making our dreams come true. But we have to be realistic with our timeline.

There's a saying:

"Good, cheap, fast". Choose only 2.

The most important thing is to get it made cheap but great! Even if it takes a little longer, it'll be worth the wait.