The whole reason for choosing to shoot in April is primarily because we thought that it rains the least. Of course, 2 other practical reasons are that:
1. We'll give ourselves ample time to prepare for production - roughly half a year.
2. April is also Qing Ming time (a Chinese tradition of paying respects to our ancestors, & commonly about visiting graveyards & columbariums), so we wouldn't have to reject potential wedding customers who need are wedding videography services. Nobody should seriously hold their weddings in April. It's considered extremely bad luck.
Another month that is definitely bad for weddings is August, which the Lunar 7th month usually falls on. Tradition states that it is the month of the hungry ghosts, where the Gates of Hell are flung wide open for ghosts to freely roam our world.
So we don't usually have wedding projects in August. And also, for the past 3 years, August is WEVA Expo time, something that we look forward to as well. (I think we're pretty down-to-earth about where our daily income is going to come from, even after making this movie. Afterall, we're still struggling filmmakers...)
So we merrily went about setting April as THE month.
Damn, how I wished that I've checked with NEA first.
According to their website, April & December are the wettest month in Singapore.
In late March, it was pouring cats & dogs every afternoon. I was crossing my fingers that the weather will let up come April.
On our 1st day of shoot, the weather was superb in the morning. Our commencement-cum-prayer ceremony went great.
Filming our 1st scene went great too.
And then the sky turns dark real quickly. By 3pm, there's thunder (bad for sound recording) & lightning. And the rain came. Heavy downpour, to be exact.
Since then, it has been a constant guessing game with the weather. The first week was rather predictable, raining in the afternoon around 3pm. But it has been rather cunning since the 2nd week - sometimes the whole day, sometimes not at all, sometimes early in the morning, blah, blah, blah.
I have been the Weatherwoman on set. I monitor NEA's website religiously. Not that I can change the bad weather. At least we could plan as much ahead as possible and manoeuvre around it.
Check out the NEA's weather website:
http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/mss5.asp
1. We'll give ourselves ample time to prepare for production - roughly half a year.
2. April is also Qing Ming time (a Chinese tradition of paying respects to our ancestors, & commonly about visiting graveyards & columbariums), so we wouldn't have to reject potential wedding customers who need are wedding videography services. Nobody should seriously hold their weddings in April. It's considered extremely bad luck.
Another month that is definitely bad for weddings is August, which the Lunar 7th month usually falls on. Tradition states that it is the month of the hungry ghosts, where the Gates of Hell are flung wide open for ghosts to freely roam our world.
So we don't usually have wedding projects in August. And also, for the past 3 years, August is WEVA Expo time, something that we look forward to as well. (I think we're pretty down-to-earth about where our daily income is going to come from, even after making this movie. Afterall, we're still struggling filmmakers...)
So we merrily went about setting April as THE month.
Damn, how I wished that I've checked with NEA first.
According to their website, April & December are the wettest month in Singapore.
In late March, it was pouring cats & dogs every afternoon. I was crossing my fingers that the weather will let up come April.
On our 1st day of shoot, the weather was superb in the morning. Our commencement-cum-prayer ceremony went great.
Filming our 1st scene went great too.
And then the sky turns dark real quickly. By 3pm, there's thunder (bad for sound recording) & lightning. And the rain came. Heavy downpour, to be exact.
Since then, it has been a constant guessing game with the weather. The first week was rather predictable, raining in the afternoon around 3pm. But it has been rather cunning since the 2nd week - sometimes the whole day, sometimes not at all, sometimes early in the morning, blah, blah, blah.
I have been the Weatherwoman on set. I monitor NEA's website religiously. Not that I can change the bad weather. At least we could plan as much ahead as possible and manoeuvre around it.
Check out the NEA's weather website:
http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/mss5.asp
Rain, rain, go away, come again another... month, please?
Commencement-cum-Prayer CeremonyOur commencement-cum-prayer ceremony at the start of principal photography.
Seen here with the main cast are:
From left - Louis, Eng Tiong (dir.),
Jen Nee (prod.), Bernard,
Uncle Liang Tian, Yvonne,
Uncle Steven, our MC & Boss of 933 Roast Duck & Auntie Lily.
Filming in ProgressThe weather was splendid when we shot the first two scenes.
After lunch, the sky grew dark & the rain came around 2 pm.
1 comment:
Hey ! How are you guys ? Its been a while. I hope you are in good good condition. Oh, are you guys going to WEVA Expo 2006 ?
regards,
Kee
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