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Now I am currently engaged to directing a film for JSCB teacher appreciation day. The first day of the shooting was really tough and I thought of giving up already.
I was really stressed and I don't even know why. I think I am overreacting because we are not in schedule already. Our progress was slow and each scene would take us about 30 min. to get. I am actually asking myself if that is really appropriate. I think I have to improve my managing of the set better.
Before the actual shooting, I usually picture the scene in my head so I could get the ideal look in the film. However, due to some difficulties and we have limited time, sometimes I have to cut-off that idea and find an easier one. Sometimes I have to delete some parts so we could easily go through each scenes.
There are times also when kids are so rowdy that when you ask them to stay there they will usually run away or not listen to you at all. Sometimes, even the older actors don't listen as well. There are times also where the audio really sucks that it seems we didn't use any boom mic at all. There are also times where the camera handling is like Isabel Gapas' project for noli.
Then at some point I thought of giving up and canceling this short.
But then I can still feel the urge to continue. I asked myself, why do you still do it? Despite of the challenges, time constraint, inexperience actors and crew, and other problems the production can't control, we still continued to shoot. Why? Because it is art. Because it is our privilege to deliver message and change the world. It is our passion to work in collaboration and achieve the best as we could. Why? Because we love it.
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