The last project of On the Frame studio, or should I say “On the Eye” centres the idea of camera as an extension of man, therefore the vision presented from the eye. Our project (Dyy and I) was based on Dziga’s Man with a Movie Camera. Here we go, our racing-through-the-semester assignment again…

It has been a couple of weeks of painful shooting-editing and exegesis writing full of all-nighter sessions. Both Dyy and I finished our storyboard in late August and finally finished all the shooting by week 10. Our storyboard is quite successful in terms of clear drawings, providing that each of us has different responsibility (or part). Dyy is responsible for the test sequences sketches from the audience’s perception while myself focus only from the character’s perception. Therefore during the editing process, I would only edit the scenes of my part. Surprisingly, we only shoots for 3 days and most scenes took place during nightime. Though the preparation took us a while, since we have to do the make-up and costuming, getting to the set locations and waiting for every actor/cast to show up.

We were shooting during those days of cold winter-spring (that is supposed to be spring anyway) in the alleyway where the main character finally follows the girl and finds out she is a vampire. For us, there were a lot of re-shooting needed specially on that part due to the “fake blood” mess, re-makeup to do, unsuitable acting process and technical difficulties. Though it was great that a couple of “volunteer” friends came along to do the make-up and gave our actors tips on acting; “push the victim harder!” or something like “tilt only your head sideways as you pretend to bite”. One tiny problem had occured one day as the man lead, had a haircut as weabout to finish the shooting days, and that it turned out we had to do  some re-shoot. Therefore, we had to do even more re-shoots despite the fact that it only took us three days of this process. So to leave it at that, we just had to do the editing and the final exegesis after our update presentation to the class during our week 10 studio. Futhermore, here are some sketches as well as photos during the process as we progresses.