While waiting for the next episode marathon, let us indulge our mind and feast our eyes on the laments and share the pains that the AIC crew had to face while making the story possible week by week, month after month...all these years. Yeah...check it out!
1. Budget
The crew had a limited budget. The figma, props and additional equipments cost around RM500 a month. When we need a special order on any of the potent equipment needed for the next prop, the budget will go higher:
Spray Paint + Figmas + Additional Props (Background) + Additional Props (Wool Material) + Additional Props (Vehicles) + Transportation + Food = Headache
Working on cutting down cost, the crew use repetitive shots (25%), recycled and repainted some old props, scavenging part using their own imagination, using paper craft as substitute and going from Tamiya Paint which cost around RM30 to Anchor Spray paint that cost us just RM7.
We rejected the idea of using copycat non genuine Made In China Figma copy because this will degrades the quality of our work. We still have pride! Execute those who tried to give us such stupid idea!
Eat for free, if got the chance! The crew save a lot of money by letting other people do the paying. Use this method as a last resort. The crew conserve 20% more budget on props just by leaving it up to the welfare of the people. Most importantly...
No matter how "pokai" you are in the end, never try to borrow money from Ah Lung shark! This is an independent, free for all, fun project. We are trying to have a good time and avoid all the extra unwanted trouble.
2. Weather
The second difficulties that we brave men and women must endure is the extreme weather. Hot or cold, humid or dry...the weather sometimes took a large toll on the crew ability to perform during outdoor takes.
Hot weather brings epidemic and sickness while the rainy days give risk of cancellation of shoots and ruin the schedules dry scenes.
3. A Spooky Encounter.
During one of our outdoor scene takes, i decided to take my people to the Batu Lintang Teacher's Institute. Formerly a Japanese POW camp, this place hopefully will give us a lot of good dungeon type scenes because of the pre-World War II gritty concrete structures.
We pay tribute to the past before proceeding with our work.
As we went near a historic spot: The Punjabi Bunker. Something DOES NOT FEEL RIGHT. Instead of going inside the bunker, we decided to look for other alternative location.
A friend of mine was muttering "calm down, we are not here to disturb you. We just want to take pictures..." with that he snap a few shoots at the Punjabi Bunker exterior and main entrance door.
We went home.
The next day the phone rang. The friend that snap some shots on the Punjabi Bunker rang me up. "You need to see the pictures that i took on the Batu Lintang Punjabi Bunker. I think i caught something."
Soomeethiingg....
Now, did you see anything in this picture? Make it bigger! Look at the doorway entrance. Did you saw that human form standing there in white?
Where?
Did you see the humanoid form? Apparitions! As spooky as it looks, i was excited. I kept the images for personal reference. True or false or even lens trick, we dont get such phenomenon everyday.
It does makes us felt uneasy. We stopped outdoor shootings for a week to calm our wits down.
4. Murder!
The most recent problem that we had to face is MURDER!
Police find body of man at construction site - The Star Online
KOTA SAMARAHAN: A dead man was found in the middle of a construction site at Sungai Kuap, Jalan Kuching-Kota Samarahan.
Police was informed by a member of the public at around 1.50pm yesterday, and a forensics team was dispatched to the scene shortly after.
A motorcycle was found 30m from the body, and a stick, believed to have been used as a weapon, was retrieved nearby.
Kota Samarahan police chief DSP Abdul Rahman Ahmad confirmed that the deceased was a 23-year-old from Tabuan Melayu, and police had classified the case as murder.
DSP Abdul Rahman said the victim was not robbed and that he had obvious injuries to the forehead, mouth, and a few broken teeth scattered beside him.
“At this moment, we want to know the cause of death first before we can identify the weapon used on the victim.
“The stick found at the scene is believed to be the weapon, but we’re still investigating,” he said.
DSP Abdul Rahman said the estimated time of the murder was last night.
The body was taken to the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) mortuary for post mortem.
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Someone was found dead at our figma photographic location!
I asked one of my buddies to confirm on this situation...
...and yes, to our dismay, the murder took place at the same location where we always had our Figma's outdoor scene takes. Why someone had to die there!
Now we need to look for a new open field to continue.
Budget + Weather + Spiritual Suprise + CSI there are many obstacles, ahead of the AIC Crew.
...we held up high, we will survive!
Pointing at our fate and into the stars!
Go AIC GO!!!!!
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11 comments:
I pat u on da back. Take it as moral support. I ain't sharing any financial for the time being muahahahaahahaha...
Wait... You guys shooting in Sarawak!? D:
Why didn't you say so?
Ain Khairi:
Yes, i am a Kuching resident & the fact that nobody asked before, haw haw.
... I thought it's common knowledge they live in Sarawak?
OI! that's a lot of challenges there! ^^''''
thank you for all of your hard work m(_ _)m
WHAT? And here I am in Kuching for 3 years not knowing they're like... HERE!? This is mind-blowing... *otak meletup*
Indeed a new discovery!
Is that ghost pic for real? O.o worrr..
the most terrifying is the murder on the site. gosh...... = A=
Waah! And it's at Kota Samarahan, where I reside! People nowadays are mad... X___X
The ghost picture, i can say we took that picture. Is it ghost? God knows.
The murder got me jolting on the sofa. Imagining someone died at your own playground.
very the seram sejuk ler..
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