Year Without A Summer

First of all, it was all my fault.

I have a crazy idea of shooting my movie with moon light.

Yes. I have some obsession with moon. It is of my childhood memories, on a full moon night, my father would sit near the beach, while we kids running about. The moonlight was so bright that we can see every grain of the sand.

It is not easy to get moonlight. We have only about five nights of sort of full moon. And we have to take in all the other factors, like time of moonrise, clouds, rains, tides, waves, currents, etc.

Here, my lovely AD is trying to show you where is the moon.

In general, on a full moon night, the moon rises about the opposite time with the sun. For example, tonight, the moon will rises at 7:32pm. From then on, it rises about 45 minutes later every night.

And then we also have to study the tides table. To check the time of high tide and low tides.

And the weather forecast. It just doesn't looks like a good night for shooting.

Basically, we did not have a smooth shoot. The first day rained, and the second day there was thunderstorm.

This was last night, the crew are setting up on the giant rock.

In case I had not introduced yet, this is our cinematographer, the legendary Teoh Gay Hian. It is easy to recognise him. He is always in his orange pants.

He is checking the moonlight.

And also checking some lighting effects.

But in the end, there was a thunderstorm and we had to cancel our shoot last night. Our producer, production manager and art director are not very happy. I can tell you.

They are going to kill my lovely AD.

More Behind The Scenes:

001:Camping on Pulau Ular

002: Actors Training

003: Rainy Day

004: Swimming Lesson

005: On Location Rehearsal

006: Silence Before Storm

007: First Day Shooting

008: Why we failed again

009: Day 3 Shooting