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This is actually kinda old news. Deadline for the video and report was last Thursday night, but I guess the event is worth a belated news update. :p

After labouring for 9 months, it’s finally done. phew! It’s the first time I actually shot anything I wrote, so yeah, it was a pretty interesting experience. The night before our shoots I’d be freaking out on the details, trying to go through storyboard in my head till I actually dreamed about the shoots. But the next day I wake up and it’s go go go! haha.

Glad it’s finally over. No more editing and watching the video a zillion times (although I still have to go back and design the dvd menus). But the work is done. Finally can take a rest, do homework, not skip classes and edit on weekends. yay! And watch more TV! And start having time to exercise!

Can’t wait to screen our short film. Still working out the schedule with organisers, so hopefully it’ll be good!

And thank goodness that the grant from Singapore Film Commission came through! Don’t think we can just rely on the school’s 200 bucks since our production cost already went into the thousands. But with the grant, at least we don’t have to empty our own pockets.

I guess producing this short film on our own has been quite an amazing experience. I mean, I really did learn a lot of stuff on the way (since they never really teach us much in school), and in the end, it does give me a little confidence in knowing that hey, we can actually manage to produce something that isn’t all too bad! Whether it’s good or not, I don’t know yet. Pray the project moderators won’t tear it to bits during our upcoming presentation lol.

Just finished my term paper for my Asian film module — last academic paper to write, ever! yay! So now it’s time for a well-deserved break. I’m going home tomorrow for a long weekend holiday!