Rabu, 18/7/2007
Temubual keempat di Kuala Kangsar dengan Cikgu Hashim Said. Cikgu Hashim dulu merupakan seorang cikgu Sekolah Melayu dan pernah menjadi Ketua API kawasan Padang Gajah, memimpin 400 orang pemuda. Beliau masih ingat sebuah buku yang bertajuk ‘Melihat Tanah Ayer’ (1941) karya Ibrahim Yaakub yang membangkitkan kesedaran dalam diri beliau. Pada hari yang sama kami sempat menemubual Pak Zainuddin Andika yang dulu aktif dalam API kawasan Padang Rengas. Pak Din Andika memang mahir bertukang dari dulu sampai sekarang. Di luar rumahnya terletak sebuah Bengkel Rebana Sayong yang menghasilkan alat muzik tradisional seperti rebana dan kompang.
Day 01
Meet a local artist who had painted pictures of all the jetties before – a good addition to the film for he has given a copy of 10 postcard copy of his paintings to be used.
The lady who agreed to run a puppet show for the film has postponed her availability to a month’s time (which we don’t have). Now discussing for other options.
We now have Han Chiang, a mass comm student to play a role in the final scene for our film – (the scene showing people sleeping on the jetty looking at the moon). Unfortunately, our crane (loaned from Johnnie and operated by Joseph) accidentally hit Han Chiang on her head. However, she didn’t suffer any injuries.
Forced into purchasing a costly priced fish for the shoot. It is about 2.5 ft long, weighs 4kg and was bought from the fish market at RM88.00. Initially wanted to buy from the last fisherman to return but he had contracted to sell his entire fish to fish monger at the market. We had no other choice left because the fish market was about to close. The fish was filmed when it was brought up to the jetty and also after it was barbecued. Jonathan and some film club members were there to set up the barbeque pit. Chew Jetty residents were very helpful in provision of our filming needs eg. allowing us to use the temple’s electricity;
After the shooting for the first day completed, we adjourned to Northam Cafe for dinner and rest.
Day 2
The filming process attempts to adopt an `open’ process where we go at length to incorporate ideas from the crew members – in contrast to the conventional ones which the director had decided upon. We have yet to fully achieve what we intended (should add more briefings before and after shooting, better management etc) but feel that the attempt was rather fruitful. Shooting continues as per schedule.
Although everyone was experiencing total exhaustion by the end of the shooting, we actually still had some energy left to watch 2 films supplied by Jasdev at midnight.
Day 3
I am circulating a crew list for reference and contacts. We should have done this earlier but some hitches in between had caused for it to be gone missing.
Further actions: we will be ready for editing soon and we received good news from Kris that some folks on the 3rd floor of D’ Space are willing to compose original music for the film. We look forward to the presentation of the rough cut. However we are looking for a narrator and translator (from Hokkien to English) for the film.
