During the pre-production period, I was assigned to do Assistant Camera but during this period I had nothing much to prepare. But I helped the DP in some other ways. Me and the DP went down for location reccee at toa payoh. So we looked for old playground to suit the script which the Director wrote it and it was tough to find an old, classic playground. The annoying thing is that all we can find is the new and well-refurbished playground. We could not find the playground and we were told by the residents of Toa Payoh that there is an old playground along the area that we are walking. When we reach we found exactly what we want. But there is another problem for the sound department as the location of the playground was located just beside a busy road. We managed to talk with the sound department that there is not much dialogue for that scene so we are allowed to use that location. The problem we faced is that we are given a short amount of time to prepare, find location, actors. So is kind of challenging for us to prepare all of this in a short amount of time. But it is part of learning as in the real life of production, the team need to present everything to the executive producers anytime they want because they are the “big shot”. The ones who pumped in the money and here we are trained to do that. Other than doing location reccee, I am in-charge of the equipments and logistics side.

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