Shooting day 1

 We started filming a bit off schedule, as Abbas came on time but Niranjana came around 5 and Darren told me beforehand he’s going to come when we film his scenes only as he’s not in the other scenes. So, as Niranjana came we immediately started working. We did a few rehearsals of the scene and checked out different lights in the room. I had many lamps. We got good lighting in the scene so we started filming. We took 5 takes of the scene, abbas was operating the camera. Niranjana was doing just fine in all, but I was the problem as you could say. As I was also director I look through each take after we did them and my acting want vision I as the director wanted. I wanted a specific emotion that wasn’t being me. then the last two takes I got what I wanted, I did pretty particularly the last take I found the best. I’ll look through them later for confirmation.  

 Then, we went down a bit quickly as it was a quarter to 6 so evening was in the arisen. The parking Lott was near my building so not much walking distance. Niranjana was now operating the camera and taking the shots moving forward. We took many takes, most of them were not good as Abbas kept fumbling the words and I also kept walking too slow or quickly, timing was a bit off from me. Eventually we did a take that was satisfactory at least. Although, when I looked back through it when I came home, I thought it could have been a bit better.  

                                                                                                                                                                    Darren finally arrived as promised, and then we went up to the roof. I thought we were doing thing a bit slowly, but it was still day light time when we reachedSo we just hanged out and chatted. When the sun finally set we started filming. I woild like to mention that I am scared of heights. So when I was dangling my legs with noting beneath it was a little scary. Darren calmed me down though. We took a couple of takes, Darren line delivery was a bit off so I wanted a perfect take. It wasn’t that bad though, mostly smooth sailing. Until, we went down to film the last scene of the movie. We used torch from our phones as a make shift back light. Niranjana was filming while Abbas was holding up the light. As we were filming, we both kept messing up the lines. And then the call to prayer from the mosque started s for 20 mins we couldn’t do much because the sound from the mosque would be in the back ground. We were all kind of agitated as we had been filming for nearly 3 hours as it was closing to 8, so eventually finally got the take we needed. And also we needed a take for the wide shot, so we did it quickly some   of us had to leave. Abbas and Darren came down to my house to export all the videos to laptop. After that shooting wrapped.