Biggest Bother: Brother
There are so many things that I want to tell you about our movie. But then, I don’t want to bore you reading a very long entry. You see, there are so many problems that arose in our group especially during the production part. As a matter of fact, our leader-slash-director is the biggest problem that we ever encountered.
All of us hate her so much! She even wants to be the script writer and one of the characters in the story. During the day when we decided to choose a plot, it was one of her plots that won in the voting. I don’t know what happened but until now, I still can’t get it why her out of this world plot was chosen.
It goes like this…
A group of friends have this certain project so they went to the house of their leader. But what they didn’t know is that place used to be a tribal burial place, and on that day, that group of friends were locked inside… and one by one they started to disappear. But in the end, it turns out that it was one of the members of the group who killed the others and she did that because her group mates were teasing her.
The story was so shallow. There were hardly any underlying reasons why the killer decided to murder her group mates. And there were so many plot holes in the story that she created. There was even this big hole that only she didn’t notice. Everybody who read her draft were in the verge of laughing so hard just because of that big plot hole that she didn’t notice.
And from then on, a new group arise from our group… a group within a group. I’m proud (lol) to say that I was one of the three members of this group and we called ourselves as the “Conspiracy Group.” As much as possible, we didn’t want to bypass our director, but then, we had to. Because if not, her outrageous ideas and suggestions would reign! Who would want to film a gas tank exploding (this was in the plot that she made)? Duh, we’re not in Hollywood!
We (the CG) decided to do major revision in our plot. In the end, what only remained in the revised story was that there was a group of friends who got killed one by one. I liked it so much and the plot was really interesting. The second version was really good. The whole group decided that our movie’s title should be “Brother” and yes, it really fits our movie. But I think our leader didn’t like that. She has her own weird ideas. Actually, she suggested “Big Bother” to be our movie’s title. But you see, “Brother” really fits our movie, and besides, majority of us wanted it as our flick’s title.
During the production part, our director did only little in our movie. Actually, it was us, the CG who made almost everything possible. It was always us who were on the camera, filming this and that, directing our group mates on what to do, checking the props that we’ll use, and many more. By the end we were over filming all of the scenes, everyone was really mad at our so-called director. Someone even told the actress who starred as the killer to kill our director. Haha. But the catch was that it looked like our leader didn’t like with what we did. We didn’t had any choice at all but to put all of those things on our hands and be the ones who’d settle what we had to.
We didn’t include our leader in the post-production part. Basically, it was only the three of us (CG) who worked during this part. As a matter of fact, what she knows was that we didn’t meet at all. All she knows was that the editor was the only one who edited everything that needed editing and it was me who did the poster and the DVD cover. Well, she has her own ideas on what should appear on our poster. She wanted it to be something like serious…. something like the posters for “Maging Sino Ka Man.” Yuck! It doesn’t really fit for our movie! Good thing they didn’t have time to have a pictorial session. What I did was to search for pictures (of course, that have something to do with our movie) in Flickr that are free to use.
Photo Credits:
the toxic dragon
strobist flickrazzi
Note: The names I used in the poster are not real.
Last Saturday, the three of us met and finalized everything we had to finalize. I enjoyed doing our poster, all I need was their approval. And hey, they really liked it. So when we got everything about the poster settled, we had it printed.1 I really liked our poster, as a matter of fact, I have my own personal copy of it!
During the afternoon, we were editing our movie. And because I was also the one who was assigned as the musical director, I used indie music in our movie! Yay! That afternoon, I also made our DVD cover which took hours of my time. It was only around 10 in the evening when I was able to finish doing it.
Over all, I really had fun doing this tedious and tiring task, especially during the post-production part. Even the other two members of the CG said that they had fun. Just seeing our poster printed was such big joy on my part. It was just our leader wasn’t cooperating and she’s really a big problem in our group. And even though there are still some flaws in our movie I can say that we really did great, after all, we’re not even BA students.
- Just a side-note, that was the day I knew that somebody can be allergic to tarpaulin. Lol. My friend is! Haha. She was itching after she touched our newly printed poster. [↩]
