It all happened so quickly. With just 1 month to throw together Kuching's largest filmmakers' collaboration yet, every team was scrambling! Typical of government-commissioned projects, I'm afraid 😕 We're talking 3 different production houses with over 2 dozen freelance crew members.
The Unit Protokol, Istiadat dan Pengurusan Acara Negeri (UPPAN) arranged this as a surprise commemorative birthday short film for our state governor.
Our team at Filmco (our shorthand for the company), was charged with casting and wardrobe. We must've gone through over 20 auditions for the lead alone! We even had to cast over 30 actual school kids from the school we were filming at 😵🤓
The only thing that ran longer than the casting list was the inventory for the wardrobe! It was quite the task to source some 1950s-appropriate attire. The school uniforms were easy - just not to steam iron for 2 hours straight 😅 Plus, they needed all hands on deck so there was also a lot of additional helping with crew work (mostly lugging things about).
The Unit Protokol, Istiadat dan Pengurusan Acara Negeri (UPPAN) arranged this as a surprise commemorative birthday short film for our state governor.
Our team at Filmco (our shorthand for the company), was charged with casting and wardrobe. We must've gone through over 20 auditions for the lead alone! We even had to cast over 30 actual school kids from the school we were filming at 😵🤓
The only thing that ran longer than the casting list was the inventory for the wardrobe! It was quite the task to source some 1950s-appropriate attire. The school uniforms were easy - just not to steam iron for 2 hours straight 😅 Plus, they needed all hands on deck so there was also a lot of additional helping with crew work (mostly lugging things about).
