Fun Facts & Bloopers

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Fun Facts

(1) The first scene we shot was at the Chinese Temple. It was a test shot and it made it into the final cut.

(2) The opening scene of the young actress drawing the Singapore Flag was the last segment we shot.

(3) Planned for the young actress was:
16 sets of clothes, 6 pairs of shoes, and many accessories and props, hair clips, Singapore flags, face tattoos, caps, digital camera, lots of sweets!

(4) Filming with the young actress was done on weekends.

(5) Voice recording by mummy was done at night after our little actress was asleep.

(6) The Vanda Miss Joaquim footage cost $13 plus a few mozzy bites.

(7) Glittering Water was shot at Sngapore River

(8) Chinese Retiree is the young actress' grandpa.

(9) For the 'Fountain of Wealth' scene, we entertained our actress with koi feeding session. $2 per feed. The feeding led us to discover a scene for prosperity. It was not used in the end.

(10) A filming session at Little India attracted over 100 people, crowd eventually became overwhelming. We left quickly as we were outnumbered, and the lack of crowd control on our part.

(11) This film is shot entirely with a Digital SLR with HD 720p video capture functions.

(12) Original Merlion shot was without spurting water, somehow they turn off the fountain when we reached there. After we completed our take and left the place, we saw it spurting water again from afar. And we returned to do a reshoot, this time we were all wet.

(13) After a month of filming, all of us had a nice tan.

Bloopers

(1) 'Fountain of Wealth' scene

The intended scene was of the young actress snapping a picture of the Fountain. It was easy as our actress really knew how to use her compact camera. We got what we wanted... it was picture perfect. What went wrong? Her digital camera battery went dead! The LCD showed black screen. But our actress gamely tried to take photos for us. What a dear! We did not use the footage as we did not like the 'dead' LCD.

(oh, and we almost lost our actress' stroller! Left it behind in a cab. The kind elderly driver drove back to meet us, with a lady passenger in tow!)

2nd attempt - we postponed the shoot due to rain, but were running some errands in the area. It was sunshine (of course...) at the Fountain. We did not have our full gear so could not film.

3rd attempt - on the weekend we scheduled to reshoot the scene, we reached there all ready. The weather was perfect. We saw something white before us - a huge white tent built over the Fountain! We scrapped that scene. Trinity went to fatten the kois again.

(2) 'Justice' scene

1st take of the Justitia statue was unsteady, 2nd take was wrong angle and too much 'nudity' in other nearby statues, which we didn't notice during the shoot. 3rd take was very steady due to use of tripod - in fact, too steady, too static, too perfect - like a still shot. Eventually we used the first footage with some adjustments.