Second last day of shoot with Joan Chen. It was 5th November 2006, a Sunday. It was in Ward 8 of Alexandra Hospital.<\/p>\n
We were running a few hours late by this time.<\/p>\n
There didn’t seem to be many scenes.<\/p>\n
And all would’ve been fine. But again<\/a>, Joan Chen was perturbed by the FAD’s “action” call. Which frankly, wasn’t that loud. Nor was the first<\/a> actually, come to think of it. This time she actually requested that the director yell for action.<\/p>\n Or should that be whisper?<\/p>\n But hey, there are a lot of people on set. Calling for action isn’t just for the actors, right?<\/p>\n Well, the FAD wasn’t the only one on the receiving end of Joan Chen’s requests.<\/p>\n On the final day of shoot – many hours overrunning as well – we were shooting just outside Vivo City – a place I wouldn’t have visited if I’d not been on this shoot – Joan Chen requested that everyone who didn’t need to be in her eyeline next to the camera to move.<\/p>\n As Set Photographer, I have to closely match the angle and shot that they’re taking, so I try and plant myself close to the Director of Photography (DOP) and try and replicate what he does.<\/p>\n In this case, I was clearly “everyone”. Okay, I know I’m not the skinniest person in the world and my weight might make two and a half fairly skinny Singaporeans, but you don’t have to rub it in.<\/p>\n Also, I find it strange that I should be in Joan Chen’s eyeline, since she has never so much as looked at me. Past, yes. Around, yes. But never at.<\/p>\n Since Joan Chen has ignored me when she’s not acting, why not pretend I’m not there when she is acting?<\/p>\n Plus it was already past 7pm and let’s just say the DOP won’t waste lights on lighting the area behind the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Second last day of shoot with Joan Chen. It was 5th November 2006, a Sunday. It was in Ward 8 of Alexandra Hospital. We were running a few hours late by this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[22,21,530,218],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}