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Students who graduated will join a project of Nan Province Program.
Because they have seen Long Rak Loei (falling in love with Leoi Province) a short film which shot in Chiankarn.
Then, they(viewers) wanted to pay a visit to that place.
So, they collaborated with Nan province and came up a project.
But this time they wanted the actors who undergraduate to directed the short film.
Which there are Nadech, Saiparn and Thannva. There will be 30 mins of each short film.
Then a teacher had asked me, could I help them out on these projects?
So, you have been helping Nadech and Saiparn. How is it turned out?
For Saiparn, her short film is finished.
I didn't help much on her project.
Because she has her own working team which is a great team.They had done a great job.
I'm not sure that it might be even better than what I've done with Long Rak Leoi's project.
Aw....you mean they are still studying? Yes.
At that time, when I went to Loei , I was the oldest guy (senior)
and the rest of them were in the second or third year.
So, now in the third year, they have started to do this project as well.
After we have finished Saiparn's project. And the next is Nadech's project which is quite a difficult one because of his story plots.
and one more thing, He doesn't have much time to do it. Because of his work schedules..
For example, today or other day, he has free time for one hour or half a day. Teacher would call me and arranged one room for me and him to discuss about the work such as the characters or the places.
We have seen some of the places in another province.
We went in the morning and returned home in the evening.
We had to follow the schedules which it doesn't fixed the exact time.
Sometimes, the manager would give us a call, drama has been cancelled for tomorrow. Do you have any planned?
The teacher would quickly arrange the schedule. He would asked, Do you want to see the locations or do you want to discuss about the film?
He would call me to come and discussed with Nadech.
The difficult part is we are lack of time..
Beside the time problem, You had been working with Nadech before,right? Yes.
What do you think of Nadech?
He's put work with intention, I can say more than a 100%
It's really beyond my expectation. Because at first I thought that he's a famous star, he wouldn't do anything.
Normally, when he's with his friends, he always jokes around and playful. But when comes to study, he's study really hard.
Or if he's doing something he'd pay close attention to it.
When I saw him in directing and overseeing the work himself. It's made me speechless.It's amazed me a lot.
There was one time, we had to go to Sarika waterfall.
There were three of us, myself, Nadech and a teacher.
We parked the car downstairs and the weather is super hot.
And then the size of the waterfall down stairs is very small and has no water in it. Because it summer season.
Then we looked upstairs and it's very high.
There wasn't a path to go up there. You had to climb the moutain to get to the top.
I was thinking to myself, I want to see what Nadech would do about this.
We were there at the place, and he asked me, shall we go up there, since we are here?
I knew inside my heart that we will not be able to take any pictures.
because we couldn't bring the equipments up there for sure.
You can't climb up there.
Because we had to climb up there slowly.
But eventually, we reached to the top.
It made me more intrigued with this guy. He put a lot of effort to the work.
He went up there just to take a picture for us to see. What's the upstairs looked like? Eventually, we didn't use that picture.
But he just wanted to see up there... Since you're there already, right?
Yes, we climbed slowly to the top.It took us about an hour to get to downstairs.
The teacher was waiting in the car downstairs. We were gone for an hour...
I saw his commitment to the work.
I have spoken to P' Champ Veerachit Thongjira.
I've known him from his own short film which is called Long Rak Leoi. We shot in Aumphur Chiangkarn , Leoi Province.
We had a chance to work together.
P' Champ is a very easy person to work with and funny guy.
He's not a serious guy. He planned all the tasks.
Umm....If you get to know him, he's a very funny, not too serious and easy to talk to him.
And he always be there to help and guild us.
.I've known him for more than one year. Yes, It's been a year now.
We often meet each other and I have consulted him about the short film.
It's not just me that P'Champ is given the advice. He would be offering help to everyone who needed help such as friends or juniors.
We're so glad that we have P'Champ helping us.
I knew that you would never disappointed me.
You need to slap his face.
You never disappointed me.
We shot just one scene at Rangsit University. It's one day only.
We will continue shooting again next month.
And then you would continue shooting for longer period of time.Yes.
We will find the consecutive days for shooting.
We are available during this time and we'd set the time to look for the locations.
Does this mean you're also the main director as same as Nadech?
Umm... If he wants the advice or guidance, I would be there for him.
You're like a consultant for this project? Yes...
Yes, that right. If I have an idea, I will let him know
It's up to him whether he's like the idea or not. Or if he has any ideas, then we will discuss about the matter
You also need to be with him most of the time?
Yes, that's right.
Aw...I see. . I want to talk about making a film, what does the film making process that you have to go through?
Okay. ...First of all..I want to talk about Nadech's project.
Firstly, ...We have to discuss about the short film's story plot. What is the main story plot?
After we concluded a story, There was a man who wanted to buy the land. He met with the heroine which she lived in that place.
And after that we will expand the story plot into a film.
You have to find the essential element of the story plot. Who is your protagonist? What's he doing there?How will they meet? How will they fall in love?
Aww...You had to discussed it first..How's the story goes?
then you will expand all of these into a film. You need to sit down and discuss about the story. What should we introduced from the beginning of first scene and what is next for the second scene....scene 4,5,6 until the last scene.
How long should the short film be normally?
The typical short film range is not more than 30 mins.
How many scenes are there in half and hour?
Supposedly, we set as 1 min/scene. So, that's mean 30 scenes altogether.
We calculated each scene for about one minute. It can be less or more than that.
You have to tell complete story within 30 mins.Yes.
Once we have a scene of the movie, what is the next process of the film?
It is a meeting of the team.
Then we will assigned, who is responsible for each work..
If they are still studying, the teacher will help to find someone to be a camera man, assistant, lighting and sound and music.
We then began to discuss about the project.We will let our team know what are we going to do next?
We will let them know about the scripts.
After we have finished with the scripts. We will start meeting again.
after finished meeting, we will start assigning the tasks to each person.For example if you're in charge of locations, you will have to find the locations for the film.
You have to look at the scripts what are the requirements for the film?
you will see who is handle this or that?...or what we need for the scene? where is the location?
Then we all can work separately. For example we already knew about the location and we found the place. Then we shown it to Nadech. If Nadech said ok, we would go to the actual place and have a look.
For the assistant, you have to find the actress.
Must be prepared to cast actors.What kind of heroine we want? or who are the background actors?
If you're in charge of costumes, you need to prepared all the costumes.
Is it necessary for you to arrange the blocking in every scene?
For me it is very necessary.
However, if really have no time for that, we will have to find the time for the blocking on the the actual day of shooting.
You have to reach the location before the shooting begins.
we will let the camera man knows what kind of picture we want to have?
We are talking about if we don't have enough time.
The best way is you need to find time to do the blocking. It will be faster.
You need to finished the blocking first. Yes, that's right.
Why did we choose Jed sao Noi waterfall?
We went to many places and many provinces.
But now it's a dry period.
Everywhere is almost the same.Very dried.
The river is drying up
Yes, I went to many places. But everywhere is drying up now.
Then the teacher realized that he had been to Jed sao Noi waterfall before. It has water throughout the year.
Then we came to check out this place. And eventually we decided to use this waterfall.
When we teach students
We find that sometimes we may also see a foreshadowing of some students.
It does not refer to learning alone.Because the way we learn and teach in Faculty of Communication of Arts.It's all about the work quality of students.
And sometimes who is directing the film, it can reflects the director's personality as well.