We had decided that we were going to do it. First thing was that we had to write some sort of a script. Just so that we would know what to shoot at least. It didn’t have to be anything big. In fact, it had to be something small. Me and Nirmal went to his place. The other two went to theirs. We were sitting on the matrasses on the floor in the room where Nirmal and his flat mates would sleep and wrote the script. But most of the time we were laughing. It was difficult to concentrate. We were tired and it was already late. When we wrote we scribbled it down with a pencil in a big notebook with unlined pages, which I had with me. We had tea as we were spawning the ideas. We changed our mind all the time, ereased and wrote something ells all the time. It was difficult since we didn’t have any material, any budget nor any time almost. It all had to be working out without nothing. Nirmal knew one guy who had a camera and who probably could join in shooting the whole thing if we could convince him too. But if we wer to be making a film about how I wanted to make a film. Then we also needed a camera to be on camera. We needed a camera as props. It shouldn’t be a problem to get a hold of another camera also to borrow just to have in the film. Nirmal knew many people that had cameras and worked with film. We made a few calls but no one was available with that short notice. I proposed that we could use Nirmal’s camera as props and shoot the whole film with my iphone. He didn’t like that idea. And the guy with the camera wouldn’t like that idea either. So we came up with the idea that the cameraman in the film would have lost the camera. But why would he have lost the camera? Then the bits where falling into place. Because he wasn’t actually any cameraman. He never had any camera in the first place. The character in the film who were to be called “cameraman”, was just going to be a random guy on the street that wanted to trick the foreigner, and just lied and said he was a cameraman. In that was he could show up to the set without a camera and just say that he lost the camera. That he was robbed or something. Then a few hours later it turned out that one of Nirmal’s friend had replied and said that he was happy to lend out his GoPro as props. Which we gratefully agreed on, even though we just figered out a way to get around the issue with not having a camera as props. The GoPro wasn’t exactly what we were looking for as props. It kind of has the opposite abilities. It is small and films pretty good. We were looking for something that really looked like a camera, but we were not going to be filming with it at all. But we ended up having the GoPro as props in the film anyway. I wasn’t really happy with that and thought it was completely pointless for the purpose we were looking for. But it did endup lokking a little bit funny on the film in the end anyway, when the “cameraman” pulls up his camera and it turns out it is tiny and the foreigner goes “alright”. Maybe mostly because I added a big balloon in graphics in post production that said “alright” also. We ended up not following the script particularly well anyway.
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