During the movie preview with some Bloggers at Post Manila, Direk Erik Matti shares how the movie materialized from planning to shooting to its release.
“Nagfast track ‘yung project kasi Dingdong wants to be part of it and co-produce the movie. Because otherwise, if Dingdong is not on-board, we would have been talking about it until June last year up to now because there’s no urge. But now that another entity other than us came in, we were forced to start the whole project moving.”
Why you decided to put it on green screen?
“We shot ourselves on this one and do it on green screen partly because we feel that we already developed the resources to do it. We have our post house with us, we have our CG company to back-up with it. Kasi kung wala kaming ganung back-up, everyone would gonna charge us per second.”
“One second na puno na gumagalaw, fifteen thousand pesos. Isang creature na tumatalon, 25 thousand pesos naman ‘yan. Ilang seconds din ‘yun, eight seconds times you know, you’ll be charged like pumapatak ang bawat oras,” he adds.
With this movie, what do you want to prove?
“We just wanted to prove to ourselves, can we part a movie, give it time and do something with it ‘di ba? Kasi lagi na lang una ‘yung playdate. Kakakausap ninyo pa lang, in few months, dapat ipalabas na.”
“We’re just trying to do sometimes na iba naman and we’re hoping that this will be a game-changer that people go beyond playdates and really take care of ‘yung movie mo na parang pinaghirapan mo talaga ‘cause that napapasa mo ‘yan sa audience. They can see the kind of hardwork that was put into it ‘di ba? Alam mo naman ‘yung parang tinira lang ng sampung araw.”
According to Direk Erik, the movie is about 18 months in the making and was shot entirely in the green screen. All-in-one 2,000 sqm studio was used in shooting this film. There are 28 days of principal phootography and took one year for the post production of this film.
“There are 60 artists that are working on the back-end. There are around 20 that are working here on editing. Kasi two things ‘yon – the back-end (60 guys) are on effects; CG and the other guys here in Post Manila are doing the final finishing like dust in the air, etc.”
“You know, our fear in the beginning kasi ‘di ba, we don’t, we never wanna claim that this is really the movie that’s gonna come out there. We never wanna do that even if we wanna think it’s gonna be pero ayaw naming. Ang Pinoy kasi, they want to find out for themselves that they like it. They don’t want to be told na maganda ang movie at kailangan mong panoorin ito. Mas lalo silang hihindi.”
