the only constant in life is change

The last day of shooting was harder than I thought. The first day was easier because it was sort of all over the place and we didn't have a specific direction, which was bad, but at least now that we have more direction, we're going on the right path (I hope).

We put in a lot of effort to pin point specific mistakes of out first day, and found a lot of solutions to correct them. But it made our work a lot harder. But it was okay.

We changed the rephrased the questions:

What do you think makes Malaysia so unique?

This implies that we just wanted to know what their opinion was, and not actual facts that they read on a book or saw on a documentary, or something that needs to sound super intelligent. We really just wanted a casual and sincere answer.

What do you know about the culture of Ramadan in Malaysia?

Instead of "what do you know about Ramadan", it would have a more authentic answer, because we're asking them about what it's like in Malaysia. Because if we asked them what they knew about Ramadan, they would answer us about what they know according to where they came from (because at first, we interviewed international people, too, which we realize was a big mistake) and they would probably talk about how people in their country celebrate Ramadan and this could be very different because culture is instilled in a celebration. We wanted to know what the culture of Ramadan was like, specifically in Malaysia, and so this question would be very good.

[For example, Muslims all over the world have very different wedding events from each other. An Arabian Muslim who lives in America would probably have a spiritual wedding, where a religious person would make them official, and then they would have a wedding reception after that. A Malay Muslim, for example, a Bruneian Malay Muslim, would have about 5 wedding events, because it is a cultural thing. In the same way, Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims all over the world, but different cultures celebrate it differently.]

What is the highlight of being in Malaysia for Ramadan?

We wanted them to point out that they are somehow involved in the celebration of Ramadan, even if they are not Muslim, and are happy about the coming of Ramadan, because this would suggest that in Malaysia, even if they didn't celebrate the occasion  they would somehow anyway because it's part of being a Malaysian.

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We also had a better idea of how we wanted to imply that Malaysians lived harmoniously together regardless of the differences in race and religion. It was either to have 3 different Malaysians of different race, saying "Selamat Berpuasa", or a group of friends that were multi-racial having a good time, or just smiling or laughing, to imply how harmonious Malaysia is.




Here is our improved storyboard, thanks to Sara-una!

WARNING: 

May cause humans to faint because of cuteness.

-Lynz B