So I delayed this post for a while since a lot happened. Originally it was intended to be reported on before we did the actual filming. But, well.
A lot would probably do it injustice
To put simply
The location we had settled on was quite far. And hence arranging for a time was proving difficult since we also wanted to try and get a camera. And another actor.
The camera was proving difficult since it was to be borrowed from a known person. It wasn't owned by any of us. But that wasn't the part that caused so much trouble.
It was just an extremely frustrating experience because of complications with the location and the timings and I'd prefer not to relive it. So future me, if you're reading this, sorry for the headache you'll feel once you're done reading.
Originally we had recruited someone. Then it turns out the other two in my group were unable to make it to the location. So we postponed. When I informed that someone of the new location they couldn't make it due to reasons in their personal life. So I had to look for someone else.
Then 3 days before the date of filming it turns out that they hadn't looked up where the location actually was and hence told me they couldn't make it due to how far it was and their parents said it was risky. So then I contacted someone else. But then they said they couldn't make it since it was so abrupt and I should've contacted some time in advance and they already had plans for that day so they couldn't make it.
So then we postponed the date of filming again and I tried to find another actor. But then we had the issue of not having the camera available. So we set a different date, and found another actor, who, surprise surprise, was unable to make it because they had different things to do on that day that they couldn't afford to miss, and the location was far, and if we did it before then (which was the original date) it would've been fine.
The worst part was that they had originally agreed but told me this just one day before the date of filming. So I spent 7 hours contacting different people and telling them to give contact info of other people and since filming was just the next day basically nobody could make it, so I had no other choice but to fill in for the second spot.
I think the level of frustration I felt that day was only comparable to my experience playing a game called Geometry Dash. A game that is basically completed by failing over and over and over again until finally figuring out the exact pattern at the end. A game which took me over 50 thousand attempts over hundreds of hours to complete.
Imagine a puzzle consisting of hundreds of pieces but the pieces are all clear and only through trial and error can you figure out which one goes where.
The paragraph above is in case I read this years from now and think to myself It couldn't have been that bad. Finishing that game was an experience my body will probably never forget and the fact that I'm even comparing something to that tells me how much pain I felt.
But it's in the past now. And it's over.
But I don't think I'll ever find myself looking back at it and thinking that it was frustrating at the time but now it's fun or I shouldn't have been worried. It was frustrating. It was horrible.
And that's the end of that.