While shooting the film in the morning, I had to search for a street where there was nobody around and also had a street lamp under which I could shoot a few scenes. To get the correct angle was a challenge as I needed to shoot the boy’s movements without showing his face. Therefore, I took multiple shots including close-ups of the boy's hands and feet while he is doing his required movements such as washing his face, placing news papers on the cycle, riding the bicycle on the street and throwing the newspaper outside a house. The actor also had to act multiple times to get the right pace of the movements in order to ensure that the actions such as the entrances and exits from the frame are not too fast or too slow. Overall with the limited amount of time that I had, I managed to get enough footage to finally select the right shot while editing.
Another challenging part during the production was to record the natural sound, in order to be able to give an authentic sense of the ambience as well the right sound during every movement, I had to position myself along with the mic at the right distance. This way I had to avoid being too close to the subject or too far, so that I do not miss out on recording the detailed sounds. However, by making sure I took enough retakes of the required scenes, I was able to shoot all my scenes during the timeline created before the shoot. Finally while recoding the 'natural sound' during most of the scenes, I realised that it could also have been recorded later as I can always add it externally to my footage during the editing process.
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