Buper Huludayeuh Trijaya Kuningan

The Experience of Making Suspenseful Short Movies !!!

This is my personal experience, when I first made a short movie. The movie called "Petaka" was my first story filmed. It's a matter of pride for me, because my friends chose this script. The movie with the theme of Horror Thriller, Mystery, Murder and Adventure tells the story of seven students who want to camp in a forest.

It's not just about murder that we want to show in this film, but it's also peppered with some plot twists that will make the audience gape. Wuiisss, interesting isn't it? Oh, sure. Because we hope that this movie can also be suspenseful entertainment to unwind because you are tired of doing tasks whose deadlines every day.

In addition to the script, we also prepare all the properties that will be needed in the filming process. We also divided the roles so that we could all play in this "Petaka" movie. The properties we need are:

1. Camera

The camera is the most important property in filmmaking, and it just so happens that some of our members have cameras, so we don't rent cameras.

2. Two tents with two layers

Tents are equally important than cameras, because the movie we're going to play is all about camping. We rented two tents with two layers. The cost of renting a tent for 1 day is IDR 120,000

3. One knife

It relates to the genre of movies about murder, so we needed a knife. This knife is a toy knife specially designed for murderous style. We bought this knife at a toy store, for IDR 8,000 

4. Fake blood

The fake blood we use is a mixture of red food coloring and cornstarch. Food coloring costs IDR 5,000 while cornstarch costs IDR 10,000

5. Black hoodie 

This black hoodie we did not buy, because one of the members there is one who has this black Hoodie. This hoodie will be worn by killers.

6. Clip on

Clip on to clarify the sound to the recording medium. We bought 5 pieces of this clip on at a price of IDR 15,000

As I told you at the beginning, this movies tells the story of a student who is going camping in the forest. So, we took place in the Kuningan area and most of the scenes were shot in the forest area. The forest we chose to serve as the filming location was Buper Huludayeuh Trijaya Kuningan.

We started the trip on Friday at 02:00 p.m. precisely after the college hours were over. We set off on a motorbike, previously I filled up the gas first at the gas station. I filled up only IDR 20,000 for Cirebon-Kuningan back and forth. The journey we took was not so long, only 30 minutes to arrive at our destination. However, we did not go directly to the set, but instead took a break in one of the houses of a group member who happened to be a Brass person.

The next day we all got ready to go to the filming location, which was in Buper Huludayeuh Trijaya, because we had previously promised the person who guarded the forest, so when we arrived at the place, we immediately paid for the ticket to enter. The entrance ticket price is IDR 15,000/motorcycle on weekdays, because we go there on weekends so the entrance ticket price is more expensive, which is IDR 32,000/motorcycle. After paying we went straight in.

But before entering we took a few scenes first, then we immediately continued our journey into the forest. At that time, the situation at the location was quite crowded. Apart from the weekend, there are some students who seem to be filming too. Even at that time it coincided with the Boy Scouts who were camping. Seeing the crowded situation, we finally decided to find a place that is quite far from the crowds. After getting a strategic place we immediately build a tent.

Then we took a break and had lunch. We immediately ate in the canteen there. I myself bought instant noodles, rice, fried foods and iced tea at a price of IDR 15,000.

After feeling that everything was ready, we immediately started scene by scene according to the script. When we wanted action scene 4 we chose a place away from the crowds, but when we found a place, I saw that under a large tree there was a tomb that seemed to have just been sprinkled with white flowers, I didn't know it was rose, jasmine or cambodian. After seeing the tomb, my feelings were immediately bad plus some of the group members had a sudden period while at that time there was no menstrual schedule. Then I immediately invited my friends to change places. At first my friends refused and asked, but after I told about the existence of the tomb they immediately rushed to leave the place. After that incident I felt insecure, we were like we were being played with. The weather was fickle, so a lot of our time was wasted on rest. Strangely, when we were resting, the situation there was quite quiet and calm. However, when we were about to continue filming the situation there was actually crowded, as if we were being held to stay there until it was completely quiet. We unknowingly filmed until 8:00 p.m. there were many obstacles that occurred during the filming process, but we continued until all the scenes in the script could be completed. After everything was done we rushed to tidy up things and went straight home.

That is my experience that cannot be forgotten, hopefully by sharing this with readers you can benefit from my experience. My message is that wherever you are, still maintain civility, because not all of Allah creatures can be seen your eyes.

Btw, do you want to watch the film?

Click on ‘Petaka’ and happy watching guysss!!!