The Preliminary Poster ; Remastered

This is the poster made out of the same photo the team took just after the shoot. Not much has been omitted in this poster, except that I added a more vivid heading, with a funky sort of a font, representing something other than seriousness. I added extra elements, just to make it look like it's a poster relating to a film. Also, I made blur the rest of the photo except for the characters themselves to emphasize on the characters.

When certain things don't work out.

It is not rare watching your idea not working out due to some conditions, the same happened with our team. We worked with enthusiasm, not noticing how absurd our ideas were becoming, especially in terms of practical execution. What I mean to say here is that I learned a new lesson. While making a film, you have to keep in mind 2 perspectives, the possibilities and the realities. Possibilities are always endless, but realities cut down those possibilities. 

What actually blew the whole planning away was the lack of sensibility in our senses. Yes, I need to be really honest here. We were not sensible, somebody, somewhere made some mistake, which led to the crash of the whole planning and we have to do it again. 

I consider this good, because when you fail, you try even harder. I could not execute my idea, now I would not dare try thinking something as absurd as the previous idea. Also, there's another important thing. No matter how excited you get planning your film (as far as the story and the plot is concerned), it is always important to 'note' everything down in order to make it a little bit serious. Of course, it is human nature to think, reflect and portray, but in things like these, you have to make sure you are not doing so many mistakes, because it takes a lot of time to recover those mistakes. For instance, we were excited about our story, but there was nothing practical about the story it self and I, from the beginning, had an idea of where were about to get, but it's good that the whole team feels the same way.

Institutions ; A Vital Organ

Institutions are basically firms which distribute films. The institution I have chosen for analysis is :- 

Dimension Films 

This firm formerly belonged to Bob Weinstein's firm namely Miramax Films but currently it is a part of The Weinstein Company. The firm's parent company changed to the new one on October 1' 2005.

Films made and distributed solely by Dimension Films are :-

Bad Santa (2003) 

The Crow: Salvation (2000) 

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) 

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) 

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) 

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999) 

Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) 

Cursed (2005) 

Darkness (2002) 

Dracula 2000 (2000) 

Dracula II: Ascension (2003) 

Dracula III: Legacy (2005) 

From Dusk till Dawn (with Miramax Films) (1996) 

From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) 

From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) 

Equilibrium (2002) 

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) 

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) 

Halloween: Resurrection (2002) 

Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992) 

Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) 

Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) 

Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) 

Hellraiser: Deader (2005) 

Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) 

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Mimic 

Mimic 2 

Mimic 3: Sentinel 

Mother's Boys (1994)

My Boss's Daughter (2003) 

The Prophecy (1995) 

The Prophecy II (1998) 

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000) 

The Prophecy: Uprising (2005) 

Scary Movie (2000) 

Scary Movie 2 (2001) 

Scary Movie 3 (2003) 

Scream (1996) 

Scream 2 (1997) 

Scream 3 (2000) 

Sin City (2005) 

Spy Kids (2001) 

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2001) 

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) 

The i Inside (2003) 

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) 

The Faculty (1998) 

Venom (2005)

Automaton Transfusion (2006) 

Buried Alive (2007) 

DOA: Dead or Alive (2007) 

Feast (2006) 

Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds (2008) 

Feast 3: The Happy Finish (2009) 

Grindhouse (2007) 

Planet Terror (2007) 

Death Proof (2007)

Halloween II (2009) 

Piranha 3-D (2010) 

The Promotion (2007) 

Pulse (2006) 

The Road (2009)

Scream 4 (2011)

Youth in Revolt (2010)

Dimension films mostly distributes films associated mostly with the genres such as Family, Comedy, Parody and action/adventure. The audience being targeted by this institute mostly revolves around the teenage group, mid aged, and eve children but some of their movies are rated R.

The regions of distribution covers almost the whole globe but it has it's mass coverage in the U.S.A., as it is an American Firm.

Treatment for the Upcoming film.

Treatment

The movie starts with an establishing shot of a school. Followed by a long shot of the main corridor. The alien teacher is a psychic who gets visions. When he goes inside his classroom, he keeps slamming into the wall until someone guides him. Inside the class we see Celine Dion outside window singing my hear will go on and the teacher taking attendance. When coming across Celine Dion he says three times 'she is no more'.

Harry is confused but shrugs off and starts looking at ugly Betty who tries to   dif out food stuck in her teeth.

Later, when Celine walks out of the room an all time serial killer (dressed in black hood and holding a dagger) kidnaps Celine Dion.
Next day the news comes that Celine Dion was found dead in school parking lot. Harry gets even more confused.

Ugly Betty hearing about Celine's death starts crying loudly that she is a wall flower and no one notices her. On that Harry appears to become more suspicious.

A scene when Harry sits next to (any character) during lunch hour
Harry : There is something wrong!
Malay : (silent) looks at Harry.
Harry : Believe me. The teacher acted strange. Don't you think?
Malay : (shrugs) Harry : I can smell it. How did Celine vanish after he said she is no more? That means he has a vision just like that girl in Final Destination.
While Harry is thinking, the mummy drops his lunch starts chasing a girl.

He looks at his magic ball and finds the serial killer doing something stupid and then looking at Betty's picture. Harry immediately rushes to help her.

Betty is tied up when harry dramatically enters the room. 
Harry : Stop! Before i do something you will regret! (killer stops)
Betty suddenly starts laughing hysterically. Harry and the killer look at her strangely. 
Betty: I just got a joke cousin told me yesterday. Anyway, oh Harry! Thank God you saved me! Kill him. He caught me while i was taking a bath. 
Harry making a face: did you? I am so sorry.
Serial killer (shudders) yeah. so am I! (Betty offended.) Kill him will you. He also called you a confused man who cannot decide between Cho and Ginny. 
Harry now offended : Oh now you are so dead.
Serial killer : Oh no! (white light of magic from the wand than the name of the movie.

Second Analysis : Opening Title

Superhero Movie


Opening Title 


Analysis

The title starts from a light pitched diagetic synthesizer tune which progresses involving a slightly higher pitched synthesizer while the 'Dimension films' logo is being viewed on the screen. The frame changes showing abstract designs, particularly designs involving shiny meshes. Then an amphoteric trumpet tune is being played while the frame shows the 'Superhero Movie' title fading in white color, the background has been kept black to sustain simplicity. The logo zooms in and shines. The frame changes showing the camera moving upward and changing it's focus, now viewing those meshes in brief detail, blurry in technical photo terms. Transition is applied, then after a few more frame cuts, the detail gets better and it is being made obvious that these structures which previously seemed like a mesh, are actually a part of some multicolored dress. 

Meanwhile the suit is being viewed upon, the frame also shows cast names dissolving in and out one after the other or concisely in a particular sequence. Gradually, synthesizers are progressing and then we observe slight drums are introduced in the scene. Approximately after 15 seconds, a person is being shown equipping that suit, exhibiting a behavior similar to that of a person preparing for a mission. Perpetual repetitions are being shown of that same person equipping that suit until the camera zooms in the middle of the suit, which shows a shape like a bird throwing an outer glow of green. The opening title ends with a dragon fly focused in the camera in an urban area.

Analysis : Opening Title

Scary Movie 1 
Opening Title 
Analysis 

Scary movie is a movie produced by Dimension Films. This movie is basically a parody compilation comprising of texts from other films.


The frame starts with the Dimension films logo with a sound of crickets murmuring, which is a diagetic sound. The frame changes to the establishing shot via a transition close to being dissolve transition. The establishing shot shows a white house and beyond it is dark rough sky and along the sides of the frame, we can observe lush green tree branches.  The scene continues and the frame shows a stove being lit up with an unusual frypan on it. the frame changes to a woman in white dress walking in a haste towards the white phone which is ringing. She picks up the phone as the camera engages in tracking and the girls walks round the wooden table while conversing with the stranger on the other side of the phone. While she is about to reach the stove, a sense of vulgarity is being developed as the girl engages in an immodest act. The conversation continues and then she walks upto the table again playing with the minor kitchen utensils which shows that she is a bit excited about the conversation. The camera movement is the same, tracking movement until she stops her random movement in the kitchen. The conversation is mostly arbitrary. 
The girl walks away picking up a video cassette leaving the frypan on the stove unnoticed, where the camera just for a few seconds emphasizes. She walks towards the television, probably in her sitting lounge, and then stops by the curtain, followed by a mysterious sort of non diagetic music. The girl is now confused and the scene changes, now showing a funny looking masked gangster, similar to those we can observe in the Halloween festival. That guy is reading an adult magazine and talks vulgar, which creates his image as a bad guy. The frame changes, now showing the girl confused and closely, shocked to hear what the guy is talking about on the phone. The camera zooms closer to the girls face. In this part of the scene, comedy is being blended with suspense. However, the frame changes to the funny looking man praising something he sees in the magazine and then to the frypan on the stove. Actually, popcorns are being cooked and they are now shown over cooked, adding intensity to the scene. The frame changes back to the girl again, where she abuses the guy and in this cut, something controversial arises in the text. Supposedly, afro-Americans are being thought of as loafs and weird people. The frame changes to the leftside view of the girl. She turns towards the curtain and the non diagetic mysterious music starts to intensify. She switches the lights on and sees a guy dressed up preposterously like a female who cries for help, the frame shows. The girl exchanges a dialogue and the frame changes to the guy in the yellow dress shouting. The frame changes again to the girl and shows her front view, mid-close shot with the camera zooming in.


The girls starts to run towards her backdoor and the camera tracks the movement from the front, while in between, the frame changes to that same old frypan kept on the burning stove which has not grown huge from it's surface like a hemisphere, adding some sense of humor. Meanwhile, non diagetic music which is actually an intensified version of the previous music, now with added synthesizers is being played in the background. The girl is shown locking the backdoor which opens to the poolside. She stares outside while the bell rings and she seems horrified, as a result, she turns around with a jerk making a worried face. The frame changes to the main door and then again it changes to the girl who has a baseball bat in her hand and then walks towards the door, opening it and randomly hitting someone she doesn't know standing outside her door. The frame changes to the people who were standing outside and she comes to know that they are actually children who came to trick or treat for the halloween. She apologises and closes the door, turning around to see that funny looking man holding a knife and waving greeting her. The name of the girl is Drew. She thinks of what to do and looks right where on a table there are 5 things kept, 4 deadly weapons and a banana, as this movie is linked to comedy, she picks up the banana and starts to run, with the camera showing her fullshot. She then runs outside the house, to a place similar to a backyard and then the camera angle changes showing parts of the intruder and the girl. The girl runs ahead and finds to signs in front of her, one is 'Safety' directing towards the left and one is 'Death', she chooses 'Death'. She starts running and after a few seconds, falls. Mysteriously, where she had fallen, a white body investigation mark has been made automatically, while she gets up again and runs, hiding behing a huge tree afterwards. Behind the tree she finds the intruder who has gained up on her and harasses her. She still tries to escape in her lingeries. The camera angle changes to the mid shot of the girl from the front where the girl is shown acting sensually and then after a short interval she starts to run again, this part of the scene again develops a sense of intense humor, with a little touch of vulgarity. 


The strang intruder gains up on the girl and hits the knife on the right side of her chest, which instead turns out to be something really weird. Match on action can be observed here. The frame changes to the girl who looks ahead, the frame again changes showing the road infront of the girl from where a car is approaching. The girls stands up, fullshot, then she waves her parents sitting inside the car doing something vulgar, and then they hit her own daughter. The intruder approaches towards the girl and then slices the screen with the title showing "Scary Movie".

Audiencing Our Film.

Audience profiling and similar phenomenons might seem a little bit of unnecessary to a media team new to producing a media text, but in actual, it is basically the backbone of what text that team would be producing. No matter what our ideas originally portray, the whole success is based on how audience likes it, with regard to a specific genre. It also includes knowing what your target audience enjoys, as our seniors shared an experience with some of us telling us how they questioned random children (they are targeting children) and asked them what they liked to see in a film.


Based on their strategy, we have come up with some questions, which are, as follows :- 


I might also try explaining why exactly I chose these questions. 





First question ; Name the best comedy movie you have ever watched? The reason this question came up is that we can take examples from existing super hit comedy movies and analyze them, probably to adapt some of the common things comedy movies have. For example, in every comedy movie, there's a comedy character but by answers on this, we'll try to adapt as much humor close to the movie itself as we can.


Second Question ; What do you hope to see in a comedy film? This question was necessary. If we don't raise our standards to what the audience expects, then the movie would probably be a failure. After all, it's the audience who judges the movie and I personally think that it would make it easier for us to make a movie that attracts our audience through this question. Knowing what the audience hopes in a comedy film would assure us of what the audience wants to see in a movie.


Third Question ; Who's your favorite comedy actor? As I observed comedy movies, most of the comedy actors have their own style of portraying humor (except for some of those who can practice versatility in their acting, the best example being Steve Martin). This is where we learn about how do they portray humor by observing their actions closely.

'Personalized.'

Alas, I stole some time away to personalize my blog. This was solely because I wanted to make my blog attractive and this makes me happier by the click, i.e. the more I see this page the more contented I am. 


Starting with the title background, it was initially a picture I got when I searched for some glossy abstract art on Google Images. I am always fascinated by these sort of designs. Anyways, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop, applied an Auto Color Adjustment, increased the color correction more towards blue and less towards yellow. This was it until, while experimenting with different types of filters, I tried 'Glowing Edges', which gave me this, particularly that red shade inside those blue arcs. 


The second picture as the main background behind all the text material on the blog is basically a free image created on Adobe Photoshop itself, which I got from here. At first, this was all plain with no special effect at all. I downloaded it, removed the text at the bottom using a clone stamp tool (which is quite simple and easy to use), followed by (again) Auto Color adjustment and then applying a filter to it. This was also found while experimenting with different filters and unexpectedly I ended up with this. 


This makes my blog much more vivid. Especially the red color is an attractive composite and attracts me everytime, to make it more precise, those artworks involving red and black color in an abstract manner. 


Looking for more until next time.

Finally, A Poster!

This blog contains the poster (supposedly) for the preliminary film my group made. To be honest, this is not what truly reflects my creativity and I have explanations for that. Firstly, VERY limited time frame as I was attending an MUN and I had no idea how hard this was going to hit me, because then, I had to skip school and then I found a new meaning of 'skipping' school, i.e. 'skip school, skip everything!'. So this is what I could come up with in 1 day.

Since I did not do much about the poster, all I applied were some color corrections along with 'blended' text. The heading has been embossed on the top saying 'The Crazy Assistant' while I also applied a texture giving a rugged effect to it. Then when mentioning the casts, I simply applied a color bypass. the size is A3, the norm for a poster. Shifting to the color corrections, I applied a slight green filter to make it look more vivid. This, in short terms, is the simplest poster ever been made by me. Another reason for the poster being so 'simple' is that I did not have access to photographs and I missed the photo shoot (I regret). Shifting again to the specifications of the poster, this poster may attract my audience in simple means that it is clear and colorful. The mise en sene showing the cast wearing lab coats limits it to the boundaries of a lab and a periodic table at the top left corner of the picture makes it more specific that it is a chemistry lab.

After a 'Break'.

Well, the fact of me attending extra-curricular activities meant I was not attending any of the classes in school, which had warned me of the problems that were going to hit me today. With a little but some vital thoughts on media that popped up in my mind are here.

Initially, starting with the basics. While experiencing media, I experienced an irony. The more I deviated from the norm, combined with my creativity, the more better my product got. I am referring to technicality here, such as camera. Now, skimming through different video guides and trying things out myself (again) made it clear that it might be necessary to follow the norms, but, if the director uses his creativity while deviating the norm, he can do wonders. There are examples from the movies too, such as, in the film Goodfellas (1990) produced under the well known institution namely Warner Bros. , The conversation scene between those 2 men in the restaurant. Some camera trick is used to make the scene look really cool. The camera man moves the dolly and zooms at the same time, this way, the background comes closer while the subjects stay positioned. These tricks are as difficult as they seem, but as I see it, they have a direct impact on attracting the audience (at least I was attracted).

Here now, is the treatment to our preliminary task video, to be honest, I did not do much on this :-

 

Lab assistant is an irresponsible woman who is always snapping around at the students. She would dismiss the students before their practical class is over. She is non committal and unconcerned with lab maintenance.principal is aware of the problem but has not dismissed her yet. One day a processed chemical arrived in the lab for an experiment. She carelessly places it in the shelf and accidently drops it.  Two students witness this incident


Lab assistant (horrified) go now. What are you doing here!
                                                                                                    
Student : you broke it! (one walks in and accuses her while second goes behind and inspects the damage          


L: non of your business. Go on now. You shouldn’t be here (furious.)


S: I was going to use that for my project!


L: go I said!


Principal was on a round he/she sees finds the assistant scolding the students to leave. Briskly and angrily he/she says:


Principal: can you meet me in my ofiice in 5 min? pointing t the lab assistant. she shrugges as if thee is no big deal and she will get her way out of this mess. Five minutes later principal is going throught the complaints against the assistant made by the students. His expression goes more forbodding. Lab assistant enters in all relaxed.


Principal: have a seat


She sits down all relaxed and crosses her leg.


L:  as you can see that was an acciedent and I apologise. It was a valuable chemical and I understand the implication of what happ…


Principal :do you know how many people have complained against? I have a whole file on your name here!


L: look I am sorry about today. And I don’t remember breaking anything before today


Principal: what about not maintaining the lab and supervising the cleaning up? And students have complained that you dismiss them before the class ends and they are unable to finish the experiments
           
L: students don’t like me you must believe! And they make so much of mess it is impossible to clean up


Principal : and you leave the lab in the care of janitors? What if they make a mistake and we face severe consequences?


L : please you are over reacting. This is not an issue


Principal : and I cant believe you wouldn’t admit your faults and have the audacity to say that to me! Do you have any idea how expensive was that chemical?


Principal (horrified): I know. I cannot pay for that! You have to take care of it! And you cannot cut it from my salary!


Principal: we cant because you don’t have any. You are fired. If you would like to give your resignation than please send it before 2:00 otherwise you will find you suspension letter tomorrow on your desk!


L (silent for few minutes. Than her eyes fill up) I am sorry for what I said. I need this job 


Principal: you should be. But that will not make us rehire you. You have been more of a liability than an asset to us.


L : (a tear drop falls.) okay. But you know that I don’t know much about chemicals.


Principal : madam you are dismissed. Now if you excuse me.


She walks out. But stops before leaving ( you know I haven’t allowed any stealing in my lab. I let the children go early so that they don’t steal anything)


Principal:: you were not kept as a watchdog.


L: my son has leukemia. We don’t have enough to pay for his chemotherapy! He just got his liver tested. He also wanted to do his high schooling from here. (she looks around) my husband does not earns anything. He would waste money on drinking. I cannot even divorce him because my little girl adores him and he taked care of him while I am in school. i am not a good assistant. Hell I leave all the organisning at the janitor and he even can be a better assistant. but (she wipes her tears) you know I started visiting to the library and occasionally read more about experimental chemistry. Hoping… (her voice trailed off)


P : this will not give you you your job back


L : I know. I just want to explain why I was what I was. I hated chemistry. With a passion. But I took this job because I love my family more. You are a nice man/lady) I want to thank you for even letting me assist despite my qualification. I will give my resignation


P : wait. Did you read the contract you signed? there was a clause that you can take an interest free loan from school for medical expenses. also you are given benefits for that.


L (surprised) no I did not see that


P : this is your last chance. Another mishap and you re out. I mean it. Apply for the loan in the principals office and let the accountant handle the expenses. You will be notified of the anounts from time to time. You can leave now


L thankyo so much!


After she leaves, principal immediately rings up his assistant


P :the lab assistant is going 2 come to you now to apply for a medical loan. (irritated) I lknow there is no such thing just make a phony application form for her. Yes………… Yes……. That’s right. Okay good.

Inevitable Disappointments

With no progress this weekend, I feel ashamed. Trying to figure out the real disappointment that is keeping us from progressing us is actually a problem created by us, the same old problem I guess is faced by everyone. Lack of true team coordination. I learned a lot this week even though we weren't productive at all, a member went for a vacation, second's too busy staying ill most of the days, the third one had all his fingers working some place and ultimately, me, who was trying to figure out I should work alone. 


A lesson I learned here is that without team coordination, either you get busy which at the end either produces something not so appropriate or you end up with nothing but regrets. I just couldn't believe that all of this was hitting me so badly that I couldn't make things up for once. Another thing I learned while I was shooting alone,"Never ever forget to check that you have enough battery power to shoot as much as you can shoot". This idea might seem funny and a bit stupid too, but trust me, when you're out of batteries, all you can do after that is stare faces.


Thirdly, I learned about pre-production as well as post production. Most of the students I work with think it's a crappy idea to waste time on details and are more towards improvisation of things, but, unfortunately, if you stop to make everything up at the time of shooting, you'll probably end up with a bad, unplanned film. Trust me, I regretted the whole week, because after I was done with a practice preliminary task, I faced a block. I had nothing to make the video interesting (like music and sound effects), I was out of ideas on how to make the video itself interesting by those catchy transitions and most importantly, I myself was not satisfied by the video produced. What I would discuss with the team mates the next day, would be about production, because there is no time left to risk on the so called new 'creative and hasty' methods. No wonder this production stuff is boring, but, it is as important as anything in this whole project could be.


Well, leaving depressing experiences aside, I am starting to work on a software known as Fruity Loops a.k.a FL Studio (courtesy). It's basically a music composing software designed for everything you need to make your film look fancy. Special effects from an explosion effect to chimes and music from the old 80s to the new age beats, it has it all. 

This is as complicated as it looks by the way, but anyhow, it is an ideal software for my film as far as sound is considered. I've also noticed students taking sound lightly, or for them sound is not a big issue, but as far as I am concerned, I hate watching a movie which has no relevant sound for instance music which makes the scene more interesting, sounds which make a transition look like a flash and sounds which create that filmy feeling inside me. Sound, in other perspectives is also important in order to determine the genre of the film. It is sound that creates suspense, not the movie, I observed. 

Waiting for these dilemmas to end. 

Character Sketching

This blog is about Character making for the film, one of the most vital parts of film making. Sometimes, I feel like making a character for the film is the most difficult part of it. Why? Because half of the productivity of the film depends on actors and the character you assign them. Character tells the actor on how to bring out emotions in accord with the situation.


This is what I did. 

I always prefer a hard copy. I particularly don't know why but I do. What I tried today turned out to be fantastic. 

Before all this character sketch, I 'brain-stormed' the idea of how the character should be. Because when you brainstorm, you limit yourself to the points you actually choose and the character you make is almost aligned with what you brainstormed. 

Here it is. 

Adios. =D

Practice Sessions

A step towards learning how practice makes it perfect. We were on towards shooting our preliminary practice video and that effaced a whole lot of other confusions plus it sharpened up the blurry picture. More over, I found out that film making might be fun, but it is not as easy as it seemed to me earlier. All parts of film making (that includes acting and editing) are not easy. Working with a team makes it fun and to an extent lightens up your shoulders. Anyways, here are a few things we came up with while we were shooting. 

This is an experiment. I was basically practicing an 'establishing shot' and amazingly it worked well. This gave me an idea on where exactly to base your establishing shot from and a better idea of how important camera angles and camera movement are when you are taking an establishing shot. For example, (f you observe the video closely) I had some problem in carrying out a smooth pan. Which is terrible! But this experiment gave me an idea and helped me in getting more efficient while I was panning. Plus, an experiment regarding the establishing shot and playing it back thrice gave me an understanding of how an establishing shot plays one of the most important parts in film making. It is  like a room without a door. 

This one is an experiment on focus. This was no doubt unintentional but it too gave me an idea on how can you make your film more productive adding these additional and unconventional features in your film. It would be a very good fit in where you have to show two people talking in positions back and forth and you can switch focus accordingly. This would 'spice up' your video and make it look better. As I said, there's nothing like you can't produce a good video without these things but the video would be better with them. It's all up to the producer's creativity. 

First Storyboard

Well, as I promised, I scanned my storyboard. This might seem a bit preposterous to some high thinkers but guess what, I am not good at drawing so you anyways have to get along with what I have to offer.

Regards

The Second 'Shot'

Practice Practice and Practice!


Today was the practice day! I noted one thing down, when you are practically working on film making, you get loads of ideas in your head and it's really hard to pick which one is good. So our theme for the practice shoot was actually based on a popular teenage issue (as it was just practice shooting we didn't consider the theme so much). 2 Cameras, both cell-phone oriented, one with me and one with Sibtain Qazi. By the way ; Here's a list of us :-

Sibtain Qazi (Working on Camera 1)
Ibrahim (Working on Camera 2)
Arif Hussain (Working on direction)
Mohsin Hussain Zubeiri (Working on Scripts and storyboard, temporarily, he's the actor too.)

So, back to the pavilion. We have this theme of a loner being bullied by some of his school mates and he gets treated very badly. We just took the main shots today as we were unusually out of resources. First a couple of shots (which were obviously unstable without a tripod and ofcourse, a proper camera) and some of the shots were just too good (keeping in mind that they were shot from a cellphone). This guy gets bullied very badly and he gets his books thrown away and gets beaten up.

Tremendous mistakes were made. Firstly, we were out of some serious volunteers who would really like to offer some serious help (yes, we needed volunteers in some of the scenes). Everybody was getting so excited that it became hard to make people understand that this is just some practice shooting. Well, eventually they did what they were supposed to. The shaky hand movements were the most evident mistakes a viewer would observe. There was much to learn from what this shoot has to offer. We learned how camera angles effect the quality of shooting and it is not as easy as it seems, we all learned that it takes a lot of effort to make a movie creative.

Target audience was mostly the teenagers like us who are studying in high schools and note these kinds of happenings seldom in their surrounding. By the way, the most amazing part was the enthusiasm all of the team members had in them while shooting. It is great to work with a team, especially in these kinds of projects. I was left speechless when I saw how amazing it is in a team where there is no boss and everyone's a worker. Our exhibition space is YouTube and we will be uploading the movie soon when the editing and all is done.

It was FUN!

Arbitrary Discussion

Today is the day I thought of creating this blog, and here it is. Well, today was mundane and we tried to come up with new ideas for the film. I became familiar with how importantly scripting or treatment effects the making of a film, (yes, I was stark blank on how important these things are). So today was the day for compiling the ideas, hopefully, we would commence practice videos from Wednesday while hopefully tomorrow I am going to finalize the group members. 


The last class was quite helpful as some of the common confusions that arise regarding technical stuff are now to an extent effaced.