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!