Final Film

Shooting Log

 

Evaluation Question FOUR

 After the entire process of research and planning, once i new what my target audience was like, and what it's expectations would be towards my product, i had an idea of how to come about satisfying it's wants. Audiences have a set of expectations as to what a genre text will contain in terms of transportation, costume, characters, setting, mise-en-sene, score etc. They expect to see genre-specific elements withing the media text. So in order to attract your audience, you provide them with these elements along with an interesting enough plot which would have them involved in the text as it goes on. I tried doing the same. Once my research was done and i was about to go for shoot, by that time, i knew the type of target audience i had and the expectations they acquired. Genre texts get very boring if they follow the very predictable conventions while having an unimpressive story line. Since i was making a product at this stage where i had my barriers, I obviously did not afford to break any conventions. So instead i used them all while having a plot that enabled the tension and involvement throughout the product to increase. Luckily art genres involve 'realism' so even the same conventions seem to look different every time, example location and culture. Showing cultural scenes and traditions might be a convention, but not all cultures are the same. So every new time, it has a new charm. As i made a Bollywood art film, it occured to me continuously that my target audience belongs to the elite educated class, from an age group from teens to adults, who would like to watch and understand such a plot since their intelect level, understanding and interest towards the 'real' world issues, i had to compile everything in way to address to them. I did this firstly, through my story line. Just so my audience wouldn't get bored, i made sure my product goes on having the right kind of thrill and suspense in order to create the required 'enigma'. Enigma really attracts an interest. I did this by the continuity of scenes by the help of editing and audio working in accordance to the camera shots. Every time suspense grew, for example, in my start credit, my actor slowly and gradually faints as he see's things within the market that disgust him. I made the scene stronger by intense close ups of all the things he sees while showing his reactions in a fast pace, having the back ground score and and his expressions to change as things got worse, and then i showed him fainting, taking the start credit to an end there. This kind of act leaves the audience curious as to what would happen, which is another way to attract it towards the product. Obviously, going completely with the codes and conventions keeps the audience involved. You wouldn't want to cheat your audience. This idea is to be taken into account while shooting. As an example, If i would have tried to show a weak boy fainting in market while having him dressed in an outfit of an underground gangster with a gun in his hand, it wouldn't give the right feel at all. Instead it would create a disequilibrium due to balancing out. This is why, i made sure all the things within the frame and without the frame were just according to my genre, be it, costume, location, script, plot, audio or the mise-en-sene. Mise-en-sene is very important. This is anything within the frame. In order to give the right feel and make everything look real, i went shooting in a real congested and filthy market, just so my result would come out as my audience would expect it to. If i'd set up a few fakes stalls on a road and tell a few actors to act as shop keepers and buyers it wouldn't really look like a market now would it? I also made a digital ethnic music after listening to a lot of ethnic songs played in Hindi Art films. This is because i happened to come across them in almost every reference film i watched, and so i assumed this is something the audience likes within the media text. I started my opening title with a voice over of my lead character as he tells his entire story within a short phrase. This was done so that the opening title conveyed the correct message of the story  easily so that the audience would not have to put in extra effort to try and understand what all goes on through the entire scene. Also, the location i chose was mainly because since my target audience belongs to the educated class, people would enjoy watching scenes shot in such a market because what a person does not experience a lot in life, is something he or she enjoys to understand. So if i represent such a location to someone who hasn't experienced it, it would appeal more to that person compared to someone who visit's such places very often and there's no thrill factor left. So yes, it i the thrill factor represented in my film that to me, would attract my audience towards it. I kept it simple and less glamorous throughout for two reasons, firstly so that it give's the right feel. and secondly in order to have the easiest media language possible so that the audience would watch it with comfort and interest. Lastly, i left the story close to social realism so that my audience could relate to it. I also took use of a character (the lead's mother) who i showed, belonged to the elite 'posh' class and i showed how people can become inconsiderate towards problems once they get everything their way and while coming up with this character, i thought of how my audience might belong from this class and how it might relate to the problems shown in my product.

Evaluation Question 7

Initially when i was making my priliminary video, all i knew was how to fix a camera on a tripod along with how to shoot a couple of simple camera angles and shots. Along with that i knew the names of these shots, that were mainly the basics, extreme close up, close up, mid shot, long shot, extreme long shot, establishing shot and high angle and low angle shots. The concept having the entire process of deciding a story, comleting research and preperation, studying genres and their conventions, studying institutions, all was completely alien to me. Infact, back then i did not even know what the importance of all this was. Frankly, i hadn't even understood how to use the correct media language. I broke the one eighty degree rule just because i didn't quite understand what it was. In other words, all i knew was how to handle a camera and also had a small idea of how to make lighting look good. Other than all that, direction and construction was not even a part of the little act. All i was to do was to get two people into talking and to capture them through diffent angles and to use shot reverse shot once they exchanged dialogue. Apart from the shoot, coming towards editing, by then i got to know little about editing since there were just a few shots to be cut and continued, however, it did teach me the basics. But when i look back now, Theres so much more to it than just shooting and editing and i believe this process of compilation of informtion and construction of data is what is really imporatant. Everone can hold a camera and turn it around, but not everyone can understand media as the source of intellect and communication it really is. Back then all i knew was the technical stuff, but now i know so much. Whether it is about different film industries and the institutions, whether it is about how different institutions cater to different genres, whether how diffenet genres have diffenet audiences or simply how to combine camera movements to audio and mise-en-sene providing the correct feel and genre specific elements within the media text. Then, i knew that films are financed by institutions and that is how they reach us, but now i can name institutions according the genres they like to distribute. Back then i knew that genres consisted of horror, comedy, action, romance, drama, adventure etc. But now i even know how genres colide into sub genres and what codes and conventions each of them follow. I knew how to hold a camera and take simple shots, now i am confident enough to use different techniques of camera shots along with the order of shots it is supposed to go in. Earlier on i didn't know what it took to come up wih a story line, now i know that films cannot go on without things like story boards and scene and shot divisionings. Initially i did not know there was an entire process to the constuction of a short media text, now, i not only know there is one, but also know each and every step it takes towards it. When i start thinking, i get so much in my head since i have gathered so much of information regarding all this. However, the only thing I feel I still need to understand completely is the technical stuff involved in editing. With time, i will learn that too.

STARTING WITH THE PRELIMINARY

It is strange how once i start recalling, i get a flow of memories of how things took the initial step. I remember one fine day calling up two of my friends and asking them if they'd want to act for me. I wouldn't exactly write an entire section on 'planning for the prelim-shoot', mainly because at this stage we told what to do. We were told to shoot a two minutes scene and show two people exchanging dialogue. Yes, now it seems simple, but back them it was like " OH MY GOD I HAVE TO SHOOT THIS! HOW?!' Well. again, as i said, it was more like the very first step. So i started shooting. It was rather funny since it was hard to get my friends to act as they wouldn't stop laughing. It was hard, for me, to understand the 'one-eighty degree rule'. As much ashamed as i am by writng this down, i even broke it, while not knowing until the teacher pointed it out. I didn't even know how to control the lighting. It was a mess, but i liked it. It was a very new and joyful experience, and i learnt a lot of things by just this process. So when i went out for my real shoot later in the next term, I didn' have to face these problems because i had already grown out of them.

TIMES IN BETWEEN
Well, i truly want to mention what a wonderful and full of experience journey i passed this year. Before going out for the fnal shoot there were a million things to do. I give both my teachers credit for getting all my work done on time, with effort and as nicely as i had in mind. All my friends had started complaining to me by this time, of why i never leave the media lab and spend time with them. Life inside that lab was so inspiring and dominating throughout. Getting familiar wih all the equipment inside, listening to songs and completing my blog, even sitting alone there, staring into nothing and trying to visualize how i wanted my film to be shot and edited, it was all a time of chances of finding out who i am and where i belong.

FINAL PRODUCTION

By now i had gotten very excited and i had all my plans sorted out. So i head off to shoot. Wow, there were a number problems i faced. Location issues, actors not being there on time, the scorching heat, camera's battery dying. It was all a hard process full of moments pf panic and stress. However, when i started shooting, and saw all the rushes i had in my camera, i was so happy. I loved it. A few problems lead my partner and I go out for reshoot. But we remained positive and made our sequence of shots even better than what they were before. Later when we started to edit, at the same time we recieved the music for our film. A friend of ine made the music, as per requirement. I told him each and every detail i wanted the sound track to contain. I remember the way i'd sit infront of him and explain things in the most confusing way, but he still understood what i had in mind and gave me a result that was definately better than my expectation. At the same time, i remember sitting in an issolated class room with all the fans turned off just so i could get to record my voice clearly. I basically sang for my film. This song is played in the starting of my film. I took this particular idea from the film 'Brick Lane' and I was hoping I'd get the same kind of feel delivered. As a matter of fact I did, to some level and once again, i was happy with what i had done. So looking back, i believe it is a journey of complete ups and downs but either way, we get to learn so much and that is not just limited to the creative aspect, but also to technology.

Evaluation Question TWO

In order to explain my repressentation of particular social groups, the initial step is to explain the social structure and divisions in my country. People are devided into three categories, like any other country, upper, middle and lower classes. However, being a third world country we have our majority still present in, partly the middle, and mostly the lower class. These devisions are mainly resposible due to income level, living standards and social set up and background differences. As explained above, having such a high density population in the two classes, it is well understood that very few people are present in our upper class. Now coming to the real question, what i did in my film was a little summary of how the upper class is, while slightly giving hints of the lower class too. I was able to represent this, by firstly, my characters who represent the upper class, and secondly, my location, which throughout, showed the low class culture. Before going on, i'm going to give a brief description of the story line of my film in order to be able to relate to it the rest of the answer that i will write. As i mentioned, my characters represent the upper class, i have shown a mother, a very posh one, who is responsible for her son's (my lead character) under confident and emotionally weak nature due to her extreme empowerment and dominance over him. In order to give the feel to the concept i tried to represent the strength and weaknesses of my characters by choosing a low class market as my shoot location. The entire time the camera shows how the boy's weaknesses are exposed due to, obviously, the life time torture treatment of his inconsiderate mother while the icing on the cake is the the market's filthy atmosphere itself. Now that the story is summarized, by now it is understood that i have represented 'classism'. However, thats not the only media 'ism' that is present in my film. How i visualized the 'over-pwering' nature of the mother and her dominance and fear casted over her son also represent's 'feminism'. I understand how feminism basically means ' the advocacy of woman's rights on the grounds of politicle, social, cultural and economic equality to men', i still consider that media is beyond just the definitions and we can show how it can be a problem aswell. Secondly, the way i picturized the son's character and nature including the relationship between him and his mother, i tried to represent 'humanitarianism'. This is because even in my film, it is basically about how that boy could have been something great within himself, but that ability, to be something dies in him before he can nurture it because he never gets that chance or that confidence to. And as humanitarianism has it, it is everyone's duty and responsibilty to respect human rights and to promote human welfare. I tried giving the same message  through a very minor example of simply a mother and a child, rather than being bold and giving the same message through bigger problems like racial descrimination etc. Other than that, i showed the typical culture of a third world country by the help of my location, as mentioned earlier. I chose that market just so it is visible to the audience how things can be absurdly exposed and dealt with in these low class markets. The way you just see meat hanging here and there, or a bunch of flies literally trying to devour the fruits and vegetable around, it all seems so amusing and different to those who dont get to see it much, but to those who're a part of it hardly care. In my film, thats what i was most anxious to show. I made my lead character faint in the market as he sees shrude and bold things happening around, just so that the difference between the standards of the upper class and the lower class are visible, even in a developing country like ours. He faints, but every where around, the rest of the people just walk in search of something to purchase. Things are how you see them, your vision is your way. But the reason i showed both characters going to that low class market rather than going to some mall is basically to show that even though our upper class has high income levels and living standards, it is the hippocracy that they'd still shop at that market, and later would be the ones criticising it aswell. I have noticed this a lot and so i wanted this fact to be a part of my film aswell. However its still a petty part of the product. The main ideology was to show how members of the elite class live their lives, whether it's about the way they feel superior, or whether they get so astonished by their 'new money' that they forget their very own responsibilities, be it towards their own close ones. And i chose to show a mother, not a father, because fathers are dominating figures anyway, but in the elite, women tend to be extremely dminating. This is mainly because they're educated and modern and usually they dont have that entire concept of men being the stronger ones. And i couldn't have showed this in a better way than to show it by the a mother's behaviour towards her very own son.

Evaluation Question Six

 Initially, when i started media, i honestly did not know much, It was just decision i made completely out of passion. However i knew, with time, i will gradually learn how to come about with it. And i was completely correct. With time, the process of construction of things present in our course, i automatically learnt a lot. Whether it was about media as a proffession or simply the basics, like how to hold a camera, or in other words, how to deal with technology. Coping with the course, i managed to firstly, handle a camera in a proffessional way, along with how to make good use of a tripod. The buttons of the camera now make more sense to me than they did a few months ago. Now i am cofortable enough to be able to shoot with different cameras, I'm confident enough to. I always read the option of 'white balance' but never really knew the purpose. Now i know that it is very necessary to use that option before shooting in order to capture light in a clear way. I have understood how a camera works like an eye, its right and left, its frame, and even its memory. However, abviously its nothing like a human eye when it comes to capturing light. We see light as it is but a camera lense can only see what's dominanting. This is where white balance steps in. So now i make sure i use white balance before capturing anything within a frame. I've even understood that out-door shoot can neglect this option, but it is heavily needed once shooting in-door. Coming towards the computer, well. starting with a lowest most things, its easier for me to work on and manage my own blog now since we have to have a blog of our own. I am able to attatch any sorts of files, videos, pictures or any data i want on my blog, in the order i want them to be. I make good use of other programmes on the computer other than just facebook, youtube or google. I was completely alien towards editing softwares and music softwares before but now I'm starting to understand them. I know how important it is to render files, or even how long it can make you wait. I know the type of generation loss that occurs after the raw footage goes through the entire editing process. However, after completing my film, it really amuses me how just plain camera shots turn into a complete film just by the help of editing. The importance of sound and video effects is now understandable. These effects are the essence of media products. They create genres out of ordinary camera shots. However,i still have to learn more about editing because this was my very first time and there is so much available on these softwares and i want to know each and everything about them which i know i will by next year. However i do understand the variations of these softwares that keep changing with time as technology is becoming more advanced. I feel media keeps changing just because technology brings in so much more. So at every step, we tend to learn something new. Today i know things, but tomorrow, these might become just the first few letters of the alphabetical order. Technology plays the biggest part in this process and i have learnt so much about it in very little time and i am hoping to learn more at every step i take next.

Evaluation Question FIVE

 The target audience is a percentage of people film makers are willing to cater to, while producing a media product. It can be categorized in two, attitudinal demographics and sociological, consisting of intensions, habits, likes, dislikes, responses, behaviour etc, while on the other hand age, gender, income, residence and social background also come under a different category. Coming to my product, i have analysed and researched that for an art film my target audience consists of multi-sex people, mainly between the age group from late teens to fifties having high income levels and usually educated backgrouds, at times elite house holds. Their interest is usually towards any sort of intellect conveyed an not just the typical entertainment. It also consists of art film critics and scholars who would observe the representation, construction and composition of my film. The age limit tells me they expect a film having a mature story line dealing with relavant important and understandable issues that they can relate to. At times, indirect use of language can be used, since these educated grown ups would easily understand it, however not always is it necessary and advisable since media language should be easy to read. These people come to consume the product with immense interests, mainly due to their likes and dislikes, and their habits and also because art films release within gaps leaving them more interested in whats produced. Also, these people are open minded and so even obsurd plots can be understood rather than being misjudged. Since they belong from rich house holds, they have the ability to consume the product more than once. They tend to use their maturity and knoledge to critically analyse the product and respond accordingly.

MY FILM- ME MYSELF AND MA

Evaluation Question Three

 

Institutions play an important part in the entire process of making a film. These are the sole producers, financers and distributers of films. There are number of institutions in the world, divided within different film industries. Since i chose Bollywood as my industry, the institution for it should be from Bollywood as well. Out of the many i searched, there were two that cater to art films as well. These are, Eros Entertainment and UTV. However, i see Eros entertainment as the institution that would finance and distribute my product. It has a core trade in the production, distribution, finance and acquilision of Bollywood films. This is mainly because it has a vast range of films and their genres types that it caters to. Having the largest share in the Film library of Bombay, Eros International has happened to buy films that are of different genres and sub genres like, horror-romance, thriller-romance, romantic comedies, thriller-action, action-drama,action-romance-comedy etc. It has a huge vereity of films that it has distributed, and after examining and studying this institution, along with observing the types of films it caters to, i feel such an institution would want to buy the type of media product i have created. Keeping all the entertainment and drama films aside, coming towards art films, Eros entertainment has financed one of Bollywood's most successful art films. Some of these include, Dhobi Ghat, Rockstar, Zindagi na mile gi dobara etc. Taking Dhobi Ghat as an example, this is a pure art film, outside the mainstream cinema that has no special affects and drama to it but is completely close to reality and simple, like the product i made. I had taken this as my reference film and i studied it before going out for shoot. Another art film it had financed was Dor, that was again a very serious, cultural film. Other than this, Eros entertainment has offices all around the globe and so it is easy and more accessible for it to distribute films through different channels. And since it has catered to all these art films, along with the one I've chosen as my reference, that has been successful, i believe my art film is meant to be financed by such an institution, not only because it has distributed a number of art films but also because other institutions of Bollywood mainly cater to those art films that either have super stars in them or simply other films that are pure entertainment. So Eros International seems most suitable for my media product.

Evaluation Question 1

Qs 1. In what ways does your product use or change codes and conventios of real media product?

                                                                    
                                                                                                  
Before giving an explaination to the particular question, first it is important to explain the ideology of my product and the film industry i chose for it to be catered to, as well as the genre it belongs to. It is an art film coliding with sub genres of drama and adventure. As i mention 'art' film, that automatically indicates that it belongs to 'art house cinema', that shows films of artistic merit, low to medium budget films, mainly produced outside the mainstream. And so i've chosen Bollywood, the Indian film industry, 'industry of Mumbai'. This is because in my film, the location, the structure, the actors and the idiology, all belong to the culture that places like India and Pakistan present. If i'd choose Hollywood for such a film it wouldn't seem appropriate. Coming towards conventions and terms, all different industries cater to genres in different ways. E.g conventons of an English horror would completely differ from that of an Indian horror. Same goes for art. This is mainly because art films are usually close to reality, that inludes the culture, traditions, beliefs and problems of the places the industries are located in, and so different industries have their own elements of reality shown in their art films. So it is very obvious that the conventions of same genre films from different industries will differ. An art film from Hollywood would cannot be compared to an art film from Bollywood. Bollywood art films have their own set of codes and conventions. These include, location and colour, that is, usually Indian art films tend to show areas of heir country, presented in vibrant colours, allowing the feel of the location to be vividly expressed. Audio works on its own way. It usually involves slow, emotional, sometimes adventurous and ethnic kind of music. Lighting is very unique. If the movie involves scenes from somewhere outside on the road, or in a market, a lot of natural light is used, along with color filters. I have mainly happened to notice blue and yellow filters used a lot in Indian Art films. The ideology behind these films is usually dramatic, close to reality, in other words, it represents social realism. Mainly you see no glamour and the typical spiced up entertainment. Things are left natural and simple in all ways. In order to make it closer to reality, The story line is extremely intelectual, at times even slightly obsurd, however, proper and simple media language makes it easy to read. The actors in the film are mainly ordinary looking with a simple appearance, appropriatly representing ther character. Also, these films tend to have a precise amount of narration or voice overs, e.g, at the start of the film or in the end, or simply as the movie goes on and events take place. The story line usually has a message to convey or a story to be told, at times, real events in the past are represented. Camera angles and technigues are mainly very 'artsy' giving the typical feel required that would appeal to the audience. Speaking of audience, these films have a very low level of target audience, maily the elite, educated class of people with in the age limit of seventeen to fifty, who easily unerstand the story as well as feel attracted to the plot. Coming towards my film, i dont think i have broken or changed any codes and conventios however, have managed to use as many as possible according to the research i did. Starting with my location, like real Bollywood art films, i chose to shoot my film in a very low class, congested and for the posh, 'filthy' market in order to represent the culture of my country. It was an outdoor shoot so a lot of natural light was used, which also enabled all the colors to show bright, just like any market would have in real.The idiology was realistic too, as i showed how the people of the elite class in our country react to problems and the way the deal with them. This is shown by the characters and their attitudes. I have shown a very posh mother, who is inconsiderate towards the problems her son is facing, this is made obvious by the actions and behaviour of her son throughout the scene and her vague and careless reaction towards it, being showed by her expressions and acting, same goes for her son, who by his expressions, act and appearance, makes it clear that he is over powered by his dominating mother and is slowly going weaker with time. I did not use any props since it was an out door natural shoot and i simply captured what was already there. The appearance of my actors was ordinary just like it wold be in real, no glamour, no spice.Coming towards conventions including audio, I made a score (background music) using digital insrtuments like the 'sitar' and 'tabla' that gives the ethnic tone to the entire product following a touch of other western instruments such as, the kick grand piano, oboe, triangle, strings and orchestral ensemble. While on the other hand, my film also starts with the voice over of my main character colidng with a back ground voice singing a luluby that i have done myself, just like art films from the real cinema. One thing i was most pushed about throughout my shoot was 'sound'. I made sure i recorded room tone that i have used thoroully. The exsistance of 'Ambient sound' makes my film look very original and real. There is a slight use of synchronous sound, however, most of the sounds in my film are asynchronous. This gives the right feel and i made sure i captured these sounds after i had examined art films in my research. According to conventions again, the language throughout the product, whether oral or media related, remained according to the story line. Even though my voice over is in English, I made my actor speak the way he does in real in order to capture the correct, original accent which enhances the mood of the product. Along with everything mentioned above, i made sure i used a few camera shots that would look unique and realistc, and so i took a number of 'Point Of View' shots and also left the camera shaky in a scene where my character walks along a street. This really gave the required affect, as my character's fainting in the scene and the camera movement makes that feel expressed strongly and i took this Idea from an Indian Movie 'Dav D'.

 Lastly, art films that colide with sub genres like drama and adventure usually create a sort of enigma. As we were supposed to make an opening title, i made sure my product was a combination of sub genres of art and drama, and i kept in mind to use all the techniques and plot the scene in way that it creates that enigma and suspense and luckily, i was capable to do so as i ended my opening title when suspense grows to the fullist and the lead character faints, since such scenes leave the audience involved and curious to what happens next. My entire idea was to create the product in the utmost realistic and artistic way as possible, while conveying the story.

MY FILM POSTER

When intially i had started planning how i wanted my film to be, i had in mind that my poster should be unique, containing the main aspects of my film. I studied and obseved a number of posters that helped me in coming up with numerous ideas. Accordingly i took my actor's pictures and converted them into this, including the 'siluette'. Even by closely, on the left hand side corner there is a slight glimpse of the market that i shot in and lastly, i kept it all in light and dull colours according to the theme of my film. I suppose having extremely bright and vibrant colours would not have reflected my genre as well as these dull colours do since in my own mind, when i think of my film, it is serious, simple and portrays no sort of glamour or drama.

EDITING LOG SHEET

Scene's That Were Cut

We had to cancel out a few scenes. This is mainly because the location we chose forst, after which i made the story board, had gaurds who did not allow us to shoot there even though when we went to capture our location pictures. we weren't stopped. So we did expect them to stop us again when we shoot. However they gave us trouble that day so we shot in a similar market. But that market did not have a sugar cane machine, nor did it have any stall selling cloth. So we had to cancel two shots that contained these items. And the second time we went for shooting, more things seemed appealing so we cancelled out some old shots and converted them into new ones. We also cancelled one shot where the 'mother' hands over the 'son' her bag, mainly because it semmed vague later on. However all these changes made our product look great.

First Cut

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Shoot Schedual

SHOOT SCHEDUAL
( As per plan ) This is how i have planned my procedure to go about once i start shooting.
25TH FEBRUARY
FIRST SCENE : Take an establishing shot of the Empress market
TIME: 9:00 to 9:45

SECOND SCENE : Take an establushing shot from inside the market
TIME : 10:06 to 10: 15

THIRD SCENE : Take a long shot of the characters walking to the meat stall
TIME : 10:19 to 10:23

FOURTH SCENE : Long shot of both characters at the stall
TIME : 10:23 TO 10:25

FIFTH SCENE : POV shot of the stall
TIME : 10:26 TO 10:29

SIXTH SCENE : Mid shot, they walk to the vegetable stall
TIME : 10:32 TO 10:35

SEVENTH SCENE : High angle shot of them at the stall
TIME : 10:37 TO 10:39

EIGHTH SCENE : Over the shoulder POV shot of the stall
TIME ; 10:40 TO 10:42

NINETH SCENE : High angle shot of them at the stall
TIME : 10:43 TO 10:45

TENTH SCENE : Multiple shots (he walks away, along the street)
TIME : 10:50 TO 10:56

ELEVENTH SCENE : Close up of the chicken cage
TIME : 10:58 TO 10:59

TWELVETH SCENE : Close up of the man chopping meat
TIME : 11:02 TO 11:05

THRITEENTH SCENE: Mid shot of the guy (lead)
TIME : 11: O5 TO 11:07

FOURTEENTH SCENE: high angle shot of the shrimp baskets
TIME : 11:07 TO 11: 12

FIFTEENTH SCENE : Low angle shot of the guy (lead)
TIME : 11:13 TO 11:15

SIXTEENTH SCENE : Close up of the shrimps bucket
TIME : 11:15 TO 11:16

SEVENTEENTH SCENE : Low angle shot of the guy (lead)
TIME : 11:16 TO 11:18

EIGHTEENTH SCENE : Extreme close up of bucket
TIME : 11:18 TO 11:21

NINETEENTH SCENE : Long shot of the guy waliking away
TIME : 11:23 TO 11:29

TWENTIETH SCENE : low angle mid shot of the guy (lead)
TIME : 11:31 TO 11:33

TWENTY FIRST SCENE : Close up og vegetables
TIME : 11:34 TO 11:36

TWENTY SECOND SCENE : Low angle shot of the guy
TIME : 11:38 TO11:39

TWENTY THIRD SCENE : Close up of chicken
TIME : 11:40 TO 11:41

TWENTY FOURTH SCENE : Low angle shot of the guy
TIME : 11:42 TO 11:43

TWENTY FIFTH SCENE : long shot of the man breaking ice
TIME : 11:46 TO 11:49

TWENTY SIXTH SCENE : Low angle mis shot of the guy
TIME : 11:50 TO 11:52

TWENTY SEVENTH SCENE : POV shot of the building and sky
TIME : 11:54 TO 11:57

TWENTY EIGHTH SCENE : Long shot of the guy
TIME : 11:58 TO 12:00

TWENTY NINETH SCENE : Master shot of the street
TIME : 12:02 TO 12:05

THIRTIETH SCENE : Long shot of the guy fainting
TIME : 12:06 TO 12:09

SHOOT ENDS

Prop List :

It was not needed since we were doing an outdoor natural shoot, capturing whatever appeared in real.

We had to re shoot, here's why :

Before editing, our rushes looked great, everyone liked them. However once we were done with our first cut, we observed that our inserts looked great but there was hardly any eye line match between the shots as well as, our actor's movements and actions appeared slightly dull. So we decided to shoot again till we're satisfied with the result. Ans so we re shot but his time, it went great and it also took less time. But i really enjoyed having the opertunity to do new and better things with my film. There are now a number of changes, but this is our final piece and i feel completely satisfied.

Things we changed : Our film still starts with an establishing shot with the Empress Market tower, but we again took another shot of the market from inside the market slowly increasing with the camera movement. Next we showed both our characters walking into the market from a distance coming towards a meat stall that was cut with in a number of continuity shots. We also kept the camera on our actor's shoulder so that it gives the realistic look as he scans the stall, we even left the camera slightly shaky. Next we made him and his mother (both our actors) walk towards a vegetable stall, took a number of mid-shots in order to show parts of the stall along with the expressions on our actors' faces. We even made our lead actor hold the camera and trip on a motor cycle that he is supposed to in order to give the realistic affect while taking one shot of him tripping from the front as well. Next we made the camera move as such along the road as if its the characters eyes as he looks around, again leaving it slightly shaky so that it is obvious that he is not feeling well and is tripping. He walks to wards another lane, now is away from his mother (the other actor). There we shot him walking towards the fish stall, we took one of his shots walking towards the stall, then i held the camera  froma very low angle showing buckets of shrimps and fish on the ground while his legs appear in the frame, shaking. Next he's shot as nserts appear of the fish stall, and he's turns back to throw up. Then I moved to the other side showing him about to throw up and then walking along the road where he almost ram's into a car. We took the same shot from another angle which was such that someone's from inside the car would see. I had to sit on the car and take this shot. Last scene was that just when the car is about to hit him he faints and a another charactrs appear's in the frame as an ordinary man in the market who hold onto him. However, before the fish stall. we show him at the meat chiken stall where he feels very sch as the butcher chops chicken but we did not have to shoot that since we are using that scene from the previous shoot.

ASSIGNMENT 3: SCENE DEVISIONING:

SCENE ONE: Empress market is shown on the screen, having a voice over of my character in the background. This shot will not exceed 3 seconds, it will allow the audience to be familiar with when this event is taking place and where it is taking place.

SCENE TWO: A car arrives and stop’s at the main gate of the market, reflection of the market shows on the car, so that even when the market doesn’t not really show in the frame, by the help of its reflection, It would make a point that whoever is in the car has come to visit the market.

SCENE THREE: The door of the car open’s and my character’s step out of the car shows in slow motion and then he is shown coming out of the car, giving him more screen time as he is introduced in order to portray him as the lead character.

SCENE FOUR:  My character is finally out of the car and he is shown in a way, having his appearance very visible, showing how he is a very weak and under confident looking child while within the same frame, in the back ground, his mother is shown, again having being shot in a way making her appearance obvious, that is of a very posh and over dominating person. (continuous voice over along with some diegetic sounds as well ).

SCENE FIVE: They start walking along the market, the boy looks around the market, he see’s all sorts of shops, he begins to enjoy until suddenly he sees the butcher store, where he sees the butcher harshly chopping fish and meat.

SCENE SIX: He turns his head to the other side, feeling disgusted and empowered by what he had seen, till he sees the fish stall, where the shop keeper lays down fish harshly on the tables and the other guy  flip’s and entire basket full of small fish into a bucket. He is astonished.

SCENE SEVEN: Now his sight catches another stall, where cloth is being dyed, and he sees the hot pot of colored boiling water with cloth being stirred inside with a huge wooden plank.

SCENE EIGHT: At the same store, he sees another man whipping bright red dyed cloth harshly against the wind in order to dry it out. (Slow motion).

SCENE NINE: Then he turns his head around n suddenly see’s chicken harshly flapping their feathers while a pigeon, out of the blue, flies across his face and he feels scared and claustrophobic.

SCENE TEN: He turns around his head again and again, keeps seeing things happening suddenly and keeps feeling restless until he gets very weak and his eyes role up.

SCENE ELEVEN: His mum hasn’t been noticing him at all, when she feels the sudden urge to turn back and look, which she does, and see’s her son dropped on the ground with people surrounding him.

THE END.

ABOUT ME:

Now that i'm a fresh media student, i have learnt a completely new way of observing things. Firstly, i chose media because i believe that in today's world, it is one of the strongest elements of entertainment and information, and i believe it is present every where around us even when we do not seem to notice it. I love it and i am enjoying it deeply and i have managed to learn a new thing each day. I feel it's another way, like art, to help and push your emotions and thoughts out in the most amazing and perfect way you could. It does require immense amount of work, but in the end, its all worth it.

I have noticed, now, ever since I have been a media student, and i actually study the topic in school, i have started to see any media text in a completely different way, compared to the way i did earlier on. I dont see as an audience, i observe as a film maker. It's a great feeling over all. I like knowing what i never knew, and i like not knowing because then i get to research more and it makes me stronger with my concepts. The stronger my concepts become, the wider my thinking span and ideas go.

Another thing i love about this subject, is how we actually get to shown exactly what we visualize, and our vision is never just perfect in any other way of showing it, whether its writing about it, speaking about it or painting, but to actually show it happen. Media is so vast, it is everything and anything that happen's around us. Whether its visual media or print media, we are completely over powered by it, and the more advanced the world is becoming as far as technology and modernization is concerned, the wider the scope of media is becoming. So i think, studying media in today's world will open many doors for me tomorrow.

I have been lucky to have great teachers for both theory and practical sections of media. Its great how they treat us less like students and more like friends or real film makers, in order to help us achieve the level of confidence we need by now. I feel motivated and more interested towards the topic and remain willing to put all my time and effort into it and even when im doing the most tiring assignment, every time i'm done, i feel a great amount of satisfaction and am always ready to take up the next challenge.

CONCEPT

The concept of my media product is simply, the story of a guy who had been locked up at home for six years, under the over dominance and empowerment of his mother with bitter emotions and a high level of practicality, even at times when it wasn't required. That treatment left the child under confident and weak. Obviously, when he felt no feeling of self actualization, how would he ever be able to act normal. And so she thought he was crazy, and rather than giving him the time he needed an the help he deserved, that's when he was locked up, under the thought that he wasn't worthy enough to be taken around. And now, six years later, she decides to finally take him out, and out of all the places in the world, she takes him to the famous over crowded, over happening, 'Empress Market' of Karachi. Well, six years back he wasn't crazy, but toady, who knows what he's become.

TREATMENT:

MEDIA STUDIES ASSIGNMENT 2 :  A treatment is done keeping in mind all visual aspects of a film, being aware of how to keep the camera just as we use our eye. The camera plays the role of an eye the entire time. It’s a true game of camera shots and camera angles taken within a period of time limits and thus, the film shoot is done from scene to scene. Keeping my film in mind, I plan to shoot my film in a way that the meaning, expressions and feel is conveyed just as I imagine it to. And in order to be able to do that, I need to be very visual and careful towards the camera shots I take since my film relies on these shots completely.  My film will be shot at the famous Empress Market of Karachi. In order to show the ‘when and where’ aspect, I will start with an establishing shot of the market which will last for not more than 3 seconds. Next, I would take the shot of a car stopping at the main gate of the market, the camera turns to the ground, taking the shot of my character’s foot stepping out of the car and then it would be followed by a mid shot of the boy, who’s my lead, as he looks towards the market where he is entering for the very first time. This mid shot will enable the audience to notice the physical appearance of the boy, who will be shown as a very weak and over powdered kind of person under the dominance of his mother who would be shown by the help of a long shot showing her posture and physical appearance that would enable my audience to recognize her as the person who is very dominant and is likely to be the reason why her son seems to be so under confident. This concept will become more obvious later within the start credit, but it would help to give the audience an idea of the concept and story behind the scene.  Followed by that, I mid shot of the guy will be taken as he looks towards the market and then scene will be cut to the next scene where the camera becomes the boy’s eye and a long shot of the market will be taken for not more than a second. And so they start walking. Now the camera is behind the boy and his mother taking their mid shot along with taking a master shot of the entire scene when the walk along the area crossing the hip and happening shops of the overcrowded market. Now the camera becomes the boys eye again. He turns his head around often, looking at the things happening all over the place. Keeping in mind that I have to show that the guy isn’t comfortable with everything happening and he feels weak and odd and disturbed, I will take intense close ups of the boy’s expressions along with the activities happening around.  I will do this by the help of Inserts. An insert is a quick shot of an activity, regardless of having characters within the frame. So the guy turn’s his head, he see’s a butcher chopping meat, close up taken, not more than a second. He turns his head the other way, he see’s chicken flapping their feathers restlessly, another close up of this scene, again for at least a second. Then I’d show him through a mid shot, making his expression evident, showing he’s feeling stressed and awkward. Then again id take another master shot of the shops, being the boy’s eye, but things will start to show slightly blur in order to give an expression of the  guy feeling dizzy.  And then the boy turn’s again towards a particular store, that is a store where cloth is dyed. Id take a close ups of the pot in which they boil hot colored water in which the dye cloth stirring it with a huge wooden plank. And then I’d take a long shot of another man in the same store whipping wet bright red cloth harshly in order to get it dried off. And id take another close up of the guy where he’s continuously looking weaker and as if he’s feeling loss of breath. This process of scene to scene, shot by shot will be taken within quick seconds, however I’d be using slow motion a little in between in order to give the feel. Then again id keep taking short inserts of all activities within the market, like men spitting out ‘pan’ and other things that usually happen in our markets along with which I’d keep taking close ups and mid shots of the guy. Coming to the end, I’d take a low angle shot of the guy with the sun showing it the camera right on top of his head and showing his weak and clumsy posture. And then I’d take an extreme close up of the guy’s eyes showing them slowly rolling up.  Now the camera is the guy’s eye again and slowly the camera drifts away going from the sight of the markets towards of the sky leaving the frame empty and giving the imagine as if he’s fainting and his eyes are slowly rolling up. Next I’d take a mid shot of his mother who’s turn back to take a look at what’s happened behind her back and the camera become’s the mother eye and she see’s her son dropped down to the ground with people gathered around him, everything become’s quiet, and the start credit ends.  By: Sakina Ali

SYNOPSIS

 Arham is an under confident lonesome and emotionally weak boy, and the main reason for such behavior is his over practical and inconsiderate natured mother. All his life, he stayed under her dominance which lead to his vanishing self pride and belief till one fine day, his mother decides to never let him get out of the house as she thinks he's incapable of showing good and over 'posh' social skills that she expects from him. In short, she thinks he's crazy. Arham remains locked up for six years. As these years pass, he is a grown up now, but only physically, emotionally, he has a heart of a child. This is because when he needed love and care, he was locked, and now, when he's finished on the inside, his mother finally decides to take him out. And so they enter the famous 'Empress Market' of Karachi.
Being over crowded, noisy and extremely happening has always been seen as the components of its personality. To the world, it might be amusing, but as slowly they enter, it doesn't seem quite amusing the way Arham sees it. They keep walking, till now things are normal, he's still slightly alien to what ever is happening, mainly because of his six years' experience. But things do not take time to scare him. As they walk along the narrow congested streets, he turns his face around, somewhere seeing men weighing vegetables, flapping them harshly, scaring off the flies resting on them, while on the other hand he sees people spitting out the so called 'pan'. He feels disgusted and sick. But he's still walking, having the mother walk way ahead of him, not caring where he is, or how he's feeling. He keep's seeing things until he crosses the fish stall. Slimy dead fish laying on top of each other, while the stall man keeps staking more over them, creating the sound of their wet texture being clapped together. Shrimps shifted from huge baskets into ice water, splashing is all over, that smell, that agony, he feels it all, not knowing what comes next.
And so he walks, feeling weaker in the knees, so many people around him. He's pushed as they walk. Some step on his feet, some bang their shoulders against his. His palms and forehead begin to sweat. His shoulders feel heavy. It seems as if life is slowly extracted out of his body. More images, more noises, more weakness.
And just then he hears the sound of someone chopping meat. That sound of metal against hard wood and that piercing flesh, it really gets to him. He turns and so he sees. Just what he thought. Meat being chopped, chickens flapping their feathers, their painful cries, the butcher's guilt less eyes. He moves back out of shock and disgust. looking at the hens in their cages walking around, not knowing whats happening just on top of those cages, that feeling of not knowing what comes next frightens him. It's like he relates to them. He's disturbed to all levels. He moves a step back, breathing heavy, feeling dizzy, while a car behind him honks without a stop, but slowly, his eyes roll and next thing you know, he fall's to the ground, people surround, but how sad for him, before his eyes close, he see's all sorts of faces, but his mother appears nowhere.

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