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.

Location Pictures

CHARACTER PROFILING

This is a midshot of my actor, showing him from head to torso, allowing the camera to capture his posture and expression closely. Such a shot is usually taken when the actors action is to be shown, e.g, while being in conversation with another person, this shot is more appropriate. Also, as you can see, it very clearly establishes the actor's physical appearance. In reference to my actor, it is but visible that he is weak and thin looking, having a pail complexion and a rough hair do followed my a stubble on his face and his droopy shoulders. The appearance plays an important part into the character's personality.

This is another midshot, taken from the right side, showing his side profile, again, establishing his facial expression along with his face structure, complexion, how he's worn his hair and his neck to shoulder posture.

This is a long shot of the character, clearly showing him from head to toe, that enables us to see how he's dressed, that is, his type of clothing, style, how he's standing, what action he portrays and also partly his surrounding, that actually forms this long shot to a wide angle long shot. As shown, this shot tells us most about the character's posture, body structure, and entire physical appearance, exculding his facial expression, since that is established by a close up, not by a long shot.

This is a close up, since it allows us to observe the character's face structure and facial expressions very closely, establishing all his features like his eyes and nose etc. I made him smile in order to be able to capture some sort of feeling so the purpose of this shot is understandable.

This is another close up. again, establishing his face structure, expression, that allows to convey feelings and thoughts that the character delivers.

This is an over the shoulder shot that shows the chracters side profie from the back, usually taken at times when the character's in conversation with another or if he's looking at something that is important to be shown within the frame in order to allow the viewer to understand the action reaction, and the relation between the character with whatever else is in the frame that he has his front to.

This is another over the shoulder shot, showing a little more of his face, establishing the same feel as written above.

This a mis shot taken from the side, showing him from head to torso, but from his lef side, showing his posture and appearance along with action.

STORY BOARD

SHOT DIVISIONING

SCENE DEVISIONING

Description:  screen goes black. (voice over)  As the dialogue ends the famous Empres Market appears on the screen.

Dialogue: “I thought having a “boy” as a child was supposed to be a special thing, wonder why Ma thinks its not, or does she? Well, shes hard to reach, and I don’t have the strength to ask her…….

Description: The market street and on the ground, two shadows appear, one of a boy and one of a women, having the womans shadow of the women is more prominent. Foot steps of people in the market are shown following different paths sslowly going up towards the heavily crowded look of the market. The mother is sshown argueing with the vegetable shop keeper.

Dialogues (mother): “bhai ye tho app ahi nahi kerahe na, aap sahi daam lagayen tho he hum apke pass dobara ayenge.

(vegetable man): baji ye tho subha subha ek dum fresh sabziyan laya hun, aap kya baat kar rahi hain.

(mother): bhai ye apne sahi nahi kiya!

Mother pays to shopkeeper

(mother to Arham): here hold my bag.

Mother hands her bag over to Arham (her son) who’s standing behind her, aroused by the happenings of the market and he quietly takes the bag.

Translation (mother): Brother this isn’t right, please put a reasonable price, only then I will come to your shop again.

(vegetable man): sister I got these vegetables freshly in the morning, what are you talking about.

(mother): brother this is unfair.

Description: the market is shown as Arham sees it and followed by that his face appears scanning the entire scenario. And so they start walking along the street. He turn’s his head right, see’s shop keepers weighing fruits and vegetables, and to left, where he see’s sugar cane being crushed, followed by all other things that appear into his vision. As he keeps walking, the scenario tends to change. (diegetic sounds appear on a constant pace). He keeps walking following his mother, and he sees all sorts of different things happening until at one point, what he sees starts to disturb him. His eyes catch the fish stall where he can see the man flapping fish on top of one another, stacking them up. All sizes, all textures, and his partner shifting small shrimps from one basket into another. He feels disgusted until he turns his head the other side and she bright red cloth in air as another shop keeper whips it in the air. He feels breathless ass it comes as a surprise. (Dialogues and diegetic sounds along with the back ground music appear on a constant pase).

Things keep coming to him as a surprise within seconds and he keeps loosing breath, feeling claustrophobic. He looks around trying to spot his mother who’s busy bargaining around and does not care enough to turn back and take a look at him. Next he sees the meat stall. The butcher harshly chops meat, while chicken heads and claws are carelessly scattered on the table, but nothing stops the butcher. An ordinary job seems so disturbing to Arham.And his forehead starts to sweat, arms feel heavy, till everything goes blur and slow. Arham falls to the ground, people gather, and now, his mother decides to turn and look. (Opening credit ends).

TIME: Day

CHARACTERS: Arham (lead), Mother, Shop keepers, People in the market.