Final Movie 'These two'

Shot list

Shot list

Scene	Shot	Camera movement	Location	Action/Dialogue
1	Close up	No movement	Hammad’s room	Hammad turns over and drops he alarm clock after it starts ringing
2	Close up	Hand held	Karar’s room	Karar is shown waking up
3	Mid and wide shot	Hand held	Karar’s room	Karar wakes up and fixes his disheveled hair while getting out of the bed
4	Mid shot	Hand held	Karar’s room	Karar walks toward his bathroom.
5	Close up	Hand held	Karar’s room	Karar shut the door of his bathroom
6	Mid shot/High angle	Steady cam	Hammad’s room	Hammad opens the cupboard
7	Long shot of Hammad and Mid shot of Karar	Steady cam and Handheld. In Karar’s shot the camera pans in closer to the subject	Hammad’s room and Karar’s Bathroom	Hammad buttons up his shirt and fixes his disheveled hair while Karar fixes his hair, uses perfume and wears a watch.
8	Close up of Karar	Hand held	Karar’s bathroom	Karar picks up his cell phones
9	Close up of cell phone	Hand held	Karar’s bathroom	Karar checks his cell phone
10	Close up	Hand held and steady cam	Karar’s bathroom	Karar puts his phone in the bathroom and Hammad picks up the file.
11	Long shot	Hand held and steady cam	Hammad’s room and Karar’s Bathroom	Karar leaves the bathroom and Hammad leaves the room.

Location of Karar's Shots

Below is the location of the shots of Karar's. As compared to previous location, this is more appealing and elaborated and the room perfectly suits the personality of our second charcter.

The venue used for Karar's shot is again Arif's house.

Storyboard and characters

Characters

Starring:

Hammad:

A loner who begins his morning routine anticipating a dull and boring day in his new college. 

Karar 

A popular and a rich boy who dresses up excitedly for his first day in his new college

Central idea:

Both boys from different social background and groups clash in a single college.

Premiere of the first version and adding another character

Above is the video which shows a morning routine of one character. However on Viewing this movie in premiere which was held in our school, we realized that students found it too slow and dull.



Therefore to add in some changes, we decided to show the morning routine of two characters instead of one. therefore the next character in our movie is Karar to whom we will show rich and dominating as compared to Hammad.


Therefore we made the storyboard and started our shoot. Most of the shots of Karar were handheld as are shown in various drama opening sequence.

Plot of the final Opening title

Plot:
This movie is about a man named Hammad who lived a monotonous life to please everyone around him. Recent circumstances come up that angers everyone he knows and drives them away from him. This is about his journey from isolation to self actualization and how he seeks for his own desires and solicitation after he is fired from his job and deserted by the woman he loves.

Cast
An A level student named Hammad Haroon Khan

Location
Arif Zaheer's House

Research and survey

Here we moved on to the next step by surveying our audience. the genre we finally decided on was drama and we wanted to see how will our target audience respond to it. We are making a movie in which we are representing teenager. We used survey monkey to make an online survey's as we thought that the people will prefer filling in surveys online rather than on paper. Also compiling and tabulating results would also become easy. Most of the A levels students have filled in the online survey and we have received around 50 responses.

 Below are the fixed choice and open ended questions used and the answers we received.

Schedule

This the shooting schedule we planned on for our final movie. 

The Shooting Schedule :- 

01:00:00 PM	:00	Reach at my house.
	:15	Set up the equipment and the props in the room.
	:30	-
	:45	-
02:00:00 PM	:00	Finalizing the mise-en-sene.
	:15	-
	:30	-
	:45	-
03:00:00 PM	:00	-
	:15	-
	:30	Set up the camera and the tripod.
	:45	-
04:00:00 PM	:00	Begin Shooting.
	:15	(Target for the first scene) Alarm clock scene.
	:30	Shower scene commences.
	:45	End scene (mirror scene).
05:00:00 PM	:00	-
	:15	Break
	:30	-
	:45	-
06:00:00 PM	:00	-
	:15	Flash back shots (computer scene)
	:30	Flash back shot (Fired from the job scene)
	:45	Rechecking and taking spare shots just in case. Ending the shoot.

Mind map and first cut of the movie

List of opening titles of drama genres watched movies watched

Below are the list of opening titles I have seen to get an idea of how a drama movies starts

• The curious case of Benjamin Button 

 

• The Boys are Back

 

• Is anybody there?

 

• An education

• Fish Tank

• Imagine me and you

• An Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind

• Miss Potter

 

• Revolutionary Road

Our movie budget and list of softwares used.

S.No	List OF requirements	Cost per object	Number of objects	Total cost/Rs	Use
1	Mini  DV	300	2	600	For the Handycam
2	DVD  - R	100	1	100	To keep backup of final and preliminary video
3	Photocopy of Questionnaire	2	250	500	For the questionnaire’s to be distributed amongst the students
	Total Cost			1200

List of equipments and software’s used

Adobe after effects CS4

Sony Vegas Pro 9.0

Adobe Premier CS4

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Canon cyber shot camera

Tripod

JVC handy cam SD

Garage band

Xilisoft Media converter

Analysis of movie (genre:drama) 3

Camera angle, movement and shots.
The movie begins with the close up of the main character waking up. The shots used through the sequence are closeups, mid shots, long shots and high angle shots and wide shots are used. also a point of view shot is shown in the very beginning when the subject looks at the window after waking up. Camera  movements are shaky and handheld. A rule of third is also followed when the subject wakes up, keeping his face in the center and on the top of the frame. Mid shots are used when the protagonist he looks at  the dent of his car. A closeup of a thank you note is also shown which the protagonist writes to be sarcastic.

Another point of view shot used of the people sitting inside the train looking out of the window. The camera moves and stops as the train stops, keeping the protagonist in the middle of a frame. A wide shot is used here. A long shot of him running is shown when he realizes that he is on a wrong platform. Panning is shown when he is seated inside the train and looks out the window. High angle shots are also shown of the protagonist running over the bridge to reach to the other side of the platform. Focus pulls are also used at some places

Editing:
Action match and graphic match is shown throughout the sequence. The opening title show a morning routine of one person with no other inserts of other shots. In many places long takes are used. No transition effects are used and the editing here is quite simple. However in the first part of the sequence, there seems to be a blue filter on the shots that make the appearance dull and thus connotes gloominess and loneliness.

Sound:
We hear a diegetic music that woke the subject up and also a non diegetic music played very softly in the background. This shows that the situation is very serious and depressing.We also hear the voice over of the subject and no dialogues are used in this opening sequence. The slow music starts when he looks at the window.

Mise en scene:

The movie starts in the dark apartment of the protagonist showing less space and a sofa which can be converted into the bed. The location emphasizes the gloominess The room has the basic furnitures The attire the protagonist is wearing looks kind of disheveled along with his appearance which shows that he doesn't really cares about how he looks and his life is passing through a complicated phrase.

Storyboard of Journey to Hammad

Above is the storyboard of our movie Journey to Hammad. 

Poster made with Photoshop

On the Left side is the poster which I made for the documentary on media studies.This has been made in adobe Photoshop. In this poster I have used non-copyright images from http://www.sxc.hu/. After removing their background and other unnecessary elements using magic tool, I repositioned them on the page. The size of the canvas is 900x1300. All pictures were desaturated and a slight purplish color was given to the lights. Than I added the text and used spotlight effect form render tools. This is how the  final poster looks like. 

Location finalized

Despite the diatance issue, we decided that Arif's House will be more suitable for the shooting as his Decor and the arrangement of his room is more suitable for the movie we are about to make

This is the room we used to shoot the experimental opening title of a comedy and suspense genre. 

Below are the shots of the location we used for our final movie. 

We show the protagonist waking up and moving about to get ready for an unpleasant day. we make the mis en scene gloomy by by using window lights and shadows. We chose this room as it seems more masculine and there is adequate space to connote loneliness and failure due to less furnitures.

Institution changed: BBC production

Since our movie is more simple and is made to attract teenager and middle aged audience, we thought that BBC films will be more appropriate institution for our final movie. Most of the movies made by BBC films have been more meaningful and generally convey a message and represent more realistic matters in the society to educate and at the same time entertain its potential audience.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/79946/British-Broadcasting-Corporation-BBC

Below are the samples of the two Logos that we can use in our opening titles

Logo of our final movie

To make the opening title look more original, we made our own production house name. Constructing a logo was equally essential. After doodling and drawings one of our team mate Arif came up with an idea of making a square logo. Four sides and edges represented all the four team members in our group.

From the basic shapes in Adobe Illustrator, to adding filters and blending colors in it, this was the final shape we chose. The four different colors merging into each other show our individual  and completely different perspectives and thoughts combine together to form an even better and reformed idea and all the lines linked symbolize the unity in our group. . 

The name of our production house is AFAS. This name was made using the innitials of our names where S stands for Sama, F stands for Fatmah and two A's stand for Arif and Arika that is my name.

Than we came up with an idea of making this logo tumbling on to the screen and than the name of our production house appearing. This was achieved on after effects where we made this shape rotate on to screen and than stopping in  the middle Than the name of our production house appears just after the shape stops using Fade effect on the text. We plan to add sound effects on this logo too. The duration of this clip is 5 seconds. To make it look more professional, we used a lens flare effect moving on two sides forming an L. This showed that the logo shines after stopping due to the light.