Final idea of the movie

After switching our genre from a comedy to a drama, we came up with the script and the storyboard of the movie. Our latest idea is of a man who wakes up and goes about his morning routine. However here the morning routine is more slower and depressed and it is to represent how sad and gloomy the protagonist is. The mis-en-scene is more posh and of a person with modest income and here we show that overnight things changed drastically for him. Below is the storyboard of our final movie.

Another idea was an attempt to another comedy and suspense opening title where we show the main character tied up in a girls bedroom and we showing him waking up all confused. A doll is positioned near his feet's which has a recording in which the kidnapper tries to blackmail him. We make it look like an amateur attempt by a girl to tie up the character for some long lost vengeance. However after taking the shots of that movie and of our slower morning routine we chose the morning routine as the lights and the shots were comparatively better. 

Shooting second day

We took a couple of shots of Fatmah getting ready for her school today. The shots are of her quickly packing up and wearing her jacket and shoes and few shots of her quickly trying to eat her breakfast. We have taken mid shots and close ups of her getting ready in hurry and in a comical way. We are to still take shots of Fatmah waking up late, then hurrying outside to quickly gobble up her breakfast and than rush down the stairs. We changed the direction of the beds because the light did not appear that good and we had to show the morning routine so we had to use a dark room or a room with only light coming from the window. However we show that after she comes out of the bathroom she turns on the light before packing up for her school. The switch outlet shown on camera is of bathroom lights but we show Fatmah turning on the lights and than another person off the camera turns on the bedroom lights in a sync.The dark room along with the light coming through the blind did not give out that good light quality in the video that is why we had to turn on the room lights. Lights coming from the window was too bright and overshadowed the subjects face and expressions.

Shooting first day

On our first day we did not do much shooting. We just choreographed the whole act and than tested the lights and effects by taking a couple of test shots. The beds were arranged facing the door and it did not give out that good lights. We shot the first scene when the main character wakes up and realizes that she is late. The props here we used were; a stuffed doll, red comforter and shoes lying on the floor. the character is suppose to tumble off due to those shoes while rushing into the bathroom. The character is bare feet, wearing a pink night shirt with pajamas and has open and messed up hair to show that she just rolled out of the bed. The props here used describe the main protagonist's  personality as they along with the room's decor are more feminine and project and give the character of being very dainty and girlish and she also sleeps with the stuffed doll. Shoes scattered around are to show that she is usually disorganized and careless as well. When she realizes that she is late she raucously and in rapid movements dresses up which projects a wholly different mood of the video. Here we are to show her fast, reckless and less feminine and more untidy and this element is what will add humor to this scene e.g instead of looking for her lost toothbrush, she will finger brush her teeth.

Location

Now since we all have a script therefore now we have to do is finalize a location before shooting. Fatmah's and Arif's homes are a good one hour drive and entirely in different directions therefore we thought it would be more convenient for us to shoot at Sama or my place than for us to drive there. This narrows down to Sama and my house. I thought Sama's house would be a better choice due to the arrangement of the rooms and also her bedroom has blue and white furnitures which may portray the personality well of our main character. On the left side is the picture of the hall way from the kitchen entrance. From here we can see the entrance to the bedroom on the very end. The bedroom entrance is beside the brown sofa.

Since our movie will consist of scenes in kitchen therefore I have taken couple of shot of my home kitchen to see if there is enough space to shoot a video properly.  From here we can see a corridor that leads to an exit door.

 This is a shot of the kitchen from the corridor leading to an exit. Here on the right we can also see another entrance to the hall or the drawing room

This is the shots of my bedroom. The first one is from the doorway outside the hall  The main idea is to seek as much of space as possible to make a good movie

This the flip side which is not visible form the above photo.












This shot consists of the doorway form where we enter the main hall

From a suspense to a drama

Our third attempt at making a script did not go well. We found out that our other class fellows are doing suspense films as well and were afraid that all our projects might turn out too similar which we want to avoid. So now we are left with Drama or Comedy as genres. Today we came up with another idea where we can show comedy and drama. We can show the morning routine of a person who wakes up late and leaves his house. On the right is what we planned.

We will show a person who is woken up by either an alarm or by a phone call. For a comedy and drama we can show him dressing up hastily as if he is late for an appointment and we can emphasize on his apparent distress and his life going through a complicated phase by emphasizing on his messy house. He is also unable to locate his toiletries and other things he needs in order to get ready and they turn up in unlikely places which shows that he is in a habit of waking up late and is very disorganized and messy. 

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Above are the possible list of names we have come up with. The movie we want to make is a lighthearted comedy. By showing an ordinary routine and using a random but a very unexpected name, we want to define the character yet work up some anticipation in the audience. The list of characters, storyboard, treatment is yet to come as now we have to make sure that there are no flaws or any issues that might force us to abandon yet another project.

How we made it simple for ourselves

Facebook is a social networking site, which is very common amongst the youth and adults nowadays.  And to stay in touch me and my group members made a group on Facebook where we can carry on with our group ideas and discussions instead of waiting for the next class. Discussing ideas via cell phone text messages also turned out to be inconvenient and so with Facebook we can also share useful links, ideas and pictures.

Another kind of technology we used for our media work!