Evaluation 4: How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

Evaluation 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Evaluation 2:How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

Evaluation 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

Editing :

My coworker on this project is done with the editing of our project. The soft wares that he used were Adobe Premier Pro and Windows Movie Maker . And we also finalized the song which was also added in the same editing phase.

Production Phase (Shoot Day):

Obviously it’s a hectic job, but actually working as a director and writer on a particular project has been a great experience for me . On the day of  shoot the crew arrived the producer with the cast and other related resources. I had the story board with me and by following its cuts I shot the video accordingly. 

There were no hurdles in my way to complete the shooting .However it was obviously very depressing when we had to change the locations and the dates of few shoots because of unpredictable weather conditions or the security reason. As the weather wasn’t allowing us to shoot because of fog but one day when weather was normal me and my team mate decided to shoot. We went to the locations we decided and shot the scenes according to the storyboard we made. As we are not professionals so we had one DSLR-the digital single lens reflex. It was a single camera production so we had a little problem in shooting because we had to shoot several scenes twice or maybe trice to get the perfect shots. Story board help us to shoot a lot of scenes in less time in order to make my efforts successful I had a good support from my team make. The producer-Mr. Asad Ali   made sure that every thing on set was available which necessary .He was knows how to make the cast comfortable and made sure that the cast works properly.

The story was very well written by me as I defined my role as the director of photography and the writer. As I was the writer and the director I explained the whole idea and the story to my colleague Asad. It took less time to write the screen play and to draw the story board. Asad helped me during the shooting by telling the techniques about cinematography. Now I have the final footage of my video –my friend Mr. Asad Ali is working on it. He is working very hard to edit the movie. 

TITLES:

The production company name :SID PRODUCTIONS

      ASAD ALI FILMS

Directed by: Roshaney Asif

Written by: Roshaney Asif

Film Editing: Asad Ali

Produced by: Asad Ali

Song title/soundtrack:Parade De La Bastille  by A.R.Rehman from the movie  "Tamasha"

Main title: The Journey

Locations:

As my co worker was handling the production so following locations were finalized by him.

LOCATIONS :

Storyboard:

Screen Play:

DETAILS:

Tittles appear (Production house)

Titles fade out

Fade in

External-the roads of the city

There is only one scene with a lot of cuts

SCREEN PLAY:

(Interior of a room out of focus and keys placed on the table in focus)

Cut1:

A person comes and pick up the keys and goes out of the door.

Cut 2:

The camera captures the mid-long shot of the actor while he is sitting in the car and closes the door of the car.

Cut 3:

There is a close up of the keys in hands while the main character is starting the car.

Cut 4:

The camera shows the extreme long shot of the car while going on the road.

Cut 5:

Car move on the road while the camera captures the Extreme long shot of the place.

Cut 6:

Mid close up of hands on steering while driving

Cut 7:

The interior of the car is shown in different shots and point of view of the driver while driving is shown in this cut.

Cut 8:

The camera pans towards left. And then tilts downwards to show the building and the again the camera tilts upwards

Cut 9:

Different parts of the city including markets, buildings, shops, people passing by in track shot while the car is on the go. Including some long shots and the extreme long shots.

Cut 10:

Point of view of the main lead while the camera shoes the mid close up of people who are cycling on canal road.

Cut 11:

The camera captures the point of view of the lead actor while he is driving.

Cut 12:

The camera screened the city cafe.

Cut 13:

The camera screens the extreme long shot of the car while moving and then pans leftwards and then tilts upwards.

Cut 14:

The camera takes the close up of the interior of the car.

Cut 15:

The camera pans leftwards while the car moves on.

Cut 16:

Point of view of the driver while driving on the road.

 Fade out

 Name of the film appears.

Final Idea :

So we finalized the initial  idea together (me and my coworker) on this project.I did a little bit changes in the final idea - I showed the journey around the city; showing the whole city-the city life also represented the life the guy on which our story is based ."The Journey" the tittle of film has a symbolic meaning-the journey of life .The film opening will show the journey of life of the guy  who is in the video(the driving person) The film opening will be about the journey and to cover this idea there will be a proper story board and other stuff as per the requirements of the project. 

Initial Idea:

As I am the creative head, of the Project “Film Opening”.I  gave many unique and exceptional ideas. But some of them were hard to shoot. while i was watching Fast and Furious i got an idea that a person is travelling around the city in his car.  While showing different part of the city in the opening and life around the city the sequence will be formed by joining different cuts from inside the car and from outside as well. The idea behind this film opening is to show the theme of the city while the person is on a journey in which the rest of the imaginary film will be shot and the Mis- en- scene showing his lifestyle.

Preliminary Exercises:

The 

First Exercise:

Before starting our project “Film Opening” I was bit nervous and stressed about the making and completion of it within the given time. Soon I composed myself and my mentor of Media Studies consoled me and helped me to learn about the camera techniques. She guided me how to execute camera movements like Pans and tilts. Moreover she used to give me the assignments for home to capture different shots and angle so that I get familiar with the camera techniques and shouldn’t be troubled of handling the camera. Gradually with this tactic of my instructor I became confident enough to handle camera. She made me put into practice all the basic shots like Extreme long shot/Master shot / Establishing shot, the Long shot and the Ariel shot, the low angle. This gave me a lot of confidence and I practiced all these shots on my family trip to Northern areas of Pakistan.

The second  

exercise:

The film(project):

   

The link of the blog 

film(project):

http://myroshjay96.blogspot.com/

Before attempting the film opening project I decided to take part in the film making competition, organized by Beacon house National University (BNU) under the title of Beacon house Film Festival 2015. The film festival required to make one short film of five to seven minutes maximum .The film festival offered five topics on which I had to make the film and presented five genres-I had to make a film keeping in mind the topic and the genre. The topic I chose was schools and society and the genre was drama. I decided to make this film with my batch companions. My team comprised of Rida Shafqat-the producer, Muhammad Ahmad who was the Director of photography. I offered my services as creative head, as I crafted the plot of the film and tried to present the story in an effective manner.  I also worked as a Director of Photography. We tried our level best to complete our film within a limited budget and available resources. The title of the film is “A Story of Two Girls”. A   story two girls is created   by the help of simple digital single lens reflex and the tripod stand. This film is a comment on the prevailing economic disparity in the society. The story is reflecting the different lifestyle of two girls of same age belonging to two different classes. In this film the difference is shown for example in their routine life, study pattern, games , their shopping preferences and above their educational institutions. It is shown that both girls studied in different school. They could not even shop at the same place. The rich went to mall to have a cup of coffee and the poor one went to ordinary shop to eat inexpensive ice cream. The whole film is shot in the Point of View shot-as the Point of View gave the more emotive message as compared to any other shot. We tried our level best that each scene is just right and conveys the message. The story line was notable. The most important objective to do this project was to familiarize myself with the camera techniques, blogs and other requirements like story boards. I made a blog which had all the information that how we created our film. This experience gave me confidence and assurance to attempt the project of Film Opening, for the International Examination.

Research:

As per the requirement of the course work of the Media Studies, I am assigned to make a project on film opening task; for this I need to enhance my perceptive regarding   the technicalities of the film. I decided to shoot my film .So to get an idea that how to shoot film I watched   many movies for the last few days and came across a lot of movies but the movies I wrote about the movies which I think are aesthetically   remarkable. I wrote about "Trance" 2013 by "Danny Boyle", "The Hunger Games"2012 by"Gary Ross" and "English Vinglish"2012 by "Gauri Shinde":

TRANCE 2013:

Trance” is a movie which contains suspense, drama and thrill. The film opens with variety of extreme close ups reflecting expectation and twists with a scene of London auction house.  Francisco Goya's 1798 masterpiece "Witches in the Air" was on auction, which was being robbed at gunpoint. Assistant auctioneer Simon is assigned to   guard the auction's most valuable painting “Witches in the Air"- to safety area. But he was encountered by the head robber Mr. Frank on his way to the auction house's basement vault.  Franck smacked Simon unconscious and grabs the painting but later on he discovers that the canvas has been cut from its frame. Trance has notable Mis-en-scene -The Mis-en-scene includes props, locations, the cast ……every thing was unflawed the Mis-en-scene is very attention-grabbing .Sounds added up the suspense .In this movie the shots are very smoothly joined together .The film had a lot of zoom ins, pans and tilts. And this movie just strike the heart of the spectator and the observer gets addicted to it.

The Hunger Games (2012):

The evil Capitol of the nation of Panem organized an evil game called “HUNGER GAMES” every year.  The Panem, forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. It is a competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. An older sister, Katniss Everdeen, willingly takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games. Katniss ready to fight under the guidance of her drunken mentor, former victor Haymitch Abernathy. She has to rely on her sharp instincts to fight against the highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives. This movie is spotlessly scripted. Analyzing the techniques of the film: Mis-en-scene is just noteworthy -everything was flawless. As far as the sounds were concerned the sound effects were used to enhance the effect of the scene in hunger games.. In this movie there are different shots and angles along with a lot of good panning and tilting camera movements and display of faultless camera shots. The element in the frame looks miraculous; it’s a “thumbs up” movie.

English Vinglish 2012:

 

The plot of the film revolves around a loving and sweet tempered housewife, who sacrifices her whole life for her family. She is often mocked by well educated husband and her daughter for her inability of speaking English. Her other attributes like her, devotion resourcefulness and open mindedness were marred only because of her inability of speaking English. On her trip to Manhattan she decides to enroll in an English Learners class and meets a host of new people who teaches her to value herself beyond the narrow perspective of her family. The story ends with a positive note that one should rely on ones traits and use it accordingly and maintain self respect. The script of this film is very emotive. Camera is intelligently used as the film opens with the series of shots reflecting the activity of the leading actress .The Mis-en-scene is just ideal; including their wardrobe, cast, lights, sounds the producer has done exceptional job. 

Film Opening Task-Introduction:

Hi, this is Roshaney Asif. I am student of A levels Media Studies. I made this blog for my project “Foundation Portfolio”-the film opening task .The Film opening task is the very first challenge I have to face .In Foundation Portfolio task I am playing the role of Director of Photography and  the writer and Asad Ali –one my class fellows is a part of my team. He is the producer and the editor of the film.