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.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Preliminary Exercises:
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):
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.
Friday, January 22, 2016
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.
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