Institution for our final

The Institution we have chosen for our opening title is the Fox Entertainment group. It is an American Entertainment company that owns film studios, and terrestrial, cable and direct broadcast satellite television companies. It is a subsidiary of news corporation owned by the Rupert Murdoch. It is named after William Fox who originally created Fox film corporation.
20th century fox is one of the 6 leading American film studios.The company was founded on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck,Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.
List of movies made by 20th century fox in the year 2000 onwards is as follows:
Big Momma's House (2000) (co-production with Regency Enterprises) (and 2006 sequel)
X-Men (2000) (and its sequels in 2003 and 2006) (co-produced with Marvel)
Cast Away (2000)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Ice Age (2002) (co-production with Blue Sky Studios) (and 2006 sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) (distribution only) (co-production with Lucasfilm Ltd.)
X2: X-Men United (2003) (co-production with Marvel Enterprises)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Garfield: The Movie (2004) (upcoming sequel in 2006)
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004) (Announced sequel expected in summer 2007)
Robots (2005)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) (distribution only) (co-production with Lucasfilm Ltd.)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) (co-produced with Regency Enterprises)
Fantastic Four (2005) (co-production with Marvel Enterprises)
Walk the Line (2005)
Aquamarine (2006)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) (co-production with Marvel Entertainment)
The Sentinel (2006)
Big Momma's House 2 (2006) (co-production with Regency Enterprises)

The latest Scipt decided

Treatment

A man walks in – KIDNAPPER

(sounds of some rattling of wood, then see a girl trying to set her self free from the chair she is tied to)

Kidnapper- Young lady , its shooting time, haha, your dad must be missing you right?

The kidnapper, opens her mouth which was tied by a white cloth. As soon as the cloth is removed the girl starts screaming

Girl- You rascal, leave me, let me go. You will have to pay for this. You should be ashamed of calling yourself a human , My dad wont leave you. You are the most hideous creature....

The man Slaps her so hard that her chair fells down and she starts crying real hard. The girl fells down along with the chair, her hair all over her  face and her head now bleeding. The man opens her legs which are tied with the chair legs. The girls cries loudly and the man inserts the white cloth in her mouth again telling her  that she looks better this way. He then holds her by her hair and pulls her up sliding her across the room, her hands still tied . She kicks to get free and the man continues to forcefully take her into the dark.

Next shot we see smoky lights everywhere. The girl is sitting on another chair in a different room. There are two men in front of her chanting with each other as the girl slowely opens her eye.

Man1 – We need to get something at which her dad really gets provoked and pays

Man2- I don’t understand her dad, he knows the condition of his daughter and all he cares about is his own position and money , what amazes me is that ...

Girl- Where am I ? MOM , DAD, (cries) Moomm I need you , where are you , LET ME GO !

Man1- Hey baby , its shooting time

Man2  sets the tripod facing her and starts the shooting pointing his friend to get a side.

Girl starts to get hyper screaming ‘ Dad Dad please please, give them what they want please dad...”

The man comes and puts the knife across her neck and uses a transformed voice to say

Man1- She does not have much time

( we see this all from a camera screen where we cannot see the mans face and as soon as this sentence is completed the video is closed)

final prelim hopefully final this time

The shooting for this video continued a week long. I brought my lab coat  to school for a week, Arika borrowed the other one from a student. Since we could not get another one , our actor Afia Lateef was seen without a lab coat which broke the convention. We took permission from the lab incharge which we were granted. We decided the camera locations meanwhile the actors were also trained for what they have to do.I took my postition with the tripod on the table and Arika was investigating all of the process. We took high angle shots and then shots from different locations. To show how the beaker broke, we used a new beaker to show that it was a beaker with a acid which we deliberately chose to be blue to it is visible. We dropped the same blue liquid in a plastic bottle which was easy to trick the eye as it fell down real fast. We placed the broken beaker on the floor with the acid spilled to give the impression that it broke. During editing we added the sound of the glass breaking.
Sir Nadeem gave us permission to use his office for shooting but it was usually occupied. Shanze khan who was acting as a principal for us , was hardly available at the times we were free. We did the shooting of Shanzas dialogues separetly and those of Fatmahs seperately. Even the women who enters the room during the office scene was Arika as Fatmah was in her class that time.
This the newly edited video. I convinced my group members to edit it further and this is a way better video in my view. The sound is clearer, the colour diffrence in Fatimah's shots is impoved now. Though i notice the jumps and uncontinuety in it, and some unnecessary voices. I believe they can be ignored at the moment as we have our final video to work on and we learned from our mistakes  in the preliminary video.

The best part of this is the acting , and the continuation of Fatmah crying at the end. I hope You enjoy it

The treatment of the final decided movie.

estabilishing shot of the school. than the long shot of corridor. the alien teacher is a psychic who get visions. and has a bit of a vision problem himself. when he goes inside his classroom, he keeps slamming ointo the wall until someone guides him. in class we see celine deone outside window singing my hear will go on and the teacher taking attendance. when comming across celine deone he says three times she is no more

Harry confused but shrugges off and starts looking at ugly betty who tries to take out a stuck food from her teeth

later when celine walks out of the room an all time serial killer (dressed in black hood and holding a dager) kidnaps celine deone
next day the news comes that celine deone was found dead in schol parking lot. harrry even more confused

same episode with ugly betty when she is present in the class. hearing that she starts crying loudly that she is a wall flower and no one notices her. on that harry even more suspicious

a scene when harry sits next to (any character) during lunch hour
harry:: there is something wrong:
mummy:(silent) looks at harry
harry: believe me. the teacher acted strange. dont you think?
mummy shrugs
harry: i can smell it. how did celne vanished after he said she is no more? ut means he has a vision just like (a character in harry potter i dont remember. ill fill in later).
while harry is thinking, the mummy drops his lunch starts chassing a girl.

he looks i his magiv ball and finds serial killer doing something stupid. and than looking at betty's picture. harry immediately rushes to help

betty tied up when harry dramatically enters the room.
harry: stop before i do somethig you will regret!. killer stops
betty suddenly starts laughing hysterically. harry and killer look at her strangely.
betty: i just got a joke cousin it told me yesterday. anyway ..oh harry! thankgod you saved me! kill him. he caught me while i was taking a bath.
harry making a face: did you? shit i am so sorry.\
serial killer (shudders) yeah. so am i! (betty offended. ) kill him will you. he also called you a confused man who cannot becide between cho and ginny,
harry now offended: oh now you are so dead
serial killer oh no (white light of magic from the wand than the name of the movie.

Superhero Movie Part 1 of 8

In it we see names written with a glowing white text. the background is the tracing shot of a man in green and black textured skin. we see he has green hands , then we see a female hand with nailpolosh close the zib of his uniform and we realise someone is getting ready when we see him wearing the belt.
we see a man walking behind a yellow bus. the bus driver sees him and stops.

Scary Movie Opening Scene

The establishing shot is a distant shot of a house, then we see a stovelight and hear a phone ringing and the mise en scene shot shows a women in a white shirt get the phone and walk out of the kitchen . On the telephone a man asks her if she wants to have fun, he is trying to make friends with her and she gives him a positive response despite the fact that he is an anonymous caller. Through editing there is a fart sound produced.

 She tells him that she is making popcorn as she is about to  see a scary movie, and then they start discussing scary movies and he starts flirting with her telling her that he likes her voice.

We see her walk out of the kitchen as the popcorn is ready, and she locks the doors and windows. The person on the phone tells her that he is watching her at which she looks outside the window to her right and looks worried.

We are shown an outside view, in which we see a man wearing a skeleton mask shaking his head talking on the phone and holding a magazine which says "play with me" and has a picture of a nude girl.

The person on call tells that women that she has nice boobs and that he wants to see her naked. She tells him to turn to a certain page( he opens it) and then tell him to stop. We see that the popcorn is done and the women takes deep breaths and threatens the phone person that she will complain about him to her boyfriend who is black and will kick his ass. He describes the appearance of her boyfriend making him sound like a girl and then tells her to turn the porch lights on, which she does and suddenly we see a man in yellow silk clothes tied to a chair screaming for help. The women is scared and tells him that it is not her boyfriend out there. The man screams in a weird way and  she threatens to  call the cops, at which the man tells her to check the back door first. The girl runs towards the back door. We see her running through the house, the popcorn are almost ready, the girl looks through the glass and sees the pool empty. The bell rings and the girl becomes frightened and grabs a wooden rod  for safety and walks towards the door.

We are shown a close-up of the lock as she unlocks it. She opens it and without looking starts waving the rod in the air which hits the children what children? who fall on the floor in pain and she closes the door with a guilty look on her face. We see the wind blowing as we see her hair flying and she gives a frightened look in the camera. Then we see the masked man holding a knife in front of her and smiling at her. Then we see her look towards a table where there are knifes and other things including a banana. We see her grab the banana and run out toward the pool through the glass door, which she closes and hides in it.We see the curtain open and she runs away screaming towards the pool after the see the mask man behind her.unclear

We see two sign boards infont of the pool, one pointing to "death" one to "safety". He girl walks towards the death and we see by a distant shot the masked man behind her as she fells down on the grass.As she gets up we see that there is a white outline of her body in the grass where she fell.She stands up and runs and hides behind a tree , we see fog coming out of her mouth as she takes breath which shows that it is cold. We see her walk behind as the tracing shot of the camera follows her. Suddenly the masked man comes behind her and she runs for her life and as he pulls her back her clothes and up in separate pieces in his hand.

The grass showers open and the girl stops in a while and enjoys the shower touches her body in a seducing manner and sees the masked man and runs away screaming. He gets her and puts the knife in the girls left boob and a white transparent thing gets stuck in the knife at which the man stares. The girl runs away and goes on the road and starts waving to a car saying " dad" , that man doesnt stop the car and hits the girl and we see her flying up in the air.The man driving the car looks worried and we see a women rise up and ask him if he heard something at which the man says No and makes her head go down again. Then we are shown a shot of that naked girl on the road crying in pain.

Planning for the final video

This is the mind map i made for  my story. Instead of writing everything down i drew pictures to make it look attractive and understandable.

1. The teacher takes the attendance and at certain students’ names says "SHE IS NO MORE"and moves on to the next name

2. We see Celine Dion singing "My heart will go on" 

3.The teacher takes the attendance and that students name says "SHE IS NO MORE" and moves on to the next name

4. (Had to take opinion of my fellow class mates)??? Unclear?

5.The teacher takes the attendance and on that students name says "SHE IS NO MORE" and moves on to the next name

6. We show that Cinderella is being kidnapped by a certain someone.

7.The teacher takes the attendance and on a certain students name says "SHE IS NO MORE" and moves on to the next name

8. Harry Potter gets suspicious  PLEASE CHANGE ALL PROPER NAMES TO START WITH CAPS- Sama you better watch you capital letters.

9.Harry potter sees a murder in his magic ball of a boy X

10.The teacher takes the attendance and on that students name says "HE IS NO MORE"and moves on to the next name.

11.Ugly Betty is targeted                              

12. Harry potter reaches that place on time to save her.

Planning for the final video, Step 1

When our teacher told us we need to make opening titles this year, we started thinking about this project a great deal.

My friend Fatmah has been busy watching various opening titles on Youtube for ideas while i have been brainstorming content ideas with Arika. We jotted some rough points down so we do not forget what we came up with in our idea generation session.

Here’s what we have so far:

A zombie movie/ put titles on bandages\the incredible Hulk-enters stamping his feet- pause- name of actor playing Hulk please make all Hulk refs capital H as this is his name.

then the name of the cast as each in turn is beaten up by the Hulk

Hulk walks in, holds someone’s hair up, HAIR FONT ( persons name)

Ninja severely over acting , martial arts / facing ulk, hulk holds him upside down, zoom in hand-rotate, upright , screams his name ( comic show)

fairy hugging hulk from behind. -an aww scene *hearts*

diagogue-father daughter-

it from the adams family wife of hulk.

american solder- telling everyone to leave-hulk stapens door, dancing enters a class, students get crazy, scream, chairs fall etc CRAZY HILARIOUS

mping on soldier

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Spaceship lands in nisar shaheed park.night, caps on N and S please

extreme over acting

These were the rough points jotted down, The main idea behind these was that, in the start of the opening title we follow a zoom track of a bandage that zooms out to be shown hanging from the arm of a mummy. The bandage will have the name of the character on it. We see the mummy zoom out and fade away as the Hulk enters stamping his feet , shaking the ground , the scene pauses as the name of the hulk appears and then he walks towards the right and lifts a person up by his hair and we see the person’s name in a font made of hair. Then we see a Ninja performing stunts in front of the Hulk at which the Hulk gets angry and lifts him up in the air, in an upright position and the ninja screams his name which is shown in a comic view. Then we see a small fairy as she hugs the Hulk from behind and says "DADDY" and the dad lifts her up and kisses her. Then we hear a women screaming from behind who is a witch and supposedly the mother of the hulk. The Opening titles end when an American Soldier rudely tells all the other characters to end this and closes the door with a loud sound.

For the video I had in mind that we show a spaceship landing in a park and the lights go on and the audience get the impression that some aliens have landed. In the very next shot we will show that a teacher is teaching in a class where the children are sleeping and all these creatures enter the class. The children get crazy, pull their hair, demonstrate extreme over acting and run around like crazy, the teacher starts climbing tables and throwing the duster at the hulk which hits a kid, this will be a very funny shot.

and as the principal sees it, she faints !

This was the basic rough story about which Arika and I were very excited. We were about to start on our storyboard but we didn’t because our group member Arif who was away that week for a debate was not happy with the idea as he messaged that is : 

he is an equally important member of our group he had a right to be heard. The very next day we had a round table conference in which fellow group members Arif and Fatimah thought that this idea was too tough and too costly for us to deal with alone. There we reaslied that while Arika wanted to do a spoof, Fatmah wanted to do something which woulde educative for the audience and leave them with a message while Arif was interested in something that would fit in with the genre: suspense. I was a bit heart broken at that instant.

Arif suggested that we make a video on a day of a birthday child, and show his friends give him a surprise party. Arika wanted to try costumes etc.

After listening to this I combined all of those peoples’ interests and came up with a story idea where some very naughty children who when their grandfather comes to live with them, they scare him with a prank and as a result he gets a heart attack. This had enough breadth to fullfill everyone’s interests but did not have suspense so I rejected it again.

Today again Arif and Fatmah were absent from school. Arika and I started to use a chart paper to jot down our ideas. We came up with a suspense story  ( Arif’s desire) and a spoof ( we all wanted comedy). The story would have Celine Dion’s ( bad version) singing the song, Ugly Betty doing a fashion walk, Cinderella studying, Harry Potter studying etc. It is a story of a class where a teacher takes the attendance and consequently a child is missing on whose name the teacher says " is no more". At the end Harry Potter uses a magic ball to find out that the teacher is the murderer.

The poster for my preliminary video

I had to do a poster for class. The poster will advertise my prelim project. Since my prelim project is a comedy about a goofy lab assistant I looked at posters for films such as Patch Adams.  My target audience I think would be adolescents, so I chose the kind of colors adolescents might like- I looked at other media products this age group might like to get an idea about colors and fonts and the general feel of the poster. I felt the poster should look bright, cheerful and wacky- so I used the following elements:

I used Google images to download this 'notepad ' image:

In this the transparent effect I achieved by using Adobe Photoshop.

The original picture was

Then I messed around with it, used numerous effects, which are not really prominent but do contribute to the overall impact. It was a good, fun experience. This shot for this picture was my idea originally , I had thought of placing all the characters together. The type of picture I actually wanted to use was this:

This turned out to be a pretty good picture but I was lost deciding how to edit it so I decided to stick to the previous chosen one. Though that did not show my partner Arika Dodani with the camera as this one did.

Meanwhile I also thought about what posters are meant to do- they are meant to attract audiences and to set up audience expectations about the film such as expectations about genre or what kind of pleasure the movie will offer.

The poster I finally came up with was as follows:

Adding a Google Gadget to your blog

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This is a video I just came across in recommendations when searching Youtube. I hope it helps me make the perfect blog.

preliminary video crazy assistant

This is the video we have come up so far. My friend Arika did most of  the shooting. As Arika and my other group members are really satisfied with this, I didn’t feel like telling them that I felt it still has some problems we can fix.

I feel that at '0:24' the zoom should be faster so Abeera’s dialogue seems continuous. Following that the different shot during that duration seems distracting. As the Principal’s and Assistant’s dialogues were shot at different times, the light is very different and the shots are not matching very well.

I will try to convince my group to give me a chance to try out a few changes plus I have some more shots in my flash drive which were not included in this edit so I think I can definitely improve this video.

I will show this to my teacher tomorrow and ask her advice.

4 Tips Every Blogger Should Know

When Our teacher told us that our midterm marks will include the marks for our blogs. I realised I need to further improve my blog so it does not affect my over all result.

I went onto Youtube and spent hours watching numerous videos about better Blogging. Most of these were a complete waste of time as people had posted videos about their personal life experiences and kept speaking about stuff, which I felt was too personal.  

This is a fun clip i  came across . The music attracted me towards it even when that window was minimised. I enjoyed having a look at it and it gave me some very useful tips and I learned that I need to stick to my topic and should respond to people’s views and opinions regarding my blog.

Analysis of my favourite titles.

We were fully aware that we needed to make opening titles as a part of our OCR requirement. The first video that came to my mind when I thought of opening titles was this one.  I always press the forward button to skip ahead of opening titles whenever I am watching a movie on DVD at home. The only time I actually read each and every credit and enjoyed the sequence was when I watched the closing titles of this Bollywood movie "Main hoon na"

 

Although this clip shows closing titles, I feel that it is a good idea to do something like this for our own opening titles. It would create a very good impression of the movie even before the audience watched it.

The mise en scene of these credits is set in a carnival/playground kind of environment with rides and games and every body is busy having fun. The names do not appear as graphic text on the video as is usually the case with Opening/closing titles, instead each crew/cast member has his name handwritten somewhere on the set and each staffer is highlighted by the camera as we are introduced to their names. There is a pleasant song playing in the background which delivers the message of a happy environment.

I recommend everyone to at least have a look at this song and I am sure my other teammates will also lean toward doing our opening titles in a similar light, joyful mood . The English translation of the lyrics of this song is as follows:

Second day of shooting for the Prelim video

We showed our teacher the footage we shot in the lab. We got a great boost of encouragement when she told us that she is really happy with our work. After showing our footage to the media teacher we started work on some more shooting. We approached the school  counselor, Mr. Nadeem  and requested him to grant us permission to use his office to shoot in. He let us have his office key, we locked the room from inside and started working. Selecting possible locations to place the camera.

We had to shoot the same shot again as our principal (Shanza khan) was too busy in her classes, and we had to place the camera quite a long distance from the subject so as to fit Shanza’s head in the frame. Most of the shots had to be retaken because of the noise and the students outside were making as some students were enjoying recess outside. We had to wait for the corridor outside to become quieter so we could continue.

Textual analysis practice

Our theory teacher gave us some sample answers and homework to do with some extracts that were provided to us. We were supposed to do a textual analysis at least a 1000 words long. 

The extract I choose was 'The Bill.'

I watched this clip many times with keen interest and came up with a textual analysis of more than a thousand words.

The link of the extract and my textual anaylsis is as shown.

The Bill - The forgotten child is the extract.

My textual analysis is as follows:

The clip begins with a man pointing a gun towards two people who are sitting on the floor leaning against a wall. We are shown all this a part of a  recap of the previous episode.  The two people on the floor are one male and one female. Next, we see a man telling the female on the floor that if she must get involved she has to do it in his way, and we see her screaming that she will not back off and what keeps her away is crime . Then we hear sirens and are shown huge buildings and people in black clothes with wireless attached to their belts. From their dress and the purposefulness of their gait they look very professional,  their jackets have the words “metropolitian police” written on them, and we see these policemen jogging in sync into a building that is labeled “Metropolitan Sunhill Station”. We see the Policemen in green jackets cordoning off a space with warning tape, and police men holding guns and also someone being arrested and handcuffed.

Then the serial starts and we are shown a top view of the building which is surrounded by policemen in green jackets and we see that it is some public place which has a *live football T.V* screen attached to one of the buildings, and a lot of traffic and a bus on the main road. Also on the road we see a police car entering and going into a the tunnel. From those Police cars we see many policemen getting out and we see the same lady who was shown talking in the recap previously, this time she joins another police officer and we now know for sure that she is a police officer who is in charge of some case here. The 2 police officers stop near a dead body of a cool teenaged girl which is lying against a steel fence  a man in blue uniform is on his knees beside her and his heavy voice starts commenting that the girl is around 15 or 16 in age he then points to her arm and we are shown a close shot of the bruises on her arm, he says that these are marks of self mutilation and that apart from these the girl’s arm has a butterfly tattoo and she is wearing a necklace with a pendant with the initial “k”. Soon we are shown a shot from below and we see the police officers turn their head and inform someone at the back that they have found her. Then the police officers repeat the information they heard from the man in the blue uniform, they sit down and the female police officer seems to recognize the victim from somewhere and then they  stand up and walk away to see what the female officer has to show. On her way the female officer joins the two policemen who were interviewing a man who is apparently the owner of the pub , she takes one of the policemen aside tells him to investigate properly.

Suddenly the mise en scene  changes and we are taken into a police station where we see the  two officers searching through files and looking at some pictures as they exchange some humorous dialogues amongst themselves and laugh at the picture of a girl called ‘Kief’ and create a mess of files and papers. T. The female officer finds the file with the name “ Kelly Kong, CRO-198743/07, souciting”, which contains a picture of the victim. The file contains the information that ‘Kelly Kong, brother King and lives in the jungle’. A copy of the picture is given to a female police officer who has blond hair who joins a male police officer very unclear. We are shown a view of what from the front of what and from another room , the camera looks though the gaps in the blinds into a room the police officers walk into as they talk and they join another man and walk up the stairs of the station  and discuss further on that  Again looks like you’re referring to something specific topic. The female office tells who some stuff  like that her whose last name was Arnold and that the victim died just before 5 that morning and that she had had sex and consumed drugs just before she died.

Next, we are taken to a new scene all of a sudden and we hear sirens and we see the blonde lady police officer (who was given the victim’s picture earlier ) walk towards a lady in green who is sitting with her back to the camera ,sits on her knees and address  women asking her if she  was okay ,as  the  man joins her.  The man introduces himself telling her who the signal manager told them about her that she was looking for her daughter too . She tells them about her daughter that she called her from a phone booth last night , her name “Kelly Potterfield” . After that the mother registered did a 1471 and that has been really worried for her daughter’s safery as her daughter had told her that someone was after her. The mother is shown the picture of her daughter, of which we are shown a close-up and the audience instantly recognizes that it’s the same girl who was shown dead at the crime scene at the start of the episode.

Then we see a new lady wearing a casual T-shirt , she takes the female police officer along with her into a room and shares some information about the mother. The two enter the room which seems like a waiting room which is very comfortable and has sunlight entering in  through the window which gives a warm and welcoming effect The room has yellow walls and posters displayed on it. On the comfortable sofa we see Kelly’s mother seated all tense and confused. She is told by the female police officer that they found a body this morning and they think it might have been Kelly.  Soon we see the mother end up in tears and the police officer tries to comfort her. The lady hides her face and continues to cry and we are shown a close up of her crying.

Throughout the extract the police staff has not been behaving very serious, they smile amongst themselves and they are shown kidding around. The females wear a lot of make up, they have their hair set very fashionably/beautifully and are wearing stylish and figure hugging clothes that make them look like models. The female  police in white uniform wears so much makeup that she looked like a fashion model as listens to the story of the mother on the road. The main police officers on duty laugh when they see the picture of a girl ‘kief’ when they were searching for the picture of Kelly , that joke at  that time looked inappropriate as they had a murder situation to tackle with.

The Police station looks like it could be any office of any organization, the walls are painted in bright colours like sky blue, the red floor on the stairs and the frames of colourful posters on the wall makes it look more like a advertising office than a police station.

Kelly’s mother didn’t react as the audience would expect her to when she was told about the death of her daughter. She did not give any sentimental comments like ‘you cannot leave me ‘ etc, she just says ‘No , Kelly’ and cries in a soft tone and hides her face. Hmm I’m not so sure about this last point- people even on tv in dramas act in different ways when they hear bad news so this is not different in the same way that the other factors you mentioned are.

My teacher was really impressed with this, though he found many mistakes. But he was really satisfied as it was our first attempt and he liked mine the best amongst the class, he even gave my example to the class.

After my teacher gave remarks on my work. I realised the weaknesses in my work.

So I started working to make my work stronger.

I went on Youtube and watched some videos which proved really helpful.

Here is one of the videos I found helpful: OCR media studies

Sama this is a nice first attempt- now you know a lot more about mise en scene so you should be able to do better. You should aim to write more clearly and you should maybe try putting in analysis along with description for example you could say, “the photograph of the victim is handed over to a blonde police officer, this officer is wearing a lot of makeup which looks unsuitable and inappropriate for a officer of the law, also her clothes are a little too tight and too fashionable. It seems like the Director is either challenging stereotypes about how policewomen should dress and make themselves up or he is trying to show them as sex objects.” Also, we expect police officers dealing with crimes such as murder to be very serious and maybe even a little depressed or angry, however, these officers have taken the situation very lightly and are joking around. I think the director did that because, he thought it would be more realistic, Maybe he wanted the police officers to seem insensitive and without feelings, hardhearted etc.

An example of such is OCR media studies

Re-editing of the script

Working further on that Principal and child script, we had a hard time editing it, my fellow group members and I realised that we were performing no miracles. All the students from our class ( other groups) had a very similar story or theme.

                    

Also, as the administration office is located near the playground, there was a lot of noise in our video and this made us look very disorganised. Though our teacher told us some of our shots were really good, she seemed disappointed with the sound quality and also with certain shots.

So we all decided to take the risk and start with a new script all over again. That night three members stayed up late, we had many, many different ideas in mind, the fact that we had to shoot in school helped weed out most of the options. Arika came up with the idea of showing a saas-bahoo ,  ( mother-in-law/daughter in law argument), which can be humourous topic. I suggested that we make the mother-in-law criticise her daughter in law about amount of salt in the food she cooked, I suggested we use the school kitchen. I also suggested that the mother-in-law would notice the daughter in law wearing expensive jewelry and then scream at her son for wasting money. On the other hand, Arika came up with the idea that we show that it is the son’s Parent-teacher-meeting which both daughter in law and her mother-in-law attends. But neither of these ideas became successful , because none of the people our age would resemble the mother-in-law or the daughter in law and that would make the video seem unrealistic. Secondly the school kitchen was too small and had bad lightening. We did make the story board and present it to our teacher , but she didn’t really like it too much as a topic. 
That Script was as follows:

Daughter in law with her son in a Parent-Teacher meeting. She hears her mother in law calling her.
Mother in law: Sarah stop it! Why in the world are you running? What are you doing here?
Wife: (shocked but recovering) uh what do you think I am doing? I wanted to search on the African zulu tribes in my sons parent teacher conference. (she laughs while they both look at her as if she has lost her mind. Bahu notices that no one is laughing at her joke) I was being funny
Mother in law: don’t sweat it my dear. People will end up getting in loony bin for just trying to figure you out 
Wife: (surprised) what are YOU doing here(and slightly irritated)
Mother in law: (in a sophisticated manner) I am here to support my boy (she grabs the other hand of the son. Son gives a fake smile)
Wife: (holding the other arm) he doesn’t needs your held thankyou not very much 
Son: ooouuw
(A secretary comes from behind)

Secretary:excuse me there is a meeting going on. Please have a seat n keep it quiet here..
Mother in law, Wife and son in a chorus: sorry
Next scene
Secretary showing Mother in law, wife and their son inside principal office.
Principal: ( on the phone) no no it is today. … .(pause) yes there would be no more meetings (she looks up distractedly) oh hello! You must be his… (she trails of and looks at them expectantly)
Wife: mom (she holds her sons arm)
Mother in law: (holding other hand in a death grip) Grand mom 
Son: (grumbling) ease of both of you
Principal: uhh good good. Please have a seat and please excuse me (in a hurry) I really need to take this call (walks out of the room). There are only three seats. Grand mom marches forward and sits down haughtily (I was a day away from being a principal. You know I can be more professional than her (she sneers at the mention of her) by attending the parents and telling the caller to buzz off. She examines her nails. Son and mom roll their eyes and take their seat.
Mother in law: That is because every time u laugh, it was as if you were talking and trying to swallow a truck engine at the same time.
Mother in law: Are you trying to joke again? 
Wife: no this time it was a complement
Mother in law: Watch it you sorry excuse of woman!! First you ruin my sons life now you misbehave with me!
Wife: Oh did I hurt you feelings! I am so sorry 
Mother in law: you should be !
Wife: I don’t specialize in dealing with pure evil 
Mother in law: how dare you!! My poor son! You made his life miserable. I regret that day when you trapped by son and started growing over me like a smelly fungus!
Mother in law: yeah even I regret that! I should have asked if his mother had some sort of personality disorder. Or maybe also send you to zoo along with your monkey! 
Son: Mom!
Grandmom: did you say disorder?? You’re the one who serves boiled eggs without actually boiling them!! And what about that pant you wear all the time with a kitty face drawn on your fat butt!! 
Wife: (getting agressive). If we are discussing disorder than let’s talk about u using razor to shave off your mustache 
Mother in law: you do that with your armpits! And….
Son: Cut it out both of you! Please give it a break you both are in my god damn school! 
Wife: sorry son. 
Mother in law: see how dare you ruin my young man’s day
Son: (warningly) grandmom! 
Grandmom: sorry (and she sits down brooding)
Principal: I am so sorry to make your wait. Seems like a happy family 
Son: (mumbling) you have no idea 
Wife: not a problem. Always ready to meet the two headed monster. (Mother in law and son look at her as if she has lost her mind. Principal shocked) 
Principal: I am sorry you called me a monster
Wife: no No . you are a principal, a head…. And …uh… u have a head…. And …. It was a joke 
Principal:…. Uhh…hahaha(fakes laugh) funny. Anyway you son is progressing well in his new class. Here are the reports. He is doing it really well in media, thinking skills! And …….(and the principal goes on)

We made a promise to ourselves , that we will make the best video in our class as we had taken a lot of time to come up with an idea already. 

My mom suggested the idea of showing a typical maid servant, so we can raise awareness of how tough life is for the working class people in our country. But when I discussed this idea with my group , we ended up making really good modifications to the idea and we came up with a script, which we all felt we could work with.

We had our whole script ready in our Facebook inboxes. We then got a print out of it. We all made the storyboards individually so we could choose the best one and came fully prepared to shoot the next day.

Next day, the shooting day was really memorable. After attendance we left the class. Fatimah Qayyum (our group member) wore my lab coat and a shawl on her head. Our friend Abeera also wore a labcoat. We had to ask permission from the lab assistant for shooting in the lab, he granted us the permission. Arika and I tested placing the cameras at different angles as there was sunlight coming in from a window and it was difficult deciding what locations cameras should be placed at while our actors went through the script and we explained to them what they have to do. During the lab assistant’s absence I stood up on the lab table , beside the chemicals (carefully so as not to break anything) and started shooting. We had a really tough scene in our video where the lab assistant drops a conical flask with chemical in it and it breaks.  We used ink water instead of chemical, a conical flask and a broken conical flask (that was already broken- we didn’t damage anything) and a transparent water bottle to give the impression of an object falling.

That turned out to be a successful sequence , but we created a lot of mess in the science lab so we mopped the floor up before we left the lab.

Practice making a video

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010

11/10/2010

At the start of class today , all my group mates gathered in class on time. We borrowed the school cameras from the admin office. The script was prepared the night before online in a joined conversation and we already had a hard copy with us. We handed the script to some senior students who were free at that moment and really liked the script and agreed to act for us.

We started shooting in the alley behind school, which is a quiet narrow corridor and borrowed some items such as a cap, a gown, school bags and a register. From some of the members of the other media studies students . Working in what is popularly called, “the back alley” was fun and the actors enjoyed it as well. When that part was done, I went to check and see if the principal’s office was not too busy- the Principal had given us permission to shoot in her office earlier, but only if she didn’t have guests visiting.

Since the Principal’s office was very busy with visitors streaming in and out I chose an alternative location and talked to our admin to see if we could borrow the admin office for a little while.

The person in admin informed me that the office had a lot of work and were busy, but I persuaded him that it wouldn’t take too long for us to finish up our shooting, so he agreed. That room was comparatively very small and the main light source was unfortunately located behind the chair our character would sit on and it was difficult deciding where to place the camera as there was not much space to move and the light made things look very blurry in the viewfinder.

There was hardly 2 or 3 feet behind the desk and no matter where we placed the camera somebody’s head or toe would get cut off.

It took quite long to decide the camera location and those friends of mine who were acting for us had a class and they kept complaining that they have to leave. We took all the shots of the principal (played by a friend of ours, Zain Agha) first as he had to leave soonest. During that time the other character (played by Daniyal Qureshi) who entered the office in the start of our video had to leave so we had to cast someone else in that role (Umer Ahmed) who did a great work as well.

During the shoot there were three administration staffers working in that room and somebody’s parent was there as well, talking nonstop and we couldn’t ask her to stop talking as that would have been quite rude , so we had to wait for the parent  to go. As soon as the parent left our Principal ordered us to empty the room as the administrative staff had important work to do, so we had to leave. So although using real offices helps out some with misce en scene – it may be easier to shoot in a room where we have more space and less interruptions even if we have to work harder to make it look believable.

12/10/2010

We transferred the video we had shot on to the school computer. We had a look at it and realized that most of the camera shots were a total disaster. My group members and I went through all of the clips and discussed what should be done now. I tried to figure out a possible solution but I was also aware of the fact that we cannot manage to get all the actors we used previously together at the same time because they all had free periods at different times and what’s more the admin staff would not give us permission to occupy their office everyday. I suggested that we start working on the same clips we had shot, it can at least be a good practice of video editing and also we had promised our actors that they would get to see their video on Facebook.

I started to arrange the videos in the order we had to use them meanwhile my friends sorted out some stuff with my teacher and then we all started to select where we wanted to begin and end each clip, which was a very tough job indeed as each of us had different opinions about how long each shot should be.