Thursday, 2 February 2017

Post Production : Editing


Post-Production : done.
Shooting : done.
Now onto editing.
Editor : Ali Nauman


                                           The very first shot of the film opening being displayed in the timeline.



 For the final project, we knew we had to step up our gamer. Which is why I recommended focusing alot on sound. In the above screenshot, it can be seen that the sound panels are visible in the timeline. By applying different sound affects, music and folly studio have been used to create our film opening.












Actors

Even though our opening had zero dialogues, we still needed an actor who could give the most amazing expressions. After a tough round of auditions we came to a unanimous agreement, that Shayyan Malik was the perfect actor for our opening, along with Sani Farshori and Raheen Rizvi as the supporting role and extra respectively.


Sani Farshori


                                                                                                                                                   Shayyan Malik

Sunday, 15 January 2017

Location

Location







We needed a jungle sort of a location, completely isolated, a place which made is seem like no human in his sane mind would dare to trespass there. And indeed the location shown above met all our requirements.

ANIMATIC

                                                                ANIMATIC

Here is the animatic of our story board so that you can see clearer of our step by step stages of what we have planed for the film opening and how the film opening is going to look like.If there are any additions or if something is removed that will be shared after the production.

inventiness

Inventiveness


Media experts repeatedly say, 
"SHOW, don't tell."

Alfred Hitchcock said :
"You always try to make movies where they don't have to read the subtitles in Japan."

For our film opening these are the two areas we strictly stuck to. The inspiration really came when i was surfing the internet and came across this quote of Alfred Hitchcock. As a result i knew minimal dialogues would make the film opening more strong. To prove my idea would be a success i researched a bit and discovered that the best opening scenes are the ones with minimal/no dialogues.

  Disneys, Academy Award Winning movie, "Up"was stated as Watchmojos best film opening. Watchmojos exact words were :
        "Look at the 10 minute opening. Not a single word is said yet is proved to be the most beautiful movie openings of all time."

Saturday, 7 January 2017

Inspiration behind the film opening



In order to find inspiration i decided to check out a few interesting shots used by directors in various movies. These shots were truly beautiful and helped me to find my inspiration for a few shots in my film opening.



This exact shot, shown in the screenshot, was the reason i decided to create a psychedelic film opening, as the lights in front of the man can be used to symbolise different moods and interesting affects.



As the CIE deadline was coming closer, our teacher told us to refine our blogs. In order to understand what a good blog looks like, I decided to scroll the internet a bit. This is what I came across.