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Groupwork Evidence, Roles & Responsibilites
Me discovering 'video normal call' and Varisha's never ending lists We divided everything we did and worked together on many of the...
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Editing & Refinements
This was the longest toil of our project. One that I had taken upon myself. Taking the clips from Varisha's Google Drive, I compiled the...
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Rough Cut, Unfinal Cut, Changes & Challenges
Here is the rough cut I drafted compiling our clips together. Here is the unfinal cut with some editing incorporated. We showed this to...
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Postcard & Merchandise
Some old inspos, some new. First Draft Final Postcard Merch & Final Instagram
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Social Media & Branding
Continuing to follow Varisha's layout for social media. We firstly had to design a coming soon banner after the logo banner. We decided...
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Equipment & Software
We filmed with Varisha's phone. She animated on her ipad.. named Athena. (real ones know) And I edited on my trusty big PC For editing, I...
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Concept, Title & Storyboard
Storyboard
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Characters & Costumes
The character of Sam with her struggles and her existential crisis remained mainly the same. However, we switched to Varisha playing her...
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Mise-en-Scene, Prop & Shot Lists, Filming
Tentative Shot List Full shot to mid shot as she walks into frame Full shot Midshots for flashbacks Full shot zoom in to midshot Close up...
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Revamping - Coming up with & Switching to the New Idea
After attempting to execute our film in a very humbling experience we figured out we bit off more than we could chew. The first cut...
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Cast & Crew
VARISHA KHURSHID As Sam, my co-director, groupmate, classmate, pookie wookie bear bestie I love her so much. RAIMA ZIA As BTS cameraman...
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First Cut + Animation Test
We filmed and drafted our first cut at Varisha's Varisha made a test run for the Rotoscoping animation
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Location
We established that our film will be shot in one main setting i.e. the main character's bedroom. The idea was for her to sit at a desk in...
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Postcard Planning
Based on our research, we had a general idea of what a postcard should look like. But what should OUR postcard look like? I found some...
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Storyboard
Exploiting Varisha's incredible talents voila we have our hand drawn storyboard to visualise the concept and layout of our film.
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Soundtrack
Initially, we thought we'd ask one of our musician friends to create a soundtrack for us on the keyboard so that the high and lows of our...
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Social Media & Postcard Inspo/Plan
We sought heavy inspiration from these fellow pro-am short films' Instagram accounts for our own. We particularly liked the Coming Soon...
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Moodboards & Colour Palettes
Concept Mise-en-Scene & Shots Colours
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Developing & Deciding a Studio Logo
We came up with the name for our studio fairly quickly: Film Geeks Studio. It came to us with the spontaneous realisation that we are...
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Deciding a Title Name
Varisha and I hold our fair share of creativity, but we also suffer from perfectionism. And so, deciding the perfect name for our short...
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Script
Varisha and I had decided on the fact that there would be minimal dialogue in our short film, but as I began writing our script, I...
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Initial & Final Ideas
Idea 1 Synopsis: An invisible thread that ties the protagonist to their negative thoughts. Plot : X feels tied down by an invisible...
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Genre Choice & Inspirations
My group project partner Varisha and I have very different tastes in film. While she is an animation and sci-fi fan, I prefer classics...
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