Monday, 31 December 2012

New Shooting Schedule

Locations (in order): 

  • School toilets
  • My bedroom 
  • School corridor
  • Public park (swings)
  • School Quad (hall)
  • School yard
Props: 
  • Packet of tablets
  • A tablet
  • Tissue 
  • Casual everyday clothing 
  • School books
  • Pens/Pencils
  • A bin
Actors:
  • Anisha Choudary played by Sarah Tariq - A quite and shy person, relies on her friend Zara on most things.
  • Zara Zahid played by Fiza Hussain - A controlling and essentric character.
  • Voice of Anisha's brother - Atique Hussain
Type of weather/Time of day:
  • The park scene: Sunny and dry, probably around 12pm.
  • The scene of Anisha running outside: Dark, gloomy and raining. Preferably late afternoon/evening time.

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

New treatment

- The main character (Anisha), will be crying in the toilets and at the same time I will include eerie music and he editing here may be sepia to give it a scary tense.

- After the first scene I want to include a reverse effect of my whole short film however, it will be quite fast as I don't want to give my story away, this reverse effect leads to the scene which explains why Anisha is sat in the toilets crying in the first place.

- Following the reverse effect will be a scene of a close up shot of a pack of pills to which Anisha refuses to take, she then leaves for school.

-  In this scene we also meet Zara (Fiza Hussain), Anisha's best friend, they both walk in arm and arm showing their closeness . I want to just include this scene as an introductory scene for Zara as I will also be featuring eerie/scary music so the audience can sense the negative vibe for the character of Zara straightaway essentially knowing she's the 'villain' in the film.

- The scene I want to take in a public park as I thought it would be ideal for a scene showing how close they are, laughing and giggling will be their only motive in this scene in to order to inform the audience of their close bond.

- The following scene will counteract the previous scene as this will be the climax of the play. I want to take some shots of them both studying in a big empty hall, the setting of this scene gives the effect of Anisha being vulnerable and alone in the company of Zara who we already know from a previous scene plays the 'villain' character. This scene will also include eerie/scary music enhancing the suspense  as well as telling the audience something is about to happen. My storyline will continue to show the relationship of these two friends, Anisha becomes annoyed with her school work to which Zara responds with telling her to give up, surprising Anisha to which she replies I can't. Here we also see the true colours of Zara as she throws Anisha's work to the floor when she refuses to stop working resulting in to an upset Anisha who then decide to walk out. Zara then responds to picking up Anisha work and throwing it in the bin.

-Following the climax we see Zara chasing Anisha outside right after upsetting her. Just as Anisha turns around. I want to include another transition which will feature the words 'But what really happened was..'.

- This scene will feature a big twist answering the big questions probably raised at the beginning by the audience. After the transition, the story returns to the scene of Anisha and Zara walking in school arm and arm however, this time the scene consists of Anisha walking in arm and arm with no one.

- Further more, from here we see all the scene repeating themselves however, without the character of Zara being there.

- I want to use more of a emotional tone of music, drastically changing from the eerie/scary music used before.

- The repeating scenes will show Anisha sat on the swing alone, laughing and smiling to herslef.

- Then he final scene will consist of Anisha sat on her own, doing her work in a big hall as well as talking to herself. Then I want to freeze a shot of her talking to an imaginary Zara.


Wednesday, 12 December 2012

My Short film - New brief

I have decided to now go ahead with the thriller genre however it will still have some elements of horror in it.

My new story line consists of the main character Anisha (Sarah Tariq) and her best friend, Zara (Fiza Hussain). The film will show their close bond which eventually escalates into an obsession Zara has with Anisha. One great convention of horror/thriller films is the element of a twist in the storyline, my twist will be that Zara never even existed, leaving the first three minutes to be Anisha's imagination. One of the very first scenes will be Anisha refusing to take a pill, explaining later that it was the pill that caused Anisha to be in this situation.

For editing I want to include a fast reverse scene that explains the very first scene of Anisha sat in the toilets crying.


Saturday, 8 December 2012

Changing my Story


After much deliberation I have decided to change the story line for my short film, as I felt it was a much bigger challenge than I thought. What I was imagining for my first story line was pretty much unrealistic as it would have been hard to find actors to take on the 'Zombie' roles seriously. Buying the make up and applying it correctly also would have been difficult. My new story will be coming soon.