Week 16: Pre-Production Set- Finalising Ideas

PRE-PRODUCTION SET

Week 16: Finalising The Idea Behind The Film

By Ahmed Sofia

Team 10 - 

Sofia Ahmed - sa605

Shufi Sufana- ams64

Juriaan Van Linschoten- jlv7

James Totty- jt365

Ahad Talukder- at442

Module: EL342- Moving Image

UNIVERSITY OF KENT

Week 16 started off with a rather familiar buzz as week 15 with exception that I had new faces in my life that I would be working closely with for the next month or so, that was the scenario work-wise. On a lighter note, I had made amazing new friends with a great sense of variety in their likes and dislikes which had me all riled up about things I had never noticed before or could have never been bothered to look into.

We took another look into the draft idea we had introduced ourselves to and realized that it felt a slight bit odd. All in all, I realized that the film did not have a strong enough link to the theme which assigned to us which was starting to worry me. I expressed my views to the group after which they began to see what I was trying to express and we had clearly enjoyed the idea of 'perception of time' which was introduced by James but just the follow up story of the two main protagonists.

We continued to think hard over and over about a follow up story or a main story line which clearly linked our film to the theme, at the same time we tried to keep in mind that we did not want something which would be expected of us. I began to research on the computer right away, Google being my best friend for years has never let me down and once again it reassured me and proved itself after coming to my rescue.

As I was reading and researching leads relating to the theme, I started thinking about time in general and how as a child my parents always spoke about these idioms and a very particular one in my childhood, the one phrase - 'A stitch in time saves nine'. They never said more or less right after and I was never tempted to ask my parents what it ever meant, somehow it was self explanatory to me at that age and in the given events in my life.

For some very odd reason I began to think harder on that phrase and before I knew it I was typing away on Google trying to find out it's origin, the actual meaning behind the phrase and what it's importance was. I came across an explanation saying - 'A timely effort will prevent more work later.' That was my eureka moment, the more I fiddled around with time and it's leads, it ended up leading me straight to 'Procrastination' and all its evils. Bingo, just what I needed. It was my code-breaker, procrastination was suddenly the most meaningful and useful phrase in my life. The theme just happened to break through with the strongest link to procrastination and running out of time. I presented the idea to the group who seemed relieved and absolutely enjoyed the idea.

Along with the importance of time, procrastination became it's other half like ying and yang.

Sofia Ahmed.
Team 10.