Week 19: Pre-Production Set- Finalising The Script

PRE-PRODUCTION SET

Week 19: Finalising The Script

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 19 was our considerably big week. Everything about this week made us feel better and more welcomed to work and enjoy ourselves. To start off with, I've always considered England to be one of those few places that you could have a serious discussion about the weather with just about anyone and everyone. This was it, after all the horrid weather we had been through, Week 19 was all about smiles and sunshine. Weather's always played a special role in either making or breaking my mood for the day. Week 19 started off with sunshine.

The day of our usual group meeting, it was as sunny as it could be. Walking over to Jennison, I felt absolutely wonderful, watched everyone 'walking on sunshine' but at the same time I couldn't be asked to sit inside, the thought of sitting and working inside was starting to bother me little by little as I got closer to my destination.

sit outside and play outside and enjoy the weather.

Walking into Jennison and realising that I was leaving the sun behind, I was starting to feeling low. I walked over to the computer suites, greeted my mates and asked them if it seemed like a good idea to work outside, the weather was perfect for sporting a tan whilst typing away on laptops and finalising our script.

Everyone seemed to love the idea, quickly jumped out of their seats and onto on of our mate's house, placed the chairs outside and planked ourselves out in the sun while typing away. Discussing the opening shots, the details of the film and the closing scene. The sun was a booster in regards of our efficiency.

We sat out there, having a laugh, pulling a cheeky joke on each other and talking about the script. The laughs just made us want to work and focus on our script event further. We sat there over two hours under the bright sun, enjoying the warm rays, laughter and the preparation of the script. We started of discussing camera angles, while laughing at each other's roles if we ended up behind the camera, or checking sound levels.

Little by little our script began to come together, our ideas began to pour out and in all that happiness and truth, our film began to gain more focus and we began to ease in to the zone where we would come up with ideas nearly every second, even if we came up with it in between all those jokes and then we would realise how well things had gone, hours had passed and our script was prepared.

All we were left with now was giving our protagonist a face and bringing our film to life.

Sofia Ahmed.
Team 10.

Week 18: Pre-Production Set- Treatment

PRE-PRODUCTION SET

Week 18: Prep And Finalising The Treatment

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 18, a newer buzz with the treatment due in just about two days. There was excitement, confusion and cries all over the place. Everything was going well so far up until the phrase treatment popped into our minds and the first thought that entered everyone's mind was - What do we write?

My mind was exactly torn into two halves, two absolute and perfectly carved out halves. One side equivalent to the other. My animation pre-production pack was due on Friday whilst the treatment was due on Tuesday. I visited Shufi's two nights before the animation deadline and she had the exact same look as me. We were both puzzled. As much as I've been trained in multi-tasking by my generation for the ideal 21st century lifestyle, I was absolute caught off guard. My mind would just not agree with the idea of thinking about two things at once, two deadlines with extreme importance marked on both. I spent the two nights working with the animation module and as soon as I finished the animation submission, the team was summoned for an emergency treatment review.

Every member presented their research work from Week 17, we started going through our events list from the film's scripts. Each action, each detail and every shot was taken into consideration. I began to request Google, my best friend for help once again. I started reviewing Film Treatment examples for pre-made films and their templates, accessing moodle and going through all the lectures over and over again to finalise the treatment over the weekend.

We managed to put things in order, one after the other, discussing the contents of the film and checking reason behind the event, the location of the event and the camera angles of the event after which we started to frame it in the universal language spoken by almost all human beings on this planet, the English Language.

After spending many tiring hours in the computer suite, we managed to finalise our treatment and with a final click - 'Upload' 

We had achieved freedom.

Temporarily.

Sofia Ahmed.
Team 10.