Syeda Abeeha Raza

 I had said a couple of people/friends for voiceovers but the final we chose are below in the linked attached.  Done by Ali Haider(boy's voice over) & Rahima Asfandyar(girl's voice) Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17N8sh8wyVgpxfbzCmjiNdtCynXVvvIOP?usp=share_link Also, here are a few screenshots of the conversation we had in coordinating about what/how a voiceover would be. 

 I had asked a friend of mine living in Lahore if she has any male friends willing to voice over for our short film so here are the screenshots of our conversation.

 We have spent a round 7k on the shoot which took around 3 days which we would divide in two as we are working in the group.  Our shoot is over, and we are working on the next phase, editing/post-production.

Choosing wife's costume (my) was the most difficult thing.  I wasn't able to decide whether clothing should be according to the new modern wives of Pakistan even OR according to original culture/religion in Pakistan.  But, after asking from my family and friends they recommended recommended me Shalwar Kameez to represent my Pakistani origin and culture. Here are the pictures of the costume I chose, 

 

 We will be using Canon M50 with a 50 mm lens.

  The second location we chose was Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Bahria Phase 7. Other cafes were asking a lot of rent just to shoot for an hour or so but they cooperated a lot and let us shoot for FREE!!

We needed an office space for few scenes in our short film.  In Bahria Phase 7 , there is a place DaftarKhwan Vantage that is a co-working space available on rent for such shoots. The rent was reasonable so we have opted for this place.

We would be shooting in Bahria Phase 7 Islamabad and Indoor shooting would be in a friends house. 

 

 اسرارِمحبت  SCRIPT SCENE 01: VOICEOVER: “Things aren’t always what they seem to be”  (WHILE HUSBAND SEES HIS WIFE LYING DEAD ON BED) SCENE 02: No dialogues only expressions of sadness as he sees his wife  SCENE 03: Husband goes to office next day as if nothing happened. SCENE 04: *HUSBAND PLAYS RECORDING WIFE: “it doesn’t matter where I am, I would still be yours" BUT “Without any doubt I was loyal to us, our relationship” SCENE 05: *HUSBAND NEXT DAY PLAYS SECOND RECORDING WIFE: don’t assume all that happened is because ... *HUSBAND GETS A PHONE CALL, PAUSES RECORDING: HUSBAND: HEY? YES? I’M COMING IN 10 MINUTES SCENE 06: NO DIALOGUES ONLY HUSBAND WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND IS SEEN IN RESTAURANT SCENE 07: *WIFE APPEARS, HUSBAND HAS SHOCKED EXPRESSIONS. WIFE: I see you haven’t listened to the last recording?! SCENE 08: *HUSBAND RUSHES AND REACHES HOME, PLAYS THE LAST RECORDING WIFE: HELLO? RECORDING GETS INTERRUPTED

Synopsis for اسرار محبت . The genre is sci fi and romance. A deceitful husband cheats on his wife after which she dies of trauma, but gets to know some shocking truth.  Husband works in a company and has a 9 to 5 job, while the wife is housewife. The girl with whom the husband cheats on the wife is a young , pretty girl who is in her early twenties. All the characters aren’t too wealthy but belong to an upper middle class society  The main character is the wife herself though in the story she almost dies and  fakes her death leaving the story in suspense. After faking her death she uses  recordings and communicates the immense love she has for her husband and the reason for her taking her life wasn’t that her love decreased instead a reason he will come to know later.  At that the start of the film, we see husband isn’t too sorrowful about his wife dying! What could be the reason exactly? And the next day , immediately the husband continues going to his office l...

      SHORT FILM TITLE     ONE LINER : Wife fakes her death to unveil her husband's ongoing affair. 

Sound in a short film or movie includes music, dialogue, sound effects, background music or soundtracks. There are two types of sound: Diegetic Sound is which characters on screen can hear and can include sound effects, the sound made by movements and spoken dialogue. Non-Diegetic Sound is any sound which does not come directly from the world of the story onscreen. Sound contains further elements/types ; Dialogue is defined as a conversation between two or more people in a movie , furthermore a film can have a monologue where the actor is speaking out loud if only in a room. Sound effect is any other sound other than music or speech artificially re-produced to create an effect in dramatic presentation. Ambient Noises are background noises that are in a room , a house or any other place.

 We have thought of this title for our opening scene. A general idea is there in our minds on how we would take up the story line for this. We have started our work for the script/synopsis. 

180 degree rule states that the two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship with each other.  It is a film-making technique that helps the audience keep a track of where your characters in a scene.

We've been instructed to write our short film for submission on CAIE on Fade-In. Here are some few instructions while constructing our script on Fade-In: - SLUG LINE ( SCENE HEADING ) mention of interior and exterior location  day ( morning , evening , night )  -   ACTION ( DESCRIPTION OF SCENE ) should be in present tense what is happening in the scene? -   CHARACTERS ( ACTORS IN A SCENE ) should be in full caps and should be in the center an important element in the production team -   PARATHETICAL  should be written in brackets under character name an emotion to be written e.g. angry , happy -  DIALOGUE

Video Editing is the arrangement and manipulation of video shots. Video Editing is used to structure and present all video information including films and television shows. It contains a few elements that are compulsory in video editing: Slow-motion Fade and Dissolve  Montage Parallel Editing and Cross-Editing  Elipses Graphic Match Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) VFX SFX Compositing Motion Capture  Mixed Reality

 Mise-en-scene is the stage design and arrangement of actors in a scenes both in visual arts through story-boarding. It is a French term which was used in the earliest forms of performing arts i.e. theater.   It contains 5 elements: composition props and costumes lighting  actors sets

 Color Psychology is using the colors correctly in order to enhance the feeling of a message to give a strong message to the audience/viewer. Colors influence perceptions that aren't obvious such as taste of food. Colors have that qualities that can cause certain emotions in people. There are some common colors that trigger people's emotions but , colors can have a positive and negative effect on people. Red shows excitement , love , strength but also depicts danger , blood and fire. Orange shows confidence , success , bravery but rudeness and untrustworthiness are negative. Yellow is creativity , warmth , happiness but shows betrayal , anxiety. Green depicts nature , healing but negatively it shows materialism and possessiveness. Black showing security , dramatic , and formality but shows sadness , depression and secretive. White shows clean , simplicity , honesty but negatively shows cold and isolated. Blue depicts trust , peace and loyalty but fear and irrationality.