Eisha Rehan - media studies blog

this is the storyboard we made for the film opening scene.

this is the moodboard we made for our film opening scene.

we came up with this idea of one guy stalking the other person because we wanted to create enigma and make the story interesting at the same time. first we had thought of one guy and a girl doing this but then we wanted to make it a little different and unique. we also decided that we will not show any blood or graphic content that might be disturbing and we will dip to black the screen when the stalker stabs the girl. one thing we all wanted to do was mystery and thriller so it was not really difficult to come up with this idea of stalking. we have made the story and we hope to execute it in a similar way as well.

we editted the shoot using adobe premiere pro. at first i found it difficult to use, but once you get the hang of it, its one of the best softwares to edit anything. we can use different transition styles and add effects to give the video a cinematic look.

we shot the mock shoot using iphone 12 and the app filmic pro for additional DSLR features. it has features including stablization,blur effect, color grading etc which helped us a lot to make our shoot look more cinematic.

before going for the mock shoot we decided everything beforehand. we gathered the ideas we wanted to show and divided roles between our group members. we also decided the place and the props that were needed. we also discussed camera shots and movements we wanted to use. planning these things before the production helped us a lot.

its so different, the way things happen behind the camera and the outcome. when all were learning these things about camera, mise en scene, editing and sound we thought its not that difficult we'd be able to do it but when it comes to practice, that is when we learn a lot of things. when we did this mock shoot, we practised different angles and movements. we'll further improve everything in the final shoot.

we tried and played with the camera. we learned a lot of new things by doing this shoot before the original one. we have to make improvements in the final one.

the film opening we are doing comes in the genre of mystery, suspense and thriller. the story is about two people. the guy is stalking the other guy whereever he goes and suddenly he's murdered. its sudden story development sends shivers down the spine of the audience! the story is really good and kind of clichė but our team hopes to make it interesting to watch!

this is the script and synopsis.

this is the descrition of the characters that are going to be in our film opening task. there are going to be two guys, one is going to be the stalker and the other is going to be the victim who's going to get murdered.

this is one of the discussions we did when we started off with the project.