Eisha Rehan - media studies blog

We had to struggle a lot to find actors who would have strong expressions so that they can deliver all the emotions towards the audience without any dialouge. acting is an art and not everyone can do it. So, in the beginning we auditioned my brother and asked him a few questions if he'll be able to do it and will he be able to do what we want. he was positie and said that he could do but then when we hit the record button and started to see the outcome we knew we had to do something else. After a few days we decided we decided to cast Simran Saleem who is also the director as the actor.

we are only two members. i"m Eisha Rehan, the producer and my partner Simran Saleem, who is also my best friend, is the director of this film opening. i will be doing the camera work so technically I'm the cameraman. Simran is also the Actor in this film. I'm the makeup artist. for editing, both of us will be working side by side.

the genre of our film opening is Suspense/mystery and thriller. i decided to choose this genre because personally i like this genre a lot and i prefer to watch these kind of movies and thats why i thought, people of my age might be interested to watch something in the suspense genre. we will also be using conventional techniques to establish this genre and might use some unconventional creative technique if it comes to mind during the production.

this is the moodboard Simran Saleem made with my consultation.

so we decided to pitch the idea of our story in 25 words to get a sense of clarity of what we are actually trying to potray and this is what i came up with: a teenage girl with troubled thoughts and strained parents' relationship, decides to leave her home for good, little did she know that a dark future awaits her.

this is what we had thought in the beginning. the main idea remained the same we just made some changes.

this is the mindmap we made for ideas of the film opening.

our team had some differences and so we decided to split the group. Simran and i decided to work together. We are going to make a new story with new ideas, just the two of us, might take our teacher's help as well. this is a picture of simran and I! I'm the one with the cap.

some bloopers while we were shooting. major problem i got as a cameraman was of stabillization, the camera was shaky and i couldn't control it. we plan to use a camera and tripod stand to make things appear smoother in the final extract. also, we would also use some sort of microphone cause it helps to cancel out the unnecessary background noise and make the dialouges appear clear.

this is one of the discussions we had. we asked one of our classmates to take our picture. i'm the one wearing a cap. and behind me is Simran saleem. on the other side we have hamd sadaan and iqra ahmed.