Sunday 1 December 2013

A Roadmap of short documentary "Part 2"



“A life in the day of a blind”, was the idea to be implemented. We have started with storyboard and outline all the requirements needed to choreograph this film. There were five primary elements to be accomplished for choreography of this film.

Finding Characters – Indeed it was hard to find a person in society who is blind and agree to be filmed and providing all the information. Our researcher Liucija searched for a blind as she contacted plenty of blind centres, at last she found one. We have also taken permission from Blend Centre RNIB about composing a short film on a blind.
RNIB logo

Equipment – The list of equipment had been made according to the film.

Interview of personality (Blind) – I did interview of the blind person, and asked him following questions before the shooting day to get in deep of his personality and know his daily routin to think about the vision of the film and plan it in a creative way: 





·      How he become blind?
Group meeting with Hasmok ( the blind )  
·      How he spent his day?
·      How he does his stuff?
·      How he reacts with people?
·      What kind of people around him?
·      What he knows about the current life?






Vision – before capture the film, I have watched couple films related to “Blind” Such as:

·      Blindness (2008)
Film cover "Julian Moore"

·      Scent of women (1992)
"Al pacino"  in one of the film scenes
Every moment counts - Cancer Research UK 

Therefore, I have seen these movies before and watched them again to get ideas about Blinds and how can I improve the direction of the film. This gave me opportunity to tackle with disputes related to productions and direction. Although I watched a short advert on youtube which is belong to the Cancer research UK and has inspired me:                                                                                                           http://www.youtube.com/user/cancerresearchuk 



Locations – it is also important to notify the film location properly. We did survey before capturing the movie and analyzed that how location can be fit in camera. Moreover, a meeting with cameraman and director arranged to discuss all tits and bits such as:
Shooting Hasmok (The blind) while walk on the street

   ·      Where he does shave?
   ·      Where he made coffee?
   ·      Where he goes for walk?
   ·      Where he meets with people?
   ·      Where does he spend his free time?  

Shooting the full interview of Hasmok
Narrative – a series of narrative had been recorded. The reasons to record narrative so that it helps to choose particular parts to fit in the film, which will make more realistic in nature. Therefore, open questions asked from blind person, so that he can tell his opinions in detail. Moreover, It also give opportunity to me to choose particular parts of narrative which are relevant to current scenario.

Shooting Film

After creating narrative, we had fixed the date for film shooting. A meeting was arranged with me and cameraman Marius and Natarine the sound person to discuss about the style, length of frame, and sound.
Cameraman captured the whole film as it was discussed and he covers the close ups, covering his belongings, and reality shoots of his daily life.

Shooting Hasmok in his flat while reading

Next day, we went to blind centre where he met with his friend and some blinds that they have issues to share. In order to shoot inside the blind centre we asked for permission from administration. We shoot inside the centre while he was meeting his friends and communicating with them regarding current issues. We have also capture his emotional scenes when he was discussing the matter related to “road cross” with his friend, such as the difficulties he tolerate to cross the road.
Shooting in the RNIB

Analysis and correlation


The complete film had been captured successfully with certain consecration and specification. We arranged the meeting to discuss about narratives and film. Therefore, we analyse the film with respect to narratives. We sliced the film into short scenes and correlate with narrative. Indeed, it was most sensitive part of film because it needs to choose right scene, which also portray the narrative. In correlation of audio and video, it is important to see the video again and again to check that video are related to audio and makes all the parts of the audio connected together.
Editing with Marius and Natarine




The completed film:-


 

Saturday 23 November 2013

A Roadmap of short documentary

Team Development


It was first week of this semester, indeed we were quite enthusiastic and motivated towards our course, “”. The time had been come to make a team to win our goal. It was not easy task to choose right person for your team. We know that nobody – but a team can be. Therefore, I have chosen a team, which is more motivated and hardworking.


“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” ― Phil Jackson


After choosing the team, we shared our ideas and expertise related to filming because little things make the big thing happen. We allocated designation to each other. As concerning about me, I acted as director. Other team members are…
Omran – Producer
Liucija – Researcher
Ingrida – Production Manager

Marius & Natarin – Camera, sound, light and editing

There is famous saying regarding teamwork that
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” ― Helen Keller


Sharing Ideas

No doubt, ideas bring change and innovation. It is possible to implement the idea if you have team consisted of hardworking and motivated people who work professionally.
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas”. – Linus Pauling




As concerning about this project, we have shared ideas with each other. The brainstorming techniques has been used to discuss the ideas among team members. The following ideas have be suggested to develop this film…
* A day with a van driver!
* A day with a nurse!
* A day with a blind!


After lot of discussing plethora of researches and critically analyse different factors of these ideas. We have decided to portray “A day with Blind person” which was suggested by me.

The primary reasons to select this idea were:-

* To educate people about the value of “Eyes”.
* To motivate blinds
* To educate audience “Blinds are part of our society”.

Friday 18 October 2013

My Profile

I am Abdulaziz Alfuraih a final year student in Middlesex University, studying BA Television Production course. Making this blog as a part of my studies to share my experience through the year.

Location and Transport
I live in Hendon, North West of London and travel by public transport.

Additional Information
I am a member of Saudi Journalists club in the UK (SJCUK).
I can speak Arabic and English.

Primary role specialisms
Director
Producer

Secondary role specialisms
Production manager

Genre Specialisms
Documentary
Drama

Statement of Intent
I have an experience in reporting for TV as I worked as a reporter for the Saudi Arabian television (Channel one) for 3 years. I made many reports for TV programmes and shows.

Availability
I am currently available on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Previous films

"A life in the day of Hasmok Mehta" / Documentary - 2013 / Director
https://vimeo.com/80854041

"No Matter What" / Drama - 2012 / Producer
https://vimeo.com/82520780

"The Journey" / Drama - 2011 / Producer
https://vimeo.com/79439386