week 8

yes, we have done it in time))) i learnt a lot during this project) first of all - plan your time and second - make sure actors are willing to work, not to play!! we had different problems with our main actor, he was playing up, that is why some shots were taken 4-5 times)) but we have a lot of funny ones)))
our movie turned out to be 5.20 min, and we decided not to cut the scenes smaller, because such an "action" movie, where events go very fast, is impossible to put in a shorter time frame...) so, i hope this decision is not that bad)

week 7

shooting shooting shooting)
never thought that day-time shots wwould be so hard to get done)
we used Meerim's brother as a main character, but then we realised that if we take just a guy for a "dad" it won't be so believable (unless we find another guy from Kirgiztan older than Meerim's brother), so I suddenly remembered one of my favourite tv program, where two men play all the roles and it's just incredible)
so, we decided to explore a field of make-up for films=) can't say that Kuba (brother) became really a "dad", but still it is something=) *we looked at Meerim's father photo and tried to figure out what parts of the face are darker, sharper shades, etc*
it also complicated the scenes where we have boy and dad together, we did the dinner shooting, shownig eg mam, boy and just father's hands eating) and then vice versa)

but i guess the most unforgetable moment all three of us will remember is how we got caught by the police while shooting a scene where a boy is making graffiti)) He was not actually making it, just pretending, but still he pressed the cap a couple of times and policemen discovered fresh paint) but everything ends well, next time we will think before we do smth like this)

*i'm not really sure we can finish in time, we still have some shots to be done and editing, which is problematic because of all the reports, assignment deadlines and midterms coming up next week :(

week 6

during the process of making the storyboard, we did not have any serious arguments, so after Meerim indicated the conditions, additional materials and things for the shots, i started to draw pictures for the each of the shots. (well, after making the 34 or 35th picture i was pretty tired and it seemed to me that similar shots, following each other do not need a lot of pictures, it is just too obvious, so that is why i skipped some of them ^_^)

here are some of them:

week 5

i wrote down the movie shot by shot with several important remarks, so Meerim will have to review it and add the necessary conditions and description of the shots, after that i am going to draw the pictures for the shots to complete the storyboard

week 4

making small movies to experience the editing side of video production was pretty fun)) me and Meerim decided to shoot a comedy-like story of people coming out from a hole (which was quite big, so a person could fit there), we did not change camera's position, so it looked like a lot of people were scrambling out of some strange place undergroung with happy faces))
then we started to edit it, the "ghost" effect perfectly suited our shots, as we did not move the camera background stayed the same, but people were softly dissapearing and appearing with this effect)
so, i am looking forward to start shooting our first serious (or semi-serious) movie))