My roles

My roles in this movie is the director of photography and the camera operator. My responsibility is to creating the atmosphere and desire feel of the film. I will able to do the photo shoot and choose the best picture that we gonna use in this movie. I also need to know the techniques of camera operation which including lighting, lenses, and the camera movement. I also working close with Nargol, our director to created the best shoot in this movie. She will help me to created an idea of image that will gonna use in this movie.

Week 6

In this semester's project, I am the producer and the editor. So, I am going to arrange the shooting schedules and all the paperworks we need. As the editor, my busy times will start after the shooting is finished and I will work closely with Nargol, as the director, and of course with some helps from Lanita, the director of photography. Last semester I didn't have to edit our footage to become a finished film but this semester I have to do it, therefore I have to learn how to use Final Cut Pro. We have started learning the programme in class and I think it's an amazing programme. It has lots of features and it's easy to use.

Other than the roles above, I will also act in the film as one of the characters. I hope we could do everything well according to our plan, or even better than what we've planned. :D See ya.

This week: Essential Idea behind our film project!

so after 5 weeks of struggling with our innitial story and how we want to make an impact on our audience , we finally found the story and the plot!

we now have our visual style and the elements we would like to incorporate in to our project to make it more influential and to make it in a way that makes a significant impact on our target audience.

The story is about 3 characters , each struggling with their own mental health diseases and difficulties.

one with depression , the other with anxiety and etc.

each will be firstly introduced to the audience with a photographic shot of our selves and after wards the story behind the faces will be narrated through fast paced and cuttings of photographs.

some video footage will be used to narrate the personal stories behind our characters.

But before reaching to this conclusion, we had some other ideas in mind.

such as having an interview style method to capture the emotions out of people who are struggling with depression and anxiety.

However, we realised this style has already been used and incorporated from other groups .

Therefore, we had to think of something more original and authentic.

Idea for movie

After thought about the idea for the movie, i just come out with two idea that might be related to our campaign movie.

For the first idea is about : revolve around 3 characters and each of them has different problem. The story is started with showing the black and white photograph, for example showing picture of Gladys and then there is typing voice write Gladys Gadiella, 19 years old, committed suicide. Then after that there is another image that showing the flash back how she problem and why she is want to kill herself. Each of character will have the climax in the video. The movie will finished by showing our campaign to help this problem and suddenly the black and white colour of video will change to colour and the expression of each character will change from sad to happy. This movie will dominant with the photograph rather then video.

Second idea is about : someone who sit down and look at the video that her friends showing to her. When she looking at the video her expression really sad and hopeless. However the scene suddenly change to the video that her friends give it to her. The video is about the documenter of many people that showing their support for example one of friends looking at the camera and saying you can do it darling, we are with you. So many people will saying the support in the video. After that the girls who saw the video is smiling and the las scene there is written you are not alone, and our campaign slogan..

Happily, our group is choosing my first idea. So we just need to set up the schedule, script and role. And after three of us already setting everything, we ready to start the shooting.

Week 5 - 2 more ideas

At the end of last week, we still havent decided the story of our film because we had to finish our assignments first.
But I got two movie ideas to add to my first one, which are:

1. A depressed girl, when she wakes up in the morning she just has no expression. She starts getting ready for school and humming sad tunes. The sad tunes then continues playing in the background while she's walking to school and meets people. She looks quite sad and finally she couldn't handle it anymore and just run away. At the climax, the humming in the background just stops and she looks shocked and anxious without making any movement. Accidentally, she hears music from a classroom and she figured out that there is a boy playing a guitar. The boy smiles, she smiles back and when she walks to the boy a happier humming is played in the background.

2. My second idea is about a person interviewing people on the street asking 'have you been depressed?'. Most people that are asked will just go away or just smile, it shows how the depression topic is not one of the issues that people talk about to strangers. People, especially men, are most likely to keep their problems to themselves. Finally, there are some people who are willing to talk and do some chats with the interviewer. Then, the interviewer give them statistics information about people who commit suicide and that information shocks everyone they interview.

Theme for the movie

Our group decide to make the movie that related to the campaign. The campaign itself is about increasing our care and love to each other such as family and friends. The reason that we choose this topic because our group company was focusing to the social issue such as feminism, racism and prejudice. So our campaign was choosing one of the social issue which is Depression.

Our campaign was delivered message to the audience to increase their care and love so we can decrease people who experience depression. According to this campaign our group decide to come out 3 ideas of each person. When we decide to choose on of those idea, she is the one who gonna be the writes of this movie.

We wanted to make the short movie or the commercial that also support our campaign. The most important is we wanted to make the movie that can remind and help people to increase their care not just about the story. We also planning make this movie to keep simple but still easy to remember.

Week 3

Our film project will be related to our campaign which is about fighting depression in school and work environments. To find the idea that we are going to use eventually, we have decided that each of the group member should come up with 3 ideas and we will discuss it during our next group meeting.

So far, what I got in mind is the same idea I got from last semester's pitch which is about a student who stops her friend from committing a suicide. I'd like to use the butterfly effect style in the story, so it could show the audience the possibility of what could happen if the main character didn't save her friend.

This is a social awareness project so I think we would want to touch people's hearts. Our project's main aim is to make people realise that their attitudes affect greatly on other people's lives. Hopefully we could come up with a movie idea that could help us achieve this aim.

Cheers.

Introduction: WELCOME TO OUR BLOG !

hey everyone!

welcome to our blog, our goal of making of this blog is to make an awareness campaign about the effects of hectic and stressful schedules of modern lives. in metropolitan cities such as Sydney it appears as if having a stressful life is one of the requirement of a successful career however, this life style has proved to cause numerous health related problems such as anxiety, depression , fatigue , insomnia and often times can be life threatening.

it is our deep hope to raise awareness about how showing our love, affection and support can make significant change in to our loved one's lives.

hope you enjoy our online journal and gradual development in making of our campaign!

Nargol B.