SHADOW

The movie opening sequence that I have shot goes towards the genre of suspense and drama, naming it “shadow”.

Usually in these kind of movies, where prostitutes are shown, they are shown as fat or really thin, drug consuming, also roaming around in streets for men and indulging in cheap acts.

I have shown that the woman is so despeate, she doesn’t have any means of living and she is dying of hunger and has so many problems and depressions so as when she recieves such an offer, she accepts it without thinking even once.

Also this another movie named “talaash” has been very inspiring. I have used it’s song too as my opening sequel.

Firstly, my movie challenges the conventions in a way that it is a prostitute starred movie, and how she sees someone and reflects back at her memories as to how ragged and poor she used to be and then she found this path and became so rich, but this thought made her sad, she doesn’t like herself, what she has made of herself.

In most movies women are happy doing their job and are shown as if they have hearts of stone.

I have shown that the girl, is poor, helpless and in need. She gets an offer to fulfill her dreams and stomach. She accepts it in the blink of an eye, without much thinking about its consequences.

In most movies, prostitutes become prostitutes because they are in need. No body actually takes it as a job and loves doing it so yes, my movie goes with the conventions too.I have also shown gaudy make-up, which is the stereotype as for the prostitutes.

I believe my media product will catch the attention of middle-aged women also teenagers as it is a drama-filled movie. It may also attract men who love such movies. They may also like my movie because this is a social issue and it has a good moral and so it will make the audience smile when they come out of the cinemas. As it has a sentimental touch to it, it is sure to touch many hearts and so I have assumed it to be a movie for everyone, except children under 13 years, as it has such a discrete topic.

I believe that my product could do really well in the business. I would reach out to the paramount pictures productions and ask them to help me distribute it. As the paramount pictures is a kind of production who allows almost all genre movies unlike disney.

I know, with only my name as a production company wont bring the effect on the audience and box office as much it would bring by the name of paramount pictures, and so I would completely try to utilize it.

As you can see that my actress is wearing a black colored dress, this has a lot meaning for the movie. As the color black depicts emptiness, darkness, something bad or evil as well as sexiness.

And it is visible that the girl is doing something bad, something she shouldn’t be. It says that her life is like an empty vessel, her body soulless enough. This sows the amount of darkness the woman has drowned into.

On the top she has been made to put on alot of make-up, foundation, lipstick and dark eye makeup which reflects that she is hiding the sadness out of her face by covering it.Thismake-over and her outfit has a real role in what she feels and does. The way the girl is, expressionless most of the time, these all are signs which leds the audience to think that she is not happy but then again life has to go on..

This project has genuinely made me improve my production skills. The main reason for it being that I had another plot and story in my mind and I was shooting it, I had also shot 2 scenes of it when I realized It wasn’t coming out the way I had pictured in my head.

One thing I have learnt is that what we picture doesn’t always show up the way we want. And so I redid the whole shoot, constructing a different plot and producing another story into picture.

I learnt that producing is way more difficult than it looks, even though our pictue was just of 2 minutes een then it took us 2 weeks to execute it all. From the storyline till the editing and the last submission, little things came up which could make my project better and so I had to edit again. I learnt how to manage time, how to fulfill commitments and most importantly how to keep my actors happy as without them it wouldn’t have been possible.

I was null at producing or using the camera, through my media classes and practice I learnt different camera angles, how to handle the camera, and how to shoot with unique techniques. For this our media teache has been very supportive to us, guiding us all along.

And now im sure if not much, my productions skills have surely improved a little.

For the shooting of the film, I used a nikon dslrcamera with a tripod, which proved to be very user-friendly to me.

I had to search through a lot of editing soft wares to find the best and easy one. And at last I used the windows movie maker and it was very easy and feasible and thus I enjoyed editing my video. I also used the wonershare video editor for different options.

All in all I have learnt and experienced a lot from this project.