Film Opening: Rumi's Protégé

Rumi's Protégé AS Media Film Opening

CCR Video

CCR Video Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ymF_JucfLsKXUW9agJpx3yUlofAa1Que/view?usp=sharing

Creative Critical Reflections Slides

Here are my slides for the CCR questions

Editing Rumi's Protege

Finally, I received the footage from Fatima Ali after the winter break and we started editing immediately. Our Director, Sarym and Cinematographer, Fatima came over to my house to help me out in the editing process so that I have their input on everything.

the screen while I was editing

me editing

I was feeling a little adventurous so we made the decision to make a mask animation to transition the shots smoothly (as shown above). It was a very tedious task as I had to move the mask every single frame but it was worth it in the end as it looked amazing.

Fatima and Sarym stayed around until the color-grading stage, which meant I had to do all the sound design on my own.

For sound, most of the ambient sounds recorded on set were filled with a lot of noise and disturbances which simply weren't good enough to add in the final cut. I recorded all the sounds with a method called Foley Art, where you replicate the sounds in the frame with similar objects. Everything was recorded with foley except for the high frequency reverbs.

a screenshot from the assembly stage

The Shooting of Rumi's Protege

We finally began the shooting of Rumi's Protege. We met up at our producer, Zainab Hyat's house and began preparing immediately. The location scouting wasn't much as the only locations used were Zainab's house and our A Levels college campus.

 Zainab's garden that showed the protagonist's 
"happy place"

The shot for the thumbnail of the film opening

Zainab applying makeup on Mustafa Babar, the protagonist

Shooting the final take in our A Levels College

A celebratory picture with the entire theme along with our cast

It was a really fun and memorable day, however we did come across a few problems while shooting indoors.
The lighting was very dim and we wanted to show sunlight entering the room, luckily we were able to fake it using an artificial light source

faking sunlight with an artificial light source

Making Rumi's Protégée: The Animation

I was told to make an animatic of the film opening but I wanted to take that a step further. Even though it might seem overkill, I'm making a fully rendered 3D Animation which is hopefully approx 2-2.5 minutes long.

I'm using Blender 2.8 and its real-time render engine to make the animation.

At the moment, I'm modelling the environments in which the animation will take place. I already have a set of low-poly models already rigged and textured (by me) which will be tweaked a bit to match the needs of this animation

Here's the dining room scene so far. I'll add a few props in this as well as a few plates and low-poly food models to show the breakfast scene.

Risk Assessment Sheet

We had to write down a risk assessment sheet for security purposes of the crew and the actors.