Compilation

The compilation of the film opening is done, next step is to edit our project.         

Shoot 4

Today we finally got done with the shoot. Editing would be done by all team members together tomorrow, hoping to get it done as soon as possible.

Here we wanted to show the detective running up the stairs and taking out his gun in case he has to come eye to eye with the criminal.

I took this shot placing the camera on the table, to put the ringing phone in focus and detective coming towards it in blur whereas he is followed by the setting sun as a back-light.

Here we wanted to show how the shadow of the detective reaches the table before him using the sun as back light, so that it creates a mysterious/dramatic look of something is wrong.  

This is where the detective comes towards the phone and sees his daughter's necklace and after picking it up in his hand flashback of memories with his daughter start.

All these scenes are shot by Nikon D7100, ISO 640 and shutter speed 1/60. We chose sunset time for these shots because we wanted to use the setting sun as a source of back-light to give a dramatic look and in one scene we wanted to use it as a kick light for the detective's face where one part of his face is fairly lit whereas other is a little dark to show a dramatic tensed look on his face.

Shoot 3

We shot some father and daughter memories in a nearby park and manolo gelato(ice cream parlor) Islamabad in one day because both these places were close to each other.

Park 

Park scenes were shot by a Nikon D5100 with ISO 100 and shutter speed 1/100 because it was a sunny morning and there was too much light. Moreover we took the shot at 60 FPS because we wanted to show the park scene in slow motion.

Ice cream Parlor

Ice cream parlor scenes were shot with a Nikon D7100, ISO 640 and shutter speed 1/60 

Shoot 2

In the second scene we introduce the psychotic criminal after he gets ready and show how he kidnaps a person that angers him. The kidnapping scene is showed with the criminal coming towards his car where a stranger accidentally bumps into him and walks away, he gets angry at him and then with the walking stranger in focus he comes from the back and puts a cloth on his face with chlorofoam, the screen dibs to white and we see him closing the trunk of his car, indicating that he has put him in it.

INDOOR

Inside we show how he gets ready firstly he sets his tie where his hand and tie are zoomed in and in focus then him wearing his coat, the shot was taken from the back, then him settling his hair with the back of his head in focus and face in blur, and lastly we revealed his face with him walking towards the door and getting out.

Indoors we shot the scenes with a Nikon D7100, Shutter speed 1/60 and ISO 640 because it was evening time and in the room we were facing some problems with lighting.

OUTDOOR

This is the trunk shot where we put the camera inside the trunk and from there showed the criminal closing it. The shot was inspired from Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"

In the open we shot the scenes with a Nikon D7100 with ISO 640 and shutter speed 1/60, however we later on changed the location due to its poor's missenscene but the scene and camera settings remained the same.

Shoot 1

We have started shooting now, the whole team is working very hard for it.
Shooting was started sequence wise. In the beginning we show scenes from detective's office. And hence we started with the office. We showed how he is working in his office and then when he gets informed about the criminal's car being spotted he immediately leaves.

                                     

All of the scene in the office were shot with a Nikon D7100, ISO 640 and shutter speed 1/50, we mainly used different kinds of lamps that had same kind of lights for the lighting. 

                                                                             CAST

                                                            Shahbaz Khan as Detective.

                                                   Sheheryar Mahmood Dar as Criminal.

Sameen Shahzad as Detective's Daughter.

LOCATIONS FOR THE FILM OPENING

The reason we chose this park is that we wanted to show some father/daughter memories of the detective and his daughter. So we showed them playing in the park, sharing some good moments together.

This is the place where we shot the criminal's introduction and we wanted it to be indoors i.e inside a well decorated room where he would be getting ready.

This is Olympus mall in F-11 Islamabad, it is still under construction and since we wanted to show the criminal's hide out which we wanted to be an isolated place or a building and hence we chose this.

Lastly this is the Detective's office where we showed him working and then getting informed about the criminal's car and immediately going after him.

Final meeting in which we made a presentation for our teachers in which we had to explain our story, cast, locations, props etc. Once the presentation is given we will start shooting for the Film Opening soon.

Storyboard

Story and Research

STORY

Movie name: Nostalgic Absence
Genre: Thriller

The story is basically about a detective and a criminal.

It starts with an office scene where a detective is tensed and is going through files investigating a case of missing people.

In another scene a person is getting ready who’s face is hidden and after he gets ready his face is revealed and comes out of his house, a person bumps into him and he kidnaps him out of anger and from that it is revealed that he is the criminal with bipolar syndrome.

Later on the detective is informed that the car of the criminal has been spotted.

He picks up his stuff and goes after him.

When he gets there, he finds his daughter’s necklace and a phone which is ringing, gets flashbacks of memories.

When he picks it up it’s the psychopath saying “You thought you would catch me” Daughter says from behind “Help me daddy”

RESEARCH

Our story was an original idea however we took inspiration from different American tv serials. The look of the detective was inspired by Sherlock Holmes whereas the look and character of the criminal was inspired by Hannibal. 

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GROUP MEETING 

Here the whole team was working on the story. We made a rough sketch of our story board and finalized it at the end. We finalized our cast, props and locations.