Editing Progress

well, so far, we managed to get more filming done over the weekend with our protagonist SHIV. we took long shots of him walking up and back down an alleyway and also had abit of magic (haha) with a random person appearing next to shiv for a split second and then disappearing, magic right there lol. also we had a shot of shiv falling on to the floor slowly, this shot will relate to the scene where the enemy (Lanzel) throws a punch towards the camera and the next shot will be a shot of shiv falling down on to the floor on his side and we will slow this down to create an effect to the audience. I captured the latest footage on to the computer and we then trimmed them all down and put them in a temporary order just for now, we stayed until 7pm this day which was long as there was so much footage to capture and we had to make sure we took note down of the timing and we captured it correctly

well right now (20/01/08) we are currently editing at the moment trying out different effects for the introduction of our protagonist character shiv, we have come up with a good effect for this opening which no one approves off lol but we think its really good and we will keep it. I was given the job of updating our blog as its been a while since its been updated so i thought might as well make myself productive :D, so overall, we're making good progress with jus 1 or 2 scenes more to film and then the soundtrack and an order for it.


Nabillllllllllllllllll

Editing 11/03/08

wats good, yeh editing has been the same as the past few days, we've just been tying out new effects on our footage and see what goes well, but also we managed to finish off our sequence and decide on how it will be structured. we also going to start our last filming tomo on 12/3 and finish the filming and then hopefully by the end of the week, our filming will be finished and we can start to sequence our trailer and add music and a voiceover. so at the moment its all going well. stayed until 7 today :|, longest ive ever stayed in a clasroom all my life haha but yeh, we have abht 4 key scenes to film now and then we can try out different pieces of hip hop music soundtrack and see which one suits our production and how it looks.

and another thing, some of the media mentors need to calm down while chatting 2 out group, one mentor (not mentionin names) threatend us today :| and kept shoutin at us for no reason thinkin we aint takin it seriously but we are tho, i may have over reacted when sayin our group gonna win the best production, but we know we have a good chance of achieving that because we are confident. we may be laid back during editing but that dont mean we dont care about dis production, so a message to that mentor, JAM UR HYPE lol, nah really dont shout at us unless u got a reason to

okay im off now im meant to be doing work here so chek u all ina piece blessss


Nabil [x]

Progress part 4

well even though we havent finished filming, (lol) we have captured all our footage on adobe premiere software and we have a lot of footage and it loooks really good and we got great ideas on how 2 structure how the trailer will start, the main scenes and the ending. we decided (without ajitpal) that since we have 3 or 4 weeks left 2 finish ediitng, we decided to choose 1 weekday and 1 weekend, depending on the availability of our asian artsit shiv, to COMPLETLEYYYYYY finish da last few bits and bobs of our filming and BANGGG.. we can capture that on adobe and begin to build our trailer by addin the special effects and soundtrack, so we are all on good track!!!!! nice one boyzzzzzz


Nableeeeee (Nabil)

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well erm, i dont know that beeen happening here now with out filiming, we have two days until we have to give the camera back and we aint finishedd =|, well lets see.. Friday was meant to be filming day but out main artist couldnt be bothered to get out of his house and he lives in slough grrr so we didn film den.. then saturday i had things to do and toilets to fix (dont ask why) so no filming on saturday, and then yday we decided to do all the scenes we had to do b4 we finished.... but then again, it floppedddd!!! grrr boiz if ur reading this, we need a group discussion ifu know what i mean, we have groups like rajan, simmren and nafisa who have nearly finished and they where flopping before =| c'monnn boizz lets sort it outttttttt but yeh all in good time we only have 2 or 3 scenes to film, and whoooooooooooooooosh, we're off to the editing stage so Avi, Amit, Ajitpal... its time to pull our socks up and show everyone why our group is going to win best production.. till then god bless ur souls and we need to add music to this blog man its so quiet :| but yehh blessssssssssssssssssss

NabiiiLLLL

Progress part 3

Here's another progress report just updating you on the latest installments in A Rappers Ambition. On monday we filmed some more intruiging shots, however there were not shots of our male protagonist but there were shots of the protagonists enemy (Lanzel). Firstly we shots some scenes of the enemy answering a call from the protagonist who failed to get some money which results in some serious consequences. We took roughly about 5-10 shots of that scene (my hand was cold, it was freezing that day). We shot these scenes in a car however to get the angle right we had to shoot from an awkward angle but it's all good because the shots came out perfect with the brilliant acting and emotion shown on screen.

Anyway after we got that scene perfectly done we then went around the corner to cranleigh park where we had the enemy running for the chasing scene and me and Amit and Hamsa took some handheld camera work going along with the enemy as he ran outside the gates. In these shots we got some good mise en scene with the estates being caught in the background and we varied the shots with on eof the shots being a pan sideways and the other shot being a still frame shots catching a glimpse of the enemy.

Well progress is going good so far so more brilliant shots will be on their way shortly.

Ajitpal

Progress part 2

well heres antother report, we filmed on monday and yesterday. on Monday we filmed both artists having a showdown, we used a pan movement to show their expression and their facial looks towards each other. we must have taken 25 shots for this as both artists could not stop laughing at each other when they were having the staredown which was pretty funny but in the end we got it done and we got good shots and angles of this. Next we had Avinash stand on top of his dad's prized BMW (haha) with the camera and filmed the asian artist coming out of his house and following him with the camera and then we had the black artist walking near his house and as they past each other, we got a good shots of them looking back at each other so this would build tension, then we zoomed out so we can see both of the artists looking back.

On wednesday's filming, it was pretty straight forward, slough missions we did with the asian artist. we filmed the asian artist in the train writing lyrics and 'spitting' the lines himself and we also got a shot of his notepad and the written lyrics, also in the background there was some graffiti so its creates a good image of what kinda conventin a rap film would bring. we still have to film that scene again because now we have to film more graffiti and more trains going passed. this should be hopefully done tomorrow night down central london (dont ask, i didnt wanna argue) so at the moment.. once again SO FAR SO GOOD and our rhythm is smoooth and going well. safeeeee


Nableeeeee (Nabil)