Production

Color Palette:

Filming:

The filming began on 9th November, at Center for Applied Molecular Biology(CAMB) majority scenes were shot in this location. the establishing shots of the trees were shot in Kashmir, Arrang Kel and later the house scenes were shot in kasoor at my friends house.That much change in the location was done as these scenes were added later in post production as our sir advised us to add these scene to enhance the aesthetics of the video.The filming at the CAMB was wrapped up within 2 days mainly the murder sequence or dream/looped sequence was shot there. Most of the scenes that carried the dark theme of the story gave the film's story line a intense and haunting vibe. During filming improvisation were done as due to our change in location at the very last moment we had to scrap off things. 

Behind The Scenes:

 

Acting:

After some rounds of auditions in our college campus, we ended upon the decision to take this job in our own hands. As acting is also one of the most crucial part for any film. scenes of me as the main lead were shoot first like the entering in the storage area, along with the stabbing scene on the picture. later we shoot the murder sequence with my co star played by Umar Ahsan who did a brilliant job. he was first introduced as being tied to the chair. The expressions and the emotions portrayed in every scene was done accordingly like sign of grief and anger on my face during closeups or the unconscious scenes of me and Umar added life. 

Behind The Scenes:

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Directing:

Each and every elements, scenes carry a meaning in its own whether its the door knob twisting scene or the intense establishing shots of the ware house, the darker theme and usage of low light, created by a sunset lamp faced towards the wall were the evidence board was created, talking about the evidence board it had images of different people along with there news of abduction to show the attention to detail, the dressing of our main character a all black formal dressing showing his maturity and dedication, directing was fun as during shoots we landed upon a decision to improvise the story a little bit as during shooting we released something was not right and mentioned before are last moment change in location caused  the decision to have changes, the changes specifically were the removal of the the tv watching and the bedroom sequence, and improvised it to match the loop of the with the door knob to door knob sequence.

Behind The Scenes:

Cinematography:

Each and every raw clip from our shoot:

 

Camera work is the most important part, but our crew member and friend musa alvie carried it with perfection,to film the opening brief we used an Iphone 11, which was kept on the settings of 4k 30 fps.

We took a lot of shots but each with different angles to have variety and diverseness in the shots, whether it was the establishing shots of the ware house or the tries or closeup of props to give them depth. The film starts with a establishing shot and continues towards a closeup shot on the door knob and as he twists it we cut to scene as he enters, again the close up on the fingers and extreme closeup on my eyes, then with a wide shot we showed the photo stabbing scene and cutting it to a closeup as the knife stays there with blood drips from the picture, moving in the story we get a scene of a knife in my hand along with a man tied to the rope in the background of the picture signifying the mans end. then we cut to a mid shot of me waking up and getting my throat cut, which continues to a black out but the next scene is revealed to be the same as the door knob sequence before, hence creating a loop. 

Equipment/Props used:

 

Lighting :

Lighting being the most important part for any video as the your video quality depends on it, we got equipment like ring light and sunset lamp. the sunset lamp was used to add warmth into some specific scenes in the video and same goes with the ring light was used as filler light were the light was bit low we used it there to enhance the scene making visible for the viewer. 

Sound Recording:

Voice overs were added in the the opening brief later on in the post production, as our sir advised us to add them as the story wasn't connecting with the audience. Which were recorded using a microphone and were done by me. Here is the list of the voice overs.

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RISK ASSESMENT:
While shooting the scene my finger got a cut from the knife
The equipment we used especially the mic it wasn't recording properly
The laptop and the editing software lagged a lot so i had to use my phone for the editing 🎬