Our genre..

My first and final option for a partner was Ifrah Khan and im teamed up with her. While deciding our genre we gave ourselves 3 choices- 1: Music Video, 2: Documentary, 3: TV Advertisement. Our 1st option failed because we wanted to do a patriotic music video but couldn't find a band or a singer who had or would sing such a song in such short time. So we moved on to our 3rd choice which was a TV Advertisement. Again, this choice was a no when it came to acting. Shooting an advertisement required us to have good actors around. Plus, it also required a script which I strongly think is a risky approach as the examiner might simply not like our script. Therefore; without wasting any time, we decided to do a Documentary for our Advanced Media Portfolio. There are two main reasons behind our decision; First, we need to collect authentic facts and information which cannot be wrong. Second, my partner Ifrah Khan has previously made a documentary for a competition and won a prize for it, so our team has some past experience over what we are going to be doing. However, we know that even without the script writing, it is not going to be an easy task to make a fine documentary. A lot of in depth extensive research is required over the topic that we choose. How well we execute the whole project is another catch. The process has to be taken care of step by step. Each stage needs to be carefully worked upon. Our research must not lack any factor or detail related to out topic. The shooting itself has to be neatly done. We have to take care of all the aspects of shooting which include location, lighting, mise-en-sene, sound and video quality and so on. So we've got a lot of hard work ahead of us.

Posted by Shahbano.