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I'm Making A Short Film

Just got the info yesterday, there is a competition for Indonesian students that studying in Middle East and Africa to make an Islamic short film about hijrah (migration from wickedness to the way of God).

We don't know anything about making film, don't have any equipment to make the film but we want to enter. I'm the scriptwriter and would be the director. Have done the story script and the beat sheet (didn't know this terminology before), now I'm going to draw the storyboards.

Maybe later we're going to use camera's phone to shoot, no budget to rent for a good video camera.

The deadline is in a month. Everything seems impossible, but let us see how it turns out, because I'm confident with my story.

Just want to post this in my blog, as a log. If somehow the film is done, win or not, it will become my first film ever!

Update:
Entry 18 June 2017:
Slow but sure we have captured scene by scene. The problems that I can list on while making this film are:
1. We don't have camera. We borrow one.
2. The lens is not really good.
3. The battery is weak, only to shoot for 17 minutes straight.
4. If the battery is not dead yet, the camera sometimes overheat.
5. We don't have equipment to record audio, we use our phone instead. Can't really reduce the noise.
6. We're making film at Ramadhan month, while in Yemen most people sleep from morning to afternoon. Now is at the last 10 days of Ramadhan while people busy praying all night (including the actors). The time to shoot this film is very short indeed only an hour or two everyday.
7. The laptops we are using to edit the scenes are not high end laptops, most doesn't even have video card.
8. We are new to film making the same as the actors (which are our friends).
9. Deadline in three weeks.

So quoting Jeremy Clarkson, "What could possibly go wrong?"

10 July 2017
Today is the due date for the film, and we managed to upload it! So basically, we managed it! It's our first film ever!

We have uploaded it to Google drive but haven't uploaded it yet to Youtube. If the jurists say OK for us to share the film, we will share it gladly to the world.

I have shown the film to some Yemenis, all of them are very excited with this movie and can't wait for us to translate it to Arabic. They even want to share it to the Hadhromaut channel, so win or not, there are already fans to this film which is nice.

So wait for us to upload this film into Youtube


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