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Sunday, 13 November 2016
Plot Summary
Plot Summary
Our story-line's main protagonist-Joud- suffers through a horrible past. After her father passed away her mother turned to alcohol and drugs causing her to become a cold, bitter and abusive parent. Living in a home full of anger and hate, Joud turned to her one passion in order to find some sort of release-boxing.Boxing helped Joud become a stronger person, it helped her become the person who she wanted to be, a person that her father would be proud of. Due to her skill in the sport, she was able to take boxing as a professional career. However, as she was rising in fame, her mother-the person who plagued and emotionally scarred her from when she was younger-comes back to try and become 'a proper family'. Burning with hurt and rage Joud has to deal with the fact that the monster that ruined her is now asking to be brought back into her life as a family. But, the memories of when her father was alive causes her to hesitate-what if her mother changed?
Sunday, 6 November 2016
Location Planning (First Draft)
Since our film plot followed the story of a female boxer, we decided to look for gyms in Qatar that would have a boxing ring and other boxing facilities. Our options were a bit limited but we find two places that we could have filmed our boxing scenes at; QGym and Strongbox.
However, there were some problems with both locations. QGym only had a section for its boxing ring, meaning that there would be troubles filming the fight scene as all the rest of the machines, along with the people using those machines would be seen in shots, which would make our film lose its purpose.
Strongbox on the other hand, unfortunately, did not have any boxing ring, only a room where punching bags and other things related to boxing were located, which would help us film the scenes between the coach and the main protagonist. It also had a locker room where we plan to shoot the first few scenes of the film.
Eman had contacted both gyms and received a confirmation to film at both places. However, the owner of QGym had wanted to promote his business at our school in return, which we agreed to do after discussing with our teachers.
The only location we had difficultly looking to film at was the scenes about the protagonists past. We needed a house where we could pull off the required mise en scene. We couldn't find an appropriate place to do so, so towards the end we decided to do it at my house as we were running out of time to film. Although the setting wasn't what we needed it to be, we decided to use it anyway to test it out so we could see how the shots would come out once filmed there.
Shots of the rooms we would use for filming at my house.
Props Planning
Plan was made by Eman
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Most of the props we needed for filming were already available and really cheap to buy. We split whatever we needed among the four of us so the cost would be evened out. The only problems were the old television and the boxing book. To counter those problems we decided to not show the television during our shots, and instead of buying an actual boxing book we decided to print the cover of one instead and pasted it on another book to make it look realistic.
Sorting out the props was easy to do as there were four of us to split it against. We planned to gather all these things together before filming begins so we could sort out any mistake we found, or make any improvements if necessary.
Costume Planning
Plan was made by Eman
After discussing with the group, here is a more detailed plan about our costumes. The basic plan/mood board can be found here.
The costumes we decided upon suited the stereotypes of some of the characters as it would be simple, less expensive, and would easily present the characters the way we want them to be presented.
The costumes we decided upon suited the stereotypes of some of the characters as it would be simple, less expensive, and would easily present the characters the way we want them to be presented.
Following are the examples of how I personally envision the clothes for each characters to look like.
The coach would appear during the boxing match (and shortly during the training scene) where he will be dressed in a formal attire; a white polo button up with black trousers and leather shoes.
During the training scene with the main protagonist he would be wearing the stereotypical normal gym clothes, and would be equipped with normal boxing training gear.
The clothes worn by the protagonist's younger self would not only be old, but mismatched as well to show her mother's lack of attention towards what her own daughter does. The mismatching clothes would also help to represent the younger one's innocence as she would not know how to properly dress herself, which would show the neglect.
The colour red is symbolic in the film. It will be the colour of the bow the younger one wears during her scenes, and it will be the colour of the boxing gloves the older one will use during her fights. The bow is something gifted to the younger one before he leaves for his soldier duties, which is why the colour itself is treasured so much, as along with that fact it also symbolises the anger felt by the protagonist along with all the hard work that led her up to becoming a boxer.
The scenes in which the protagonist is about to go for her fight, I imagine her wearing what the model on the right wears, as it is another stereotype shown in boxing movies. During the match however, I imagine her dressed in the clothes on the left. Although female boxers wear something differently Eman, who is playing as the main protagonist, would not be able to wear something like that as it is inappropriate in our culture. Due to that, fully covering clothes will be worn by her in the fighting scenes.
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