Films and Beyond

List of angles, shots and camera movements I will try to incorporate in my documentary: Note: Recently updated this post with this picture! Camera Angles: Eye level – camera points straight ahead. Intention is to be objective. Low angle – camera points up from a lower angle. It makes the subject dominating. High angle – camera points down from a higher angle. It makes the subject diminutive. A variation: Top angle or bird’s eye view – special case when you want to show the topography of a location. Aerial shots fall under this. Dutch – tilted angle. It draws attention to the fact it’s not a balanced frame. Something is literally off kilter. Over the shoulder (OTS) – not strictly an angle, but it’s a specialized shot that deserves its own place. Confrontational by nature. Shot Sizes Close up – facial features and expression is more important than anything else. Variation: Extreme close up – you probably want to chop something off for an even closer look. L

I will note down a few points, showing you how I imagine my documentary: Choose a worthwhile topic: Now the thing is I've always wanted to represent my society whenever I got a chance to do so. I feel this is the perfect opportunity. I want to represent people of my community, and how they're doing in their daily lives. So, I plan on making the film colourful, short and worth watching. How? the magic is editing. I'll try and bring it to life.  Use of best equipment: Taking Lessons from last year, I will be using whatever best equipment I can get my hands on. Quality is my main aim. If  I don't have good picture or sound quality , assuming looking from an audience perspective I would loose interest in a grainy video myself. Get a better know-how of the environment: In order to get comfortable while shooting and make the people I will be recording comfortable, I spend a whole day just seeing around and talking to them. Its never a great idea to

Research: Inspired by the powerful immediacy of actual combat footage and the emergence of Italian neorealism toward the end of the war, Hollywood feature films began absorbing the influence of documentary. The development of portable 16mm cameras and synch-sound equipment brought significant changes to documentary film practice. Filmmakers now gained the ability to shoot with relative ease on location. The new light weight and portability of cameras that before had been bulky and heavy meant that they no longer had to be the center of prefilmic events, but could follow events as they happened. Filmmakers could enter a situation directly, without having to alter events because of technological limitations, as had been the case with, for example, Flaherty's camera in igloos. The tripod was abandoned, and the camera gained a new mobility carried on the shoulder of the operator as filmmakers began to

Imkaan Welfare  I mkaan is a Nonprofit Organization, which was founded in 2012, by Tahera Hasan. Amongst the ongoing crisis of infants either being found dead or left abandoned, The Edhi Foundation revealed a National Statistical Report ;890 infant bodies were recovered in 2008, this number rose to 999 in 2009 and 1,210 in 2010. It concluded that in 2011, 70 dead infants were reportedly found in the city of Karachi alone. That is when Imkaan came into being, and sought to address the issue and take responsibility for bringing down the infant death rates and child abandonment. Their organisation is known for taking a holistic approach when it comes to treating the children, as in ,it is not restricted to merely serving food, giving a place to sleep . Imkaan has a mission statement,  “ No child’s life shall be curtailed by the circumstances of his or her birth because each one deserves absolute love and infinite opportunity to grow”. So in order to achieve it