Plannig: Synopsis

Short Film

Genre: Drama

Title: In Pursuit of Success

 We have planned to work on short film that has been inspired by true events of a person’s life; Qayanoos Khan, a teenage garbage collector from a district of Azaad Kashmir,  who attained the first division in his Matric Board Examination.

The inspration/idea mentioned above is the just the foundation of our film, the story and presention is modified according to our ideas. The character, Ali, is a ‘rickshaw’ driver,just a mere kid around the ages of 15-16, who works hard and struggles everyday just so that he can earn money to pay for his hosehold expenses aswell as his examinations, and hence secure his future.

The film would not only focus on his struggle but would also show how his efforts bore him fruit in the future. This would be shown in transitions, i.e. the film will keep shifting from one phase of his  life to the other one to keep the audience attentive and entertained. The decison to change the chronological order of the scenes was made in light of the fact that keeping the correct order of the scenes would make the film predictable and might even bore the audiences.

Throughout the film, hints would be dropped so that viewers are able to get an idea that the lives of two characters being shown is interlinked somehow, whereas in reality it would be just one character and this would be revealed completely in the end of the film- the two people that audience were vieweing throughout was actually one person shown in two different stages of his life.

The target audience for this media product would be the masses and it would reach them through television and internet. Local TV channels like could air the video since it would be something relating to the struggles and problem that the lower socio-economic class of Pakistan is going through. The video can be advertised in newspapers as well.

Short Film

Genre: Drama

Title:  The Insight

In this short film we plan to show how our perception works in a different manner to other people, meaning to say we perceive people differently to what they actually are and we judge them according to our perception, we never truly see others for who they are but for who we think they are.

The story of the film is how this one man is perceived by everyone to have a negative character. We show a day of his life where he goes to his office where his employees perceive him as a very strict, rude and an uptight boss who makes compensations for no one and who does not care about anyone. At lunch, the Cafe that he goes to, the waiter over there also hesitates to take his order. Since that cafe is the one he goes to regularly, people over there have also a very negative perceived image of-person who does not really laugh or smile. Amongst his friends he is considered the boring and the non-adventurous one who does not indulge in anything exciting- even this man’s neighbors do not want to befriend him, they avail every chance they get to avoid him. Returning home will mark the conclusion of the film. As soon as he enters his home, his perceived character totally changes. He is now a very soft, calm, loving and a very polite person. When he enters his home, his close friends and relatives are already there and his true self comes forth when he is shown greeting them and spending time with them. 

The video can reach it's target audience through internet since it would be uploaded it on YouTube. Almost everybody these days has an access to internet, they can easily view it and also we can receive their feedback about the video via YouTube. But, since the video will be uploaded on YouTube, the audience for this would now be limited, obviously people who do not understand English, or who do not have computers would not be able to view the film. We could refer to this peoples category as category C; people with low wages, probably illiterate as well, no access to computers or internet. Whereas people from category A and B would be able to view this. A; the high socio-economic class and B; probably the middle class which consists of literate people who have access to internet, can speak and understand English but are not very well off.

Media technologies used would be the camera and the editing softwares.

From among these two ideas, the first one was accepted- however, we were asked to work on it again and produce a better, new, more detailed synopsis.