Bilal Mahmood-FDA

  Full Documentary: Initial Proposal   Working title: Secret Dreams Producer: Bilal Mahmood Director: Bilal Mahmood Cameraperson: Bilal Mahmood Language: English/Urdu Duration: 00:09:15 One liner: A look at the day-to-day life of a freelancer and what happens when he decides to live for himself. Abstract /hypothesis  I want to show how the effects of an unbalanced work/life balance negatively affect people, especially those who work from home. I'm also aiming to show how making changes to improve this balance is crucial to fight off burnout. Expository information  My documentary focuses on the day-to-day routine of a freelance software engineer in Pakistan.  There is a notion among certain groups that online workers do not work as diligently at home compared to going to an actual office, I want to explore this by looking at the number of projects a freelancer is working on at any given time as well the human aspect that comes into play whilst dealing with clients. Most importantly

  About the Art and Artist This artwork is the Astral Clocktower by Ipan Hf . He is a concept artist based in Indonesia and specialises in environment concept art and illustration. Other than this n ot much is known about the artist, except that for this artwork he was inspired by the video game Bloodborne .  The artwork is in the style of concept art, made to look like it came directly from the game's planning documents. The location of the Astral Clocktower is an actual area within the game's downloadable content, The Old Hunter. Sounds in the Image: What Can Be Seen: Wooden floor Clock hands Bells Candles Other Sounds I Imagine: Wind blowing Sword being taken out gears/metallic sounds of the clock machinery Scurrying of rodents Resources Used: For this task, I used Davinci Resolve for the actual sound design and editing aspect. Sound effects were pulled from the online sound library Artlist.io. The below image shows all the sound effects I downloaded and used: Making Process

Jump Cut: A jump cut is when a single shot is broken up by a cut that makes it look like the character or object has jumped forward in time. Within the scene below  (00:38-00:43) , I wanted to make sure the momentum from the previous scene could be carried over to the next scene so that the story would progress at a comfortable rate. That's the narrative purpose for the cut, the practical reason is that we had actually shot a scene where the two actors received their orders and walked over to a table to sit down, however, due to a lack of planning that scene had disturbed the continuity of the rest of the sequence. For this reason, I added a jump cut to skip to the main back and forth between the two characters.  L-Cut and Cutaways: An L-cut is when the audio from your current shot carries over briefly to your next shot. Cutaways are when you cut from your original shot to an insert shot before going back to the original shot. The reason I used an L-cut for the shot below  (02:23-0

Final Film: Pre-Production Synopsis: In the distant future, humans are gone. In their place, advanced androids, nearly inseparable from humans, live on and continue to maintain the Earth under the command and supervision of The System. That is until one android starts to exhibit strange behaviour. Story: Ergo is about a nameless android who follows the commands it's been issued by The System, it receives commands at the start of the day, to act like a human. It does this for a while, however, we learn that this is not the life the android wants for itself, it is capable of more but gets tied down by the System and its commands. However, through its own efforts, it works to go against the System and prove its free will. To take a closer look at its themes, with this film, I'm looking at depression and dissociation. There are a number of people who are living their lives the same exact way every day without change, not actually being present in what's happening in their live