The document describes a movie opening created by the author for a class project. The movie has the working title "psycho-path" and explores the impact of bullying and lack of attention on a girl named Kate who isolates herself and talks to dolls. The plot involves Kate holding a boy named Jake captive. Making the movie helped the author learn new skills like editing and working with actors. Integrating technologies like YouTube tutorials, editing software, and blogs supported the project.

1. BY:
SHIZA AHMED

4. The name of my movie opening is the ‘psycho-path’.
The genere of the movie is a suspense thriller. The
actor I’ve casted in my movie was supposed to depict
childish and care-free attitude to signify and to the
emphasize on the fact that if a child is not given
adequate attention, love and care in the first few
years of his or her life the resulting consequences
can be unpleasant.

5. The name of the main character is kate who’s
a beautiful 16 year old girl but as a result of
some past traumatic experiences like being
bullied at school she has become an introvert
and isolated herself completely from her
circle of friends and family and enjoys to
spend most of her time talking to dolls which
she considers as her real friends, she also
however feels lonely and requires the love.
The twisting bit of the plot was marinas
abrupt transition from a shy quiet lovely girl
into a bold, cruel and a confident lady.

6. The boy who was tied up was named ‘jake’
weather they both knew each other from
before or not and if they had an history
previously was left unclear to be anticipated
by the audience. The guy was helpless and
nervous and wanted o get rid of kate as soon
as he could, where as, kate has been shown to
have mixed feelings of love, anger and hate
towards jake, the way she looks at jake can be
an element which is open to several
interpretations, primarily that she was greatly
in need of his presence and had gone to the
extent of physically abusing him and locking
him down.

8. In my video I’ve mostly maintained most of the
conventions and stereotypes linked to the
“psycho-path” and it’s behaviour.
The coventions that were maintained are as
follow :
Marina was shown childish with two pony tails
playing with barbie dolls

9. The sound was also very typical and gave
the true and accurate feel.
The expressions and the smirks are also
seen in many movies of the psycho path
behaviour.
The abrupt transition from one personality
to another and the change in voice and
tone have also been seen in countless
movies.

10. The social issue that has been highlighted in
my movie-opening is bullying and the impact
of having no friends and being mistreated
has on an individuals pattern of behaviour
and life.

11. My inspiration was taken from two movies
primarily which were the room mate and the
psychopath..

12. Actress laighton meester Marina (aleesha janjua)

13. Close-up from room
mate
Wide shot from the
psychopath

14. When I started this project I was not sure If I’ll
be able to make it through the end or not. My
production skills after this project have not
only developed but have also given me great
confidence in terms of camera angles
and polished my weak areas. I have
always struggled with the editing part
but after editing the rough draft
countless times before the actual so I
mastered the art.

15. Before I had media as a subject I’d watch
movies just for the heck of it but now it
seems like I have new eyes and now I not
only evaluate the movie with regard to how
it’s shot but also the constant commenting
on various scenes is inevitable now.
While I was writing the script for my movie-
opening I watched several movies with
similar plots, for example, the roommate
and the 7 psychopaths etc.

16. I always thought producing movies was a
very simple task and all that was required
was a camera man and actors, making a
video of mine taught me that how complex
and lengthy this process and how many
people are required it also taught me what
things must be done to get in order to
make a movie. It also taught me the virtue
of being patient and not giving up as I
edited my video 6 times before the final
submission to get it perfect.

17. My horizons of creativity have been
expanded greatly by watching so many
different movies and getting an inspiration
from them I’ve always had a tough time to
stick to one idea, even for the movie-
opening I initially had a different story line
after I shot it I realized that it’s not turning
the way I’d like it to and then came up with
another script overnight.

18. Making this video has been a constant
struggle from deciding the storyline,
persuading the actors, the costumes,
the perfect set, the editing everything
has been challenging but yet the
experience made me discover many
new things about myself which I did
not know existed it boosted my level of
It’s been a tough but an overwhelming
journey for me and has boosted my
confidence level greatly .

19. Another thing that I have learnt is to
meet the deadlines and work on time.
Though sometimes, the editing took
longer than what one would anticipate
and we’d go running to our begging and
pleading to give us more time but
nonetheless it made us more responsible
and the true importance of the essence
of time and that not doing things on time
is useless.

20. As we all know, the distribution of the movie
is the most important and integral part. I can
not emphasize enough on the fact that a
good strategy of distribution can completely
change a movies fate.
However, my movie-opening would mainly
target the young adult from the age of 14
onwards, the reason I say this is because the

21. The Story line is a little difficult to be
understood and if watched by younger
children then they might get so fascinated
by it and start copying it which can be both
harmful as well as dangerous for them. To
understand why a persons behaving the
way the are, requires an individuals
empathetic understanding and the ability to
put himself in the shoes of other which
wont be possible of its watched by children
under the age of 14.

22. Since the budget of my movie is not very
high I won’t be able to hire any of the big
six to distribute my movie in the market, I
also feel they are looking for more
professional work and would not
acknowledge begginers work. My video has
been made by the resources that were
available and no external help has been
taken from anywhere which is why I’d say
it’s prone to improvement and can be
‫۔‬rectified in the future

23. After everything has been done and
finalized I would want any of the
independent studios to disrtibute it and I
have complete confidence that the will not
reject it because the unique selling point of
my movie opening is that not many
successful hits have been made on the
‘psycho path” behaviour and people are
keen and always looking forward to watch
something that is different and out of the
box.

24. If by any chance my movie is rejected then
I’d launch it on the social networking sites,
for example, dailymotion, youtube, vimeo
andfacebook. The publicity can be done
through keeping various contests on
instagram and twitter and the winner
would win a t-shirt with the movie’s name
on it.

25. I would prefer my work to be distributed by the
lions gate entertainment for the reason that
they have relaeased a few movies in the past
which have a similar plot and have done well in
the market. It’s very much possible that this
script would intrigue them a lot.

26. Integrating technologies usually refers to
combining different technologies and using them
for a certain task.
I’ve integrated several technologies in my project
firstly I’ve become an avid Imdb checker also the
amount of research work that’s involved in every
stage is very crazy so I’ve gotten used to
browsing for several hours online on my laptop,
Internet has made life easy because the amount
of help you receive form there is huge and then
there are always different tutorials present which
you can refer to in there’s a chance of error.

27. I learnt how to use several different
softwares. For editing, I mostly worked
on the videopad and adobe after
effects. Learning how to work properly
on them was a very difficult task for me
because I constantly struggled
throughout but what helped the most
were the the tutorials present on
youtube. For research on any particular
movie, I seeked wikipedias or imdbs
help.

28. Other than that, I made a blog on
word press which was again
something I had never done in my
life before and it took me a day or
so to figure out how to go about it.
We also uploaded our vidoes on
vimeo for projects which was also
new. This journey has taught us
many things which I wouldn’t have
been able to learn otherwise.
Because of this I frequently checked
my Gmail account which wasn’t
active at all before, e-mailing took
over the texting and whatsapping
trend for me throughout.

29. Another soft wares was the power point
and slideshare which I used almost after
ages in order to make this presentation.
My ideas have been polished and refined
tremendously. I used a nikon 560 D to
shoot my video, it’s very easy and user-
friendly. To avoid jerks I also used a
tripod which was very helpful.

30. A few fun pictures from the shoot
Keeping up with the actors tantrums
by feeding them coffee and food.

31. HARD AT WORKKKK