Abeeha had asked a couple of people for voiceovers but the final we chose are below in the linked attached.
Done by Ali Haider(boy's voice over) & Rahima Asfandyar(girl's voice)
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17N8sh8wyVgpxfbzCmjiNdtCynXVvvIOP?usp=share_link
Also, here are a few screenshots of the conversation we had in coordinating about what/how a voiceover would be.
When we showed our schoolteacher the first draft, he offered certain adjustments that would need us to reshoot a specific scene, which we would do on February 1st, 2023.
Abeeha had asked one of her friends if she had any male friends willing to voice over for our short film so here are the screenshots of our conversation.
We have spent around Rs 7k on the entire shoot and the shoot is over and has moved on to phase 3, Post Production
The hardest part was picking out the female lead's costume.
We couldn't determine whether to dress in accordance with Pakistan's traditional customs or with the new generation of modern spouses.
We then at last decided that the female lead wears a shalwar kameez to symbolise the Pakistani heritage.
Here are images of the costume We selected
We used a Canon M50 Mk 1 with a 50mm Prime Lense
Iso Settings for low light were 1000 and for daylight 100
Aperture was set to 1.8 during the entire shoot
Shutter speed was set to 100 in low light and in daylight it was around 2500
اسرارِمحبت
SCRIPT
SCENE 01:
VOICEOVER: “Things aren’t always what they seem to be”
(WHILE HUSBAND SEES HIS WIFE LYING DEAD ON BED)
SCENE 02:
No dialogues only expressions of sadness as he sees his wife
SCENE 03:
Husband goes to office next day as if nothing happened.
SCENE 04:
*HUSBAND PLAYS RECORDING
WIFE: “it doesn’t matter where I am, I would still be yours" BUT “Without any doubt I was loyal to us, our relationship”
SCENE 05:
*HUSBAND NEXT DAY PLAYS SECOND RECORDING
WIFE: don’t assume all that happened is because ...
*HUSBAND GETS A PHONE CALL, PAUSES RECORDING:
HUSBAND: HEY? YES? I’M COMING IN 10 MINUTES
SCENE 06:
NO DIALOGUES ONLY HUSBAND WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND IS SEEN IN RESTAURANT
SCENE 07:
*WIFE APPEARS, HUSBAND HAS SHOCKED EXPRESSIONS.
WIFE: I see you haven’t listened to the last recording?!
SCENE 08:
*HUSBAND RUSHES AND REACHES HOME, PLAYS THE LAST RECORDING
WIFE: HELLO? RECORDING GETS INTERRUPTED
Synopsis for اسرار محبت . The genre is sci fi and romance.
A deceitful husband cheats on his wife after which she dies of trauma, but gets to know some shocking truth.
Husband works in a company and has a 9 to 5 job, while the wife is housewife. The girl with whom the husband cheats on the wife is a young , pretty girl who is in her early twenties. All the characters aren’t too wealthy but belong to an upper middle class society
The main character is the wife herself though in the story she almost dies and fakes her death leaving the story in suspense. After faking her death she uses recordings and communicates the immense love she has for her husband and the reason for her taking her life wasn’t that her love decreased instead a reason he will come to know later.
At that the start of the film, we see husband isn’t too sorrowful about his wife dying! What could be the reason exactly? And the next day , immediately the husband continues going to his office like nothing happened. A week passes by and the husband opens a drawer in his bedside table and finds a note and a USB. He plays the first recording and it has all the recordings a loving and caring wife would leave behind. The next day he plays the second part, but half of it due to a disturbance.
After listening to the second recording gets nervous ( still doesn’t know that wife already knew ) and gets call from his new girlfriend. They meet. It’s their favorite restaurant. While they sit and enjoy their leisure time the husband’s wife appears suddenly in front of him. He is shocked to see her alive. The wife appears with tears in her eyes and asks her husband to go listen to the last recording in the USB.
Husband goes home and plays the last recording starting with “HELLO” and then gets interrupted
We will be filming the indoor shots in a house in E10 and will be recording outdoor shots in Bahria Phase 4 and DHA 2
Microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike, is a device – a transducer – that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Types of Microphones
(i) Transducers
it also has three types
-Dynamic (Cost Efficient)
-Condenser (Costly, High Quality)
-Ribbon (Extremely Expensive, Best Quality and Used in Professional Studios)
(ii) Pickup Pattern
it has two types
-Uni-Directional Microphone / Cardiod Microphone
-Omni-Directional Microphone
It receives audio in a 360 degree direction
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-Phantom Power
there are professional microphones that come with a XLR cable or XLR mount to run them. They usually require a voltage of 48+ V to run them and have a 3.5mm head.
Audio is first Edited on Speakers and then for advanced editing, professional speakers are used.
Sound is a vibration.
Audio is when we record digitally. The vibration of sound is audio and waveform.
Waveform of a signal is the shape of its graph as a function of time, independent of its time and magnitude scales and of any displacement in time.
Pre-Role is the recording of the shots 2 to 3 times before the actual shot is taken.
Post-Role is a recording of 10 to 15 seconds in length. This is in contrast to video ads that play before a video (Pre-Role).
Echo and Reverb
ECHO is the delay in the sound
REVERB occurs when a sound hits any hard surface and reflects back to the listener at varying times and amplitudes to create a complex echo, which carries information about that physical space.
Mono and Sterio
Mono is the single channel audio
Stereo is the two channel audio
True Stereo is the stereo signal consists of two related channels, with correlated material in the left and right outputs.
Pseudo Stereo is when you record Mono and duplicate it later through editing
Types of Sound Systems
- 2.1 Sound System
- 5.1 Sound System
- 7.1 Sound System
Light has its own impact in the frame
Three Point Lighting is mostly used in the frame. Three point lighting means there are three sources of light . There is KEY LIGHT , FILL LIGHT and BACK LIGHT
Key Light is the main light source in a scene (Primary Scene)
Back Light is thrown from the back of the character. It gives separation and depth to the frame
Fill Light is used to fill the shadows created by the key light. It is thrown opposite from the direction of key light.
Rules Of Lighting
KEY LIGHT is given from a 40 degree angle of the the character. FILL LIGHT is thrown from a 45 degree angle opposite of the character and in half of the wattage used for KEY LIGHT. BACK LIGHT is given from above the character from the the background.
High Key Lighting is the bright light used in the frame and the shadows produced here are soft.
Low Key Lighting is the use of low lights in the frame and the shadows produced here are harsh.
-Shot / Reverse Shot
-Eye-line Motion
-Graphic Motion
-Action Match (Cut on Action)
-Jump Cut
-Cross Cutting / Inter cutting / Parr ell Cutting
Reverse Shot
switch between two shots of two people talking back and forth\
Eye line Match
show where the eye-line lies or where the character is looking
Action Match
cut on action
Jump Cut
It has two types, one in editing and one is in production
Real Time and Screen Time
Cross Cutting
shows two actions simultaneously
Graphic Match
A graphic match (as opposed to a graphic contrast or collision) occurs when the shapes, colors and/or overall movement of two shots match in composition, either within a scene or, especially, across a transition between two scenes.
The sound designer or sound director controls everything in the sound department. He or she is the sound director of the film. Walter Murg was the first sound designer of the world and he directed the sound department in God Father and Apocalypse etc.
Sound Engineer
he or she is the technical head of the sound department. He or she decides whatever is related to sound.
Sound Recording Artist
They monitor the boom operator and the audio of the boom. Both him and the boom operator work under sound engineer.
Boom Operator
Boom operator use a shotgun microphone attached to a boom to record sound. He works with the sound recording artist. Shotgun Mic is a directional mic which does not capture background noise. It is the most commonly used.
Composer
Composer in a film designs and develops music or background music in a film. He is the head musician of a film. He knows the best of what music could be used in the film
Sound Mixing
After sound editing, sound mixer does the finalization of the film's sound. He finalizes all the effects, dialogues and levels etc.
Sound is the seventy percent of your film
The Sound Tree
-Sound Effects
-Dialogue
-Music
Sound came into films in 1927, before that, silent films were produced, only music and sound effects were used first film with dialogues is Warner Brother's Jazz Singer.
Types Of Sound;
-Diegetic Sound
both the audience and editor can listen
-Non Diegetic Sound
only the audience can ear it
-Ambient Sound
it is also known as room tone, it adds environment to the scene
-Voice Over / Narration
it is very common in documentaries where a person speaks in the background of the film.
-Dialogue / Monologue
dialogue is when people speak to each other where as monologue is when an individual speaks to him or himself
-Mode Of Address
it is the way you are talking to another person, for example inferior or authoritative tone
-Score
score is the original music composed for a film. It is also known as music
-Sound Track
all the music in the film and all the vocal music in the film is the sound track
-OST (Original Sound Track)
music made specifically for a film is the original sound track
-Synchronous Sound (Sync)
the sound that is in sync. It is almost one hundred percent of your film. Professionally dialogues are recorded after the shoot of films. (ADR), lip sync etc
-Asynchronous Sound (Async)
the sound and visuals are not in sync and we call it out of sync. It is a rare thing and techniqueto be used. When used, it was used as a tool to grab attention
-Sound Effects (Folly)
they are background sounds which enhance the feel of the scene and makes it sound more lively. They are recorded by folly studios and synced with the video in sound synchronization in editing
-Sound Bridge
it is a connector between sound and the visuals. It is also called L or J cut in editing
-Sound Motive
it is a sound which is associated with a character or specific place. It is mostly used in horror movies
-Room Tone
it is the most important sound to be captured in a film. It is the sound of silence of a place in the film. Every environment has room tone. It gives a sense of realism to the film
-ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement)
It is also known as dubbing. Professional films often record their dialogues after shooting the film using ADR. It is also used to translate films in other languages
