ARTISTIC STATEMENT AND VISUAL STYLE
With the sights and sounds of Pakistan so pungent and real, I am thrilled to capture this film with natural production design, lighting and backgrounds as much as possible. Clearly, the crowd scenes might be hard but I am willing to experiment with hidden cameras. The idea is to take people on a journey to a country that is not accessible to them for the most part. We are lucky to be Pakistanis and have access to the country, atleast more than others, and I intend to fully capitalize on that.
The camera movement is specific to each character. Hammad is conventional, conservative wide angles, solid neutral colors. Adil is high angles, with utopia screaming out in his production design. There is a caged feeling to a man with a free spirit. Fatima is the audience, she will be most hand held and realistically filmed. She is our common thread and we travel this land with her. The camera will be a fly on the wall in most scenes as I would like to let the dialogue and the characters interplay and take the space given to them. The idea is to sit at the table with these characters, to be in their world and all aspects of lighting, cinematography, production design and performance will hopefully lead to that. Raw, to the point, colorful, rich and true.
With the sights and sounds of Pakistan so pungent and real, I am thrilled to capture this film with natural production design, lighting and backgrounds as much as possible. Clearly, the crowd scenes might be hard but I am willing to experiment with hidden cameras. The idea is to take people on a journey to a country that is not accessible to them for the most part. We are lucky to be Pakistanis and have access to the country, atleast more than others, and I intend to fully capitalize on that.
The camera movement is specific to each character. Hammad is conventional, conservative wide angles, solid neutral colors. Adil is high angles, with utopia screaming out in his production design. There is a caged feeling to a man with a free spirit. Fatima is the audience, she will be most hand held and realistically filmed. She is our common thread and we travel this land with her. The camera will be a fly on the wall in most scenes as I would like to let the dialogue and the characters interplay and take the space given to them. The idea is to sit at the table with these characters, to be in their world and all aspects of lighting, cinematography, production design and performance will hopefully lead to that. Raw, to the point, colorful, rich and true.
