"Ragged 2wice" - Synopsis

Working Title : Ragged 2wice

Genre: Teen Drama

Synopsis Kamran's first day in college turns into a disaster when he is ragged at the beginning of the day at college. The seniors rag him by painting his face black with some black paint and then demand that he wears a tutu and do a dance to it.Kamran wears the tutu, but when asked to dance , he refuses as he does not like to dance. He runs for his life when they tell him to dance , however , they catch and force him to do the dance or face the torture for the whole term. He agrees to dance and does so in a very miserable way. Furthermore , the day turns worse when Kamran's goes into his first class and gets called out because some guys in the class sneak in a  cigarette packet into his bagpack while his attention was away.The same guys call in the teacher and tell on him and the teacher takes Kamran to the Principal , who decides to expel him. As he begs his principal to forgive him , he wakes up in the back seat of his car with his mom telling him that they have reached school.It appears that he had been dreaming all the time.But as he enters the college gate , he starts seeing all the students that had previously been present in his dream.At this point , Kamran screams from frustration. The film ends.

"Ragged 2wice" - Concept

Working Title : Ragged 2wice

Genre: Teen Drama

Concept : Kamran is having a very bad first day at college. He was ragged at the start of his college day., had to dance in a pink tutu and then nearly got expelled from college because he was found in possession of a cigarette pack, till he wakes up in his car to find out that he was dreaming. However , as he enters the college gates, he finds that the people from his dream are actually in the school

Suggestions:
1)We are finding it hard to choose characters for the film.
2)We think that the story has some gaps that need to be filled. 

Change of Plans

There have been a few change of plans in the past week. Firstly , our media teacher has changed. The new teacher likes our work to be more organised and makes us keep our ideas always written down and filed properly. Since we have started to apply this in reality ,we have seen that it has helped us greatly. We have changed the genre of our short film to "Teen Drama" and we have selected the final name of our film to be "Ragged 2wice" (Ragged Twice).We have now started to work on our film as the teacher has told us to. I believe that organizing our work , this benefit us in keeping a more updated and organised work source , so we never forget an idea that we thought of. 

Focus Group (Edited Clip)

It took me about two days to edit the raw footage and add subtitles to it, finally it is ready. The video below this the Focus Group Clip which contains the feedback and our audience's reactions/comments etc.

This focus group helped us a bunch it our research and planning part of our short film. We came to know that our audience likes short films to be exciting and fast-paced. One of the members of audience complained that one of the short films was disjointed and the characters took gaps between dialogues which drawed them out of the experience. Similarly , some of the members of the group complained that some camera movements and shots were bad from a technical standpoint and thus felt unreal. Our audience does not wish to be bored while watching a film. We have taken the feedback into account and we have applied it to our current story. 

Focus Group

We did our focus group on the 3rd of Novemeber 2011. Our orignal plan was to complete it by 1st of November but due to certain reasons we weren't able to complete it by then. Unluckily , on the 3rd of November , i badly injured by ankle. I had to be rushed to the hospital. However , Andrew carried out the Focus Group , we both had previously planned. There were about 10 students who came to the focus group and it went alot better than we had expected it to be. The viewers gave us some good and honest feedback. Andrew had brought his HD camcorder to school. He shot some footage of the viewers while they watched the short films. This was mainly done to capture their reactions. The reactions were very clear , in some parts of the short films "Thats School , That's Life" and 'The Exam". Our focus group consisted of two main parts. Firstly , shooting the viewer's reactions , secondly asking them several relevant questions which we had previously prepared. Some of these questions included "Which film did you like the most?" , "Why didn't you like the others?" , "Do you like enigmatic or predictable films?"
We noticed that the audience like "The Exam" the most. It was funny and unexpected.The audience's feedback and comments on the films partially in Urdu and English. Andrew has given me the raw footage of focus group and i intend to edit , add subtitles and upload it soon.