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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

TNC 8th Meeting!

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum everyone,

Alhamdulilah as usual we had an excellent meeting on Sunday 25th, and we are planning to do the following:

1. Adnan will get in touch with Yusuf Khan the editor.
2. Rami will get the copy of the footage as a back up from Ummahfilms.
3. Need to submit Release forms to all cast, crew and contributors of TNC.

Jazakum Allah for your support.

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Quick Report from 11/16 - 11/18 Part 2

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum everone,

After the shootings was done we were planning to do the following steps with the raw footages:

1. Will create a back up and send the raw footage to the editor (Yusuf Khan) and another one to Rami.

2. We can use DVD formats. The footage should be around 60GB. We can either burn to DVD's (2-3 copies of each) which would mean around 15 DVDs per set.

3. The best idea is to get a pair of passports (Western Digital small sized, large capacity, hard drives). If we get the small hard drives, 2 is a good number and maybe 250gb size.

After editing the film we will decide to redo some shots or not. At this moment we have some scenes that we are thinking to redo them:

1. College campus scene (because of darkness, and my poor acting --and yes Yusuf, I was the "Caucasian male" Paul.).

2. Basketball dolly scene as well as the pass-shoot scene inside the court.

3. When Hassan came in from outside and slept on the couch when he was deaf, we needed to show him looking at a Quran, or ayah or something. For this one, all we would need is for him to look above the cam, and for us to get a static shot of an ayah in the Quran about arrogance as a poster on the wall or something. We also need to choose which ayah to use (and subtitle translates it of course).

4. Outside shot of VERY simply car driving by, maybe pan, maybe just static. We might even be able to take this shot from other footage of when he ran out and we had to wait. This is for when he goes outside and he looks at "all the people, etc" and we decided he looks at cars.

The most important step is seeing what we have (after editing) we failed to emphasize how vital it is to have footage review every couple of scenes, but we were not really setup to do so. But insha’Allah it was a lesson for us.

Jazakum Allah.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Quick Report from 11/16 - 11/18 Part 1

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum,

The cast & crew started shooting this movie around 8-9pm Friday 16th, ended at 3am on Saturday 17th. They Started around 8am on Saturday till around 2am Sunday 18th. Then they started shooting at around 11am on Sunday, and completed shooting at 6:30pm.

This shows a running total of 46 hours from beginning to finish for shooting the movie with all the breaks in between. Also, on Friday night, most people slept at 4am, woke up at 5:30 for fajr, slept, woke up at 7:30 or so.

On Sat night, most people slept around 3:30, woke up for fajr, then woke up at 8:30. This shows a running average of around 5 hours of sleep a night and a total of 10 hours of sleep.

Ma sha'Allah that was lot of work. Jazakumallahu for the awesome efforts.

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Day 3 of Shooting!

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum,

Alhamdulilah the shootings are finished on 11/18/2007. We are going through complete check up to make sure if there is anything left to fix, re-adjusted or redo the scenes. If that’s the case then insha’Allah will continue in few weeks. After that the post-production will be the most challenging and time consuming task.

Please continue to make those dua for us.

Wa salam alaikum

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Day 2 of Shooting!

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum

So far the project is going very well wal hamdulilah. 1st day was finished & here are some pictures from 11/17.

Please Keep those Dua'as coming wa salam alaikum.





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Friday, November 16, 2007

Day 1 of Shooting & Production Schedule

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,


Assalam-u-alaikum,

So today is the first day of the shoot! We're getting ready to go pray Jumuah, inshaAllah. We have most of the equipment (All the main equipment) and we will pick up the rest in the afternoon. We have a 5 hour shoot later on tonight, and a testing earlier.

Here is the updated schedule.

Keep those Dua'as comin' because they've already gotten us out of sticky situations, and inshaAllah they will continue to do so. May Allah allow us to finish this movie, and fulfill our intention with it--creating clean, motivating, and empowering movies.

wassalam, peace

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Storyboard sample.

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,




Asalam alaikum,


These are just samples of the storyboard. Brother Rami & Adnan will have a great idea about the angles & the freedom to improve when they get there at the set.

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Shooting date on Nov 16th 2008

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum,

Next week November 16th will be our shooting date. It will start on Friday 16th and end on Sunday 18th. Please make due that this project will be successful. Jazakum Allah.

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Friday, November 09, 2007

Custom made Dolly!

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum,

Brother Adnan made this dolly from scratch. Ma Sha'Allah.



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Thursday, November 08, 2007

TNC 7th Meeting!

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum,

Insha'Allah 1 week form now and we'll start shooting the film. Almost everything is ready except for few extra hand with PA and release forms. Make dua that this project will be successful. Brother Rami is working on the storyboard and Adana finished building the dolly. Will meet 1 more time for touch up insha'Allah this sunday.

Jazakum Allah for your help & support.

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

TNC 6th Meeting!

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

Asalam alaikum everyone.

Alhamdulilah! finally the date for shooting will be held on 11/16 to 11/18. Please make dua so we can be successful in this project. At the moment we are organizing, preparing and re-hearsing for the film. Stay tuned for our coming update this Sunday insha'Allah.

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