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I Am Phat Take 2

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The next scene we did was the part where Phat was exercising on the field. It took us a whole period to film. The actor that played Phat was fat but we fattened him up even more, we stuffed bags into his jacket and turned him into a Santa sized monster. Things changed from bad to worse to excellent, the scene which was meant to be filmed in the gym hall was closed. So as a replacement, we went to the PE storeroom, where we filmed Phat going in and thrown out of the gym. The final scene, we shot was Phat getting beaten up by Gurpreet and Gary, Tom saving his holiness. The funny thing was that Ms Parker, our deputy principal came out of nowhere and told us to stop being silly but she didnt realise that the class was in the process of filming. Though her tone changed when she saw the camera we were filming with. After that we finished but we had another task to finish, which was the editing part. 

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Lights, camera, action

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

 

Oh yeah! This day was the day our group got to film I Am Phat, everyone’s a little edgy but okay within reason. Ms Castenedo, the teacher supplying us with the equipment gave us a camera and tripod. My only regret is that Ms Castenedo didn’t give us any instructions on how to use the TRIPOD!

Our group spent quite a while trying to operate the tripod by twisting knobs, turning screws or pulling out parts. I on the other hand was laughing at them from a distance, only because I was given a still picture camera to take pictures of them “working”. Summing up, their efforts were futile as well as mine because I found out that taking photos required more than just snapping the buttons. 

Soon after, we just gave up with the tripod and finished filming the first scene which was Phat getting teased by bullies who were later on named Gurpreet and Gary. To be continued…well I hope so

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Making it all happen with lots o’ luck

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

 

The final step before filming was to make the storyboard, which included a still of the different scenes. camera angle used, characters in the scene, cast, roles of each person and the title of course. All of that was to be done and presented on a piece of cardboard, black if you’re asking.

 

However unlike our rivals, Panda Busters, our group were utterly lazy and hopeless save for a few people. Fortunately, we managed to get the work done in a double period and a chunk of our lunch break. Special thanks to the teachers at Creative arts section for lending us the necessary amount of  cardboard, something Harry is too poor to buy as well as Ms Rairibi’s patience which didn’t whither when she’s surrounded by failures. The final product of our storyboard was spectacular to the point it was nothing compared to the other group.

For more information please take a look at the storyboard itself.

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Beginning of a Film

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

We’ve picked to film the movie behind our school hall because it had gates and a grassy area and that’s the setting we needed for the film. Thanh was the chosen cameraman at first but Chams and Zein filled in when Thanh was absent.

The scene with the wandering panda was finished after a few tries and we moved on to the next scene. We had a problem during one day of filming when there were exams in the hall and we had to keep very quiet but we managed to get the scene in the end.

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Figuring the plot of I Am Phat (PART II)

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It’s Anthony…yet again…and should memory not run away from me, I’m gonna show how different the original storyline is different from the modified/final one, assuming you’ve read PART I.

When our group got together, they complained how the original story had major similarities to their own lives and insisted on changing it. Here’s how it differed in chronological order and happens right after getting kicked out the gym:

·         A new character added which is Tom who helps Phat lose weight after getting banned for life from the gym

·         Phat turns skinny with Toms help (damn, my sense of humour just died hearing that)

·         The bullies teasing him turn fat themselves

·         Phat is provoked into bullying the suddenly fat bullies but is stopped by Toms mum

·         Yeah, I kinda figured it has a happy ending but the start is pretty much the same

 

What’s written above just proves how weird of an imagination a certain sad person/s has to influencing the story. Example- when we’re discussing the flow of the story someone *cough* Abbas *cough* mentioned an idea about Tom and Phat having an erotic relationship [details of this scene has been removed by administrator]. It was only soon after I realised that the idiot who brought it up has an interest in men…but that’s ok, isn’t it!!!! (Regurgitating sound)

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Figuring the plot of I Am Phat (PART I)

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Hey there, the name’s Anthony the sole creator of I Am Phat and the one wasting his leisure time typing this, here I’ll be talking about the storyline of I am Phat.

Making the plot to the story wasn’t really that hard…well, not for me that is. Summarising the ORIGINAL version, it’s about a fat boy named Phat and the story revolves around his sad life of getting teased. So one day he tries to turn his life around and lose weight and goes to the gym, did I already mention he’s hopeless? Anyways, he ends up getting kicked out with that little ray of hope shining on him blacking out and Phat continues to endure his sad miserable life.

Truth be told, I never intended to have my story chosen but tossed aside instead, I tried to make it as rude as possible and make it look like I actually did attempt it, but my plan backfired and got chosen along with Panda Busters. *sighs*

 The students which were assigned to my group by their own free will are Alex, Abbas, Jeremy, Harry, Hussein and the Flores twins and yours truly Anthony.

P.S I’m pretty sure I forgot someone that’s in our group, oh well -_-

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Panda Costume

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Kara, Matthew, Steven and Thanh worked on the costume design during art lessons and the whole group helped during recess and lunch. We made the suit out of cardboard boxes and painted them black and white. Kara painted the eyes onto the pandas’ face and had cut out mouths that we could remove and re-attach whenever we wanted. Slots were cut into the sides of the box to slide in the ears.

Overall, it took a few days to complete the Panda Costume along with a few rolls of sticky tape. We can start filming soon.

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Bringing it together

October 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

But before we could do any filming, we had to figure out the plot of the story we’re going to film. Ms Rairibi (our commanding teacher) ordered every person in her class to write up a story for homework, instead we did it in class when everybody magically forgot about it. In the end 2 were chosen Panda Busters and I Am Phat respectively. The other stories however were not just right or plain weird which describes what the class is.   

The project was a go and the class…doomed.

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Open the flood gate and let the ideas flow through

September 21, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Before we did any filming, we had to come up with the story lines first. Ms Rairibi (our commanding teacher) ordered each one in the class to write up stories for our class project. Turned out 2 were chosen, ‘I Am Phat’ and ‘Panda Busters’ repectively as for the others, they were either weird or not just right, which just summed up what the whole class is like.

So, the whole class was doomed, the assignment was set and the class split into 2.

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‘Panda Busters’

September 21, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Kara and I discussed ideas over msn and eventually came up with ‘Panda Busters’. The basic idea is that pandas come into the school and are later driven out. When the class presented all their ideas, our one was chosen to be one of two short films that the class is going to do.

The class split into two groups, one which would film Panda Busters, and the other film named I am Phat. Chams, Jennifer, Matt, Steven and Zein joined Kara and me. We were asked by Mrs Rairibi to make a storyboard which shows which shots we will use and what would happen in each shot.

We’ve planned to work on it during class, recess and lunch. The storyboard is due in a few days so I hope we finish in time. We’ve left the storyboard in the library for now, so we can pick it up later and work on it.

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