Location Planning

After we established our story, we started to plan where we will film. To start of the film we will have opening establishing shots to help set the location, these are going to be of landmarks in Qatar. These landmarks will include places like the Pearl, Katara, Corniche and Aspire. The reason for using these specific locations is that within Qatar which is where our film is produced they are very well known, the Qatari culture is displayed and it helps audiences from abroad understand where this film is from.

After we have established the location, we will move into the story. Here firstly we will introduce our 1st character, this is actually going to be me. Therefore I will be introduced in my house, for the couple opening scenes showing me taking care of my disease. The locations within my house are going to be rooms like the bedroom, kitchen and dining area. After I have been introduced we are bringing in our 2nd character which is Abdul, similar to me he will introduced in his own house as well with similar but opposing scenes to the ones in my house. To further develop our story we are going to back up our facts with statements from official doctors and professionals, to help create the sense of professionalism we are going to be using their working settings like the Qatar Diabetes Association and Hamad Medical Centre. We will be recording interviews and statements in their offices. We are also going to visit Cornell Medical College where we will be creating some interval shots to put between the story. Finally we are going to have some scenes which are going to be located on the set, as in when we are filming because it involves driving around therefore we can't know exactly what locations will have the least traffic and noise for example until we are on set. 

This is from Abdulaziz's house where we only filmed within his room. This picture was taken prior to the filming as you can see the equipment laying around the room.

For my house we filmed in loads of locations including, garage, my room, living room and kitchen. This is from the kitchen where we filmed two scenes of me eating breakfast and taking my pills.