The Hardest Scene

The bloopers were just plain hilarious. The hardest scene to do was the make-up scene with my older sister in the show for a flashback. My older sister (played by Nur) was blabbering random stuff that made no sense it was so hard not to laugh as you in the bloopers video I failed at it. My favorite part was when Adam brought me water. Here's the story I say I'm thirsty and like me or someone else says like get it after the scene and then at some point Adam brings me water. The whole flashback scene was the hardest I had where I had to do a voice over but the make-up scene was spot on the hardest and funniest one to accomplish. Hey, I didn't fail though I succesed so a big pat in the back for me but not only for me but everyone in the show. You all did amazing and I gotta admit my last post was made to be annoying a little for the older kids. Not like I ever got off track.. Actually yes I did atleast once.

My Favorite and Worst Scenes

Looks like I was annoyed! (probably with the
little kids.) Maybe that was my worst scene.............

In the movie, A Friend Not A Bully I had many favorite scenes. But one of them is the one in the library. It was when Adeeba was being mean to us. She acted out Aisha. It was really funny because Adeeba is kind of the youngest out of all the older kids in the movie. It was weird to have Adeeba being mean to us. It was kind of annoying. But I still really liked that scene. In the middle of the scenes I kept laughing cause it was so weird. Also my worst scene is the one we kept on redoing. I mean we did that with every single scene. But one was really annoying. Ok, I forgot but I remember a real frustrating one. Anyways I can't wait to start filming our next episode! Just have to wait until Monday, 3 more whole days! I still  have more experiences and things to tell you but that will have to wait till later.

Episode 1 Planning and Behind the Scenes Pictures

Chains of Friendship is back!  That's right.  Hana's post last night speaks the truth.  The Chains of Friendship group is totally excited for Episode 2 and our planning is already finished.  Filming commences next week. :)

Beginning the planning stages for Episode 2 brought back memories of our first drama club meetings way back before our show didn't even exist.  Coming up with ideas for our first episode, developing a storyline, and connecting the actors with their parts was a big job.  Our handy notes were very helpful to keep us on track.  Check out some of the pictures below featuring our notes from the planning of Episode 1:

We have all our notes for Episode 2 ready, but you will have to wait until the episode comes out to find out what happens. :)

- Nur Kose

There's a Sequel!

This Monday, the drama club had another meeting, on December 8^th. We discussed the scenes for the sequel to our previous movie: A friend, not a bully. Although nothing has been filmed yet, the plans have been laid out, and it's up to us to enter the world of acting and partake in a second outstanding film. In the following weeks, we'll provide updates regularly, and give you behind the scene news about our progress. Like Shakespeare quoted, "to be, or not to be? That is the question.” Inshaalah, you'll hear us telling you that the answer to that question is that our movie is most certainty to be!

New Bloopers Video

Check out this video featuring some of the bloopers and mess-up scenes we had while filming Episode 1.  You can find more bloopers and behind the scenes stuff here.

Experiences

Experiences

We all had our fair share of experiences in the taking of the video. Some funnier than others. I had some so why not share them? If you didn't know I played Amina. The only nice sister that was nice throughout the whole video. Let's say there was a lot of improving on my part. I did certainly mess up and leading us to start over. Ya not good but mostly my fault. My main scene was the flashback scene where I had to look smaller. I was on my knees to look smaller in one of them. Anyways, I had to a voice over on them because my line were pretty long for me to remember any of them. Well I finished all my voice overs and next week they were gone. Which meant I had to do all over again which was annoying because I couldn't do it next week because this week was the last to film. I also had a sore throat which my voice was pretty weird. Scratchy and all I still did it and surprisingly it didn't sound real bad. If you notice at the end my voice did raise. Hmm... who's fault was it? Not mine, it was the other girls they started talking louder so I just raised my voice so you wouldn't hear them. If you didn't notice you probably want to check now.  That was my experiences for the flashback. (P.S the older girls don't know how to stay quiet some times but don't tell I said this. Shhhhh...)

                                                                                                                                 - Merve Kekik

A New Experience

The Drama Club was a very interesting, exciting, and new experience to me. I can't wait until we start filming the next scene. Actually, first we have to think of an idea then the script. But that's all the boring stuff, cause all we do is sit and write things down. When you film, you are in action which is so much more exciting. During my experience making the movie, I realized that not only the director but also I had to have patience. We had to keep redoing  the scenes over and over that I couldn't even keep track. Actually next time we should see how many takes it took to make the movie. That'd be interesting. Also my ears hurt after every meeting we had. All the little kids were making so much noise, like Adeeba said. Ok, ok, I am not saying the older girls didn't make noise but half of it was us trying to make the younger's be quiet. We hardly made any noise. (not including shouting at the young kids to make them quiet.) Well, for acting it was so fun because I could relate to myself with the movie. I have to admit, it was pretty easy acting what I did. But now I am actually getting the hang of keeping that promise for real. (kind of)So, we should have a good moral like this one. Then most of the actors will follow it.(like me, well I try)  Despite all the bad sides of making a movie, most of this experience as pretty great. All of our actors together I think make a pretty good team. (also of course, the director too)