Ragged 2wice: Shot Divisioning

Working Title: “Ragged 2wice”

Genre: Teen Drama

Shot Divisioning:

Scene #	Shots	Duration (seconds)	Transition
1	Still Long Shot of Car stopping in front of the College gate	5	Cut To
	Still Mid Shot of Kamran getting out of the Car and waving to his Mother	5	Cut To
	Panning Shot of Kamran walking through the College gates	4	Cut To
2	Panning Shot of Kamran Walking into the College Building	4	Cut To
	Still Mid Shot of crowd of Students in front of the notice board	4	Cut To
	Still Reverse Mid Shot of crowd of students in front of the notice board	4	Cut To
	Still Mid Shot of Kamran getting out of the crowd of students	4	Cut To
	Panning Shot of Kamran walking towards a classroom door and stopping to wipe his face	6	Cut To
	Over The Shoulder Still Mid Shot of Kamran looking at some bullies after wiping his face and the Bully leader talking to him	4	Cut To
	Over The Shoulder Still Mid Shot of Bullies grabbing Kamran	4	Cut To
3	Long Shot of Bullies bringing Kamran into the Back Alley	5	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Kamran being thrown on a bench, ragged and then made to wear a tutu	6	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Bully leader Speaking to Kamran	30	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Kamran looking at Bullies while leader is speaking to him and then replying to him	10	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Bully leader speaking to Kamran again and then leaving	10	Cut To
	Extreme Close Up Shot of Kamran thinking and then replying to the Bullies	5	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Bullies stopping and then looking at Kamran and leader talking	6	Cut To
	Long Shot of Kamran ready to dance	4	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of the Bully Leader looking at Kamran and then telling him to dance	6	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of other Bully playing the song from his mobile phone	3	Cut To
	Mid Shot of other Bully making Kamran's video and Moving Shot to Kamran who starts dancing	8	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Kamran dancing	4	Cut To
	Over The Shoulder Long Shot from Bullies to Kamran dancing	3	Cut To
	Close Up of Kamran dancing	6	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Bullies laughing	3	Cut To
	Moving Mid Shot of Kamran dancing	10	Cut To
	Long Shot of Kamran dancing and then ending his dance	20	Cut To
	Moving Mid Shot of Bullies laughing at Kamran and then leaving the Back Alley	8	Cut To
	Long Shot of Kamran taking his tutu off and standing looking at the ground	6	Fade to Black
4	Point Of View Shot of Kamran entering the class and asking the teacher for permission to enter	6	Cut To
	Moving Mid Shot of Kamran standing at the door and then entering the class room and then sitting down at an empty desk	5	Cut To
	Long Shot of Teacher teaching the class	5	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of Kamran taking notes and then the person sitting behind putting a cigarette pack in his shirt from behind	10	Cut To
	Over The Shoulder Shot of Kamran turning and looking at the person sitting behind him after taking out the cigarette pack from his shirt	10	Cut To
	Point Of View Shot of Kamran looking at Teacher coming in the frame and talking to him	5	Cut To
	Long Shot of Teacher walking out of the classroom, taking Kamran to the Principal's office	15	Cut To
5	Long Shot of Kamran standing in the Principal's office	4	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Principal sitting on the desk and then speaking to Kamran	15	Cut To
	Close Up of Teacher sitting in the Principal's office	4	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of Kamran listening to the Principal, and then telling her what actually happened	15	Cut To
	Close Up of Principal telling Kamran that he has done the wrong thing, reaching over to her pen	8	Cut To
	Extreme Close Up of the Principal's pen, with her picking it up and nearly signing it	5	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of Kamran pleading with the Principal and explaining his innocence	5	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Principal telling Kamran to wake up, Moving to Teacher	10	Cut To
	Extreme Close Up Shot of Kamran	5	Cut To
	Point Of View Shot of Kamran's eyes rolling and then falling to the ground	8	Fade to Black
6	Extreme Close Up Shot of Kamran's eyes opening	5	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of Kamran's Mother waking him up	5	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Kamran and Mother sitting in the car	4	Cut To
	Close Up Shot of Kamran again	4	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Kamran getting out of the car	5	Cut To
	Panning Shot of Kamran walking over to the College gate	5	Cut To
	Mid Shot of Kamran looking at the College gate and then Moving Shot of him walking through the gates	8	Cut To
7	Panning Shot of Kamran entering into the Corridor of the college	5	Cut To
	Long Shot of Kamran pushing through the crowd at the notice board and then getting out of it	8	Cut To
	Moving Shot of Kamran walking in the hallway, looking for his class room, turning back after hearing some voices	10	Cut To
	Close Up Shot from behind as Kamran looks behind	4	Cut To
	Moving Mid Shot of Kamran walking and finding his class, he stops.	8	Cut To
	After someone places his hand on Kamran's shoulder and asks him a question, Kamran looks behind	5	Cut To
	Point Of View Shot of Kamran looking at the Bully leader from the dream	5	Cut To
	Extreme Close Up Shot of Kamran screaming and then running away	15	Cut To Black

Hollywood: Institution Analysis

Hollywood, also known as the cinema of the United States, has had a massive effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. It's history can be separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period. Since the 1920s, the American film industry has grossed more money every year than any other country.

The United States was heading the sound film development in the 1920s. Since the early 20th century, the U.S. film industry has in most parts been situated in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and also in other states. Picture City, Florida, was also a planned site for a movie picture production center in the 1920s, but because of the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, the idea was discarded and Picture City returned to its original name of Hobe Sound. Director D. W. Griffith was an important figure to the development of film grammar. Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is mentioned many times in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. Renowned American screen actors like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe are now iconic figures, while producer and entrepreneur Walt Disney became a leader in the animated film area and movie merchandising. 
The major film studios of Hollywood are the main sources of the most money making movies in the world, such as Gone with the Wind (1939), Star Wars (1977), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). At present, American film studios collectively generate several hundred movies per year, making the United States the third producer of films in the world with the most productive capacity. The first is India and Nigeria is second.

Hollywood has given recognition to many remarkable directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Copolla, James Cameron, Martin Scorcese, Roman Polanski, Tim Burton, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and the list goes on.  

Universal Pictures (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal Studios for short), is a subsidiary of NBC Universal, which is one of the six major movie studios in the United States.

It was establish in 1912 by Carl Laemmle and is one of the oldest American movie studios still producing movies continuously. The controlling venture in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to NBC, formerly General Electric, on May 11, 2004, and the resulting tremendous media conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. Apart from owning a massive film library and containing the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a massive collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also gained rights to numerous well-known filmmakers' works initially released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.

Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the second oldest Hollywood studio. Paramount Pictures is the oldest by a month.

Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production and distribution company. It is located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. It was founded in 1912 and is at present owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio. It is also the only major film studio still having its headquarters in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the largest (top-grossing) movie studios.

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures is now a subsidies of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group which is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world and is numbered in the top six film companies. It was one of the minor three studios among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

It was founded in 1919 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt. Its first feature film was released in August 1922. It took on the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went public two years after that. The name is derived from "Columbia", which is a National epitome of the United States, which is used as the company's logo.

It was a minor player in its early years in Hollywood and began to grow in the late 1920s, encouraged by a successful association with director Frank Capra.

With the help of Frank Capra and others, Columbia erupted as one of the main home of the "Screwball" comedy. During the 1930s, some of Columbia's major actors were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant (who was shared with RKO Pictures). In the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studio's leading star and boosting their fortunes into the late 1950s. Other actors who became major stars at the studio include Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros.  is an American producer of film and television entertainment.

It is one of the major film studios and is a subsidiary of Time Warner. Its headquarters are located in Burbank, California and New York. Warner Bros. has numerous subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Comics. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network.

Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

(All information and data on Hollywood and the Studios mentioned have been taken from wikipedia.com)

Ragged 2wice: Plot

Working Title: “Ragged 2wice”

Genre: Teen Drama

Plot:

Set up/Exposition:

Karachi, August 2011, 7:45 a.m. Kamran was on his way to college. It was his first day of college and he was quite nervous because he had heard different rumors about the college and its history with ragging. He was thinking about it in his mom's car as she was driving him off to college. He gets out from his mom's car as she drops him off at the college gates in the morning. Troubled by all the rumors that he has heard about the school's ragging system and the history it has had with the subject, Kamran seems to be disturbed by the thought of being ragged. His expressions indicate the he seems to be unhappy about something. He isn't enthusiastic about his very first day at college compared to many other newcomers. Kamran reaches the college's main corridor/hallway, and searches for the notice board with the list containing the names, classes and sections of the new students, that is hidden amidst the crowd of students also in that place for the same reason. After pushing and shoving through, Kamran finally gets to see the list. After checking his class and section, he manages to get out of the crowd through some hindrance from the crowd.

Confrontation:

However the fear of being ragged enters into Kamran's mind again as he sees the second year students in the hallway, with some having spray cans, others paints and others water balloons in their hands. To shake the fear off, he makes his way to the washroom to wash his face. While in the washroom washing his face, Kamran encourages himself by believing that it's just ragging and nothing else, but when he raises his face after washing his face, he sees three guys, probable second years, in the mirror. Startled by the scenario, he turns around and one of the boys, who is the leader, speaks to Kamran, asking him if he is new in college. Without answering his question, Kamran makes a quick effort to get out of the washroom, but is denied by one of the guys, who is standing close to the washroom exit. They grab him and rag him, by rubbing black paint on his face and making him wear a tutu. After that they tell him to do a dance so that they could make a video in order to win a bet. At first Kamran refuses, but then decides to do it on hearing that he would have to face these "bullies" for the whole year. He is taken to one of the back alleys and there Kamran dances for these guys in a very miserable way. They let him go after he amuses them.

After that, Kamran returns to the washroom, only this time to wash off the black paint from his face. After doing that he checks the timetable to find the period he currently has and finds his class. On finding his class, he enters the class with the teacher’s permission and then sits down after finding a seat. He starts to concentrate on the teacher’s lecture, when all of a sudden, he gets distracted when one a person sitting behind him puts an empty cigarette pack in his shirt. Kamran pulls it out and on finding a cigarette pack he gets scared. By this time the teacher also sees the activity and reaches at the spot to investigate. On seeing Kamran holding the cigarette pack, he thinks Kamran is a smoker and takes him to the principal's office without delay. In the office the principal does not believe Kamran and asks for proof that he does not have. At this point the principle pick the pen to sign the paper to expel him, and Kamran begins to plead with the principle and the teacher, when suddenly both of them start to say "Wake up Kamran!" at which Kamran is totally confused. The voice of two changes to a single voice, and is confirmed when Kamran's eyes open in his mom's car and with his mom waking him up. He realizes that he had been dreaming all this time and gets out of the car to go to college.

Resolution:

He stands in front of the college gates for a couple of seconds and recollects himself after seeing a horrible dream. Knowing that it was just a dream, he regains his courage and enters the college. As soon as he enters the college, he finds his way to the notice board and searches for his class and section along with many others who have formed a crowd. On finding the information, he exits from the crowd and starts looking for his class room. As he is looking, he hears some voices of people talking, which resemble to those heard in his dream. He looks around but does not find anyone familiar. Believing that it was a dream, he returns to look for his class again, but this time someone puts their hand on his shoulder and when Kamran turns around to see who it is, he finds the leader of the bullies from his dream standing there. He asks if Kamran is new in the college, to which Kamran screams from frustration.

Ragged 2wice: Story

Working Title: “Ragged 2wice”

Genre: Teen Drama

Story: Kamran was on his way to college. It was his first day of college and he was quite nervous because he had heard different rumors about the college and its history with ragging. He was thinking about it in his mom's car as she was driving him off to college. Kamran is a shy and nervous young man and it is one of the reasons why he had the fear of being ragged.

His mom encouraged him for his first day at college, as he got out of the car on reaching his destination. Kamran walked in through the college gates. He reached the main corridor of the college campus, anxiously looking for the notice board with the list of new students with their classes and sections but was denied by the rush of all the new comers. However, something else captured his attention in the corridor. Almost all the students wearing uniforms had some sort of spray cans or paints or water balloons in their hands and they seemed to be observing the new comers as a predator observes its prey. His fear grew.

He made his way to the washroom to wash his face and shake the fear off. He tried not to think about being ragged as he bent down to splash some water on his face. But when he lifted his face up, he found three boys in uniforms standing behind him in different positions. One of them who seemed to be the leader asked Kamran if he was new in the college, in a cynical way. Kamran tried to get out of the washroom, but one of them grabbed him by the collar and they stopped him from leaving the washroom and the leader took out a bottle of black paint from a bag and rubbed it on Kamran's face, and then one of the guys strapped a tutu around his waist. The other two guys picked him up and took hold of his arms while the leader told him that they want him to dance. Kamran disagreed to so the leader posed two options in front of him, that he could either do the dance and get over with it or face them (the bullies) for his entire college year and with that they were about to leave when Kamran decided to do the dance and this pleased the bullies.

They took Kamran to the back alley then, a place where students were always less likely to come. One of the guys from the group took out a cell phone and got into a position to shoot Kamran dancing. The leader urged him to dance and not having a clue of what to do, Kamran started to dance. The way he danced showed that he did not know how to dance at all. The guys made the video and continuously laughed at Kamran throughout the dance and as soon as they were done, they just walked away, leaving Kamran in the back alley. Kamran felt awful and with that feeling he went to the washroom again to wash up. After cleaning himself up, Kamran looked at the list of students in the corridor and checked his time-table. On finding his class and period, Kamran looked for his class room and discovered that a teacher was already teaching. With the permission of the teacher, he entered the class. He looked for a seat and sat down and took a pen and register out from his bag. He began to concentrate on the lecture that the teacher was giving, but then got distracted by a guy sitting right behind him who put an empty cigarette pack in his shirt through his collar. Kamran reached inside his shirt through his collar and took the empty cigarette pack out, not knowing of it till he saw it. The teacher also noticed the strange activity and approached to deal with the matter. Assuming that Kamran was the smoker, he took him to the principal's office.

Kamran stood in the principal's office. Thoughts of all the bad things that had happened throughout the day were going on his head. The principal broke the silence in the room, telling Kamran about the policy of the college for students who break the rules. Kamran had been a good student in academics and followed the rules all his life, and he pleaded with the teacher and the principal, explaining to them that he had never smoked a cigarette in his life. The principal argued that he had no proof whether the person sitting behind him had put the cigarette pack in his shirt, and with that, the principal picked up the pen and Kamran, feeling that his world had just been shaken started to plead with the principal not to expel him. As he was pleading, the principal stopped and began to tell Kamran to wake up. The teacher also began to say the same thing and they kept on saying this. Kamran found it hard to understand what is going on and was confused. The voice of the principal and the teacher transformed into the voice of Kamran's mom as he found himself in his mom's car and realized that he had been dreaming all this time.

She told him that college was here and that he had fallen asleep. Kamran grabbed his bag and got out of the car door. His mom encouraged him for his day as he got out. Kamran stood in front of the college gate and stared at it for a couple of seconds. Then he thought that nothing was real and everything he saw was dream. With that thought he entered the college gates and found his way to the corridor and searched for the list of new students. Kamran pushed among the crowd to see the list and found his class and section and made his way out of the crowd. After that, he started looking for his class room. While he was looking for his class room, he heard voices in the corridor that were similar to some from his dream. He looked around but did not find anyone familiar. Thinking that it was all a dream and ignoring the hint, Kamran continued to look for his class. But he met the leader of the bully gang from his dream just as he walked two steps further. The leader put his hand on Kamran's shoulder and asked him if he was new in college. Kamran recognized the voice and turned around. He screamed from frustration on seeing the bully leader.