Filming Process

our first day of filming was done at one of our actors house, Jeppe.  The location is beverly hills 1 villa B8. On this day we filmed all of beginning shots of jeppe waking up, brushing his teeth, making breakfast, then taking his medicine and lastly him leaving his house. all of these shots are conveying a healthy diabetic lifestyle.


Shot 1: this is the first shot just establishing jeppe's bedroom. We took 2 different shots for this shot, 1 a pan and the next we using a tracking shot of Jeppe with a dolly. the reason for taking 2 is because we want a variety of shots to chose from, to compare one shot to another to see which fits best.

Shot 2: this shot is of jeppe waking up and then turning off his alarm. for this shot we used a close up of Jeppe's face in order to capture his reaction to a new day.

shot 3: before this shot we took a few other shots of jeppe getting up from different angles and going to the bathroom. Then once we did that we filmed an over the shoulder shot of Jeppe brushing his teeth, showing that he cares about his health.

Shot 4: we then filmed jeppe walking out of his room with a pan shot just to add continuity to the film.

shot 5: next we did a tracking shot of jeppe walking down the stairs and then walking over to his diabetic kit. We then took some close up shots of him taking his blood sugar to show he is dedicated to making sure he is living a healthy lifestyle.

Shot 6: After he has checked his blood sugar he then goes and takes his medicine with some water and for that shot we used a tilt shot to show he is in power and has control of his health. Next we took shots of him making a healthy breakfast.

Shot 7: lastly we used a pan to show him reversing out in his car and driving off into the distance, which will then fade out and lead onto our other actor.

Casting Choice

For our cast we are only going to be using 2 main actors, one who represents Doha and Qatar in a way and the other kind of represents the rest of the world. So the 2 main actors we have picked are Jeppe Laursen and Abdul Aziz Al Nasser. We also have Jeppe's diabetes doctor also who will be taking part in our film.

Jeppe:

We chose Jeppe for quite a few reasons. First of all the main reason is because he is a diabetic himself so he knows a lot of people such as diabetic experts who we could interview, he is also a healthy diabetic so he knows the daily routine that a healthy diabetic has to do in order to stay healthy. Another reason we chose him was because he is in our group which is very convenient for us for filming purposes and how we are going to film his routine. 

Abdul:

The reason for choosing Abdul is because we wanted somebody to represent Qatar itself because our main focus is on diabetes in Doha and Abdul is a perfect candidate because he is a local Qatari. Abdul is also in our group so once again it is helpful for us to film collectively as a group. 

Sharad Taheri:

This is jeppe's doctor who works at Weill Cornell Medical College working as a Professor of Medicine and is an expert in Diabetes and is good friends with Jeppe so we kindly asked him if we could interview him and get his professional opinion on diabetes itself in Qatar. The reason we chose him is because Jeppe's knows him well so it was easy to get in contact him.