Planning

This was the initial design for my company logo. But this felt too generic and suffocating, I wanted something different. So I...

The Final Cast Groupchat Sanjana auditioning for Saba's role! Making Raahim practice his lines with Sanjana online before hand to test...

Production Title The Executioner Production Company ZENAX Films Shoot Dates Day 1:  March 28th, 2025 (Old Lahore)   Day 2:  March 29th,...

Sound in film does not just fill the silence. It amplifies emotion, sets the tone, and often says what the characters cannot. For The...

Securing Access to Walled City Lahore One of the most ambitious sequences in The Executioner  was filmed in the historic Walled City of...

This was not a no budget film but it also was not a high budget production. I aimed for smart spending. I prioritized practical effects...

A detailed overview of the gear used during the production process, selected by preferences and need according to this shoot Camera and...

Scouting locations for The Executioner  was about more than just finding visually interesting spaces. It was about grounding the film in...

For this film, I decided to take a more intentional approach toward casting compared to my previous projects. In the past I mostly relied...

Naming this film wasn’t about aesthetics or just picking something that sounded cool. It was about finding a title that could carry the...

Planning the Color Palette: Green and Orange In this project, I made a deliberate choice to use a green and orange color palette, both of...

In this short film opening, mise en scene plays a critical role in reflecting Saif's mental state, setting the tone of the narrative, and...

After copious amounts of contemplation overthinking and some self hatred I present you with

I used "Fade In" to create and work on my script, below are two old versions of the script, before I changed a lot of the dynamics...

Storyboarding is one of those tasks that sets the tone for the entire production. For this project, I wanted to take a hands on approach,...

# Description Shot Type Camera Angle Notes 1 Saba sitting Wide Shot Eye Level Side angle 2 Saif enters Wide Two-Shot Low Angle Entrance...

Film Opening Outline: The film opens on an unremarkable day, set a few weeks after a violent off screen event, the beating of Ikhlaq...

Writing a logline isn’t as easy as it sounds. I'm trying to capture the essence of my film in just a few sentences, no pressure, right?...

Coming up with a film idea can be frustrating. When I started, I had no idea how to get from a random thought in my head to a finished...

The audience for The Executioner  gradually revealed itself to me as the idea evolved. Initially, I wasn’t thinking in terms of market...