tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73150140794292681972024-03-13T06:55:40.669+02:00The Mice Room - أوضة الفيرانAn Independent collaborative feature - فيلم روائي طويل مستقلمي زايد - Mayye Zayedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114624405133273427noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-77084610391923897722016-09-13T16:17:00.001+02:002016-09-13T16:17:36.117+02:00Watch/Screen The Mice Room<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now, you can contact <a href="http://www.mecfilm.de/weltvertrieb-3/the-mice-room.html#page/9" target="_blank">Mec Film</a> our worldwide distributor or <a href="http://www.zawyacinema.com/" target="_blank">Zaway</a> our distributor in the Arab world, to order a copy or organise a screening for the film.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Mec Film is a Berlin-based distribution and world sales company for films exclusively from the Middle East and North Africa.</span><br />
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Zawya is a series of art-house cinema screens across Egypt. It is an initiative by the renowned Cairo based production company Misr International Films (MIF).</div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-84854025865174496962015-09-10T15:56:00.000+02:002016-09-13T15:59:30.147+02:00FINALLY!! The Theatrical Release in Egypt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.zawyacinema.com/distribution/index" target="_blank">Zawya</a> our distributer in the Arab world, our dream of screening the film in movie theatres has come true. Starting from September 9th, 2015 the film is screened Zawya in Cairo and Amir Cinema in Alexandria.</div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-47319251793149406142015-04-04T17:48:00.000+02:002016-09-13T16:05:35.016+02:00ALFILM 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">The Mice Room is having its German premiere in <a href="http://www.alfilm.de/en/program/the-mice-room/">Alfilm - Arab Filmfestival Berlin</a>. It is screened on <a href="https://shop.ticketscript.com/channel/web2/get-dates/rid/D6F36KFG/eid/247047/language/en">Sunday April 12th</a> and <a href="https://shop.ticketscript.com/channel/web2/get-dates/rid/D6F36KFG/eid/247034/language/en">Tuesday April 14th</a> at 8 pm in <a href="http://www.alfilm.de/en/program/babylon/">Babylon movie theatre</a> in Berlin. Nermeen Salem is presenting the film this time, so if you are in Berlin go watch the film and meet her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mice Room or "</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://siff.bg/index.php?page=movies&id=2373&lang=bg">Стаята с мишките</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" is having its Bulgarian premiere in </span><a href="http://en.menarfest.com/the_mice_room_sofia_menar_2015.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sofia MENAR (Middle East & North Africa) Film Festival</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> this month. The film will be screened 3 times, on the 17th at 6.30 pm in G8 Cinema, on the 23rd at 8:15 pm in Euro Cinema and on the 28th at 7:00 pm in Dom na Kinoto. The film will presented by Manal El-Shenawi; the Ambassador of Egypt in Sofia, on Friday, January 28th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we received the e-mail confirming that The Mice Room or "<a href="http://38.mostra.org/br/entrevista/122-Ahmed-Magdy-Morsy-O-Quarto-dos-Ratos">O Quarto dos Ratos</a>" in Portuguese will be screened in the prestigious </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://38.mostra.org/en/home/">São Paulo</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://38.mostra.org/en/home/"> International Film Festival</a>, we were really overwhelmed. For us it was such a great opportunity to screen the film in a festival with many great filmmakers from all over the world. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The film was screened four times in the official competition of the festival's 38th edition. It was screend on: Oct. 16th, Oct. 17th, 18th and 20th.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, not all of us could travel to Brazil to attend the festival. Despite it was Mayye, Zedan & Nermeen's turn to travel, Magdy was the only available one to go on that trip. And this time we were supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture who covered Magdy's travel expenses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Samir Nabil or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Object.Obscure" target="_blank">Object Obscure</a> as he calls himself, is the sound designer and mixer of the film. He is one of the film's greatest supporters. In </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">his studio Badroom, we spent many months editing the film and working on sound, before moving to <a href="http://www.rufysstudio.tk/" target="_blank">Rufy's</a> new place. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here in this interview he talks about his work in films in general as a music composer and a sound designer. He talks about his studio Badroom, where all the film's dubbing process, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sound mixing</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and design happened. </span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-44740744603496692602014-05-15T21:38:00.000+02:002015-04-03T21:48:17.888+02:00Screening in Bibliotheca Alexndrina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is very scary to watch a film you made with the audience. It even more scary when most of this audience is your actors, all your film crew, your friends, your family and all the people supporting you, who are watching the film for the first time. That happened when we decided to screen the film in <a href="http://www.bibalex.org/Home/Default_EN.aspx">Bibliotheca Alexandrina</a> last April. Many of the actors haven't seen us for years, since the time of shooting. It was such a joy to meet all of them again and watch the film with them and with our parents, friends and family. After all, we tried to do our best, so that we don't disappoint them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: right;"><span style="line-height: 16.3090915679932px;">We are really grateful to the Moroccan audience who made these 2 screenings and the whole trip unforgettable. We are also very grateful to <a href="http://arabdigitalexpression.org/">ADEF</a> for its great support for the film and the filmmakers. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.3090915679932px; text-align: right;">Thanks to it and to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.3090915679932px; text-align: right;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.3090915679932px; text-align: right;">"Jiran"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.3090915679932px; text-align: right;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.3090915679932px; text-align: right;">travel grant, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.3090915679932px; text-align: right;">Ahmed Magdy Morsy and Mohamed Zedan were able to attend the film's world premiere in Dubai International Film Festival last December and Mohamad El-Hadidi was able to attend this screening in Morocco. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The film was accepted in Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival in Morocco. In order to screen it there we had to transfer the film to a digital cinema package or in other words "DCP". Since we have applied for other funds to be able to transfer it but never got accepted, we had no choice but to try it ourselves. Like everything else in the process of making this film, we started learning about how to transfer the film to DCP using open source programs like <a href="http://www.opendcp.org/" target="_blank">OpenDCP</a>. It seemed like an easy process but the problem was in testing the DCP itself. During this time we tried to get in touch with the manager of <a href="http://www.graphicaroma.com/" target="_blank">Aroma</a> which is a very famous company here in Egypt for post-production services, with the help of our dear friend Maysoon El Massry. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luckily he</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> agreed to offer us a DCP copy without any money. All he needed was to write "the film is transferred to DCP with the support of Aroma" before the film's final credits which seemed fair enough and now we have a DCP copy for the film :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The film was screened last Friday in Luxor African Film Festival as it was competing for the feature film award. It was the film's Egyptian and African premiere and it was disappointing because of the festival's lack of organization. First of all the film's information and the directors' names were wrong in the festival's catalogue !! The film was supposed to be screened twice; first in a city called El-Tod and then in Luxor but the 2nd screening's location was wrong in the festival's printed and online programme. We had to ask the organizers to print some announcements with the right information and post them with the film's poster all over the place to make sure people know when and where the screening is taking place. Luckily we had some post cards so we tried to invite people to the screening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We do know that all these issues were not intentional and since this is just the festival's 3rd edition, we do hope that the upcoming editions will be better and more organized. Other than the film's screening we all had a great time in the city of Luxor. The best thing about this festival was the fact that some of the film's crew managed to travel with us. Sameh Nabil, Samir Nabil, Islam Kamal, Mark Lotfy, Mina Nabil THANK YOU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The closer the film was to be finished, the more nervous we were. We were doing many things at the same time in parallel trying to meet DIFF's deadline. One of the most important things we worked on during that period was the film's poster. We looked at many film posters in order to find something that impress the 6 of us. We fell in love with some film posters that were made in Eastern Europe especially Poland in the 60's, then we began the journey of looking for a graphic designer whose work resembles such direction. We kept looking and looking until we found her on <a href="https://www.behance.net/marjainez">Behance</a>. <a href="http://marjainez.com/">Maria Ines Gul</a> is a graphic designer living in the UK so this meant lots of Skype meetings :) and the ironic thing is she's actually Polish so she was perfect. We really loved her work and after the experience of working with Anna on the music via Skype, working with Maria seemed like something we are used to or let me say experienced in :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During a period of three months we had some skype meetings and wrote many many e-mails to each other. Maria sent us many sketches and first drafts and it took us around two months for all of us to agree on one thing. At the beginning we agreed on making two posters but then we ended up with three since we really loved Maria's work :)</span></div>
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The Mice Room Filmmakershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414505622547165255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-47481235719465942292013-12-30T16:49:00.001+02:002013-12-30T16:51:44.346+02:00DIFF 2013 Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were really surprised by most of the reactions we got after screening the film in Dubai International Film Festival which ended two weeks ago. We all know how important is the way this film was made but what was surprising and eye-opening is what people thought of the film itself whether they loved it or not. It was our first time to talk about it publicly and explain how it was made. The two screenings went really well and the film looked so different on the big screen. Many film critics wrote positively about the film and the film had its <a href="http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/the-mice-room/5064518.article">first review</a> in the ScreenDaily :) We were also very happy to see regular people booking tickets in the movie theatre and paying actual money to watch our film. It was really quite an experience for the 6 of us and Mark Lotfy; the executive producer who joined us later in DIFF. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also had an panel discussion about teamwork with the filmmakers of another Lebanese film called "Void" that was competing for the Muhr Arab Feature award as well. It's also a collaborative feature made by 7 filmmakers so it was really important for both of us to talk about our different experiences especially with the fact the two films may sound similar but in fact they are very different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many people are asking us now about our plans for the film in terms of distribution and we really have no clue. We want to submit it to different film festivals all over the world and maybe it's time now for us to learn more about distribution as we did learn everything else in the process of making this film.</span><br />
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The Mice Room Filmmakershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414505622547165255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-61847064137006892522013-12-07T17:09:00.001+02:002013-12-30T16:51:13.639+02:00DIFF 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mice have finally left the room :) Yesterday we arrived here in Dubai to attend the 10th edition of Dubai International Film Festival. The film's <b>World Premiere</b> is today in 2 hours actually :) We are very excited but nervous at the same time. We are also very glad that the 6 of us could make it since the festival only invited 4 of us and we had no money to pay for the other two. This is why we applied to <a href="http://arabdigitalexpression.org/" target="_blank">ADEF</a> travel grant (<a href="http://arabdigitalexpression.org/programs/MITR/jeeran" target="_blank">Jeeran</a>) to cover the travel expenses of Ahmed Magdy Morsy. Mohamed Zedan was coming anyway to DIFF to participate </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with a feature documentary in production </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in Dubai Docs</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in Dubai Film Connection but he was coming just for 4 days which means he was going to miss the screening. We were over the moon when </span><a href="http://arabdigitalexpression.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">ADEF</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> accepted </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ahmed Magdy Morsy's</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> application. They were also generous enough to make an exception and cover the accommodation expenses of the extra 5 days Mohamed Zedan needed to attend the film's screening. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the film is also part of Dubai Film Market, we had to print some postcards and <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/qscunpguz3z85bb/The%20Mice%20Room%20-%20EPK.pdf" target="_blank">the press kit</a>. We also met <a href="http://www.mad-solutions.com/" target="_blank">MAD solutions</a> our marketing and sales agent to give them all the needed documents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week was really a very TOUGH week. We had to export the film to send it to DIFF and we all hate this process especially Mohamad El-Hadidi who always becomes very nervous when he hears the word "EXPORT" even if it's just for a 10 min video :) After the test screening in Bibliotheca Alexandrina, we wanted to fix some issues in color grading and sound mixing so we were camping in Rufy's for a whole week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since we have only one computer and we needed to finalize everything in a very short time, we had to bring in more computers. Thanks to Ahmed Nabil and Mark Lotfy who were generous enough to give us their personal computers as well as Tamer Nady who brought his monitor, we were able to finish on time :) We divided all the computers we had as well as our personal laptops into separate stations in different rooms. At some point we were working on 5 computers at the same time in parallel. We also had to rent a projector to see how things are on a big screen and even went to Bibliotheca Alexandrina for a second time to make sure everything is ok. I think pictures will speak louder than words to describe this week :)</span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-47886086376604708342013-11-25T16:55:00.000+02:002013-11-25T16:58:52.689+02:00Mark Lotfy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we first started writing the screenplay back in 2010, we had no idea that anyone would be interested to work with us in this film. We still remember Mohamed Zedan when he proposed the idea of talking to Mark Lotfy about the project and asking him to help us with equipment from his video production studio <a href="http://figleafstudio.com/" target="_blank">Fig Leaf Studio</a>. It was quite a surprise for all of us when Mark agreed and was very excited even to work with us himself. Mark was not only the executive producer in this film but also the biggest supporter in the last three years in all artistic, financial and even emotional aspects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the film's journey there were many people who promised us things and made us believe in them but eventually let us down. Yet, it was people like Mark and the rest of the cast and crew who gave us hope and made us more determined to finish the film. Mark Lotfy, thank you for keeping all your promises. Thank you for believing in the film, supporting it all the way and doing all your best for it to be where it is now. </span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-25956428275462876622013-11-24T12:57:00.002+02:002013-11-24T13:20:06.355+02:00World Premiere<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After 3 years, 6 months and 2 weeks we are more than happy to say that the film is FINISHED :) It is going to have its world premiere in Dubai International Film Festival or DIFF in less than two weeks in the <a href="http://dubaifilmfest.com/en/news/article/muhr-arab-feature-films-offer-raw-insight-into-evolving-societal-changes/year/2013" target="_blank">Muhr Arab Feature competition</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The film is going to be screened on Saturday December 7th at 9:15 pm in MOE 12 and on Monday December 9th at 3:45 pm in MOE 6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were really over the moon when we saw the film's page on the festival's website. For a moment we couldn't believe our eyes. It was quite a journey that started with a simple dream of the six of us wanting to write a screenplay together in October 2009 and ended up with actually making another film and being best friends, partners and family. Along the way many people joined us and dreamed with us whom without we couldn't have gone so far :) Thanks a million we'll be forever grateful.</span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-66594650304811424282013-11-14T14:21:00.002+02:002013-11-14T14:50:36.611+02:00Test Screening<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Tuesday we had a test screening in Bibliotheca Alexandrina where only the film's crew were invited thanks to Ahmed Nabil; a dear friend of us and one of the 1st ADs who organised such event. It was such a strange feeling to watch the film on a big screen. It IS actually very strange to finish the film after all these years. It is more like waking up one day and realizing that your child is now a grownup !! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was really great to share this moment with the crew especially with the fact that some of them were only present in the early stages of production. We couldn't have made this film without each one of them. We also wish we could have Anna (our music composer living in the US) and Maria (our poster designer living in UK) with us that day but who knows maybe one day we'll all meet somewhere eventually. It was also such a pleasure to share this moment with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_el_Azzazi" target="_blank">Islam El-Azzazi</a>; an independent Egyptian filmmaker who has been supporting this project since the beginning. </span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-61301455285133999892013-10-20T11:40:00.003+02:002013-11-21T13:07:27.103+02:00Thank You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-7911054654783824242013-09-28T15:50:00.003+02:002015-04-04T18:22:53.584+02:00Art Direction: Before & After<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been almost 2 years since we finished shooting in January 2012. We've been focusing so long on post-production and all the effort everybody is doing right now that we forget sometimes the effort everybody did in production or pre-production. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the most interesting things we never talked about in details is the art direction. Since we shot the film in real locations, we needed to work with the art directors on colors, backgrounds, .. etc. Since back then the film was divided into segments, each segment or we can say now each story had its own art director. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I was going through some old pictures of locations, they seemed so different than how they appear in the movie. One of these locations is the apartment where Rawya was shot. The old apartment belonged to the grandmother of one of our friends "Nourhan Ehab" and it was so beautiful but Nehal Ghanem had to add some touches :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other two stories where art direction was significant are Dahlia and Moussa. Emad Maher had to cover the empty white walls in Moussa while Nermeen Salem and Sara Hany tried to stick to Mayye's red-white-black color palette in Dahlia with the almost zero budget they had. They even had to paint some stuff in the hair salon and Sherifa the owner who played the hairdresser in the film as well was kind enough to let them do so :)</span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-68941149854952604342013-09-18T17:28:00.003+02:002015-04-04T18:24:10.028+02:00Mixing: Audio Desync Problem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It seems that Final Cut doesn't like the 23.98 frame rate and since it's the frame rate of all the film's footage, we had a big problem to synchronize the output video file with the audio file after mixing. And since we spent so much time trying to figure it out, we thought of sharing it with everybody in order to avoid it in the future :) So because the camera's frame rate is not actually 24 like cinema cameras but 23.98 like most digital cameras, this 0.02 difference causes an audio "desync" problem with the video file when they are both imported again to final cut for the final export.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The audio mixer Samir Nabil and I, tried to find a solution for this problem and after many days the only thing that worked was to convert the video file's frame rate to 24p using Cinema Tools. The process is called either pull-up or pull-down but I always forget and get confused which is which :) You should either do it to each video file on your timeline or with the final video and this is what we did and we should have done that before starting audio mixing.</span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-8127702085975814072013-09-12T21:40:00.000+02:002013-09-12T22:48:44.263+02:00Music Recording<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After more than a year of working on the music, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4844181/" target="_blank">Anna Drubich</a> finally recorded it in Hyperion Studio in LA in the US. Then she sent us the files via dropbox and now it's Samir Nabil's job to mix them with the film's audio. Like many of our dear crew, Anna has been there since the beginning when the film was divided into 6 segments. Back then we worked on the music of each segment as a separate short film but with a common theme between the 6 of them. Then when the segments were combined together later resulting in one film, we had to work on the music all over again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The final music was played by Anna herself on piano, <a href="http://etonkha.com/" target="_blank">Evgeny Tonkha</a> on cello, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2568850/" target="_blank">Nathan Matthew David</a> on guitar and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1021280/" target="_blank">Leo Chelyapov</a> on both accordion and duduk. Anna also had to record their names for us as well so that we write them correctly in Arabic in the film's final credits. Luckily all the Russian sounds that sound unfamiliar in English existed in Arabic :)</span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-86323349305039048232013-09-05T12:26:00.001+02:002013-09-05T12:29:57.618+02:00Credits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the film is almost finished, we are trying not to forget anyone's name in the film's credits. This film could have never been made without the contribution of all these people who helped us and their continuous support along the way in this very long journey. And even though the <a href="http://themiceroomfilm.blogspot.com/p/crew.html" target="_blank">film crew members</a> and <a href="http://themiceroomfilm.blogspot.com/p/cast.html" target="_blank">the cast</a> usually choose in the contract how they want their name to appear in the film's credits and since we didn't write any contract or agreement with any one of them during pre-production, we thought that now is a good time to ask such thing. So if you acted or worked in this film in any way, please write to us how do you want to write your name in both Arabic and English. If you don't speak Arabic like our music composer "Anna Drubich" or our poster designer "Maria", please record to us how do you correctly say your name in your native language :) and we'll do our best to write it correctly in Arabic :) Thank you all again for everything, we are </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forever grateful.</span></span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-57512347263905389942013-08-11T04:02:00.002+02:002013-08-11T04:07:22.622+02:00Dubbing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since we have been learning everything about filmmaking in this movie, we thought it's time to learn more about dubbing with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Object.Obscure" target="_blank">Samir Nabil</a> who is the film's </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sound designer and mixer</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Because of all the problems we had during shooting, there are some problems in the film's audio. We did our best to record the best audio we could but of course the first stories we shot like Maha, Moussa and the girl have very bad sound due to our lack of experience and the absence of Sameh Nabil; the sound recorder who joined us later in Dahlia, Rawya and Amr. </span></div>
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May Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17902927810221436688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315014079429268197.post-57076474423915894902013-08-08T03:19:00.001+02:002013-08-08T03:21:16.207+02:00Enjaaz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After applying to so many grants and being rejected, disappointed and pessimistic, The Mice Room was finally selected for <a href="http://dubaifilmfest.com/industry/dubai-film-market/enjaaz" target="_blank">Enjaaz</a> post-production grant in 2013 :) This is just what we really needed to carry on after consuming all our energy in making this film during the past 3 years. Now we can't wait to finish it and start screening it everywhere :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The co-production agreement delivered to us by post mail</i></span><br />
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