Its been a while since I have updated on the movie for a few reasons.

Looking back, around Easter weekend (April 4th) we tried to film our movie which we had a fairly good idea about. Only problem was all the stupid technical difficulties:

1.) We tried to use a high end 1080p photography camera so we could have a high quality movie however, it took forever to edit and the sound quality was garbage.

2.) We found a microphone, but it was not compatible with the camera.

3.) We finally decided to use the art departments camera, but as soon as we got it and were ready to film during easter...there was no battery charger and we wasted the weekend.

4.) Once we got the charger, we started filming the day after, much to our dismay the cassette we were using, was dirty and about 3 min in to our scene it gave us a "clean filter: message which we ignored. Later when we filmed a good 15min of footage we tried to look at our footage but turns our the cassette needed cleaning and our footage was mixed in with whatever was on the tape. Another day lost.

5.) Finally we bought a new cassette tape and started filming :D...Only to change the movie

I think from the beginning of the movie pre-production till now, the idea has changed 1000000 times. However, some of it for the better some of it not. I guess the problem is that we dont have a team leader, a director. So everyone and everything is all over the place and messed up.

However, now we have a decent idea about our movie, it makes sense to all of us and were on somewhat of a roll. In fact just the other day we were looking for music to play during some scenes and I even created a beat for a sad scene of my character. I shall upload it on my next update post, probably when we will be in our editing stage.

Topic: Kick-Ass

This is a mini-film, about 13 min in length, about the crowning achievements of the oddly named Dark Ages. Sir Ben Kingsly plays a librarian in charge of teaching a couple of British kids about the contributions Islam had to our society.

Lately the Islamic community has been stereotyped as being terrorists and extremists. The stereotypical Muslim is a brown man in his 30's, with a large beard and is known to scream "lalalala" and blow up.

However, this mini-film shows a different side of Muslims, instead of the destruction, death, and war people are used to, it shows the power of Islamic creation. I was also personally shocked at how significant their discoveries were.

From the creation of the camera and the aircraft to simple medical tools we still use in our hospitals today. In fact, Al-Jazari, and engineer was famous for several inventions that are used in cars and trains. The industrial revolution would have never happened without his inventions.

Why is it that Muslims are only known as terrorists now, but in the past they were known as brilliant inventors? In the media, all we see are terrorist men and because of that we assume that all Muslims are terrorists. It is as if, we sent videos of redneck, white trash Americans living in a hillbilly town to the rest of the world, and that is how they portrayed us. Basically the media is showing us the hillbilly's of the Muslim society.

If you ever visit Dubai or some other Middle-Eastern country, you would see what art and beauty Muslims are capable of, and you would see the real Muslim society, not the media instilled stereotype.

The artist, Neil Cameron, created 26 awesome images of comic book heroes that had some connection a letter from the alphabet. This resulted in 26 images, from A-Z as seen in the picture.