Meet the men behind Emirati science fiction film Aerials

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Meet the men behind Emirati science fiction film Aerials. Director S.A.Zaidi and Emirati producer Ghanem Ghubash share the inspiration behind their film Aerials and their future science fiction plans. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00We were tired of watching movies that showed, you know, the New York City skyline, the Chicago

00:15City skyline and, you know, I mean, you even see the London skyline and Moscow skyline,

00:23spaceships above all that and all that destruction.

00:27So, you know, Ghanem and I thought, why not bring spaceships, why don't we 3D design spaceships

00:34and put them over Dubai's skyline?

00:37We were actually, we were thinking about this when we were doing our first site in San Francisco.

00:43Yeah, yeah we were.

00:44We were thinking about multiple ideas, so this is just the one we selected to do out

00:52of the feature line.

00:56All in all, two and a half years, the film was done.

00:58I would say, we messed up what we can do and what we couldn't do.

01:05Yeah, definitely, because, you know, we'd never had a standard script to the film.

01:10We had a rough script that we changed depending on how much budget we could put in the film.

01:16I mean, we had to change the script because, oh, okay, so we can't shoot outside there,

01:21let's bring it back home, let's make it, let's bring it indoors.

01:25Let's see where we can't shoot, like we cannot show a spaceship crashing down from the sky,

01:31so let's just bring the spaceship right above, you know.

01:34So there were these moments which weren't, which we knew are not entertaining enough

01:39in the film, but are important and can be done with a certain amount of budget.

01:44So I think that was the toughest part.

01:47That's what took long, to independently fund the script.

01:53We want to work on science fiction exclusively.

01:57We've got a very good post-production team.

01:59I mean, that's what we expertise in.

02:01Our company, Fat Brothers Films, that you can see,

02:05we have some of the heaviest rendering equipment in the country.

02:10I mean, if there's anything we boast, we boast our rendering power.

02:15So we can really click on the post-production.

02:19We're still planning to bring in more 3D work into the cinemas of the United Arab Emirates.

02:24Definitely it's going to be science fiction.

02:26We're definitely, I mean, I think this time it's going to be a more character-based narrative.

02:32We are developing characters and the next two to three months,

02:35you're going to be seeing something about it.

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