I have more to say, but you would end up spending half an hour reading my post, when the film is just 5 minutes! So go to the link and watch: This is what I would call 'effective self-learning'.
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The Do's and Don'ts at the editing table, how to manage a candid shoot in a public space etc.
The brighter side: This experimental film taught a lot many things in film making, the 'most fundamental's. So it wasn't really serving as my storytelling sample.
Not a great script, but as a PSA, it was a good visual I thought. So then popped the other two ideas of 'switching off your bike in signals' and water conservation.įrankly speaking it wasn't a great work. Just PSAing this plastic idea would just make it a 1 min thing. I had to add two more environment based messages in the script to make it quite a worthy watch. But still, we were acting like knew what we were doing! And yeah, we didn't mess up. And we hardly knew the basic 'Do's and Don'ts' of short film making. And the very unique thing about this project was, it was a pack of 7 students from Computer Science background who were shooting.
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They do it for free and they pay you with invaluable dedication. Friends are angels when it comes to shooting your first project. I had drawn a rough storyboard (which had to see a lot of infringing during the shoot) and then had arranged a rehearsal meet for the cast. The screenwriting part was pretty easy and there were no dialogues. Ooh! Then I shall become the modernest children-storyteller, who doesn’t tells stories to kids, but performs them all as a mime play! Wow! Budding film makers gotta livvvveee life like this! Alright! So when is this ’26 hour’ thing starting? Hello? There? They have been pestering me for this since last new year! Yeah right! Every night before going to bed! With the face painted, the head covered with a cap (that we wear inside the helmet) white gloves on the hand and dancing and acting in rhythm to a tune (probably the BGM of ‘Tom and Jerry’ I torrented last week). What about the other 1 hour? Aaah! Finally, now those little monsters can be happy! I can play a clown to my little nephews. As a loyal ‘budding director’ I am supposed to focus on my area of study and not shatter focus, but now since I have an extra two hour, I can divert a little and try being an actor! Okay, that’s with the one hour. That’s because a couple more hours would help this budding film maker to find time to realize his year-old dream of ‘starting to become an actor’.I always wanted to be one! I can spend an hour in watching the selected ‘Al Pacino’ clips in You Tube and try bringing out the original actor inside me. No machan please!’ But now, my answer would contrast my UG mind. Wow! So you mean I will have 26 hours a day then? Amazing! That’s exactly what I have been looking for Machan! See, if you had asked me this question three years earlier when I was lazying my Under Graduation college I would have gnarled ‘oh man come on! I am longing for life to move a little faster than my USB modem, now don’t tell me you are gonna give 2 extra hours a day.