1) Do shot breakdown in detail - without compromising. (Good you did it this time and realizd the difference)
2) Make sure when you are taking rush shots - folks are not looking at the camera3) Don't get concious if there is crowd watching you. Learn to work in the crowd
3) Have a camera person. Have him on board earlier so that no time in explaining issues.
4) Have an assistant only for continuity. It is very important
5) Do good crowd control. Have one production guy for crowd control.
6) Take one back up shot for every good shot. You will be surprised to know that you end up using backup shots more.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Learning from my videos so far
Biggest learning in an institute were you are judged (sometimes by mortals of lower intelligence)-
1)Take all criticisms positively and evaluate each of them. They are very very useful.
1) MFP
If the actor is speaking too fast. Tell him that. Give pauses for audience to understand the joke. Give them time. Edit without cutting dialogues.
2) 7 shots
Improve the framing. If a girl is looking like a girl (and you do not want her to look like a girl) - camouflage her better so that she doesn't look like a girl.
3) Moments of solitude
1) Take permissions
2) Hear sound using headphones when doing the final sound design.
3) Don't get self-indulgant with your best shots at the time of editing.Make it crisp.
4) Continuity - note down the issues of continuity - left hand write hand etc while changing the perspective shots. Make sure that your actors stick to the lines else difficult to intercut also. Show 2-3 people to take their input before you release the final ut ot the general audience. Must show to Saurabh first.
5) Meditate on script for a good amount of time, it should have atleast 5-6 draft (even if it is a 6 mins script).
Put your scriptwriting classes to good use while evaluating the script.
1)Take all criticisms positively and evaluate each of them. They are very very useful.
1) MFP
If the actor is speaking too fast. Tell him that. Give pauses for audience to understand the joke. Give them time. Edit without cutting dialogues.
2) 7 shots
Improve the framing. If a girl is looking like a girl (and you do not want her to look like a girl) - camouflage her better so that she doesn't look like a girl.
3) Moments of solitude
1) Take permissions
2) Hear sound using headphones when doing the final sound design.
3) Don't get self-indulgant with your best shots at the time of editing.Make it crisp.
4) Continuity - note down the issues of continuity - left hand write hand etc while changing the perspective shots. Make sure that your actors stick to the lines else difficult to intercut also. Show 2-3 people to take their input before you release the final ut ot the general audience. Must show to Saurabh first.
5) Meditate on script for a good amount of time, it should have atleast 5-6 draft (even if it is a 6 mins script).
Put your scriptwriting classes to good use while evaluating the script.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The story of a frog
This was one vid that I made in 2 hours end to end. I got some positive feedback - good script and good execution. To an extremely -ve feedback - some went to an extent of asking me to reshoot. Both the parties were extremely honest. And I was trying to evaluate why I got two such feedback. And learnt a very crucial lesson:
"Some audiences only look at the frog and some only look at the fly".
Why do I say this. This is because when i made the video and was seeing it across various rereuns, I was trying to see how the fly was trying to elude the frog. When I see the video from that interaction or fly point of view, it is not boring at all. But the dominant image of my video was frog. And lots of folks only saw the frog and found it boring.
Ofcourse there were some remarks as - I can see the thread, I can see the hand. That
on my part was intentional. One remark was - can we have a more real fly please (actually I thought in the contrary that instead of a written "fly" I could have had a smiley, as I had already introduced it.) Even the brand of the plate that shows up -that too. Coz I wanted to bring out the fact that it is staged, its like in a puppet show, you see the puppets and the hands of the puppeteers. I found some appeal in showing it rather than hiding it.
Also another lesson I learnt was that script is important. I made this video practically at the time of editing when the concept of love between frog and fly came up, I could have thought about it nad have shot it better. From now on my policy is to avoid reshoots as much as possible. Afterall when I make a real movie with real actors, will I be able to reshoot it?
"Some audiences only look at the frog and some only look at the fly".
Why do I say this. This is because when i made the video and was seeing it across various rereuns, I was trying to see how the fly was trying to elude the frog. When I see the video from that interaction or fly point of view, it is not boring at all. But the dominant image of my video was frog. And lots of folks only saw the frog and found it boring.
Ofcourse there were some remarks as - I can see the thread, I can see the hand. That
on my part was intentional. One remark was - can we have a more real fly please (actually I thought in the contrary that instead of a written "fly" I could have had a smiley, as I had already introduced it.) Even the brand of the plate that shows up -that too. Coz I wanted to bring out the fact that it is staged, its like in a puppet show, you see the puppets and the hands of the puppeteers. I found some appeal in showing it rather than hiding it.
Also another lesson I learnt was that script is important. I made this video practically at the time of editing when the concept of love between frog and fly came up, I could have thought about it nad have shot it better. From now on my policy is to avoid reshoots as much as possible. Afterall when I make a real movie with real actors, will I be able to reshoot it?
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
And the first solo attempt
Was to make this song with only photos (I didnt have my video camera then). and I used windows movie maker. I didnt use any markers- just arranged photos -tried to control their durantion - the movie maker crashed on me 100 times. I asked ashish for the first 2 photos and waited for them to arive. It took me 8-10 hours to make this e2e. Saurabh's friend is a editor who criticised this attempt very heavily. It however appeals to me coz it is my first amd yeah it does tell a story fro mthe heart. I just do not feel bored on seeing it. And that is a lesson for myself:
"A story written from heart always strikes a chord with like-hearted"
Incidentally except the pics of me in US (and my umbrealla and suarabh's iimc pics), all the pics have both me and saurabh in it or have been clicked by one of us.
"A story written from heart always strikes a chord with like-hearted"
Incidentally except the pics of me in US (and my umbrealla and suarabh's iimc pics), all the pics have both me and saurabh in it or have been clicked by one of us.
And the love of randomness
I feel drenched by the randomness present in the world - and with that randomnoss as my motto - I begin the journey of the dancing cookies.
This link of mine wil lbe dedicated to all videos, skits, dances, movies that I work on, appreciate or am associated with.
What better way to begin than with my own engagement dance:
This link of mine wil lbe dedicated to all videos, skits, dances, movies that I work on, appreciate or am associated with.
What better way to begin than with my own engagement dance:
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