My First Film!
.... film making is firstly team work!! thats the first thing which was done after joining film school..
our story was born in a script writing workshop...and we had the most difficult cast... A Child and An Animal!... as they say they r the most dificult to control...but being our first film we had our adrenalin rushing and ready to take on the world .. be it any kinda challenge.... by the way before i start.. we had to shoot a" 3 and a half minute film in 12 hours!!!!!!" sounds easy rt?? ya you'll know how easy it was....
we were told several times that it wont be possible to shoot a child and an animal in a day... but we were adamant... so we had to take permission to shoot an animal.. and we learnt shooting animals is banned .. we tried hard but it didnt happen... so we had to write and re write our script... and dis time we introduced a watchman as the antagonist..
our film was about Tinku who is flying a kite and in the process it drops in a school compound...when he tries to get his kite by applying his tricks... and how the Watchman is an a obstruction....with a twist in the tail.....
and by the ways our group was called KLAASS of 2007!(Kunal,Lopa, Akansha,Andre,Sanjay and Subhadra ... group members) when we had our script finalized .. we had to get on the field to get our permissions 4rm BMC,RTO,PTO,NTC grounds..Sitaram Mill School...... lets not get into the struggle part how we got our permissions.. cause then no oe would want to do an outdoor shoot... but the best part is ..WE GOT ALL THE PERMISSIONS!!!!
they way we found our location ... our actors is all destiny....and a story itself..!
the day of shoot 14th oct 2006 ..was my day ... i was directing our first film...and my first ever short film...we all reached the location on time... but somehow we started off schedule.... there was no wind and we had to do our kite flying shot... we kept waiting till wind god blessed us!!! we did our kite flying scene... it was amazing ... but tinku was kinda nervous.. and i kept boosting him up (child actor) camera man was obsessed with our shots... and kept wasting time to take even better shots.... even after i said cut and he thought i was a stupid girl cause i said "cut" very fast!!!
we were 1 and half hour delayed we started the shots in front of Sita ram Milla Municipal school and by the time we could start shooting there was heap of slum kids sorrounded who were so unruly... by now with so much of boosting tinku he was back to his spontanoues acting... but now we realized we needed to speed up because we had to finish shoot in 9 hours as we were shooting in day light ....by dat time our friends (kajal and shreyas) came to help us...there was big problem with continuity.... as we had a big yellow rope to keep the crowds away and most of the time it was intruding the frame so we had to re-take most of the time.....the kids out there had become directors.... after hearing meh say "ACTION" and they all started sayin "ACTION" so all the time the cameraman got confused!!!. the Camera attendent the big duffer he was blew off the TCR in and out!!! and the consequence we faced in the edit table!...
we neva gave up we did have the monkey for one shot as a guest appearance.... the crowd got into a frenzy ... kids after all man!!
we did waste some pivotal time then... we lost even more time when these slum women with their new born kids gathered there and these babies did potty where we had our main shots to make even more worse...
gradually Akansha , the Assistant Director ... got panicky ... she even made meh panicky .... that we tried to speed up at n implausible speed... it was during this time that our antagonist in the film., the Watchman had to act ... but he became so bloody conscious... but with instruction he faired well... they never betrayed thats gives meh consolation....... by the time we had our one of our "dustbin shot " previously and we needed the dustbin again for another shot for continuity reason.... and this time the dustbin was missing .... my heart came out of my gob during that time... since the other members were pushing the crowd ,i decided to look for the dustbin.. ran to several places and univerese conspired for the good... it was lying in some corner and by that time the light was allready dim.. sun had set... and that dustbin shot was a crucial shot ... there was difference in light which would give big big jerk in terms of visual effect.. and thats why chronological shoot order is required in outdoor shoot! and i knw its difficult.. we improvovised on the spot... we had too many shots for one day shoot ... we mixed up few of the and chucked few of them .... and it was quite welll.....
we finished .... i coudnt beleive for the first time i neva knew how time passed by ... by the end of the shoot i felt ... OH MAN.... WHAT AN EXPERIECE...... I LOVE IT AS MUCH I HATE IT..... BUT I LOVE IT EVEN MORE!!!! we huged each other and bid gudbye to see eacthother to view our rushes next day .... MAN OH MAN!...... we realized ...... we MISSED one shot..... didnt have one shot RECORDED even after two takes.... and we already had one shot scrwed up due to less day light!....... Shreyas who was one of the other group director who was the first to shoot said some golden words" EDITING IS MAGIC" n i left it n the hands of the GOD - THE EDITOR!
The next day we were at VERSOVA on time .... our editing got delayed due
to our TCR count ..... but it started of well.. it was amazing.... but our film started falling at the end cause of the gone astray shots.... we were tearing our hair ... and we had to go to the loo umpteem number of time and every time we came out we had a new idea to cover it.... we even decided to change the structure..... we took shots 4rm the "NG: (not good shots) and made the "ok" shots .... we did something out of nothing at the end ...... even though we felt the jerks .... the story was very much in order..... we did our final inputs .... MUSIC ..... the "KING"
we put SARANGI and TABLA ....... i was like there ya go...... now it looks complete..... i was feeling much better ...... .. it was 1 am already....... by 2 :30 am we finished our GRAPHICS...... and we had a complete film by 3 am ... 16th october 2006....
........ our Film was the Best Film in class..... we covered up all the mistakes...... every body could just not stop talkin about it... KLASS just could not stop each other hugging eachother after the declaration ..... this is how film is made!.... now i can say it......
oh ..... our film was called
" DHEEL DE"..... let it loose ya....
our story was born in a script writing workshop...and we had the most difficult cast... A Child and An Animal!... as they say they r the most dificult to control...but being our first film we had our adrenalin rushing and ready to take on the world .. be it any kinda challenge.... by the way before i start.. we had to shoot a" 3 and a half minute film in 12 hours!!!!!!" sounds easy rt?? ya you'll know how easy it was....
we were told several times that it wont be possible to shoot a child and an animal in a day... but we were adamant... so we had to take permission to shoot an animal.. and we learnt shooting animals is banned .. we tried hard but it didnt happen... so we had to write and re write our script... and dis time we introduced a watchman as the antagonist..
our film was about Tinku who is flying a kite and in the process it drops in a school compound...when he tries to get his kite by applying his tricks... and how the Watchman is an a obstruction....with a twist in the tail.....
and by the ways our group was called KLAASS of 2007!(Kunal,Lopa, Akansha,Andre,Sanjay and Subhadra ... group members) when we had our script finalized .. we had to get on the field to get our permissions 4rm BMC,RTO,PTO,NTC grounds..Sitaram Mill School...... lets not get into the struggle part how we got our permissions.. cause then no oe would want to do an outdoor shoot... but the best part is ..WE GOT ALL THE PERMISSIONS!!!!
they way we found our location ... our actors is all destiny....and a story itself..!
the day of shoot 14th oct 2006 ..was my day ... i was directing our first film...and my first ever short film...we all reached the location on time... but somehow we started off schedule.... there was no wind and we had to do our kite flying shot... we kept waiting till wind god blessed us!!! we did our kite flying scene... it was amazing ... but tinku was kinda nervous.. and i kept boosting him up (child actor) camera man was obsessed with our shots... and kept wasting time to take even better shots.... even after i said cut and he thought i was a stupid girl cause i said "cut" very fast!!!
we were 1 and half hour delayed we started the shots in front of Sita ram Milla Municipal school and by the time we could start shooting there was heap of slum kids sorrounded who were so unruly... by now with so much of boosting tinku he was back to his spontanoues acting... but now we realized we needed to speed up because we had to finish shoot in 9 hours as we were shooting in day light ....by dat time our friends (kajal and shreyas) came to help us...there was big problem with continuity.... as we had a big yellow rope to keep the crowds away and most of the time it was intruding the frame so we had to re-take most of the time.....the kids out there had become directors.... after hearing meh say "ACTION" and they all started sayin "ACTION" so all the time the cameraman got confused!!!. the Camera attendent the big duffer he was blew off the TCR in and out!!! and the consequence we faced in the edit table!...
we neva gave up we did have the monkey for one shot as a guest appearance.... the crowd got into a frenzy ... kids after all man!!
we did waste some pivotal time then... we lost even more time when these slum women with their new born kids gathered there and these babies did potty where we had our main shots to make even more worse...
gradually Akansha , the Assistant Director ... got panicky ... she even made meh panicky .... that we tried to speed up at n implausible speed... it was during this time that our antagonist in the film., the Watchman had to act ... but he became so bloody conscious... but with instruction he faired well... they never betrayed thats gives meh consolation....... by the time we had our one of our "dustbin shot " previously and we needed the dustbin again for another shot for continuity reason.... and this time the dustbin was missing .... my heart came out of my gob during that time... since the other members were pushing the crowd ,i decided to look for the dustbin.. ran to several places and univerese conspired for the good... it was lying in some corner and by that time the light was allready dim.. sun had set... and that dustbin shot was a crucial shot ... there was difference in light which would give big big jerk in terms of visual effect.. and thats why chronological shoot order is required in outdoor shoot! and i knw its difficult.. we improvovised on the spot... we had too many shots for one day shoot ... we mixed up few of the and chucked few of them .... and it was quite welll.....
we finished .... i coudnt beleive for the first time i neva knew how time passed by ... by the end of the shoot i felt ... OH MAN.... WHAT AN EXPERIECE...... I LOVE IT AS MUCH I HATE IT..... BUT I LOVE IT EVEN MORE!!!! we huged each other and bid gudbye to see eacthother to view our rushes next day .... MAN OH MAN!...... we realized ...... we MISSED one shot..... didnt have one shot RECORDED even after two takes.... and we already had one shot scrwed up due to less day light!....... Shreyas who was one of the other group director who was the first to shoot said some golden words" EDITING IS MAGIC" n i left it n the hands of the GOD - THE EDITOR!
The next day we were at VERSOVA on time .... our editing got delayed due
to our TCR count ..... but it started of well.. it was amazing.... but our film started falling at the end cause of the gone astray shots.... we were tearing our hair ... and we had to go to the loo umpteem number of time and every time we came out we had a new idea to cover it.... we even decided to change the structure..... we took shots 4rm the "NG: (not good shots) and made the "ok" shots .... we did something out of nothing at the end ...... even though we felt the jerks .... the story was very much in order..... we did our final inputs .... MUSIC ..... the "KING"
we put SARANGI and TABLA ....... i was like there ya go...... now it looks complete..... i was feeling much better ...... .. it was 1 am already....... by 2 :30 am we finished our GRAPHICS...... and we had a complete film by 3 am ... 16th october 2006....
........ our Film was the Best Film in class..... we covered up all the mistakes...... every body could just not stop talkin about it... KLASS just could not stop each other hugging eachother after the declaration ..... this is how film is made!.... now i can say it......
oh ..... our film was called
" DHEEL DE"..... let it loose ya....
Watch it on:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug6nXKS4004
posted by Lopa Mudra Mitra at 8:27 AM
2 Comments:
Tht mst hv been an amzing experience Gargi. i could almost feel myself in ur shoes, the choas, excitment, depression, thrill......u hv it all covered....
i'm sure u'll b a grt showgrl..
All the best......and i really enojoyed ur experience very much..
tc
Amit
I liked your style of writing... as if you are telling everything just in front of my eyes with all gestures and hand movements etc etc.. Applause !!!
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