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Like my previous post, this one is also a copy paste from my blog, bcoz I thought I should post it here so as to share my experience with you.
Yesterday, I had participated in a short film making competition at YCET, Kollam. Let me tell you two important lessons I learnt.
Lesson 1 in Film Making – Making a film shouldn’t be a race against time.
Lesson 2 in Film Making – You should make a film because you want to make it, not because the film has to be made.
Everything began badly with the camera with which we were to shoot being unavailable. I somehow managed to get hold of a handycam just in time. The theme for the film was ‘Melody Of Youth’ (which none of us could figure out what the organisers meant by this) which was given minutes before the competition began. Constraints were the 5 minute duration and a work time of 4 hours. We shot the movie, edited it but couldn’t dub it properly even after getting the time duration of the competition extended by a couple of hours. I have a confession to make that the film we made was a rip off of another short film made by our seniors.
We didn’t win any prize, but the lesson I learnt was very valuable. Many of our competitors had pre filmed shots as they had guessed the theme would be campus related. But we shot the whole film (5 mins 30 secs approx) then and there. We enjoyed filming it but the editing and dubbing was tedious as our tensions were running high as the time remaining was too little. This is the first competition our whole team attended and we did pretty well for our first attempt.
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6 Comments Received
November 1st, 2008 @11:00 pm
varn its pretty good to share our exprince here in this blog.
as i was also their in tat team i cud say that only the lack of experince caused us trouble. but still the film was good may not be the best but still it was good when our time constraints and resoure and experince is taken into account.
am sure next time our team will win glory.
November 2nd, 2008 @11:45 am
yes.. movie making should never be a race against time !!!
November 2nd, 2008 @6:40 pm
true true……kure kashtapettu ….. movie makin with time limit is helll !!! but we made it the best from all those limited resources we got…….. weill do much better nextt ime ….. varun next competion is ours !!!
November 2nd, 2008 @8:14 pm
Varun…we could understand your determination from your words. Now you are one step closer to success! Surely you could achieve more next time.
November 2nd, 2008 @9:05 pm
“We didn’t win any prize, but the lesson I learnt was very valuable”
thts true…
those lessons value more than winning sme prizes..
better luck next tym.
and this will help us to make one gud short film at our coll itself..
November 2nd, 2008 @9:54 pm
surely u will win the next time all the best
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