PRASHANT RAI cinematographer

Cape of good hope – home to the Flying Dutchman. An interesting view of Cape Hangklip from Cape point on a cloudy day.

Durban:  Surfs breaking on the beach.

A quiet tarmac shrouded in fog.

I am really hoping that this year-end some chill should set in. Though, Mumbai is never really ‘cold’. The last time I experienced some chill, which reminded me of North, was in 2001-2002 winters. Last year was terribly disappointing.

This season looks promising. I can feel the chill in air the moment sun goes down.  So 31st December should be interesting. keeping my fingers crossed.

Striking the final 35mm print of R(EVOLUTION) at Gemini Labs, Chennai.

With less than 2 days to go for sound mixing at SKYWALKER sounds, the news trickling in is that deluxe labs of US have cordially agreed to do the digital Intermediate of the film 11 Weeks at their premier digital lab facility EFILM and strike a 35mm print subsequently.

Some of the films done in the recent past by deluxe and EFILM are -

‘Inglorious Basterds’ by Quentin Tarantino, ‘Revolutionary Road’ by Sam Mendes, ‘Angels and Demons’ by Ron Howard, ‘Milk‘ by Gus Van Sant, ‘IronMan‘ by Jon Favreau, and ‘Juno‘ by Jason Reitman.

 http://www.efilm.com/filmography.php?pageID=1    (more info on EFILM’s filmography)

 If the world keeps quiet on Sri Lanka I will interpret it as giving a tacit nod that yes nations facing insurgency or domestic squabbles can follow this route. What do we do then? Roll tanks and use precision guided bombs and heavy artillery shells in the heart of Srinagar and Kohima?…

read more under WRITING-NON FICTION page.

Nothing beats the impression of a charcoal sketch for a storyboard. However, storyboard artists are few and expensive for small budget commercials and features. Softwares like Frameforge 3D studio do provide a fillip to most of us for whom sketching is just doodling matchstick caricatures on tissue papers of a coffee shop…

more on ‘Writing-Non Fiction’ page

I got a great news from my director early morning – Skywalker likes the rough cut of ‘11weeks’, they loved the story and liked the visuals. and now they will
mix the sound and make it sound like any other Hollywood biggie.
This is a great news to come from Lucasfilms’ subsidiary company i thought for a low budget film to jostle for space among Hollywood studio creations like A curious case of Benjamin Button, Iron man, Ice age-3, Cloverfield, BEOWULF, Mummies, Pirates of the Carib. and of course Madagascer -2.
Dipesh is grinning from ear to ear, so is the rest of the crew. Hoping for wonders in future.

www.skysound.com

Ultra 16mm Demo from Cinelicious on Vimeo.