Storyboards

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…

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’11 Weeks’ – the film shoot. Part-1

Srinagar greeted with a dry autumn and deserted streets. The tourists who thronged the markets and shikaras a few months back were missing. As a photographer I felt like the streets, the landscape too was barren, with a veneer of gritty yellowy dust all over compared to the lush greens three months back.

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R(EVOLUTION) at Karlovy Vary

Film screenings: 625 – 9.7., 18:30, Small Hall – Thermal 7E5 – 10.7., 22:00, Espace Dorleans Cinema

R(evolution) | R(evolution) Director: Mustafa Zaveri India, 2007, 80 min,

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This independent Indian debut will captivate audiences with its sunny location in a tranquil bay. There, the emotionally and existentially wounded protagonists find a new [...]

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Location Reccee ’11 Weeks’ – 3

In the last three days we had scanned most of the valley  – Kupawara, Baramulla, Sopore & Pahalgam. We did find a location that would suit our script; let’s see if it materialises. have just returned from Pahalgam. It was raining the whole day and Pahalgam was wet and looked beautiful as the clouds loured over [...]

filmmaking

I had written a lovely touching script called ‘A night of redemption’ to be my thesis film before i stumbled on ‘Devil’s Advocaat’. A night of redemption was a story of a prostitute who nourished a dream of finding real love and was set free by a man who didn’t mean anything to her. [...]

Cinematographers & Visual Aesthetics

Cin•e•ma•tog•ra•phy (sin’.m.tog’r.fē) n. The art and process of making motion pictures. Moving images are inspiring narrative, sometimes powerful, sometimes emotive, sometimes still and sometimes drab, colourful and pleasing, grey and sober. They convey umpteen emotions rapidly changing and altering its form and carrying the audience with it to the desired destination or conclusion. [...]

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Essentially a cinematographer, but do love to write sometimes about my travels and film experiences.

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Prashant Rai