Monday, November 8, 2010

sesh chapter - a short film



click here to see the short film
"There is something you can not learn  from the books, unless you have it in yourself.."

the journey of sesh chapter
- as told by the film itself.

my journey has always been short, full of excitement, running around and puzzling. in this case also it's the same. sesh chapter is not my real name. it is a borrowed name.
 actually I was initially nameless. the director, while shooting suddenly decided that he will name me after one of his another undone short film. though both the stories are written by him
, I mean my director, still I will always had this in my mind that
 my name is actually not my name.  anyways, lets come to the interesting part. the story. my creator, sourav dutta, has always
 taken special care regarding the quality of the production. I am also his first product of experiment with indoor lightings. he was very nervous while I was under
 production, always running here
 and there, doing multi tasking, forgetting important things, so on. While I was under pre production, which means while my creator was doing all the pen & paper stuffs I often heard him saying 'better the pre production, better the production, better the post production...'
and another line 'simpe is always good, not the best though...'

my friend says that those who uses their brain to think & imagine they talk to themselves. its not a disease though, rather I would say its an imaginary companion who always stays beside them to encourage
 them, help them in their work. 

anyways, lets come back, my story
 is very simple. just made of 3 scenes, running reverse, from present to past, revealing the dark side of an author whose popularity has encouraged a young journalist to write an article about him. things
 changes when the journalist comes across the darkest part of the author, the source of all his stories, so called very original stories. things get more dramatic when the jounalist starts blackmailing the
 author. 
rest I cant say, strict orders from my creator, you need to see the
 film to know more...


pre production

this time is was fast. the script was written within 2
 to 3 days. keepin
g in mind the parameters of restrictions for this type of films, my creator took no chance in making too many scenes & characters. reharsals were to be done for 3 consicutive days, but
 you all know that in this type of projects very few things happen according to time and plan.
 everything has to to happen suddenly. 
if my creator feels fresh & energetic, he call his friends, they reharse. in between they also carry out many discussion on topics such
 as films, politics, dev & his increasing popularity, rituparno ghosh, whether to put 'da' or 'di'
 after his name, so on & so forth.


production
day 1
then comes the part of production, the most adventurous & excitement part of film making.
 during this period everybody enjoyes that takes place around the camera & its projected angle. this time my creator took some extra lighting equipments with him, as it was his idea to carry out a little experiment with artificial lightings. unfortunately the experiment failed. too much of grain was found in the darkest portions of the recorded footage. so the only way
 out of this was to shoot with over exposed parameters. in this way the problem of noise was reduced to almost zero. but this also gave rise to another problem of very high saturated raw footage. instant decisions were made that during editing lots of colour & saturation adjustments were to be done, all agreed, the work started again. the
 entire indoor (scene 2) was shoot over exposed. 
Reharsing at the last moment is sometimes very important. though many directors do no prefer to do the same, yet my creator finds it extremely effective. he often says that it is like a revision before the submission.  

day 2
out door

the plan was that the entire shooting will be done in 3 days time. but then it was reduced to 2days, later a major portion was left undone due to shortage of time. thats all is what a short film is all about at the production level. 
the second day kick off lately, due to some some problem regardinf the availability of the car that was to be used in the film
to be continued...

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