GREEN SCREEN LAB
It was a film workshop that was hosted by KIIT university & our film branch was coordinating it.
It happened from 10th aug till 20th aug.
Had some of famous filmmakers & lots of talented writers.
Met some great personalities like Nila Madhab Panda, Onir, Sanjau Chauhan, Mark Aitken..........& many more.
My experience was especially with Mark Aitken. He is a filmmaker from UK & had done lots of amazing films & documentaries.
I was assisting him on a short children film he was making here titled "THE LOST ELEPHANT".
It was such a learning experience.
He was such a great guy.
In this movie the main character was obviously an elephant. So we had made a trunk just to be shown in front of the camera so as telling the story from the elephants point of view. I took some of the shots but i was the guy mostly holding the trunk.........so Mark named me the trunk operator & the best one in town. He was a funny guy & we would often make jokes. We shot at the KISS school for the tribal & backward children. They were such great kids & their teacher were also very helpful. There were like two three shots where we had to shoot with some more than 100 kids & we had to run between them. It was so intense & huge. They also recorded music being played by them for our background score & where i got to learn a thing or two about sound too. We went up the Shikharchandi mountains near our university for some shots & we needed a spot that was covered with trees sort of making it a cave. We found that spot & we shot in it. Mark was being attacked by mosquitos the size of bees & i was being shredded by the thorny bushes & branches. But he kept on going without hesitation. Me on the other hand kept cutting myself someway or the other........i guess i can say i bleed for this movie (HeHeHe). He also didnt care much about lunch rather than focusing on the work at hand. Too bad my stomach wasnt agreeing to him. But jokes apart we worked hard & we wrapped up the shot.
Next came the editing part for which he was also very kind to include me in. I thought i was just gong to sit & watch him do it but he wanted me to do a edit of the same footage & see what we both come up with. Lucky for me he saw my edit & liked it very much. He then wanted me to go over his edit & re-edit where necessary. I was really flattered. During the edit i didnt liked how the movie was ending. So i suggested a different ending to Mark fearing that he may not like it cause its his film after all. But to my surprise he agreed to my point & we shot the ending that i came up with. After we edited it with sound & everything..........the end product was so good. He put up my name in the credits as the Editor.
I was so excited & happy that the whole weeks hard work finally paid off.
This last saturaday we were supposed to screen the movie to which 100s of the KISS children were coming. But that was an unlucky day for me i guess. I left for college that day & on the way it started raining heavily so i had to come back home. It kept on raining without any signs of stopping. Over at college the screening was about to start & Mark was enquiring about me but i wasnt able to get there so it went on without me. I was a bit sad & angry that i wasnt able to see the film which i worked so hard on the big screen.......
But it was alright as others saw it & liked it a lot. My friends called me & said it was good. That brought a smile on my face.
This whole Green Screen thing was really such fun & learning experience.
Thanks Mark for letting me be your Trunk Operator.
P.S- If u want to see the film then click on the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8skL1tMhEGM
It was a film workshop that was hosted by KIIT university & our film branch was coordinating it.
It happened from 10th aug till 20th aug.
Had some of famous filmmakers & lots of talented writers.
Met some great personalities like Nila Madhab Panda, Onir, Sanjau Chauhan, Mark Aitken..........& many more.
My experience was especially with Mark Aitken. He is a filmmaker from UK & had done lots of amazing films & documentaries.
I was assisting him on a short children film he was making here titled "THE LOST ELEPHANT".
It was such a learning experience.
He was such a great guy.
In this movie the main character was obviously an elephant. So we had made a trunk just to be shown in front of the camera so as telling the story from the elephants point of view. I took some of the shots but i was the guy mostly holding the trunk.........so Mark named me the trunk operator & the best one in town. He was a funny guy & we would often make jokes. We shot at the KISS school for the tribal & backward children. They were such great kids & their teacher were also very helpful. There were like two three shots where we had to shoot with some more than 100 kids & we had to run between them. It was so intense & huge. They also recorded music being played by them for our background score & where i got to learn a thing or two about sound too. We went up the Shikharchandi mountains near our university for some shots & we needed a spot that was covered with trees sort of making it a cave. We found that spot & we shot in it. Mark was being attacked by mosquitos the size of bees & i was being shredded by the thorny bushes & branches. But he kept on going without hesitation. Me on the other hand kept cutting myself someway or the other........i guess i can say i bleed for this movie (HeHeHe). He also didnt care much about lunch rather than focusing on the work at hand. Too bad my stomach wasnt agreeing to him. But jokes apart we worked hard & we wrapped up the shot.
Next came the editing part for which he was also very kind to include me in. I thought i was just gong to sit & watch him do it but he wanted me to do a edit of the same footage & see what we both come up with. Lucky for me he saw my edit & liked it very much. He then wanted me to go over his edit & re-edit where necessary. I was really flattered. During the edit i didnt liked how the movie was ending. So i suggested a different ending to Mark fearing that he may not like it cause its his film after all. But to my surprise he agreed to my point & we shot the ending that i came up with. After we edited it with sound & everything..........the end product was so good. He put up my name in the credits as the Editor.
I was so excited & happy that the whole weeks hard work finally paid off.
This last saturaday we were supposed to screen the movie to which 100s of the KISS children were coming. But that was an unlucky day for me i guess. I left for college that day & on the way it started raining heavily so i had to come back home. It kept on raining without any signs of stopping. Over at college the screening was about to start & Mark was enquiring about me but i wasnt able to get there so it went on without me. I was a bit sad & angry that i wasnt able to see the film which i worked so hard on the big screen.......
But it was alright as others saw it & liked it a lot. My friends called me & said it was good. That brought a smile on my face.
This whole Green Screen thing was really such fun & learning experience.
Thanks Mark for letting me be your Trunk Operator.
P.S- If u want to see the film then click on the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8skL1tMhEGM
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