Hi Everyone!
This is the first post for the making of our film: Chhaya( which of course is a temporary name for now)
This is going to be an animated short film. As all stories start, this too started with an idea. An idea that i got few years back while working on another film script. So when we started on ideating on our animation graduation film, I pitched the core idea and to my surprise, people(animation directors, screenwriters and producers) got involved quickly and instantaneously.:)
**Prakash, an old man and his grief of losing his lovely supportive caring wife, Chhaya - the idea**
From there on the journey started.
With my lovely screenwriter Katerina and my amazing producer Josh , we developed this idea into a story. With constant thinking, brainstorming and at times quarrelling, fighting (and brief destruction of smaller properties like crushing paper and breaking pencils) we got to a point where our story was working a little. The way i wanted the story to go, was a challenge , as i needed to find myself in it and also parallel understanding of the character going through the emotions.
After three weeks of constant aggressive re-writes and concept arts we managed to have three versions of the same story.
One came from Katerina and myself, one from Katerina and one from myself. The first version had all kinds of action/ drama/ emotion but it lacked subtlety.
The second one was dramatic and dark.
The third one was subtle and emotional.
With the support of our brilliant tutors- Paul and Brian we realised that there are good things to each of them that we could use.
But we also understood that we needed to understand Prakash and his world. Once we know him better we would know his reaction to situations. Being a director, is like constant creation and then criticising your own creation. Its HARD!!
I took the first go at merging all the three in the right proportion. I thought of bringing the subtleties of version 3 and the darkness of version 2 to version 1. But after constant rewrites and getting it not to work, i realised, i had to take Ver 1 drama and Ver 2 darkness to Ver 3 subtleties.
There i went. It went as a flow. The outline was ready . I sent it to Katerina and then she made some excellent suggestions. She wrote it down as a prose. She is Brilliant!! :)
From there on we kept loads of place holders and made the beats worked. Also our producer, Josh was arranging our trip to a Senior Centre to study their situation.
The next part of out script writing started from there on.
More to come! :)
This is the first post for the making of our film: Chhaya( which of course is a temporary name for now)
This is going to be an animated short film. As all stories start, this too started with an idea. An idea that i got few years back while working on another film script. So when we started on ideating on our animation graduation film, I pitched the core idea and to my surprise, people(animation directors, screenwriters and producers) got involved quickly and instantaneously.:)
**Prakash, an old man and his grief of losing his lovely supportive caring wife, Chhaya - the idea**
From there on the journey started.
With my lovely screenwriter Katerina and my amazing producer Josh , we developed this idea into a story. With constant thinking, brainstorming and at times quarrelling, fighting (and brief destruction of smaller properties like crushing paper and breaking pencils) we got to a point where our story was working a little. The way i wanted the story to go, was a challenge , as i needed to find myself in it and also parallel understanding of the character going through the emotions.
After three weeks of constant aggressive re-writes and concept arts we managed to have three versions of the same story.
One came from Katerina and myself, one from Katerina and one from myself. The first version had all kinds of action/ drama/ emotion but it lacked subtlety.
The second one was dramatic and dark.
The third one was subtle and emotional.
With the support of our brilliant tutors- Paul and Brian we realised that there are good things to each of them that we could use.
But we also understood that we needed to understand Prakash and his world. Once we know him better we would know his reaction to situations. Being a director, is like constant creation and then criticising your own creation. Its HARD!!
I took the first go at merging all the three in the right proportion. I thought of bringing the subtleties of version 3 and the darkness of version 2 to version 1. But after constant rewrites and getting it not to work, i realised, i had to take Ver 1 drama and Ver 2 darkness to Ver 3 subtleties.
There i went. It went as a flow. The outline was ready . I sent it to Katerina and then she made some excellent suggestions. She wrote it down as a prose. She is Brilliant!! :)
From there on we kept loads of place holders and made the beats worked. Also our producer, Josh was arranging our trip to a Senior Centre to study their situation.
The next part of out script writing started from there on.
More to come! :)
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