Painting Vs Movie

When i posted the article knowing what you want, one of my close friend read it and posed me to a question. What i wrote in that article was that i found it difficult for me to confine my thoughts to A1 sized space by Painting or Drawing, hence i started writing to improve my narrative skills to exactly convey my thoughts by framing situations which would obviously happen in a story. So finally a story is a story if it is written down on a paper or else it would merely pass through my mind as a thought. So i wrote in that article that i started writing stories giving up painting.

Now the question my dear friend asked me was why would i move to a lesser appealing medium since there is a saying, " A painting can speak a thousand words", why would i give up painting to writing. I told my friend that my total interest was around the magic of Film-making, rather than just writing and to make him understand in his own way about why i started it all with writing, i had to use another saying, " Prior planning prevents poor performance". By this saying i mean that whether it be a Painting or a Movie, both come out of a human mind as thoughts. Now it takes no time to start Painting a thought sparked inside your mind if you are a good Painter. But its not the same case with Film-making.

Film-Making has got much to do than merely waking up in the middle of the night and projecting your thoughts. One got to understand the basic purpose for projecting his thoughts and also how he projects. For a movie, narration is more important than the concept itself because the whole context and the purpose may get diverted, if one cannot narrate what he is been thinking which obviously serves as the purpose for a movie he makes.

Now getting back to what i told my friend about prior planning comes under a study of sound understanding of how to make a film and iam immensely proud of what i have been through on my own. I started it with writing, dont know where i end, but i have tried to gain as much as knowledge i can in my field of interest i.e Film-making and i will still be in the same process.

After my expaination my friend finally asked to tell him the difference between a painting and a movie. Then i gave him such an answer he ended up the conversation and moved onto some other topic. I told him the difference using his weapon against me in the beginning that was, "A painting can speak a thousand words", and what i told him was each frame they set up in capturing a particular scene in movie is always intended to make it look like a painting. So they have some hundreds of angles and shots in a single movie which would represent  a painting, so if a painting can speak thousand words, how long would be the speech coming out from each movie?

THUS BORN PANDORA

Here i come up with the much awaited, much hyped, much discussed, mostly impressive, innovative, highly technical and also highly emotionally charged movie of 2009, AVATAR. This article is not a review, infact i think iam not even worth of talking about such a movie. But since its my own blog i can write what i really felt while watching the movie and also after watching the movie.

Since most of us have seen the movie more than a couple of times, i think i rather deal with this article in a different manner. I dont want to tell you how James Cameron directed the movie or used the latest technology to present it to us. But instead i want to put on this blog what might be the sparkling thought inside Cameron's mind which eventually transformed into a never seen before Master-piece in the history of cinema. As i said "what might be the sparkling thought", please be aware that this is my own take on what it would be and not at all a fact(may be a coincidence) neither i have any source for it nor someone told me.

So there is man (James Cameron), who succeeded as an Ace Film-maker and also a Researcher. I said Researcher because of the study he did for each of his movie was evident in every movie he made and also equally got applauded. Since he is also a researcher, he researched on many topics in various fields, just because he was looking forward that something or the other might catch his attention and then consequently would help him as a subject for his movie. In this course of making movies which in return came out from his research he started knowing much about the Nature on this earth, Life on this earth, Life beyond this earth and much more.

Since he has been studying about Nature, he also started thinking about factors which are affecting it. When he started studying about the factors which are affecting or Spoiling the Nature on this Earth, he came to know that Man is the only culprit for doing this directly or indirectly. This fact pissed him off so much that he imagined a new world where every living being on that planet is connected someway or the other. Since every  living being is connected someway, existence of one would be related to another and vice-versa, thus forming a chain of Life. He then was thrilled with the idea he got and then beautifully imagined how the living beings on such a Planet would live on it. He imagined the Beautiful landscapes, Vast forests, Amazing waterfalls and unique living beings on it and how they all shared the Life on such a planet called Pandora.Though the name Pandora for a planet was earlier used, he used it for his purpose in his imagination. Thus born Pandora.

After imagining a Beautiful Planet similar to Earth but much more better place to live, he immediatly thought of us, Human beings again. He was infact worried that we Humans dont spare anything for our benefits. And he thought that Pandora would be no exception for us if not now may be some 100 yrs from now. We dont leave such place for good. We put all our strength to get a hold on it and to gain benefits from that planet too i.e Pandora. Thus came the storyline for Avatar.

Now anything else other than this in the storyline of the movie Avatar, would be a sleepwalk even for our Indian directors or writers and since its Cameron, he beautifully amalgamated these thoughts by using the latest technology available to capture the sequences, stunts, expressions and the story, to amazingly put it on the celluloid to create one Beautiful, Emotional and Terrific product i.e AVATAR.

SOMETIMES THE FACT IS...

Sometimes you think you are good at something, but the fact is you are just fine with it.
Sometimes you think you are worst at something, but the fact is you are capable of mastering in it.

Sometimes you think you know everything, but the fact is you know nothing.
Sometimes you think you know nothing, but the fact is you already know it.

Sometimes you think you can conquer everything, but the fact is you can own nothing.
Sometimes you think you cannot own nothing, but the fact is you are capable to own everything.

Sometimes you think you dont need it, but the fact is you cannot afford it.
Sometimes you think you are mighty as you have it, but the fact is you dont need it.

In some situations you think you are a hero, but the fact is you are a zero.
In some situations you are told that you are a zero, but the fact is you are a real hero.

Sometimes you are praised for what yo have done, but the fact is you know that you have not done it.
Sometimes you you are insulted for what you have done, but the fact is you again know that you have not done it.

Sometimes your help is appreciated, but the fact is you really didnt want to help.
Sometimes your help is not recognized, but the fact is you really helped.

Sometimes you are encouraged to do something, but the fact is you know that you are not capable of doing it.
Sometimes you are discouraged to do something, but the fact is you are greatly capable of doing it.

Sometimes you behave like a Hero, but the fact is you are compulsed to do so.
Sometimes you behave like a Villain, but the fact is you are compulsed to do so.
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The summary of all the above quotes is that about any individual who lives his life undergo all types of praises and insults in someway or the other, because anyone in his journey of life sometimes is a Hero and sometimes he is a Villain, sometimes he is Wonderful and sometimes the Worst, sometimes he is Awesome and sometimes he is Aweful, sometimes he is Helpful and sometimes helpless, sometimes he is a Saviour and sometimes he is a Satan.

Finally, Sometimes he is Good and Sometimes he is Bad. So its all about the Balance one have to consider when deciding the character of a person, but not one particular situation or one particular behaviour. Its the totality that matters. Its the Balance of life one got to observe because remember its only Sometimes.

My Expression about Direction

Something happened between some characters is a Story. Some(also sum) of the sequences in the story, to tell exactly what happened is Screenplay. And presenting these some sequences to the audience in a way that they can understand it better is Direction.

Now it depends on the Director to choose which characters he is interested in, which sequences he got impressed with and how he presents it to the audience.

Emotion(s)

Since i have been studying Emotions from couple of years, I thought its the time to write it down. Studying Emotions according to me is a journey. One cannot know how the journey is unless he/she travels through it. So coming across few ups and downs in my life at this early stage, i have been in a journey of understanding and studying Emotions because of being subjected to many emotions frequently, i started wondering what is it after all and interpreted it in my own way.

An Emotion is basically a Thought that becomes a spontaneous physical Reaction. We come across many thoughts everyday leading to many Emotions. We experience these Emotions depending upon the thought we are been thinking at that particular instance and it is also correlated to type of thought process we have.

For example, when you come out of your house along with your friend one morning, your friend might feel its a wonderfull day as he got no problems running background in his mind and you have some problems which have been affecting your thoght process, feel it as a disgusting day. Both feeling Wonderfull and feeling Disgust are two different types of emotions experienced by two different individuals when subjected to same environment. But in contrary if your thought process is strong enough to handle the troubles or the situations which are being considered as troubles by your mind according to the belief system built inside it, you too feel the same as your friend, who experienced the same environment along with you.

I can give you an even better example of how emotions influence our Humans because of the thought process we have and also what kind of belief system we have built for ourselves. Lets consider the results of final match of 2009-IPL cricket. It was Deccan chargers team representing Hyderabad city won the title and we found every cricket fan in Hyderabad was Happy (emotion) because according to their belief system they are from Hyderabad so they thought that Deccan chargers should win the game and when it won the game their thought became reaction expressing an Emotion called Happiness. But at the same time cricket fans in bangalore who thought that Royal challengers should win as it was the team against whom Deccan chargers won in finals, were dissapointed. They were sad because their thought was to see Royal Challengers as winners, but they didnt so hence they expressed the emotion of Sadness as a result for their thought.

Considering the same context above, there were many Indians out there watching the game just for fun irrespective of the city they belong to. Many such were also from the above mentioned cities, though they were not subjected to any kind of emotion, because they didnt expect anything. So type of emotion you experience depends upon the belief system and the thought process you have. Better to build a belief system which is least subjected to emotions.

Different types of emotions i discussed above can play very important role in our life because emotions affect the routine lives in many ways. Like for example, emotions like Happiness,Surprise, Amusement,Satisfaction and Excitement can keep your day fine without any trouble, but at the same time emotions like Fear, Anger, Sadness, Disgust and Embarrasment not only ruin your day but also affect your health.

KNOWING WHAT YOU WANT - 2

Though i started my mainstream education in Mechanical Engineering and ended up doing Master's in Computer Science, i.e Software Engineering, I have much affinity towards Art. Right from my childhood days i used to very much get connected with art in whatever form it may be, like Drawing, Painting and Crafting. I dont know how the hell it happened but i was very much inclined towards Art. Since Art requires imagination, I started imagining things, which would rather be impossible in practical world. This Imagination grew along with me And my imagination overtook all kinds of art persisting inside me upto an extent where i felt i should now move on to something bigger than what i was doing. I was running out of ideas, as i already put everything i imagined or liked or got impressed with, on paper either using pencil and Sketching them, or by using brush to Paint them. But that wasen't enough. I started writing stories, which was infact because, i wanted to say something, which i was not able to draw or paint.I always felt like i would need a much more expressable medium where i can project my thoughts.

Not to exaggerate but it was true that i was very good at sketching. I can prove this by one incident. Now it becomes bit complicated as the context of this article may divert. Though, i continue, So when i was persuing my B.E, I never participated in any of the competitions where Art was invovlved except in my Final year. I didnt participate in any of those earlier was just because i was in my own world of fun and never seriously concentrated on my skill. But in my final year of B.E, it happened so that i was compulsed to participate in a Art Competition for reason one being that i never did it, and the second reason was to just get some prize for our class, as my friends felt that we should get awarded in all the competitons somehow. Though i didnt have any practice for years, i went and drew something out of my imagination, and won the first prize. And funniest part is while sketching my piece of art, i also helped my friend in sketching his art, and he won the second prize in the same competition. Though he was a brilliant artist, i dont mind taking bit of pride in what i did.

Now coming back to where i left, I was kind of saturated in my mind about what i was doing long back, And it was the same time, i started watching movies. I used to watch movies earlier too, but under the gudiance of my parents (PG only). But when i started going to theatres along with my friends on my personal interest, I changed my overall point of view on movies. I started wondering about everything that happens, not on the screen, but off the screen. Like for example i remember that i used to wonder how the music is been synchronised with the video of the film. Like wise many doubts started arising in my mind and consequently i my self found answers for them, by repeatedly watching movies, following the film news and especially following interviews of film personalities.

Now one can say that anyone of my age back then would have done the same. I give a "HELL NO", for it. Because, i know that everyone constantly follow the last page of the newspaper, before even looking at the headlines. But what i used to absorb from it totally different. I say this because, most of the people under the tag of Filmbuff, follow movies, movie news and interviews not just because to get regular updates and but also to share it with others so as to prove everyone that know better about films. And some people are genuinely interested in films, confining it to some genres, or some actors, or some directors etc. Even iam the one of this kind.

But my intension behind every thought i used to think, every observation i made and everything i perceived from whatever source i had which are related to movies, was to know how an film is made?, or put it this way, What is Film making?

When my friends used to watch the trailer of any particular interesting movie, they would get excited and curious about watching the movie the first day itself. They also used to discuss about the trailer and also about how the movie would be till they go and watch the movie. But i many times used to wonder at how they would have designed the trailer not only to attract the audience before the movie is released, but also to make them go crazy about it. And biggest wonder for me was how the Director can make so many audience bound to their seats for two and an half hours taking them or making them invovled in a completely new world he had created. I started observing a lot, and many times used to derive solution for the doubts arised in my mind. In other way i started understanding the magic of Film making, to which i feel iam greatly connected with. Thats how i came to know what i really want.