Toon Boom Studio 5

Film making has been my dream since i realized my inner potential. I made a short film with a run-time of around 30 mins and then my thoughts are towards what next. Since i have not dedicated myself completely towards Film-making, planning something for next will be a huge task not in planning but executing it. I can write a script and screenplay for a short film but in converting it into an exact film would be a tremendous task for me in co-ordinating the timings of the actors and other crew, including myself to get onto the floors. 

But since i mostly keep thinking of film-making. I have come up with an brilliant idea( i think it to be) of making an Animation Flick. An animation flick is no less than a movie as far as iam concerned since all the efforts we need to make a regular movie are same in animation flick except for the reason Actors dont act in animation but we have to develop animated characters and add similar expressions and gestures to be performed by those characters just as Actors do.

Now for this i dont need Actors. I dont need Cinematographer. I dont need to adjust schedules and timings. But still i can put my thoughts into a movie while still being involved in my other routine work. All i need is Toon Boom Studio 5.

This is a Animation software, though its basic it can give me enough kick start for Animation film-making. Iam trying to learn animation myself sitting at home and iam pretty confident that i would come up with something extra-ordinary as a layman.

The Long Dream under Water D-10 (01/26/2011)

I was in a pond in the shape of a rectangle and depth of around 7-8 feet. There were many other friends with me in the pond. We were going under the water and trying to look up to the banks of the pond through he crystal clear water. Every now and then my dream was cutting to a Ride in car with me and some other folks. Even the ride was thrilling as if we are on a roller coaster. But most of the dream i was in a pond with some issue going on with a Ring which sank in the pond but simultneously being visible on the banks and at the bed of the pond. We were swimming into the water and coming out. Discussing some serious issues. Mostly what i rememeber is looking up to the bank from under water. Nice Dream !!!

Painless Wound D-9 (01/24/2011)

I was in a room where me and friends sleep at night. It was day time though i was seeing my friend Bharat sleeping at a corner of the room just beside the door. Then i went out to see him having food in the kitchen and i think even i had food. I remember i was delicious. After a while quite few characters i met in my life went here and there in front of me and out of no where someone shot me with a pistol in my stomach. I kneeled to the floor and there was not much blood but bullet pierced into my stomach. But i was not feeling any pain at this time. I doubted that bullet had not gone deep enough and hence i was not feeling any pain.

But after a while i was really worried since, now i started realizing that iam gonna die but still i dont have any pain. I was so much worried that i informed my dad about the bullet in my stomach. I think i called him up or someone passed on the message to him. He didnt take it seriously since he didnt believe that it was true. I had no other chance now to either save my self or giveup by dying. But i was not dying too. I was roaming here and there like a fool in search of knowing what to do now.

Then it was too difficult for me to control the stress upon me that iam gonna die. So i asked some one to shoot me so that i can die in a single shot than dying sometime later by udergoing the trauma of tension. Then i dont know who it was but someone shot me right in between my backside of my neck as he didnt wanted to shoot me from frontside. Even now i didnt feel any pain and i was checking whether the bullet really pierced into me. I passed my fingers over the wound the bullet created on my neck and found blood spilling out in very little quantity. Still i dont have any pain and i was not dying. I think now i asked one more person to shoot me and he did too. Even then no pain. When all this happend and i was not feeling any pain someone came to me and told me that i can still live if medicated. Now i was happy at the same time worried since now i was hurt by three bullet and my chances of dying have increased by three. I was almost like breaking up into tears since i have taken this decision in a hurry and got hurt by two extra bullets. While i was crying i realised that I was still having no pain.

This point in my dream is one of the most revolutionized part throughout my dreaming world since i detected that i was in a dream and also logically. That was becoz i was shot by three bullets though i was not feeling any pain. I can see the wound but no pain. WHY?

The answer to this big why is that i have seen and know how a bullet wound would probably look hence i would see the wound on my body. But i have never in my life have experienced the pain a bullet can on my body. Since i never knew that pain i.e how the pain would be, i didnt experienced the pain at all throughout my dream. This is one of the dream that i will never forget for the realism embedded in it.

LOVE BATTERY 2 HOURS

"Love Battery 2 Hours" is the second script which i wrote after OUATIF. It deals with a small unbelievable funny story of a guy who has 2 hours of battery time everyday, wanting to fall in love with a perfect girl for him, in order to accomplish 24 hrs battery for his life, with a sweet twist in the end.

This subject may not be my next Shortfilm which i direct. But eventually will fall into my story collection.

Once upon a Time in Fairfax- Preliminary Teaser.

The Music in the Teaser is not original. Teaser just shows who all acted in the movie. Music was ripped form RC-1 BGM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WpTgx2H8Vo

Start Action to Final Cut

After we have started shooting, on Dec 9th, many new problems started arising in the form of Actors dates-timings, weather and time etc. I had to totally concentrate on the project inorder to not to loose the grip since its my first project. I was totally focussed and i didnt even pick my calls during the shooting days. Suresh was the cinematographer for this project and his commitment to the project will be proved in th final output. We had to re-arrange the schedule every day and nothing went as planned but i was just seeing the completion meter in my mind since i just wanted the film to be wrapped and not neccesarily in orderly fashion.

We didnt eat properly didnt answer calls, didnt even booze properly coz we friends are very much into it. 3 days almost 16 hrs of shoot each day. that is how the shoting went. Finally the day came were i got to take my flight and reach my place. I was very much worried when i woke up that day as we were left over with some thing around 25% of the shooting. it was  Sunday and i had to take flight in the evening. I was pissed and we didnt shoot that day till noon as i was bit pissed off as i was not able to finish off the project.But at noon i got a call from the airlines saying that the flight has been delayed from sunday to tuesday since Minneapolis was hit by worst snow storm. I was jumping in happiness. then i called the crew and finished some important scenes that day and rest of the scenes on Monday and got my Flight on Tuesday and came back as a happy man.

After shooting i have been editing the videos which we shot on my old weak processor laptop. Actually we needed a much better and powerfull processor for editing but i wanted to give it a shot since we had no budget for our film. Till date we are done with 95% Final Cut and within few days we are approaching our Music Director Mr. Shivaram Pasham for his Original BGM.

Bound Script to Start Action

After finalizing the script, i had conversations with multiple of friends in gathering enough information to justify my script. I did some elementary research in gathering information about which camera to use, what all equipment we need, and by when. After lot of yes and no's, acceptance's and rejection's we have decided the start of our schedule. December 8th, 2010 was the start of our schedule and i had fly to Fairfax, VA from Minneapolis, MN for thr project.

This was the tough phase for me becoz i was very much excited in directing this script since i moulded each and scene in my mind before i wrote it. So waiting was so paifull. Finally when i landed in Fairfax on Dec 8th at 11.45 pm. We immediatly went to the location and quickly discussed few scenes and costumes and the Shot design. Decemeber 9th 1.00am was the time when i first said Start Action. And the shooting went on for 3-4 days Non-stop in rain, cold, day and night.

From a COMMENT to a SCRIPT

I really wonder sometimes how things take shape. Here is an example of one such thing. One day my friend Suresh has commented on one of my pic in facebook saying "Once Upon A Time In Fairfax". This one line was so common line for any one who is reading this but it si mply blew my mind since i have never given a thought towards such a comment or rather a Caption. The reason for my friend to comment was that i was resembling Ajay Devgan in that pic not becoz of features but i had a typcal moustache of Ajay Devgan in Once upon a Time In Mumbai.

Now, this simple comment, which had a serious impact on me started taking its shape, in my Mind. Due my deep affection towards film making i was already i a thought of making a Short Film with Inception Spoof in my mind becoz no other concept struck my mind. Then after Suresh's title, i started developing a different story in my mind for me to direct it as a shortfilm. The story which i imagined intially was very simple and straight forward. And the reason for the story was as a Two year resident of Fairfax, i have seen many incidents around me and we had a lots of fun too. So for that affection somehow this comment got asociated with it creating some really good story inside my mind. I immediatly conveyed my houghts to everyone whom i wanted to involve. Initially they story went forward as a fast cut action comedy (Ref. Crank). Then it became a pure comedy involving most of my friends to act in it. But once i saw Raktha Charitra, it became damn serious subject and the thought of involving everyone was still sticking onto it.

Then i discussed with my friends the story the screenplay and also conceived each scene in my mind. So finally after one month of a serious thought and affection, the single lined comment turned out into a Perfect Script, titled Once Upon a Time in Fairfax.

Typical Mafia D-8 (01/03/2011)

We were in a kind off market where people were selling vegetables and other products for whole sale. It was an enclosed market with very few lights here and there. It was me Srik P and few other friends whoz faces i dont remember. Then there this curfew kind off thing so no body was allowed on the roads to roam. We were hearing to some good music with a DJ equipment in the vegetable market. We were actually trying to Rob Some very Expensive items from the market mostly Money. So inorder to Rob we have created this atmosphere of we group settling down in the market so that no one will think that we will leave the place. To create that environment we have bought some chilli's and other vegetables in huge bags and Dropped them on the floor and started spreading the items. As if we are selling them. Then after sometime we planned everything and the Money or item was robbed succcesfully. We were trying to leave but the doors were not open since it was curfew outside as some mafia groups have been killing each other. Then we came to know that even we are part of the mafia group.

Friendly Fight was Dangerous D-7

I was in a room and some one was threatening me off beating my ass up badly. I was shouting in the darkness against them also challenging them. There was an fat female who has sent one man with wey huge body into the room o kick my ass. I was very much worried of how to confront him. Then the bad guy kicked me, punched me, and he really beat my ass up really badly. i somehow escaped from him and got into a Van but he still followed me and even he got into the van. Now he was driving the van and htting very hard with his elbow. i tried to open the van's door and escape but was not possible. I was very much worried and shouting in pain. Then i ame to know that the man hitting me was actualy my firend Osorio and i tried to remember him that iam his friend. he was puzzled and crashed the van on the highway into the side rail. I got down the van and was running on the highway to escape. Then i saw two helicopters circling me and two to three cop cars behind the van fro which i got out. Cops were shouting at me to come back and not to go front. Then i thought it was safe now and went back o the van. Caops started interrogating me and osorio was stting on a chair with his hands cuffed. I told the cops how Osorio kicked my ass and he was just sorry about it and took it in a very lite manner.

Adventurous Pilgrimage D-6

I was travelling with some my relatives on a river in a small boat. River was calm and dark just like a canal. I was rowing the boat as i was sitting at the tip of the boat. Then after sometime i passed the rowing chance to another elderly female relative of mine and moved back. As i was relaxing we were almost heading towards our destination and we were seeing beautiful reservoir/lake to side of the river with fountains in the middle and old colorfull contructions surrounding it giving it a touch of Kasi. Then all of the sudden we took a turn and now we were rowing through the corridors of some old construction. When we took turn another boat which was also carrying some other relatives rowed straight towards the reseroir. And suddenly our baot was now a bus and we were seeing deep valley with a busy crowded city at the end of the valley. The path which lead to the end of the valey also had few houses besides the path. It was so inclined that our bus has to travel almost vertically down the hill to reach the base. While we were going down we found a huge old construction resembling Mini Tajmahal of Aurangabad. Some of my relatives were discussing about the contruction and i was worried about the other boat which rowed straight since we are traveling downhill the river on which other boat tavelled should end with a waterfall hence they would be in great danger. But as our bus was rushing through the rocky path towards the basement all my thoughts flew away and now i was worried about our landing. Then the bus landed at the base onto a road with a sharp break by the driver and we continued on the road journey.