Posts Tagged ‘Editing’

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    The Best Camera & Post-Production Tools for the Short filmmaker
    A couple of pertinent discussions took place in the authors’ club which I am bringing out here so those looking for a few answers may benefit. If you are just trying to get your feet wet in filmmaking and attempting to make your own film, you often wonder what you need in order to do so. Hopefully you will find some answers here. What camera do I use? You always...
    by Vijay at August 30th, 2009 at 02:08 pm
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    Mindboggling things you will be able to do in your Browser
    Firefox 3.5, the browser (for the uninitiated), is coming out (next week) with a version where they are making it outrageously simple to edit and watch videos right in your browser. No more plugins like Flash, Silverlight, QT, WMP required in your browser. Yes! Videos will play directly from the browser without ANY add ons required and you can edit videos right in the...
    by PFCdesktop at June 10th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Film Editing in an Ideal World
    Editing is an invisible art form. The less people notice it, the better it is. Unless one is specifically sitting down with a film and watching it to study the way it is cut, a good editor only allows the audience to experience his or her work on a subconscious level. When editors themselves watch a movie for the first time, it is but natural to be observing the cutting...
    by Vijay at March 27th, 2009 at 01:03 am
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    Lessons on filmmaking : from the office peon
    iview Author: Hardik Mehta (Mumbai, India) Email: hardik.kalakar [at]gmail.com Content: Lessons on filmmaking : from the office peon Now we all know how in most cases a student fiction film turns out to be – it’s almost an exercise in testing a viewer’s patience – (except a few rare student films or filmmakers who have genuinely dished...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 20th, 2009 at 03:01 am
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    MUMBAI STORIES 3 – Last drink!
    It’s been almost three months since I have been in Mumbai. I was called in by Sudhir Mishra to edit a 90 minute international version of his new film, Tera Kya Hoga Johnny! It was a very interesting experience to take a film and reconstruct it in a different way. The Indian version is about 130 minutes long and one could not just throw away 40 minutes of the film. So...
    by PSji at May 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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    1971- Simply Superb!
    1971- Simply Superb! When I was a kid; I used to like watching Ramayan, Alif Laila, Krishna and all those stuff made by Sagar brothers. But at the same time; I did not like their terrible technical ignorance and over over over the top acting. Can you imagine a camel cart with rubber tyres in age of Alif Laila or that typical hindi filmy back ground music in Ramayan. In...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at March 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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    Fair, fairer, fairest Renu (Kundan shah on Renu Saluja and JBDY)
    Fair, fairer, fairest Renu (Kundan shah on Renu Saluja and JBDY) I caught hold of this book while doing a google on renu saluja. It is easily available and at 50 rupees, quite a steal. This book is highly recommended. Thanks to Graftii.com and comet media foundation. Here’s a wikipedia on Renu Saluja and a very informative upperstall article. Anyways, this post isn’t...
    by kartik krishnan at March 8th, 2008 at 01:03 am
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    Revisiting Intellectual Montage
    Was Kuleshov right in claiming new meaning from the clash of unrelated images? To put it another way, does montage have any relevance to the contemporary filmmaker, scholar, or cinephile? Rewind: Like other Russian formalists of the era, Lev Kuleshov was looking at unveiling the formal properties of the moving image. Okay! so you have heard this argument before. For most,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 27th, 2007 at 01:09 am
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    Director or Editor or both :: Whose job is this ?
    Some directors are editors also. Hrishikesh Mukharjee always enjoyed editing more than the direction. Tight editing is reflected in his films. Tight editing is the demand of the time also especially when film belongs to low budget category and there is no money to waste. But there are very few directors who are editors also. Shekhar Kapur believes that he should have a...
    by Rk at August 28th, 2007 at 06:08 am
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    SARFAROSH (1999) – ORIGINAL AND AWESOME
    SARFAROSH (1999) – ORIGINAL AND AWESOME Perhaps all of PFC guys have shown this superb film but I want to discuss this film as this film has impressed me lot with respect to story telling, griping script, dialogues, characters, performances and music. Sarfarosh was John Mathew Mathan’s first film after making ads and in his first film he seems to be prominent director...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at June 22nd, 2007 at 05:06 am
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    Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
    Finally finished reading Reluctant Fundamentalist. Wow! No wonder Mohsin Hamid spent 7 years producing this after Moth Smoke. Its brilliant and equally frightening. He gets the hatred so well. The language is so deceptively smooth and flowing that one tends to glide over the increasing nastiness, hostility, violence….and the narrator’s voice that initially...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 14th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
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    Turtles Can Fly – Unforgettable Cinema
    Iranian filmmakers for long have thrived on their unmatched ability to reflect upon their times through the eyes of their children. Majidi is perhaps the finest examples of exploring the issue through the viewpoint of the children who live it, because they are perhaps the only ones who see the world for what it is. They don’t judge, they observe. They see it, and...
    by Vijay at June 11th, 2007 at 03:06 pm
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    Books on the bedside table…
    Hmmm, this is going to be just a ramble….I have often wondered what are the piles of books/reading material that one keeps by on one’s bedside table (or even in the bathroom for that matter!). Isnt reading a very personal matter? Surely it is not to be dictated by fashions? There are times, when I feel quite stunned by the media blitzkrieg about books. As...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 9th, 2007 at 04:06 am
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    Publishing
    Hi! This is my first post on this fabulous website. I hope to be contributing a few thoughts/comments on publishing. Before I begin, I may as well give a brief introduction about myself. So, if anyone has thoughts/comments/queries etc to suggest for this column, please feel free to write/ask! I am a publisher in India, working with a gendered firm called Zubaan. At Zubaan...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 8th, 2007 at 07:06 am
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    Amu: Heart, Anger, and a Mirror
    Orwell’s prediction of the horrors of 1984 would seem mellow compared to what humanity really saw. In Delhi at least, thousands were massacred, families destroyed forever, the scum of humanity exposed, as justice still remains to be served. It’s a disgusting piece of our history that our government, which still employs many of those directly responsible, chooses...
    by Vijay at June 6th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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    Life…In A Metro
    “Will this survive the Kingfisher litmus test?” asked Oz as we inebriated ourselves while hogging on some butter chicken at Ambala Dhaba. I was hesitant to respond because Vijay Mallya’s concoction has a tendency to strip your tolerance levels considerably. The last film we saw under the influence (Nishabd) had us running to save our tender brains from...
    by Vijay at May 12th, 2007 at 03:05 am
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    Spiderman 3 – Fultoo Timepass
    Bhidu (Buddy): Thank god it’s over! I had such high expectations from this film. Apun (Me): Eh dimaag ka dahi mat kar. Subhe ka teen bajela hain. (Don’t make brain into yogurt. It is 3 in mornings) Bhidu: It just went on and on. Apun: More fillum. More timepass. Bhidu: But I wasn’t feeling the punch. Apun: Bak bak mat kar nahi tho Spiderman 4D mein parde...
    by Vijay at May 4th, 2007 at 10:05 am
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    The Pool – An American Movie?
    Amidst all the wonderful discussions about indie movies, we haven’t quite had the opportunity to talk about what is in my opinion, one of the best indie films this year – The Pool. If the credits were deleted, one would never in the wildest of their imagination believe that this is an American movie. Independent documentary filmmaker Chris Smith, famous for...
    by Vijay at April 10th, 2007 at 11:04 am
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    “Tae Guk Gi” – The Brotherhood of War – A Solid War Epic
    “Tae Guk Gi” (2004) is a sweeping war epic, impressively written, devastatingly photographed and designed, and captivatingly told. It’s old-fashioned mainstream filmmaking, overtly melodramatic and sappy, but deeply moving, disturbing, and breathtaking at the same time. Set in 1950 Korea, it tells the story of two brothers who are forcefully drafted to...
    by Vijay at March 19th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
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    Heer Raanjha (1970) – Unique film in Verse !
    Chetan Anand has been pioneer in so many fields. He was teaching at Doon School but film making brought him to bombay. His first ever film “Neecha Nagar” was screened at Cannes festival and also had won Karolvy International fim Award. He made Haqeeqat in 1964 which could be said as first authentic war film in Hindi cinema and he repeated his skill in making war...
    by Rk at January 18th, 2007 at 06:01 am
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    Vivah : Suraj R Barjatya regains synchronization with his kind of cinema
       Nida Fazli the famous Urdu Poet wrote once –   Tum bhee likhna Tumne us shab kitanee baar piya paanee Tumne bhee to dekha hoga Chajaje upar pura chand.    A loose translation –   (You also write to me how many times you drank water that evening    You also might have seen full moon from your balcony)   If you like this poetry and understand the romance...
    by Rk at January 17th, 2007 at 06:01 am
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    BAISCOPE presents… with Nikhil Advani
    Here’s an event for PFC-ites in Mumbai… a few months back I had given an introduction to Baiscope Entertainment, an NGO designed to benefit fledgling filmmakers and others interested in film and the industry. Now they’re back with an event in Juhu and the director of the upcoming Salaam-e-Ishq will be in attendance. Highly recommend those of you in...
    by striker at January 12th, 2007 at 02:01 pm
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    Size doesn’t matter!
    I love short films. They’re perfect for when you’re in the mood to watch a film but don’t have the time. Hell, I even try to catch a couple here and there during the day at work. Sadly, the market for short films is just not there with the masses. Unless a Darna Mana Hai or Darna Zaroori Hai comes along with Ramu’s banner behind it, the audience...
    by striker at December 27th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
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    very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices: notes on CHILDREN OF MEN
    Alfonso Cuarón achieves a rare and deeply satisfying balance between form and content with Children of Men, a tale set in a dystopian future (2027, we are told) plagued by infertility and hurtling to doom as people and lands are devastated by war, civil and political breakdown and terrorism. We are in the London of the future. The urban landscape is bleak, polluted, filthy...
    by George Thomas at December 26th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
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    The 48-hour Film Project: what say PFC?
    Here’s another idea I suggested to oz, and he suggested I post it here and check out reader reactions. 2001 marked the debut year of the 48-Hour Film Project, “a crazy idea to try to make a film in 48 hours” brought up by Mark Ruppert and his filmmaking partner Liz Langston. Basically, the producers at the 48hr Film Project have a huge meeting on a friday...
    by striker at November 15th, 2006 at 10:11 am
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    “The Namesake”: mind-blowing or blowing-mind?
    ***Possible spoilers ahead for those who haven’t read the book*** I had the fortune of attending the red carpet premiere of “The Namesake”, directed by Mira Nair, and based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri this past Wednesday. It was the opening night screening of the IAAC film festival in NY, and Mira Nair and Kalpen Modi were in attendance, along with...
    by striker at November 3rd, 2006 at 02:11 pm
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    Master of the Arts IV – The Crazy Kamal Connection II
    “Change is always natural. It would be unusual if there was no change. There is a change in almost every thing from story, narration to technical standards. Technical Standards are moving up. And the real change is in the taste of the audience. So Cinema has to change accordingly.” When Singeetham unveiled Kamal’s Rajaparvai there were no takers. The...
    by wb at November 2nd, 2006 at 02:11 pm
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    Master of the Arts III – The Crazy Kamal Connection
    Master of the Arts III – The Crazy Kamal Connection “When I look back, sometimes, I wonder if I was pretentious trying to make all those message oriented movies. I have no such illusions today. I am here to entertain people and all I will do is just that!” This is the essence of his career – chequered with fantasies and social satire, thrillers...
    by wb at October 19th, 2006 at 03:10 pm
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    Master of the Arts
    “Had I not been a film maker” said this man once, “I would have been a teacher and built a school on the lines of Shantiniketan“. No bout a doubt it, if we were to look at his extensive experimentation with cinematic work and his exhaustive toolbox of skills, including writing, music and painting. After half a century of film making career –...
    by wb at October 16th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
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    Persona: Surreal..yet super- real
    The Film: Persona The Director: Ingmar Bergman The Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann 1966, Sweden Shakespeare took six words to ask the quintessential human question: “To be or not to be”. Liv Ullman ( as Elizabeth) takes two to answer it “No, don’t!!!” So began, the now famous review of the film called “Persona”. At the outset, the story is simple enough. A...
    by chandnimalik. at October 9th, 2006 at 12:10 am
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