Terror at the Drive-in Show (The Making)
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Shekhar Shimpi (Bombay, India)
Email :
shekharss1 [at] rediffmail [dot] com
Terror at the Drive in Show (Making of One Minute Short, and Promo Stuff)
Hi guys,
lot of talk is happening on Animation films and all,
I’m very eager to share my experience with you guys, about making of my One Min Short,
“Terror at the Drive in Show”, (find it in PfCOne 2007 Day Two),
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is the link
I was thinking about this theme for long time,but I had no idea about execution of it,.
But it happened so suddenly when I read the announcement of PFC One Min Online Film
Festival,.
and at that same time, friend of mine told me that ,there used to be Drive in Theater in BKC
(Bandra Kurla Complex),.I was so fascinated, thinking what kind of film they were playing
and which cars people drive, at that time.
I’m huge fan of Old Black & White,Horror films like Bride of Frankenstien,Black Sunday, and
films of Ray Harryhousen .and that was the Inspiration.
So here is my film, “Terror at the Drive in Show”,. where one of the audience experience
Something Evil,.while watching “Bride of Frankenstein”.
*Storyboard: I prepared rough Storyboard first,
*Set Design: Designing the set was an interesting part, I’ve got this small toy cars,(I Love it),
crumpled sheet of paper ,for ground ,one little twig for tree in the foreground, and torch for
lighting, My stage was my Mac Laptop,
I lay my set on keyboard, then Designed Wallpaper in Photoshop,(background sky and wall
which is where you see “Frankenstein” Movie,. )
I play the footage of “Bride of Frankenstien” on my Laptop, using Divx, when you play movie
on Divx,the controls-panel disappears, and you see only screen of the movie, then I adjust
that screen on my wallpaper, ,..and Shooting start. I used Canon Still camera 7.1 mega pixel
*Live Action Shoot
After shooting the scenes with the toy cars, I called my friend Nitin.who did part of
Boogeyman,He came along with Mayur ,Victim, (He was Victim of my Indulgence too,he he )
then I shoot the remaining scenes with the real car, from inside and outside,. when you see
Victim of the movie watching film from his car,. it was Nitin who was holding the Laptop
outside, which was playing the footage of “Bride of Frankenstien”
same thing with the reflection on the car,
*Music
I composed the “Terror” Theme using Keyboards in software called “Garagband” ,
*Edit
In the end I mix every thing together -Set footage, Live Action Footage and Music Score all
together,.For Editing the entire footage I used Software called I Movie, its a simple user
friendly software, it has got simple effects and transition tools.
So thats it,.——————————————–
Innitially I was thinking of Boy and his Girlfriend watching Vampire movie, and boy was so
involve in the film, suddenlly he noticed that his girlfriend sitting beside, staring at him with
pale face and sharp fangs, Ready for attack and suck his blood,
anyways, I’m going to do that version later on,
Film Title could be BlowJob or something ,
he he
Anyways,. Check out the Images,Making and Promo stuff
and ENJOY 
Thanks for Watching
waiting for response
Shekhar Shimpi
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Interesting to hear that. I was very impressed with the movie. Nice creative use of the laptop and toy cars.
Shekhar,
It was a nice short… as I told you when I watched along with you..
It is all the more interesting to know how you went about it…
Keep doing…Looking forward to BlowJob
Congrats…
Very creative, SS. I liked the short. Hope to see more
Thanks PFC, and Everyone here
More Stories to come,.
i saw it on pfc one. now it is very interesting to know how it was made.
truly…. work of genius.
Finally !!!
when i wrote abt ITCh few weeks back i was expecting others also to come up with their making !!!
happy to see this !!
Shekhar amazin JOB .. esp after readin the way u made it … i wish u had taken the story of the Boy friend … girl friend !! tat cud have been scary !!!
@ George,:)
Agree with you About the other story, That Could have been Scary,
Actually I Didnt get Proper face for the Vampire girl, and Time was so short,
But I’m planning to do it,.
and stil thinking for the crazy title
@ shekhar –
ur short showed a lot of creativity and was well made. I liked what u did with miniatures etc. I was disappointed that you didn’t have a better story to deliver the full impact of ur talents.
If I may make a suggestion, have the boy and girl have a fight as they drive to the theater, the girl doesn’t want to see the movie or something like that. guy is engrossed with the movie. reacction shots of her being bored, then her transformation in subsequent reaction shots but very subtle, and then the final shot of when he turns to her to apologize or something. she’s a full on vampirre now and she goes for the jugular.
Arre Dabba
I like your Idea:)
udayega me
Nice…cheers!!!!
A great short movie. In this case (of one minute movie) is good to be simple, so is pretty impossible to be scary. I prefer this kind of cinema, sort of “remember the old cinema”, like Rodriguez, Tarantino or Coen brothers for exemple.
Carry on!
@ Shekhar ! Nice Post !
You are setting a good trend !
@ Shekhar ! Good Work !
Super Shekhar! Great to see this kind of enthusiasm! Great way to get started! wish you a terrific terror story-partII !
Shekhar, i liked your innovation in the short… as i had already mentioned earlier… good work..
waiting for more posts on CGI…thats the best thing that can happen to the Indian storytelling industry…we can think out of the box..but at the same time the rates need to come down as well.. or the stories will be only in our dreams
Coming soon a detailed post by Jackson in the making of LOTR.. :d:d:d:) in my dreams thats it
Suchita, I’m working on Animated Short, (Independent)
doing designs these days,
will posts something about it very soon, (very eager):)
SS:
Wow! howdidImissit on PFCOne?
You should help Dabba make Frigid, will be worth a watch……
I checked out makkadman.com
)
ref your Q from another post:
Pokiri is not my kind of film at all , got a headache, thank you for not liking it!
Will send you a list of Telugu Films shortly but you could start with the Old Mythologicals, they were made exceptionally well [ Maya Bazaar ] or even films by K Vishwanath gaaru.
I particularly like Swatikiranam…….
@ shekhar –
Did you already forget comment #8 that I left? bahut bura lag raha hai.
@ Dabaa,..
arrreyyy,.,…
abbhi muze bura lag raha hai
thoda jada excite ho gaya tha,..
>:d<
@ Kavita
thanks
guys check out
http://www.makkadman.com/
(with sound on)
@ Dabba
muze ek kaan ke niche baja de sollid:(
@Shekhar
Don’t know how I missed this post. Nice movie, interesting ideas…miniature cars and all that. Watched it again after reading this. Good job
Thanks Neeraja,.
for watching and post,
This is real motivation for me,..
Hats off to PFC
Love the miniatures and the 1950’s feel of the piece. A nice simple set-up, payoff story. I like pieces that force the audience to meet you half way in imagination.
Hey Atul,.>:d< Got your mail.
Great Stuff
Shekhar,
ye making dekh ke samajh mein aata hai ki us choti si darawni movie banane mein bhi kitni mehnet hai….
mein ek darawna idea soch rahi hoon…
elaborate karke dekhte hain…:w;
movie banayenge…hehee:d
:o
bhagwan kare.. mujhe movies ke bare mein thoda gyan badhe..
shekharjee….
wonderful short film.!!!I enjoyed it.waiting to see more your works.
Meenakshi,.
Darawani story banayenge,.
I’m all set,.
8-x
@ shekhar,
have u done any claymation work?
Hey Dabba,
I’m more into StopMotion than Claymation;
what happens in claymation is you lost design style(in my opinion), because you use clay,.(like all the Aardman Amimation, it looks same)
challange is how you convert your design into Stop Motion media,.
for example “Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas”
cool poster indeed…