Days 2 & 3

Day 2 - 7 Oct

A shorter meet today, reviewing paperwork and clarifications on the schedule. I'm beginning to realize just how detrimental extended periods of stasis are on the brain; I feel slightly autistic while making these spreadsheets. Again more talk about the film in general, and I'm getting loads of knowledge-bombs dropped on me. Gaurav's perception of the role of director and the overall scope of what it takes to make a film are spot on.

Back to the Excel salt mines for me.

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Day 3 - 8 Oct

More paperwork! Reviewing the shooting schedule, trying to trim it from 7 days to 5 or 5+1 (as it's called here). My previous experience had been solely in the art production, which was basically a construction job with a different name--it was old-hat, fairly intuitive for me. This is a lot different, I'm finding out. After some clarifications for myself, I get a better grasp on what we need to do and get to it. Ultimately, the aim is to think of everything for every department involved, so that no-one has to think too hard or go off on their own tangents--keep everyone on the same page, basically. We go over timing the scenes for the film, measuring how many cans of film we'll need and what our final product will be. This I find to be a really fascinating part--I'm timing Gaurav while he reads through the scenes to himself, and you can tangibly feel us playing the film in our heads, seconds ticking by. Not surprisingly, owing to the strength and clarity of the script, our internal timings are quite close. At the end we come up with about eleven minutes and change, and decide to beef everything up by about 20-25% to bring us closer to a solid 15 minutes. Cannes is quite picky for their short film requirements, after all.



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Now playing: Amitabh Bachhan, Sonu Nigam, Vishal, Adesh Shrivastava & Ranjit Barot - Come On Come On
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