shaking off the chill

The day's technical recce was enlightening, to say the least. It always makes so much of a difference between seeing pics of a location and seeing the physical space. At the heart of it we have to create a world here, a world deep enough and real enough for the viewer to fall into without a second thought. It has to be inhabitable, and, certainly on one level, forgotten immediately. This is the whole suspension of disbelief game--even the most fantastic of films, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey--has a world that is instantly, immediately inhabitable. From the caves where Homo neanderthalensis emerge to the stargate sequence, there is enough there for us to say to ourselves, "I could be there. This place exists." In the example of 2001, the African veldt was created with retroreflective matting (front projection) on a studio set, and the stargate sequence is a combination of slit-scan photography and 60's psychedelia liquid projection. Two extremes of location, to be sure, but at the heart of it is the fact that Kubrick created a world that, however impossible to film, was immediately a place you could sit and have your morning coffee, in a way. The parameters change according to the requirement of the story, from a fantasy world like Avatar or Legend or Lord of the Rings, to a shadow world like The Bourne Identity or The Nightmare Before Christmas, but this is the heart of suspension of disbelief.

So today's pics are a tour of the physical spaces that will become our world in Reincarnation. As we progress it will be interesting to note how the space compares to what is seen in-frame, the sort of liberties we take with bending reality to our will. You can see more on our Facebook fan page too.

Mr. G- Director Saheb


An area that will become a psychologist's office. Love the light play here.






Sid's room.
In case you forgot we were in India.