staging

The director abusing children


The DOP abusing crew


On location today, doing technical staging at the samrat apartments for our scenes. Breaking things apart, de- and re-constructing the lighting and movements, gauging where the actors are going to take us when the camera starts rolling. There are so many technical details to take care of it's mind-numbing. This may be a short film, but from the beginning we've been approaching it from the perspective not of a 'short film', but of a 15-minute feature film. We can only hope that in the end it serves us well. One of the first discussions between Gaurav and myself amounted to, "All the work we do for this thing, all the paperwork and planning and research, will only take us so far. Nothing guarantees a good film, no amount of budget or stars or anything. But everything we do will increase our chances of making a good film. That's all we can hope for."

Fingers crossed.