Stage 2 - SCREENPLAY 7& STORYBOARDING WORKSHOP-SHSC

The stage 2 screenplay ended with mixed feelings. It became more of a science class than a screenplay writing workshop with students. at Sacred Hearts school of communication Tavera.

Most of these naive students are in their bachelors. A handful of them were really interested in the class and rest came to the classes for attendance. Some didn't turn up at all.

There was an exam at the end which was purely judged on the basis of story they created and worked they had done. The submission list was is laws mailed and a few students who were intermittent during classes scored high marks. The other students also performed quite nice and surprisingly a few of them failed.

An exam oriented screenplay writing class to minor students  is always a disaster. However it was fun since the students were fun,

Slides are updated here. mind my design sense. (graphic handicap)

                              

Its always fun interacting with students from this age group. Thier ideas are fresh. Most of them are inspired from content they have seen on TV or Film. More or less like how i was when i was of the same age. It took me a while to understand who I am and what my content actually looks like. 

I am happy with their honesty in story telling. Honesty is something that filmmakers loose as they become better and better.

Students work samples

Geevarghese Jimmy's character design

Govind kammath's character design

Vishnu Sreekumars intersting storylines character design

christ toms character

Saruns Character imagery

Aditi's initial story scribbles\

Aravind's character study 

Aswathy Shivdas character study

Gautam's simple character design

Anamays character Joe

Aagyas rocket character

I had fun with the students and that is something that really helps me work. Everything else is secondary.

re-SCHOOL-ed

Let me admit this on, I am people shooter. That means I shoot people. I shoot people and their relation with a landscape. I do not shoot landscape. (well sometime i do) but for me the story of a place  is incomplete without someone in it.

students with artwork in craft class

So this is the part where i am shooting a school, it's infrastructure-architecture and people. The school owner-manager-friend Arjun Sivakumar is a man with a vision on education. The vision he has envisaged is a by product of the thought process of Dr. Nirmala (principal) coupled with his outlook as a traveler entrepreneur and artist. ShantiniketanCBSE school peyad is one of its kind in the state of Kerala.

When I was asked to take some pictures of the school for its website I was more than happy. 

We rented Kino Flo 400 Lighting Kit which were never used except for one or two instances.

The biggest energy was meeting the students and shooting with them.  The hallways corridors took me back to my school days in Arya Cenral school.

We shot an entire day.

This is the third school I have shot.

nb: pics are color corrected and is a property of Shantiniketan school

the shantiniketan school

when phenopthalene show its true color

arjun sivakumar 

this one was not clicked by me

fish eye.Love the clouds

focal lengths

clouds

school days for ever

Shot on Canon 6D with Nikon 50mm 1.4 (CP) and a russian fish eye lens (name I cant rememenber since I shot it last august)

Antomy of storytelling

I was told that there are more than twenty people for my lecture and workshop series on 'The Anatomy of Story telling in Cinema". I made a presentation and reach on time with my friend and fellow filmmaker Kiran Sasi.

When it started the class had four students from Masters in Multimedia. Four silent students. One of them was a bit offended by seeing bad people in a movie "Deathproof".

The class started with identifying who are bad people and who are good people. If badness isuniversal or contextual or even relative. Followed by telling stories from their life.

After three dayswe were joined by eight more people.

The class became more vibrant. People started undertanding what my intentions were. They showed up with amazing screenplays but bunked classes on weekends. Overall they reminded me of me.
The slapdash, self centred, not a care in the world(ME). Its so good to be in a college. The cushion that it provides is a relief.

We developed script sand watched a few movies and built relations while half the class never showed up. Had a good time with students.

Sacred hearts School of media, Tavera

A few slides used for class
                                      

Spirit of Varanasi

Unni Mohan (friend designer visionary) call me up and wonder what I am doing. I am relaxed on a balcony in Pondicherry skeptical about the feature film I am making. He wonders if I am free to shoot a promo teaser for a scale model of the ‘Varanasi naav’.

A scale model floating with the floating lamps of varanasi will be a good visual I suggest him. This can be shot in Kochin. A few days of talks and discussions and I go to meet Unni and his Boss Jeevan .

Samudra is a pioneer in boat making industry in the south. Unni took me into the hull of a fishing boat as big as a bus or twice. I have fever. I take a train from trivandrum and get down at Cherthala and go to Samudra office in Kochi. Jeevan explains his requirement and I have my storyboard ready which is approved. I made it in the train on my way to Kochi.

The last time they ever made a video was some 15 years back or so with Rajiv Ravi as the filmmaker.  Now I need to be careful.

Boarding the Varanasi train from Mumbai I had a lot of expectations. An assistant was supposed to join me in Varanasi. He didn’t. 

The best part of the project was waiting for the morning and evening light. I would wake up at 5.30amand wait for the light and made a light intensity chart. This is usually prepared by me since I use daylight in most videos.  The chart is accompanied by photographs and two days observation. Rains usually change this plan. I have a back up led light and a big mirrors to reflect sun.  The sun was faithful and didn’t trash my footages.

Technically, The video was shot on Canon Full frame Dslr with an old cineprime Nikon 50mm lens and also a wide angle  35mm Helios lens. Both lenses are older than me. This would give a painting like look and also a clumsy careless retro look. (the color fade out look with low contrast I wanted for the place).

Design Objective--The final visualized video should give feel of Varanasi and should introduce the souvenir boat.  It should also introduce samudra.

Packaging- he most important contribution to the whole package was done by Ajmal Hasbulla the music director who took the visuals to a whole new level.

Sound design was done by Sam Santosh.

Met Rishab Dwivedi in Varanasi ( friend painter artist human )

The advertisment paid some of  my bills and there is bliss too.

Samudra Shipyard cochin famous in the ship building sector in south india is working with the Sankat Mochan Foundation at Varanasi.
As a tribute to the Hon`ble Prime Minister's Clean Ganga Drive, Samudra Shipyard have decided to contribute a portion of sales proceeds to the Swatch Ganga Abhiyaan.

direction camera edit

Krishand

Music Direction

Ajmal Hasbulla

Sound Design and Mixing

Sam Santosh

Vocals

Sarath Baby

Associate Editor

Girish Atuvalaipil

Production Controller

Rakhil Akkali

Colorist

Hari Prime

Associate Cinematographer
Shyamin Gireesh

Associate Editor
Rakesh Cherumadam

Creative Contribution

Jishnu Krishnan

copyright

jeevan Sreedharan

Girish Atuvalaipil

copyright suppor

Ajith Kesavan Haridas

Special Than

ks

Anami Lodge assi ghat

Niranjan Boatwala

Banras Travels

Akhil Vinayak

Dheerej M

G Radhakrishnan Nair

Rishabh Dwivedi

ShantanuYennemadi

Anmol Dharmadhikari

www.mapofindia.com

Koteswar Rao

and 

UNNI MOhan

storyboard scribble page 1

storyboard scribble page 2

storyboard scribble page 3

storyboard scribble page 4 - final image

screenshot color CC for look and feel

 

iNSTAGRAM

lost my phone in the ganges. 

Got a new phone.

Discovered instagram.

https://instagram.com/krishand.rk/

bliss

Sequentially

As I rigorously find ways to make life simple and try to get organised i find myself fishing for sequential art content. Some of these are very old and some are brand new. Some of these even got paid.

Research Associate

I didn't enjoy this period much.

Sudesh sir asked me if I could become his research associate (assistant in documentary in Mithi river reclamation project) and later when I went to him after completion of the course he said the position was occupied. In fact he added he tried calling me and I was not reachable. I didn't know know what to do. I was counting on this RA-ship to hang around IDC -iit Bombay and write my first script. Sir sudden change of mind had somehow hurt me. I went straight to another professor whom I loved and respected a lot and asked him if there was any position in project D-Source. An online platform from the ministry to impart online design education. Phani sir told me that I can join but need to prepare classes on photography. However I have to be under Sudesh sir since he is heading photography. I went back to Sudesh sir and he said I can work for D-Source and be under him.
However as time progressed sir found out that I am indispensable in the Mithi river project since I was visualising, sound recording, camera assisting and coordinating with MMRDA. Nothing much was done for D source in the first two months. In the fifth month D source asked me to submit a video. Sudesh sir once again disowned me saying I should have concentrated on D Source. However he sat and corrected my script and wrote his own script to get me out of this mess and we shot a small learning video.
As soon as i completed the video I left IDC and decided not to return