A compliment can change your life???!!!

Lol!! Actually the title is a little corny!! But it does suit the content or so i think, let me know if you think otherwise.
So i worked for this advertising company for a couple of films for them and when i went to see the rough edit of the film, the owner mentions another project to me, and i being non presumptious and a little fresh in the field, was taken aback!! I protested that it was way above my scope of things!! But he insisted that i have to rise above the prop styling as i had more in me than that!! NOw thats what i call your work only speaks for you!!I was ofcourse thrilled that he thought that i was capable of pulling an event of that large proportion, and was a little skeptical but here i am today after successfully finishing that project!Thanks Mr. for believing in me, it meant a lot to me....
Btw that project was the Independence Day Celebrations at the RGI Airport ,Hyderabad. A ten day long celebration, well received by all!!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder???

Didn't realise that i hadn't written on my blog for so long!!! Wish i could say i was very busy with work:P  I have had my share of it no doubt but the real reason for not favouring the blog was because it needs skill!! The art of writing and i was never very good with it!! I am not formal, neither in my approach to life or anyone, and neither to writing!!! I write what comes to my heart and have an aversion to re-check even for spell check!! So found the task of keeping my blog alive , very tedious to say the least! Had anyway startd it to put up my work for people to see and check, but with a facebook page, i dont feel the need for even that now!!
But just the other day i met up with a friend, and she somehow convinced me to restart the blog and hear i am!! I have done some projects and i will put up the pictures about it soon. But more that pictorial reference, i want to maybe share how it was on the set while doing the work, what were the challenges, what kind of help i got from unexpected quarters, how we(and i say we not because i have a partner but because what i do is team work)managed to finish our given jobs inspite of many odds!!
So hoping to continue this jouney of blogging and pouring out my experiences without having any major in English Lit.
See you guys soon!!

My First Ever Ad Film!!!!!

When i got a call to set stage for an ad film for a tile grout, i didnt even know what grout meant!!!
But i had the most satisfying work experience!! I had to prop a bathroom for a upwardly mobile, working single woman who had a cleanliness fetish!!
When i was shown the location, i was wondering how will we manage to even put a camera there, and to my utter astonishment an entire new bathroom was made overnite, from building the walls to laying of tiles , everything was made up in the drawing room of the house!!
Then started the process of collecting accessories. Like how all directors are, mine also had some very fixed ideas, has to be na as they are the ones who will translate it visually.Armed with my brief and some cool cash, i was told to shop!!It was great to be able to add elements to my directors visual expectations. I was able to deliver and more!!
On the day of the shoot, i started to set the things in its proper place,meanwhile the DOP(Director of photography)started to set his frames and angles of the film. I quickly realised that what items i had would not be enough to fill all the gaps on the film. No , my site was some 40km away from the city and not to forget it was 7 am ,thats where the challenge in filming is , i realised. We have to keep our heads and make do in the best possible manner and without loosing out on the brief, with what we have!!I enjoyed the entire experience from conceptualising to shopping and to prop setting, how to work with different people,learnt camera angles, how to find things to fill in the frame which were not previously discussed,how more is less on a shoot,what or who is a setting!!!
I loved the adrelanine, the rush, the thinking on your feet...
I shall post the videolink as soon as i get it from the firm...
What an experience!!!