Synapse 09: Trying something new...

Hi... I told you that we were trying to do something very different for Synapse this time. Enough technical we thought. Suddenly the idea of making a short movie jumped up from nowhere. Even the theme was decided within 15 minutes. We decided to take up a different. A genre usually not tried in college made films… HORROR.

We finalized the story. Four characters. And named the movie ‘SHE’. We had some problems finding the heroine for the movie(after all who wants to be seen on screen as a witch… lol). Well, finally we found our girl and began shooting. The first scene was a day scene and was shot easily in a couple of hours. That night we even edited that scene and finalized it, even added the sounds. A couple of days later, we were to shoot our first night scene. It was supposed to be the introduction scene for the supernatural element. Eerie…

Well, we reached the pre-decided location and tried to shoot. But all our efforts went in vain. We were getting a black screen at the camera. Very less lights. We tried very hard, tried different angles, even changed the location but to no avail. We returned disheartened, knowing that we would have to drop the idea of making a movie.

That night in the gloom, came a new thought, why not change the theme and the story?? BANG! All of us brought our minds to the table and within five hours (11pm-4am), we finalized the scenes and characters for our new movie. Thus, ‘ETHOS’ was born. As we had only 4 days left, the shoot was completed in two days. Half the team then put their heads in editing the scenes, trying to put the scenes together and the other half searched for the music tracks to be played as background score in the movie. Finally, after another two days of fighting over tracks and adding them the whole movie was finished in a total of 4 days.

Though we may have not won the event, but we did have loads of fun making the movie. We’ve even made a hilarious making of the movie. It’s really excellent. I’ll try to upload both the things on Youtube soon. Hope you’ll like them…

I’m thinking of writing on some serious issues now. So, watch out this space for more.

Also, in relation to the previous post, i have also made an account on Flickr to upload my pics.

Do go through my photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/naman_anand/do put your comments in there... :)