Dear Blog,
I know we haven't talked in a while but I'm sure you know how things have been. I thank you for being patient and not deleting yourself and this insignificant set of data, of which I have no backup anywhere else. You know how much I like to talk and I don't. How much I yearn to write and I can't.
Anyway, as you know, I have been trying to learn film-making and music production for a while, and apart from watching and listening to loads of movies and music, I have done some experiments and made stuff on my own which, let us say, I forgot to share with you. So, I apologize for that, and without wasting any more time I would like to share them with you right now.
I've already shared the Tool animation with you, then I made a short black and white film after that on an idea developed from some conversations with my dear friend Mayank. It was a great learning experience working with green screens, computer effects and my father ... Well watch it :
Alright, then as you may know I went to Mumbai to work with some film people, it was a great learning experience both in film-making and life. They made a short ad film while I was there and I helped during the production, and mostly with some trivial post production stuff, especially color grading. I won't lie, the initial product was a bust. But these people are relentless in patching and stitching until they can make a corpse walk again. And they were finally able to sell it but I had already left their team before that happened.
I left, and so did five others. And four of us, Aditya, Amit, Mayank and I, made a small, kind of a, company to make virtual reality videos. And we made some videos and tried a few business models and I guess we'll continue experimenting and making more. Here's that stuff :
VRtigo Media YouTube
VRtigo Media Facebook
It is hard to survive in a city like Mumbai without any perennial source of income, and boy do I hate big cities. Noise, every second of the day, polluted air, and the human hordes. It is a continuous torture to all the senses. The only peaceful place nearby was the lesser polluted Versova Beach. The cool sea breeze and the stars above the ocean. And when this was no more accessible economically and frequently, we had to leave.
Chittorgarh, one of the most beautiful and peaceful places I've ever been to, is my home. After I returned from Mumbai I went to the secluded part of the Chittorgarh fort. And to be in an environment without any noise, and to hear the wind, the leaves, the crickets and the birds after so long, was truly heavenly. And apart from that you can watch the sun go down the horizon almost every day of the year, excluding the monsoons, and not only can you see a sky full of stars at night but you can also see the milky way!
I know we haven't talked in a while but I'm sure you know how things have been. I thank you for being patient and not deleting yourself and this insignificant set of data, of which I have no backup anywhere else. You know how much I like to talk and I don't. How much I yearn to write and I can't.
Anyway, as you know, I have been trying to learn film-making and music production for a while, and apart from watching and listening to loads of movies and music, I have done some experiments and made stuff on my own which, let us say, I forgot to share with you. So, I apologize for that, and without wasting any more time I would like to share them with you right now.
I've already shared the Tool animation with you, then I made a short black and white film after that on an idea developed from some conversations with my dear friend Mayank. It was a great learning experience working with green screens, computer effects and my father ... Well watch it :
Alright, then as you may know I went to Mumbai to work with some film people, it was a great learning experience both in film-making and life. They made a short ad film while I was there and I helped during the production, and mostly with some trivial post production stuff, especially color grading. I won't lie, the initial product was a bust. But these people are relentless in patching and stitching until they can make a corpse walk again. And they were finally able to sell it but I had already left their team before that happened.
I left, and so did five others. And four of us, Aditya, Amit, Mayank and I, made a small, kind of a, company to make virtual reality videos. And we made some videos and tried a few business models and I guess we'll continue experimenting and making more. Here's that stuff :
VRtigo Media YouTube
VRtigo Media Facebook
It is hard to survive in a city like Mumbai without any perennial source of income, and boy do I hate big cities. Noise, every second of the day, polluted air, and the human hordes. It is a continuous torture to all the senses. The only peaceful place nearby was the lesser polluted Versova Beach. The cool sea breeze and the stars above the ocean. And when this was no more accessible economically and frequently, we had to leave.
Chittorgarh, one of the most beautiful and peaceful places I've ever been to, is my home. After I returned from Mumbai I went to the secluded part of the Chittorgarh fort. And to be in an environment without any noise, and to hear the wind, the leaves, the crickets and the birds after so long, was truly heavenly. And apart from that you can watch the sun go down the horizon almost every day of the year, excluding the monsoons, and not only can you see a sky full of stars at night but you can also see the milky way!
Lovely, so apart from that I was diagnosed with appendicitis four times in the year 2016, and I still live with the appendix inside my body to burst some other day. I would've cut it out with my own hands if I had any formal medical training. And I really don't know what the doctors were thinking.
Anyway, so I was sitting and rusting when my brother told me that his friend had told him that my father would look good playing the role of the super-villain Penguin. Great, I told my brother to write up something and that we would try to make something out of it. So, he wrote a few dialogues and a premise for the available actors and by chance a bat got electrocuted just in front of our house. So, we shot some stuff and I let it sit there for a few months being the sloth I am. I had to shoot the Strange sequence but meanwhile, during a cleaning spree, my mom sold the script to a Raddiwala. So, I had to write that part again, and then I shot it and started putting the stuff together, editing, composing music, recording foley and dubbing and blah. It was really fun doing all that and it was also a great learning experience. So, here it is :
That's about it I guess. I had dinner and talked with old friends while writing this post. Good times. And I'm planning on making lots of music and movies in the future.
Stay awesome.
Yours,
Shivpal
