Meeting William and some action items.

Rahul and me met William , who is a cameraman and a "DOP" ( Figure that out yourself ) for a few films, in the film industry. He has done a few kannada films and some advertisements. We met at the Mac Donalds, Total Mall at Airport road and the meeting was mind blowing.

We got most of the information that we needed. In summary we got the following information

1. The budget that will be required for producing of this movie and the equipment and assistants that we need.
2. He had some contacts that we could use to get the permission to shoot on the malleshwaram station
3. He had some contacts that we could use to get the post production done
4. He had some contacts that we could use to get clarity on the distribution.

So in short , once we have the necessary permissions for using the railway station, we are on ! Got butterflies in my stomach as I am even writing this. ( The hitch here is that he was also saying, that sometimes, permission to use the railway station takes upto 3 months ).

Further actions :

Roli to talk to Manish and see if he knows the procedure to get the permission to use the railway station.

Veena, Vilas will get the contact from William and get the procedure to use the railway station clarified.

Veena will get the contact from William for the distribution and see how to proceed on this.

Brewin and Rahul to meet Ananth for the music direction next week.

Rahul will look and see if he can get some contacts for sponsoring this project.

RAghav will talk to a professor on the copyright permissions for using this story.

A meeting for the movie

Attendees : Raghav, Vilas, Rekha, Roli, Rahul, Brewin, Veena( Neelam was missed )

Minutes :
After a round of introductions for the benefit of Roli and Rahul , the tasks were assigned as follows :

Production schedule and budget - Rahul - BY saturday
Location permissions and freezing of the location - Vilas - Thursday
Distribution finalization Roli and Veena - Thursday
Copyright permissions - Raghav - Thursday
Music - Brewin and his team - Thursday

Status on the Movie- Preproduction almost done - Waiting for Production to start

Long time since I have posted on this blog.

Ok, here is the status on the Movie. Any movie goes thru five main stages :
Development.
- Screen play is written and the story board made ready .
Pre-production. -
- Cast ( actors, directors, music direction etc ) is chosen
- Location is chosen
- Places to distribute are chosen


Production. The raw elements for the finished film are recorded.

Post-Production. The film is edited; production sound (dialogue) is concurrently (but separately) edited, music tracks (and songs) are composed, performed and recorded; sound effects are designed and recorded; and any other computer-graphic 'visual' effects are digitally added, all sound elements are mixed into "stems" then the stems are mixed then married to picture and the film is fully completed ("locked").

Sales and distribution. The film is screened for potential buyers (distributors), is picked up by a distributor and reaches its cinema and/or home media audience.
For the complete article you can check - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking

The status is as follows.

1. We are ready with the screen play - Thanks to Roli and me ;)
2. The four primary actors are chosen and these include ( Neelam, me, Vinod and Kaviraj )
3. Rehearsals are going on pretty well.
4. Music direction team is getting formed consisting of Brewin , Rahul's friend, Prakash's friends.
5. We have Rahul who will be taking care of Production
6. Location for shooting is not quite finalized ( but we have liked the Malleshwaram station ).
7. Sent a mail to Penguin India for copyright permissions for using the Ruskin Bond story.

Now excitedly waiting for the Production budget and Schedule from Rahul , so that the actual production can start.

There are many more links I would like to post here regarding the knowledge I have gained in the process of learning the film making. Will do that in another post.

Bye for now.. :)