Shooting - Day 2
Roll Camera !
Rolling !
ACTION !!
Heard it so many times that today on I can myself call the shots ! :)
Today was a super packed day in the terms of the amount of work we needed to do. We had to do some 8-9 scenes today and even though we had planned our day properly, this was a difficult task to achieve.
We started the day early - Raghav and me went and picked up the children( Mohan and Kaviraj) at five forty five in the morning. Along with the children, their fathers also came. Since yesterday, I had been thinking of all the things that we needed to take care of for today - Thought of all the props( called as property ) required for each scene, cordination of the artists and the crew and I was pretty confident that I had covered everything. Once we left in the morning,I also called Rahul ( a friend who has been a part of this project ) , to find out if their cab ( which also contained the camera man) had started . I got an affirmation for that and I called Sunil who also assured me that he had started too. Chitkala, Neelam were coming an hour later in another cab. Well ! I was pretty much satisfied that we had a good start today .
When, at around six thirty, Sunil calls me and asks - did you get Chitkala's bag ? At first I did not understand what he was asking . Then I struck me !! Mohan ( Arun) was using Chitkala's bag in his scene ! And the bag was coming with Chitkala. Which meant that we could start only when the bag came. Just as I was recovering from my shock, Sunil laughs and reassures me - I am at Chitkala's place and I will get the bag. Uff !
Meanwhile, our car and sumo containing the camera man and the crew went ahead to do the setup for the shoot. We had just completed setup when Sunil came and we were good to go ! What pace Sunil and Satish ( the camera man ) had today . They were literally running between the shots.
After shooting a little at the banyan tree, we ran into the fields behind . Took a few shots of Mohan ( Arun ) walking along the fields. Guess what ! I got to call the shots. I used my sense of beauty and camera to suggest a few scenes. And boy did they come well ! :) Couple of scenes at the field , when we realised that we needed to have a few children to play at the banyan tree. Raghav and me ran to the nearby village. The children were waiting for their school to open - we talked to an elderly man at the village, and got 3 boys and 3 girls for playing at the banyan tree.
Again got a good creative scene by Sunil ! And we were done for that location ! We were on time so far -- it was 9 am in the morning . I had already asked Chitkala and Neelam to be ready for their shots . Next, we had our breakfast and went to Sunil's favorite spot - the timber yard.
Covered the various activities at the timberyard with Arun watching it with wonder . We had almost completed 80% of the scene, when it started raining :( We lost about half an hour between 11 45 to 12 15. We resumed shooting and completed the timber yard at around one pm. By the time, the bus from the ashram with the kids of the ashram had come. Sunil decided to complete the bus scene, so that the bus can be sent as soon as possible. In spite of hurrying a lot, we could complete the scene only at around 2 45 . We then took a break and fed all the children. Gosh ! even I was really hungry by then and the food was a welcome ! The best part of today was that Ravi guruji and his wife Gayatri guruji( from the SSY ashram and gurukulam) had come to watch the shooting. And what a child like enthusiasm they had:) I got to know Gayatri guruji closely - among other things that we discussed I got to hear the interesting story on how she and Ravi guruji met each other and got married to each other :)
Anyways, the shooting resumed at around three thirty - we got a quick last scene inside the bus and sent the bus and the children back. :) And then we started all the scenes where we have all the four characters ( Arun, satish, stranger and satish's mom ) . These scenes were getting done at break neck speed - and for the first time, I wasnt enjoying the shoot - but somewhere we needed to compromise - we did not have too much of time and lot of work was to be done. I just sat in one corner - honestly speaking, I was a little tired too.
And then it rained again at 4 30 or so - and continued to rain till five fifteen. :( Now we knew we couldnt complete the shooting today - so we concentrated on completing Neelam and Kaviraj's scenes so that they neednt come again for another day .
Well we packed up at five thirty , with around 3 scenes pending. Right now, we dont know when is the third day of the shoot - its definitely not tomorrow.
Readers of this blog - I will keep you all informed ! :)
Meanwhile - checkout Rahul's twitter updates for the past two dates at http://twitter.com/rahuljha
Rolling !
ACTION !!
Heard it so many times that today on I can myself call the shots ! :)
Today was a super packed day in the terms of the amount of work we needed to do. We had to do some 8-9 scenes today and even though we had planned our day properly, this was a difficult task to achieve.
We started the day early - Raghav and me went and picked up the children( Mohan and Kaviraj) at five forty five in the morning. Along with the children, their fathers also came. Since yesterday, I had been thinking of all the things that we needed to take care of for today - Thought of all the props( called as property ) required for each scene, cordination of the artists and the crew and I was pretty confident that I had covered everything. Once we left in the morning,I also called Rahul ( a friend who has been a part of this project ) , to find out if their cab ( which also contained the camera man) had started . I got an affirmation for that and I called Sunil who also assured me that he had started too. Chitkala, Neelam were coming an hour later in another cab. Well ! I was pretty much satisfied that we had a good start today .
When, at around six thirty, Sunil calls me and asks - did you get Chitkala's bag ? At first I did not understand what he was asking . Then I struck me !! Mohan ( Arun) was using Chitkala's bag in his scene ! And the bag was coming with Chitkala. Which meant that we could start only when the bag came. Just as I was recovering from my shock, Sunil laughs and reassures me - I am at Chitkala's place and I will get the bag. Uff !
Meanwhile, our car and sumo containing the camera man and the crew went ahead to do the setup for the shoot. We had just completed setup when Sunil came and we were good to go ! What pace Sunil and Satish ( the camera man ) had today . They were literally running between the shots.
After shooting a little at the banyan tree, we ran into the fields behind . Took a few shots of Mohan ( Arun ) walking along the fields. Guess what ! I got to call the shots. I used my sense of beauty and camera to suggest a few scenes. And boy did they come well ! :) Couple of scenes at the field , when we realised that we needed to have a few children to play at the banyan tree. Raghav and me ran to the nearby village. The children were waiting for their school to open - we talked to an elderly man at the village, and got 3 boys and 3 girls for playing at the banyan tree.
Again got a good creative scene by Sunil ! And we were done for that location ! We were on time so far -- it was 9 am in the morning . I had already asked Chitkala and Neelam to be ready for their shots . Next, we had our breakfast and went to Sunil's favorite spot - the timber yard.
Covered the various activities at the timberyard with Arun watching it with wonder . We had almost completed 80% of the scene, when it started raining :( We lost about half an hour between 11 45 to 12 15. We resumed shooting and completed the timber yard at around one pm. By the time, the bus from the ashram with the kids of the ashram had come. Sunil decided to complete the bus scene, so that the bus can be sent as soon as possible. In spite of hurrying a lot, we could complete the scene only at around 2 45 . We then took a break and fed all the children. Gosh ! even I was really hungry by then and the food was a welcome ! The best part of today was that Ravi guruji and his wife Gayatri guruji( from the SSY ashram and gurukulam) had come to watch the shooting. And what a child like enthusiasm they had:) I got to know Gayatri guruji closely - among other things that we discussed I got to hear the interesting story on how she and Ravi guruji met each other and got married to each other :)
Anyways, the shooting resumed at around three thirty - we got a quick last scene inside the bus and sent the bus and the children back. :) And then we started all the scenes where we have all the four characters ( Arun, satish, stranger and satish's mom ) . These scenes were getting done at break neck speed - and for the first time, I wasnt enjoying the shoot - but somewhere we needed to compromise - we did not have too much of time and lot of work was to be done. I just sat in one corner - honestly speaking, I was a little tired too.
And then it rained again at 4 30 or so - and continued to rain till five fifteen. :( Now we knew we couldnt complete the shooting today - so we concentrated on completing Neelam and Kaviraj's scenes so that they neednt come again for another day .
Well we packed up at five thirty , with around 3 scenes pending. Right now, we dont know when is the third day of the shoot - its definitely not tomorrow.
Readers of this blog - I will keep you all informed ! :)
Meanwhile - checkout Rahul's twitter updates for the past two dates at http://twitter.com/rahuljha
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posted by Veena at 8:44 PM
3 Comments:
hey ! veena i think for the first time i take the pleasure of writing and it was jus...................awesome man. bahut maaza aaya .will speak to u bahut kuch hai
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yaar! still photos??????????bhi daalo na
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