This is the first opportunity in recent times that I got is to make a documentary film on a very exclusive International Festival for Classical Guitar.
As I discussed how it was initiated, now I gonna tell you what and how it was done. A 7 days long war to get every nooks and corner covered for our documentary was the biggest challenge. We somehow endured the odd hours of after party, early morning ride for the venue, skipping lunch, eating sandwiches and fries for brunch, taking a power nap behind the stage while artist takes some time off from the sound check. That's not all, the preparation hours spent behind the computers reading articles about the artists and the festivals, preparing script for the festival documentary, studying the previous year footages for understanding the format and vibe of the festival. These were some of the glimpses of what we had done for those 1 month of December '12.
The days were gone zipped past by and we couldn't even do anything what we had planned for, because its a documentary shoot, not a film. Nothing will go by your script. I was not very surprised and pro-active from that perspective, because of my long experience of covering weddings.
Will update soon about the post-production and final release of the movie.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Great Expectation and Greater Opportunities
I think this wasn't something I was prepared for, i.e. becoming a Documentary Partner for an International Classical Guitar festival! Whoa! That is an amazing opportunity for me. Yes, I was offered an assignment of documenting the Calcutta International Classical Guitar Festival and Competition Denis Azabagic, 2012 and then something extraordinary happened while we were discussing the opportunity.
This happened because of my good friend Jayati Saha a Lawyer by profession and a photographer by passion. Her husband is the pioneer of Classical Guitar movement in Kolkata along with veteran guitar players.
Avik Saha, also a lawyer by profession, is an art connoisseur. He is passionate about music and generated a lot of stirring in the Kolkata music scene by forming a Classical Guitar Society and funding a Guitar festival of international standards with international artists first time in entire Asia.
His associations has always been with the people of his passion starting from film to politics and that paid him off well by establishing him at a podium of excellence, motivation and initiation.
I was delighted to meet him as he was a person with immense energy and astoundingly promising ideas which motivated me to take one the biggest step in my career of photography, making a documentary on the 2012 festival. Yes, even I couldn't believe my ears. I immediately accepted his open challenge of documenting the 7 days' of madness into a short documentary. His stance was, "If you could make a photo-documentary, then why not a documentary film?"
We talked for hours exchanging ideas and he was all ears to listen to every detail I presented there. After bagging the assignment I settled for a cup of coffee and immediately started working on the script.
Fingers crossed.
This happened because of my good friend Jayati Saha a Lawyer by profession and a photographer by passion. Her husband is the pioneer of Classical Guitar movement in Kolkata along with veteran guitar players.
Avik Saha, also a lawyer by profession, is an art connoisseur. He is passionate about music and generated a lot of stirring in the Kolkata music scene by forming a Classical Guitar Society and funding a Guitar festival of international standards with international artists first time in entire Asia.
His associations has always been with the people of his passion starting from film to politics and that paid him off well by establishing him at a podium of excellence, motivation and initiation.
I was delighted to meet him as he was a person with immense energy and astoundingly promising ideas which motivated me to take one the biggest step in my career of photography, making a documentary on the 2012 festival. Yes, even I couldn't believe my ears. I immediately accepted his open challenge of documenting the 7 days' of madness into a short documentary. His stance was, "If you could make a photo-documentary, then why not a documentary film?"
We talked for hours exchanging ideas and he was all ears to listen to every detail I presented there. After bagging the assignment I settled for a cup of coffee and immediately started working on the script.
Fingers crossed.
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