Friday, November 25, 2011

Photography with SLR




Jack the Ripper

A letter by Jack the Ripper. We had to make it look the way it sounded. & we could only use 2 colors. Highlighting some parts & writing them with difference to catch the readers eye.

Typo Explorations with words




Two words, 'Association' & 'Celebration' were the words that I had chose to explore with typo. All we had to do was express the word with the word itself. Never had we done anything like this before. At first I, like others, came up with lame ideas but then with more & more explorations going down the drain I attained this.

Exploration before FInal





Typo- Photo Film Final


As part of our typography course, we had to make a list of our favorite 100 films & using them we had to construct our own portrait. I was new to Photoshop, new to illustrator... trust me I can do much better than this now. Anyway this was what I finally managed at the end of the week.

Cinematography- 'Lemon Tree'

This film here was directed by 25 people including me. It was a course for cinematography & we were shooting on film for the first time ever. The song "Lemon Tree" was decided earlier & we had to make a sequence according to the song & what we thought the song was saying. It was a fairly clear song & almost all of us had the same kind of interpretation. In a span of 3 days, this is what we came up with.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Internship


Directed by- Oni Sen.
I worked on this video in the pre-production & production stage when I was interning at the Electric Dreams Film Company from april 2011 to june 2011. This was the first time I had been part of a professional ad shoot.

Interactive Media- Web design


This video is just a preview. Since Blogspot doesn't support .swf files I had to compromise with this. The video is a walk-through of National Institute of Design, where I Study. It is an embedded video with options the user can click on. The video is in third person view with the guy in the video is the user. We tried designing it as a game. Through the video the user will get to choose what he/she wants to do For eg. the user has a choice of Pepsi, Slice or 7UP at the canteen. The user can click on the option & the guy in the video will buy that. It was a completely experimental thing we tried doing. Something we had never tried our hands on before.

This was part of a course 'Interactive Media' which was part of our 4th semester curriculum. It was a fun course since we got to know a lot about the interactive advertisements going on around the world. We saw a lot of creative advertisements, art displays & other kind of things that left you baffled & hungry for more. They called it the new way of getting attention! We were introduced to websites which let to were high on interactiveness. Also we played a lot. Games like 'The Settlers of Catan' had us hooked on to the course. People who hated going to class were seen attending it with much enthusiasm. Then we were introduced to a completely new experience with Nintendi Wii. It was recently launched then & not available in India, but thanks to our faculty, we got to play with it. This course was a complete break from the monotony of a students life.
Lastly we got to try our hands on web design using Adobe Flash software. It was pretty hardcore at the beginning but as we caught up, it became simpler by the minute. We also had a lot of guest faculties who introduced us to other parts of interactive media.