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Making a short film in Mumbai – Part 9 (Editing)

I can’t believe I didn’t write up all of this what I wanted to tell about my process of editing, straight away as I was working with it. I am writing this to reflect over my work and hopefully be able to improve my capacity and be able to make another short film. And...

Making a short film in Mumbai – Part 8 (Editing)

Comic Effects on Footage The animations in this films are all done in the editing. Already from the beginning there are some short segments of comic effects that fades into footage. Just a few seconds here and there, but consistently reoccurring throughout. There is...

Making a new cover picture for the About page

This is how was making a new cover picture for the about page on this website. The plan was initially to download photoshop and start practice for learning. But it didn’t work out due to technical problems (the website didn’t want). But the urge to play around with...

Making a short film in Mumbai – Part 7 (Shooting)

Then she starts to dance. It is in this last and third act of this film where a lot of the action happens. When I first got all the footage back from Nirmal, he had already started to edit it. He had started to cut together some parts of it with a video editing app on...

Making a short film in Mumbai – Part 6 (Shooting)

When they get to the so called “set”, the foreigner is disappointed about how small the room is and say that in Hindi. There is a few cuts from different angles in this scene and in one of them the sound is so terrible that we had to delete it completely and add a...

Making a short film in Mumbai – Part 5 (shooting)

We all agreed to meet up in the morning at the apartment which Nirmal lived in, for the shooting of the film. It was not a very big place, and he also shares the flat with another few guys. It would be Me, Normal, Shree, Dope-mann and the girl (actress). I arrived...

Making a short film in Mumbai – Part 4 (Shooting)

The project was minimal, still it seemed like a disappointment was to come. We were planning to shoot most of the film in the room where we sat on the floor and wrote the so called “script”. We had to do it somewhere and it was not that much options. But first we had...

Painting faces – Part 4 (Edith Piaf)

Another one of the “black-on-white” faces I painted was a portrait of Edith Piaf. This face I remember choosing to paint because my girlfriend at the time, was playing some music on the stereo by Edith Piaf one morning on a weekend when I was waking up. A French...

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