As the name suggests, our basic theme was the transition of a river. A river is a natural flowing watercourse, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river transitioning with time.
While our team was collectively brainstorming on the different aspects we could include as a part of this transition, we came across various topics such as gender fluidity, culture and so on. We eventually tried relating it to the obstacles the river as a flowing water body came across it's course. We later decided to share our story outline with our mentors.
After our discussion, we realised that we were trying to portray the scenes in the way we perceived it first and not in their abstract representation. We got back together and revised the script scenes. We later assigned roles per scene and compiled it accordingly.
I was mainly involved in documenting the scenes as we created the storyboard. Also, was involved in creation of a few visual snippets in the video.
Some of the trial shots for a few scenes :
For the sound of a river flowing across a rocky surface, I used some plastic covers of varied densities to create that variation.
While framing this scene, I had to reshoot a number of times just because I couldn't coordinate my eyelid movement and capturing the frame at the same time.
Unlike the other assignments, this included some amount of "acting before the camera" which was new to most of us. While conceptualizing and later executing a few scenes, I learnt framing the elements on screen. Since we all belonged to different backgrounds with different skill sets, working together was a fun experience.
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