Director Rita Rodriguez is well-known for getting her
shooting done rather swiftly. She has defined her method as one extensive day
of work, starting with shots and moving into editing altogether within the same
day. She likes to be able to examine her work as it’s produced so that she
knows how the final creation would look like. Relate that to someone like Ganga
Tiwari, who spends quite a bit of her time and budget in post-production, and has
a large crew and many people too manage; it’s easy to see that technology has
taken film in very diverse directions.
Digital technology has made the art of film making more
accessible. Decent quality digital camcorders are obtainable to anybody, and
editing programs can be accessed on a home computer. Websites such as You Tube offer
global exposure for budding film makers. Films that would not have been previously
digital technology can nowadays be seen across the globe.
Spectators are waiting to interact with all the
entertainment provided. Young filmmakers across the globe crowd-fund their
films and put it on cyberspace for viewing, virtually forever.
That’s why, Shlok Sharma made Zoo, a feature film that he shot on
an iPhone 6 Plus by putting in his money. He bought the 128GB model for around
Rs. 90,000. In India, it was the first feature film shot on a phone. He made no
compromises. “I wanted to tell my story the way I wanted to”, he said.
COSTS
Film is the favored medium of old school film makers, but
it’s typically too expensive for a studio to authorize Aside from the expenditure,
film is impractical to reuse. Cinematographers who use film must develop it,
and then there is the inflated procedure of editing the film.
Going digital mainly means foregoing the huge canisters of
film that used to be identical with film making. It also means that the likes
of production houses in Delhi finish
their shoot timetables with less excess, keeping the entire project under or
close to budget.
EDITING
Post production is an added area where the usage of
digital trumps the usage of film. Adding visual effects to film was repeatedly
an accurate art, where the effect had to blend flawlessly with what was being
shot. This was a painstaking process that editors no longer go through. Digital
effects are created and added to the shot within the same program or family of
programs. This digital software like adobe premiere pro also allows editors to
work on entire sections of a film, easily piecing scenes together after the
post production effects are added in.
SHOOTING
Shooting in digital is much simpler because you can do more
in less time. Multiple cameras can run on the same shot, so you always get the
angle you want without having to waste time on retakes. Small Production Houses in Delhi
like Jamun, Little Anarchy, Blue Mango like shooting digitally because it makes
it smooth to shoot multiple takes, and to get numerous angles more
economically. A director’s bread and butter are pace and performance.
To conclude all that can be said is now that millions of
cameras are in the hands of amateurs and professionals alike, there is a
revolution in movie making and exhibition.
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