October 30, 2014

The rise in balloon counts




Now that I got your attention from the weird title, hi. When I say balloons, I meant people who are idiots.The number of idiots is increasing nowadays. By idiots, I meant the self proclaiming so called talent people.  These kind of people are like balloons. Balloons look pretty from the outside, but inside its hollow. Nothing but vacuum.

One can't simply keep showing off like they know everything. This is pertaining to directing a film. Being a media student, we were taught some basic aesthetics about how to take a film. Not that one should know all the aesthetics to take a film, but at least should have brushed over it. 

When we were asked to take a 10 minute film, the first thing is to make people understand the plot and the characterization in a short period of time. Because since the whole movie is going to be just for 10 minutes, you can't focus on the description of characters more than a minute. Second thing, the dialogues. Every person has his/her way of saying things. But every person makes sure of two things.
One, it shouldn't be boring and second it should make sense. 

I have my own style. I prefer using very minimal dialogues or no dialogues at all. My idea is to have a self explanatory film just through actions and expressions. Because the directors must understand that the audience are now smart enough to understand everything. They are capable of judging movies perfectly. 

So from my point of view, no need to explain each and everything that's happening in the film. Its better to have a self explanatory concept. Third, the screenplay. One must focus on the story rather than the headers or effects. So here it goes, I know an idiot who took a film. Its a 10 minute film where 5 minutes go for character's monologs. Then three minutes for a song. Then two minutes of story. Its just so stupid. 

There was no need for the character description since not even one feature of the characters were shown in the next 5 minutes of the story. Plus in a 10 minute film, who cares if a person is talkative or silent?. Next it is been acted by a bunch of idiots who proclaim that they live in music,die in music by just learning 4 simple chords of a guitar. A song is sung by these idiots in this film. They composed it and say its unique. Well I don't know. Must be the assistants of Harris Jayaraj.
Next are the the dialogues. The way the dialogues are written, logically a normal person or a normal bunch of friends won't talk like that. It was so lame. 

So these bunch of idiots discuss among themselves, appreciate among themselves and say that they are pros.These people focus more on the credits of the movie than the story. Because they just direct to show off and get attention from others. These desperate people seeking for attention can actually learn something and then beg for attention. Not by just self proclaiming.

Let me tell you all one thing,
A person with a guitar can't become a guitarist.
A person with a pen can't become a writer.
A person with a camera can't become a photographer.
A person with a chocolate can't become the owner of the chocolate factory.
The talent, the stuff that is inside your brain only matters.
It is sad that people who don't deserve it get the appreciation.
Also when a balloon is blown too much, it will burst.
RIP talent.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I feel , we are all students and mistakes are obvious to happen. Maybe others can easily identify one's mistake but self realization is something which takes time and may be the guys about whom you are talking about don't really know yet that they are making a mistake and probably over a period of time they will also understand it. In fact, it is good not only for them but also for others around them as mistakes teach you a lot. On a brighter side, even you Janavi, have got something out of their mistake. Isn't that just incredible Janavi??
And guess what? These guys must have learnt something out of this very 10 mins of movie which may help them in their other future projects. Maybe , they are not talented (enough) , but I am sure that once they step out of the college , they will definitely become better since then they will be actually getting a taste of THE REAL THING.
Don't let others growth (whether they deserve it or not) hamper your growth.

There are times in life when appreciation really motivates and it's absence can can actually destroy the person.But then again, we can always prove ourselves and bounce back.

P.S. They may be fools but foolishness can always be erased off ones "Spaghetti"

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