My 2nd post on filmmaking

You'd all have been tired of seeing my second post that never arrived. Thanks for your tremendous response and feedback. But due to lack of time and this not being the best medium of teaching or expressing such a huge phenomenon as Cinema, I can hardly be quick in producing my subsequent posts and you learning from it effectively. Besides that, many have asked me to explain Script, Direction and Screenplay and the difference between two aspects or all of them. But, before that, there is a certain pre-requisite knowledge that is needed before learning those aspects of filmmaking.

"You know defining films is like defining life. The purpose is either too many or probably none". You know the fun in filmmaking can be experienced only when you don't know what filmmaking is. Similar to life, that you may aspire to learn what it is or may not even ask such a question all your life, but simply go on living.
I may have said in my last post that filmmaking is an art. Quite True. And also that it could be my current stand-point. Films are an art is true. What does art do? It expresses in many ways, abstract, realism and any other Genre. Similarly, Films can range from any genre from realism to fantasy. But, Do films have to be morally good? Of course not necessary. But films must not mislead. That's enough of a liberty to a creator and also a restriction. For example, A film says, a mere force called true love united a woman from The United States with a man taking bath beneath the Cooum river down south in Chennai. Well, That film may make a person taking bath beneath Cooum, in reality, to dream that such a thing happen to him.
But, If a film says, Practical events brought them together and if the events are narrated with a neat screenplay exploring the possibilities, this film may mislead little. This is one quality that a filmmaker should develop though not necessarily too rigidly. Because "films can shape a society and make life better".

Sorry for the delayed post. I'll keep on posting whenever I get time.

I'd like to teach filmmaking

I've been requested by very freshers to teach them about film making as though I made a number of films that are being sent to film festivals all around. I'm also a fresher by industry standards but I think when you take film making as an art, you're hardly a fresher. Besides that, I may not be able to tell this in the industry to offend a number of technicians whose experience is my age.

Modestly and Honestly, I've learned a lot about films in a very short period of time. I mean some 10 years. That is, I learned from, "How does the camera move so quickly from one person to the other? Are there too many cameras? Cinematographer is sitting at which camera? And in an OSS Shot, are there two cameras?"

And the screenplay aspect of it, by mere watching. But any art practitioner could do so without much experience but for the practical, managerial aspect of it that requires some interpersonal, managerial and problem solving skills.

But a fresher director can work with the technicians and actors that he's best comfortable with, in the beginning, if the producer is to avert the immediate need of a box office hit, that he presumably thinks comes only from a MASS HERO and not from a good story and screenplay.

And I've been wanting to express myself and teach about film making. Because not all my ideas get executed due to limited scope. So would like to share it. Besides we don't have proper education or institution. I don't have the authority to teach and mislead but can express and I'm gonna do it.

Ok first lesson:
Que: What's a film?
Ans: A film is an art form just as any other art that exists like painting, writing, performing arts. But a film maybe inclusive of all or most aspects of the other art forms. Here, you can do anything and everything. But what one has to take care of is the quality. Any art sells by its quality. And so do films. Be it realism, fantasy or fiction. Anything maybe considered creativity and so can anything be done.

DINESH BABU M