The day started on a high note, with the professional level digital video cameras arriving under the guidance of our faculty Inder baria. He effortlessly managed to take care of the necessary technicalities and within some time, The cameras were ready for the students.

Meanwhile, Me, Mehul and Neha discussed with each group of the batch, regarding their films idea. And if at all they needed help or suggestions, were were there to give it. A few minutes of more discussion five groups of first batch were ready to go out and shoot their films.

There was some sort of misconfusion at begining, but around an hour’s time, most of the batches were back with the raw footage. Although a few of them were so involved in filming, we literally had to pull them back kicking and screaming to start the next phaze of the production. Of course, the lesson of the day was that, filmmaking requires a lot of planning and more. And if you’re not prepared for it, you might miss out important footage.

Then began the editing sessions. In a lab, all groups in the batch were provided computers with editing softwares pre-installed in it. For the remaining part of the session, All of Us faculties got too busy to breath. Dumping DVs to a PC in a format suitable to the editing software.

Along with the adrenalin level, the stress level was rising as well. Groups were running out of time, and editing was becoming more difficult than expected, some PCs the editing software refused to work, some PCs experienced sad moments of hanging without being able to be saved in an exported video format.

Nikki, being the troubleshooter with the softwares, managed to solve almost all problems except a few. A bit late, but the first batch left with exhaustion, yet content of sucessfully being able to get results with the films. Expressing your creativity always gives you a certain high.

Batch 2 joined in, for the same process. One thing I must mention, all the groups in both the batches had such interesting and brilliant ideas, I was genuinely amazed at them for being able to come up with something like that in such short a time span. Editing followed after the shoot, and by the end of that session, all of us faculties were genuinely worn out already.

One session was still remaining, the introductory skills session for the batch 4. Batch 4 was the largest of all batches, including more than 45 members who were going to be a able join the workshop a day late, for several reasons like troubles with travelling, overscheduled techfest days and others. In that session, all of us faculties were obviously a fraction bit less energetic than before. I must thank the memebers from batch 4, for whom, the skills session, became a bit lenghty and a bit boring, but they showed patience and listened to us with everlasting interest.

The longest session of the whole workshop, ended late at the Day 2 at around 6:30. All the students stayed longer than their allotted time, as the students were back to the enthusiasm, after the storyboarding activity.

Continue reading to Day 3, the last day seemed to me like, it was going to be as hectic as the day 2… and even more.