But I had one trait within myself which I found was a rare thing. Somewhere before then I had read that the plastic that is littered on sand (never decomposes as we already know) gradually gets into the sand and then hinders water entry on that particular little space. Since then I had decided that I shall not litter a bit of plastic material on ground. So wherever I don't find a recycle bin to dispose any candy wrapper, I just put it in my pocket or my bag. And dispose it later when I get home.
This habit I thought could be propagated as a 'first step to personal discipline on saving the environment from pollution'. The idea was hitting around my head for a week. And then I had come up with a message for the NSS chart work: Plastic - A Toxin in sand, a Resource in the dust bin! And a week after that this one liner became the one line for my first short film, which later transformed into a PSA.
This habit I thought could be propagated as a 'first step to personal discipline on saving the environment from pollution'. The idea was hitting around my head for a week. And then I had come up with a message for the NSS chart work: Plastic - A Toxin in sand, a Resource in the dust bin! And a week after that this one liner became the one line for my first short film, which later transformed into a PSA.
The screenwriting part was pretty easy and there were no dialogues. I had drawn a rough storyboard (which had to see a lot of infringing during the shoot) and then had arranged a rehearsal meet for the cast. Friends are angels when it comes to shooting your first project. They do it for free and they pay you with invaluable dedication. I was more lucky. And the very unique thing about this project was, it was a pack of 7 students from Computer Science background who were shooting. And we hardly knew the basic 'Do's and Don'ts' of short film making. But still, we were acting like knew what we were doing! And yeah, we didn't mess up.
I had to add two more environment based messages in the script to make it quite a worthy watch. Just PSAing this plastic idea would just make it a 1 min thing. I wanted to give a little more. So then popped the other two ideas of 'switching off your bike in signals' and water conservation.
Frankly speaking it wasn't a great work. Not a great script, but as a PSA, it was a good visual I thought. So it wasn't really serving as my storytelling sample. The brighter side: This experimental film taught a lot many things in film making, the 'most fundamental's. The Do's and Don'ts at the editing table, how to manage a candid shoot in a public space etc. This is what I would call 'effective self-learning'.
I have more to say, but you would end up spending half an hour reading my post, when the film is just 5 minutes! So go to the link and watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw3oftY-sOI
I had to add two more environment based messages in the script to make it quite a worthy watch. Just PSAing this plastic idea would just make it a 1 min thing. I wanted to give a little more. So then popped the other two ideas of 'switching off your bike in signals' and water conservation.
Frankly speaking it wasn't a great work. Not a great script, but as a PSA, it was a good visual I thought. So it wasn't really serving as my storytelling sample. The brighter side: This experimental film taught a lot many things in film making, the 'most fundamental's. The Do's and Don'ts at the editing table, how to manage a candid shoot in a public space etc. This is what I would call 'effective self-learning'.
I have more to say, but you would end up spending half an hour reading my post, when the film is just 5 minutes! So go to the link and watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw3oftY-sOI
