Short Film Making

Click here to see the list of finalists for Short Film Making Competition

Have a flair for film Direction? Acting? Cinematography or editing?This Saarang has great opportunities for you, be it filming on campus or attending workshops on various aspects of film making. Short film making is an endeavour to encourage budding film makers all over the country, to showcase their talent, competing with the best in their cadre.

You may send in your Short film entry, not more than 15 minutes long, and a selected number of teams will be chosen to participate in the event to be held in IIT campus. They will be provided with the required technical assistance like cameras, tripods, lights, editing software etc. to shoot within the campus. The movies will be judged on the final day. Your film should fall in line with the rules laid below.

The prize money for the first three places is quite a handful. Understanding the amount of time and money that a film-maker invests into making a movie, as an added incentive, we plan to screen the winning entries in Sathyam or INOX cinema theatres, (the largest movie halls in Chennai), and invite eminent personalities from the art field to this premiere, as it would serve as a good opportunity for the winners to enter the film industry with aplomb. So its time for lights, camera.... ACTION!

Rules & Information

1. The entries should reach us by the MIDNIGHT of 15th January, 08 either through posting a copy of your film or emailing us the link of your video on Youtube or any other such web portal.

2. You need to send in the Registration form, attached below and fill out all the details. THE TEAM MEMBERS NEED NOT BE FROM SAME COLLEGE.

3. Themes -

   1. Horror
   2. Comedy
   3. Drama
   4. Adventure
   5. Thriller
   6. Romance
   7. Social Message
   8. Documentary
   9. Animation

4. The maximum number of members in a team cannot be more than 10.

5. Please avoid obscenity, pornography, excessive violence and photo slideshows. USE OF PROFESSIONAL HELP IS PROHIBITED FOR ANY PART OF THE FILM MAKING.

6. Films in languages apart from English should be accompanied with subtitles.

7. Please refrain from making advertisements, remixes.

8. The details of the final round will be sent to the shortlisted teams.

9. A letter of authentication for your film is welcome from any authorised personnel from your institute with their seal and signature.

Registration

Click here to download the the registration form(31KB).

Please download the registration form and send the filled form to sfm[AT]saarang.org. If you are sending your short film through post, please send it to one of the addresses below and notify us through mail, so that we may drop you a mail when we receive it.

Workshops

For film makers and enthusiasts , we are organizing a range of workshops by emminent personalities in the film industry

Workshop 1

25.01.08 – 4pm:

Workshop on Animation by Ms. Soundarya Rajinikanth, Superstar's 23 year old daughter, the MD of Ocher Studios has teamed with Adlabs to present Rajinikanth as a 3D animated avatar. Rajinikanth plays a charming warrior in a gripping adventure film complete with his characteristic punches, punch lines and mannerisms. The film boasts of some big names of Indian cinema – from A.R Rahman to Thotta Tharani. The film will be simultaneously released in 12 different world languages : Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and English to name a few.

Ocher Studios is the first in India to venture into a feature length 3D film at this scale on par with any Pixar or Dreamworks film. The character modeling, texturing, visual effects, lighting, animation and rendering are all being done in-house.

The workshop will have practical examples from the soon to be released Sultan, modelled on her father, Mr. Rajinikanth's lines and screening of the newly released trailer II of Sultan.

Workshop 2

26.01.08 –

Session I – 10am – 1pm

Session II –

2pm - 5pm

Workshop By Mr. K. Hariharan, Director, L.V.Prasad Film and TV Academy, on ‘IDEOGRAM - the journey from words to images’. The main focus of the workshop would be to see the various aspects that make for the transference from the concepts that lie embedded in words to images that work within a completely different set of dynamics. The sessions will help discover how cinema lies at the triangular confluence of Technology, Grammar and Spectatorship and how it goes about designing communication strategies in such complex ways. This interactive workshop aims at seeing how much of this communication can be controlled and how much of it is in the realm of the subjective. Participants will have to come with digital video or still cameras in order to come up with short 30 to 40 second long modules of expressive thoughts.
K. Hariharan:
Maker of many award-winning films including the National Award and the Best Critic Award, Mr. Hariharan has also made many documentaries on subjects like travel, education and social movements. He is also a visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 1995, and a guest faculty at the Miami University in Oxford, Film & TV Institute in Pune, India, and the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.

Please submit your entries for IDEOGRAM Workshop event to sfm[AT]saarang.org.

Limited Seats. So please register immediately.

Click here to download the the registration form(27KB).

Workshop 3

27.01.08 – 10am – 1pm:
Lecture cum Workshop on Documentary Film Making by Mr. Madhu Eravankara, eminent Malayalam film maker, writer and critic, which covers the following parts:
Part- I
What is Documentary Film? – The treatment of Reality – Approaches – Functions
Documentary as a medium for total change.
Part- II
Production of Documentary Films
Pre-production- Idea- Target audience - Research – Treatment- Scripting
Production – Planning – Schedule – The shoot
Post-production - Logging- Editing – Sound Recording – Titles
Part –III
Film clippings- Documentary film screening directed by Madhu Eravankara
Part- IV
Grammar of filmmaking
Madhu Eravankara:
Filmmaker, Writer, Film Scholar & Film Critic. Recipient of National Film Award with President’s Gold Medal (1999), State Film Award for the Best Book on Cinema ( 1999), Film Critics Awards ( 2000, &2002 ) Kerala State Film Award and Film Critic’s Award for Best Documentary (2003 ) Awarded Fellowship from National Film Archive of India ( Project- Malayalam Literature and Cinema) and Senior Fellowship from Dept: of Culture, Govt: of India ( Project- Indian Literature and Cinema). Worked as Media Director in Audiovisual Institute of Eritrea (North East Africa) and served as juror in the International Film Festivals of Mumbai ( 2003 ), Yamagata- Japan ( 2005 ) and Brisbane- Australia( 2006). Member of The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). Presently Head of the Post Graduate Dept. of Chemistry at Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta , Madhu Eravankara also serves as the Director, Videoproduction & Science Communication Course.

The following teams have been selected for the finals of Short Film Making for Saarang 08: (in no particular order)

[The entries for the prelims were judged by Mr. Srikrishna, theatre person and assistant director, working with Padmashri Kamal Hassan on his next project]

1. Help – SVIT, Secunderabad - Tharun Bhascker
2. Shadows In The Dark – Amrita School of Engineering – Team Amrita
3. Snapped – VNR Vjiet – Black
4. Lets Have Coffee – EMRC, Indore – United Groups
5. Not A Clue – IIT M – D SekunD VinG
6. Mission T2.0 – The Untitled Movie Makers
7. SAE College
8. Devil’s Theory – SVCE - Team Itanium
9. Joga Bonito – Mindscreen - Child Buddy Amalgamations

Congratulations! You will hear from us shortly.

We wish to thank all the other teams for their participation!

SFM Team

Contact Details

For further queries contact any of the following co-ordinators.