Can watching pulp movies be educational? Yes, if you watch them with some attention. And particularly, if you watch them just after you have watched an entire day's shooting for a movie in the making. This is precisely what I did this weekend (which started on Thursday-lucky me). I first saw the shoot of a new Telugu film being shot- on a cricket field, coz the story is that of a school cricket team coming back from the dead. Called Golconda High School in the film. Learnt a lot about getting your act together, camera angles, shot conceptualisation, number of shots you can shoot on a good day (about 40?), and the like. It was hot as hell, but the crew worked 10 hours a day, making us academics look silly. Trolley shots (camera on the rails moving straight ahead or back following a character), crane shots (from atop a crane), plain long shots, close-ups, each has its own place in a movie, and can enhance the efect of what's being shown.
Then I saw two Telugu films, one Hindi film and one Agatha Christie classic, in a span of two days or so. Excellent education, I'd say. I liked Chak De the best, of all. Crisp editing does it for me. Plotwise, Agatha Christie wins hands down. But interesting touches in the two Telugu films- Sye has some nice rugby scenes though they come too late, and A Film by Arvind (that's the title) starts off well with a director finding an incomplete script, and life imitating fiction (the script), before losing its way in the dark-literally.
I uploaded my autobiography in 20 odd pieces on a website, www.scribd.com and found it got a lot of readers- you can find it on the website if you search for My Experiments with Half-truths.
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Will look forward for downloading them from Scribd.
Btw, Scribd is a popular site amongst most Management students. I wonder when computers and internet weren't present, how did Management students work on their projects? Can we know how did you all manage during your B School days?
Field projects from data collected on the field- otherwise, the physical library were the only 2 sources for projects in those days.
All the access to data aside, I recently blogged that the genius of oneself has more to do with a genetic accident that then can either get compounded favorably or unfavorably by the ecosystem in which it continues to sustain for the future.
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