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FX School students film & edit RGV‘s ‘Not a Love Story‘
Mumbai based filmmaking school, FX school has added yet another feature film to its credit.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma‘s latest film, ‘Not a Love Story‘ releasing this August has been cinematographed, edited and colour corrected by FX School students who were headed by two of their faculty members. This makes FX school the first film school to have shot and edited an entire Hindi feature film.
It took the team of around 8-10 students with the two faculty members less than 100 days to finish the complete movie from shooting to editing (except the audio) and make the film ready for release.
The film is based on the 2008 case of Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, who along with her naval officer lover murdered her former lover Neeraj Grover, cut his body into pieces and deposed it.
Talking to AnimationXpress.com, C.B.Arun Kumar, Academic Director, FX School shares, "When you look at the posters of ‘Not a Love Story‘ it is written over there cinematographed and edited by FX School and it is because there is no one person that has done it but there is a whole batch of visual effects and film making students who have done it. So that‘s very unique about this film and also it‘s our first Hindi film".
During the shooting of the film 4 to 5 cameras captured the on going sequence from different angles and later on the angles to be kept were decided. The film was shot at places like malls, airports and busy crowded streets among the common people using different cameras sometimes even using iPhone to record the scene.
About the challenges faced CB Arunkumar asserts, "The bigger problem was with audio people because the kind of deadline which we were able to adhere to the audio people were finding it difficult to keep up. In our case, what Ramu wanted was a team of editors and cinematographers so that if even one falls sick anyone can take that person‘s place and work gets going".
"We have done shooting with not only 5D and 7D but we have even used more technologies. We have used small cameras of better quality for action sequences and we have also used sport utility camera. We are shooting with Panasonic Gh2 which is point digital camera so we have used those technologies with 5Dand7D. So when we shoot it‘s a very linear process where we just told the actors to act their part and we‘ll capture it from different angles. At the end we got more realistic and raw kind of look which Ramu wanted", said Sapan Narula, Head of Post Production dept at FX school.
Yohan Wadia, VFX Lead, FX School said, "The entire experience of doing this film was very nice. Ramu gave us complete freedom of creativity and he liked our work without any complaints. He always told us what he wanted and it was up to us to deliver it. And we did a good job of it".
The students who worked on the film were paid a stipend. Some of the students involved in the project are still studying while others are done with their courses. Currently FX School students are busy shooting RGV‘s next film, ‘Department‘ starring Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt and they are also involved in the making of RGV‘s ‘Stalker‘.
courtesy- Animation Express.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma‘s latest film, ‘Not a Love Story‘ releasing this August has been cinematographed, edited and colour corrected by FX School students who were headed by two of their faculty members. This makes FX school the first film school to have shot and edited an entire Hindi feature film.
It took the team of around 8-10 students with the two faculty members less than 100 days to finish the complete movie from shooting to editing (except the audio) and make the film ready for release.
The film is based on the 2008 case of Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, who along with her naval officer lover murdered her former lover Neeraj Grover, cut his body into pieces and deposed it.
Talking to AnimationXpress.com, C.B.Arun Kumar, Academic Director, FX School shares, "When you look at the posters of ‘Not a Love Story‘ it is written over there cinematographed and edited by FX School and it is because there is no one person that has done it but there is a whole batch of visual effects and film making students who have done it. So that‘s very unique about this film and also it‘s our first Hindi film".
During the shooting of the film 4 to 5 cameras captured the on going sequence from different angles and later on the angles to be kept were decided. The film was shot at places like malls, airports and busy crowded streets among the common people using different cameras sometimes even using iPhone to record the scene.
About the challenges faced CB Arunkumar asserts, "The bigger problem was with audio people because the kind of deadline which we were able to adhere to the audio people were finding it difficult to keep up. In our case, what Ramu wanted was a team of editors and cinematographers so that if even one falls sick anyone can take that person‘s place and work gets going".
"We have done shooting with not only 5D and 7D but we have even used more technologies. We have used small cameras of better quality for action sequences and we have also used sport utility camera. We are shooting with Panasonic Gh2 which is point digital camera so we have used those technologies with 5Dand7D. So when we shoot it‘s a very linear process where we just told the actors to act their part and we‘ll capture it from different angles. At the end we got more realistic and raw kind of look which Ramu wanted", said Sapan Narula, Head of Post Production dept at FX school.
Yohan Wadia, VFX Lead, FX School said, "The entire experience of doing this film was very nice. Ramu gave us complete freedom of creativity and he liked our work without any complaints. He always told us what he wanted and it was up to us to deliver it. And we did a good job of it".
The students who worked on the film were paid a stipend. Some of the students involved in the project are still studying while others are done with their courses. Currently FX School students are busy shooting RGV‘s next film, ‘Department‘ starring Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt and they are also involved in the making of RGV‘s ‘Stalker‘.
courtesy- Animation Express.
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