Sunday, March 16, 2014

What your Proposal file should contain.


PROPOSAL NOTE

This is one tentative Proposal, this can change as per the requirement of your project.
A)Equipment Required
Camera (Camcorder HD with Tripod Stand) one.
Lights multi 20* 3 Multi 10* 2
Track Trolley 01
Butter Paper and yellow gels blue gels 85 grade 10 each.   
Reflectors, stands and cutters


B)Production Personnel
Creative Team

1 Producer/ offline and Online
2 Assistant producer/ Offline and Online
3Director
4 Assistant Director
5 Director of Photography
6 Script /Screenplay writer
7 Music Director
8 Lyricist
9 Anchor/ Narrator/Actor
10Set Designer
11 Make-Up
12 Costume

C)Technical Team

1 Camera person
2 Light persons
3 Sound Recorder 
4 Switcher
5 SFX Generator
6 Boom
7 Track trolley Boys
8 Spots
10 Production Manager
11 Floor Manager

D)Boarding Lodging

E)Transport

F)Post Production Editing
G)Prepare Budget
Prepare a break up of:

Idea
Concept
Synopsis
Treatment
Screenplay and story board
Prepare Floor Plan, Light Plan

                           SCRIPT WRITING TECHNIQUE

As already explained to you, preparing any script requires a story and story is an outcome of some idea. Ideas are generated on facts collected by you or come to you out of mere fantasy and imagination. When your idea is based on real and factual happenings it tends to be a non-fiction script based on facts of life, and when a story is shaped on your imagination and fantasy it is called fiction. In certain cases when you turn facts into your own imaginary format it again becomes fiction. There can be a part of factual situations present in your script but now that you have added your own imagination to it, it becomes a piece of fiction. And there is certainly going to be a difference in presenting facts and fiction in film script format.
We will here know how we can write a 12 minute script for target audience for promoting literacy in them.

This story can be a fact, because most of the women and men in our villages have not still been able to achieve basic elementary education. But the characters and the entire weaving of the story is based on imaginary idea.

Idea: illiteracy amongst common masses in the village is going against their own interest. Because they cannot read and write, they are still being exploited.

Synopsis: In a village we show a Girl pulling water from a well and taking that to her home. Her in-laws are sitting inside. A postman comes to deliver a money order sent by the husband of the girl. The postman hands over half the amount of the money order and takes a receipt of the full. The girl can’t read the amount. She puts her thumb impression on the receipt. The postman leaves. When questioned by her father in-law, the girl replies that the post man had delivered a money order. She shows the money order receipt and the money to her father in-law. Then her father in-law curses her for not having informed him, he tells her that her husband had sent 6000 rupees and she has received only 3000/ the postman had cheated her. The mother in-law of the girl says that the fault was their own they should have allowed their daughter in-law to learn at least basic education.
 Let us break this story into sequences:
1. First Sequence: Exterior Pan Shot- A typical Indian village is shown where a young woman is drawing water from the well within the courtyard of her home. (Dissolve at MCU of the woman)
2. Second Sequence: We show a postman coming on his cycle with a bunch of letters he approaches the door and knocks it; the same woman appears from the inner side of the door, opening the door she gets happy seeing the postman.
3. Third Sequence: She asks the postman to wait awhile goes inside and fetches water and sweets for him, asks him to come inside offers him a seat.
From one inter-cut we show the In-laws laying inside (interior shot) the other room and enquiring who it was. We cut back to the woman replying this is postman. The post man draws money from the bag. We zoom in at the M O and the face of the postman depicting mischief on his face. We cut to girl, she is not happy to get only 3000/ rupees.
4. Fourth Sequence: The Woman goes inside her home, the postman leaves. The woman shows the money to her mother in-law, who also expresses disappointment. She wakes up the father-in-law.
5. Fifth sequence: (Interior) Inside the house father-in-law asks the daughter-in-law to bring his pair of spectacles. He wears his glasses and reads the letter accompanying the money order in which his son has stated that he is sending a money order of 6000/ rupees. The father –in-law gets angry with the woman for not informing him when the postman had come, but how could she do that when you were sleeping at the moment, and then how could she think that the postman will cheat her. The father in-law- is totally outraged at this.
6. Sixth Sequence: Mother In-law tells her husband “why don’t you teach her alphabets?”
(Dissolve)
Narration: Message Start learning from today. 

Now Let us prepare its Tentative Screenplay/Shooting Script) (Brief version for your learning only, you can make it a full length script of all the 6 sequences as stated above. 
Shot List               
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Duration
2 minutes









Audio/Visual  
Appropriate sound. Time noon, The camera pans onto the village and it zooms into a particular household from outside. The gate of the courtyard opens and the village girls and women are seen drawing water from the well and washing clothes. The camera fallows us inside a house where we see one old lady and her husband. The husband is dozing and the wife is knitting.
Narration/Dialogue
यह कराला गांव है। बाहरी  दिल्ली का यह गांव वैसे तो आधुनिक ही कहलायेगा, पर बिमला इस आधुनिकता की लहर से अछूती रही , क्यों   









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3 minutes
The postman comes on a cycle with a bunch of letters and money order. He knocks at the door, the woman seen entering the house comes to open the door. The village woman is extremely happy to see the money order and the letter. (Appropriate Audio)  
The women fetches postman some water and sweets from inside-
We show postman counting money, we zoom in at his counting notes, we show the money order in close, where Rupees Six thousand is written, We cut to bimla offering water and sweets                                            
पोस्टमैन % तुम्हारा मनीऑर्डर है। 
बिमला : चिट्टी भी है क्या ?
पोस्टमैन % तनिक पानी होगा पीने का] मैं पत्र पढ़ कर सुनाता हूँ   
Cutaway Mother-in-law from inside
सास % कौन है बहू  \  
Cut back to Bahu
बिमला % पोस्टमैन है माँ जी A
बिमला % लो पानी पी लो और थोड़ा मूंह मीठा करो। 
पोस्टमैन% धन्यवाद! यह लो तुम्हारा मनीऑर्डर और यह पत्र।              
 (Gives her 3000/rupees takes sweets and water and leaves.)






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