The students of Madhya Pradesh School of Drama (MPSD) are learning about the facts of film making in a workshop at MPSD campus.
A workshop that began from April 7 is being conducted by a renowned film writer and Bollywood actor Atul Tiwari. Atul is known as a writer for movies like Mission Kashmir, Dasavatharam and Yeh Faasley. Further, he is also seen playing roles in movies like 3 Idiots and would be seen in Rajkumar Hirani’s upcoming movie ‘PK’.
Atul taught the students about basics of film making and how to deal with the projects. He also emphasised upon both production and pre production aspects of film making.
The students were also enjoying learning about film making and how it is different from theatres. Notably, film making is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performances of may be real or imagined events on screen before the audiences. Here, the performers have to communicate these events through combination of gestures, speech, song, music and dance. This is what is being taught to the students in the workshop.
The students are being trained to improvise the sense of looking at things with a different perspective. Further, the students are also taught basic exercises to strengthen their thought process. This training programme further aims to free students from self consciousness and strengthen their concentration through sensory exercises. Students are given assignments to apply in their theatrical personality and performance. Further rehearsals of acting, sound, light would be done and camera handling would also be taught.
The workshop would continue till April 15. Further, more guest lecturers would also be invited to interact with the students during the workshop.