How I began, where I’m going..
Its October and the end of my first year here at the University is a week away. It has been a huge learning curve for me. I wont be lying if I say I got way more than what I expected out of this course. My being here would not have been possible if not for the month long course I did at the Wildlife Film Academy last year in South Africa. Cant help but think that the 3 minute film I made there played a big part in me getting accepted here.
The film was shot over a period of one week and edited for another week. This was my first ever film and although it seems a bit cheesy to me now, I’ll never forget the experience of making it. It sort of made me doubly sure about what I was going to do with my life.
The theme of the film is pretty obvious. The dreaded ‘C’ word. Yep, Conservation. People realizing the importance of natural spaces in keeping diversity of species at a sustainable, sometimes optimal level and actually doing something about it. Now, more than a year later, the theme of my next film which I will be producing with my film partner for my Master’s is quite similar. The film’s still in the developing stages and we haven’t finalized the story yet, but the idea is to show why some people dedicate a better part of their lives to the conservation of one species of animal. What drives them? I don’t know. That’s what we’re setting out to find out.
More updates soon.
