Female Independence in Bollywood/Indian Cinema

Sukunya Gupta, from the English Department, in University of Southern Indiana, states that “In popular Bollywood films, female characters generally do not have much meaning without their male counterparts. Considering how long Indian cinema has been around, this reductive depiction of women is lamentable” (Gupta,…

Weekly Update 4

Any amateur film maker knows how to plan and make their own film, but there’s a newfound challenge in running a professional film set. So, our week 4 was basically dedicated to learning and understanding how a set operates, and how each role works. In…

Om Shanti Om

Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om is a 2007 Bollywood mix of drama, thriller, musical, and comedy. The film follows Om, a junior artist in a 1970s Bollywood setting, as he tries to find his break into super stardom and get noticed by his Bollywood crush,…

The Second Set of Homework

https://drive.google.com/a/rmit.edu.au/file/d/0BzsJ1KwHFXRTS1hYUUdJUnUta2c/view?usp=sharing The reason I chose this video is because I actually didn’t like it. Instead of talking about what I was trying to do with it, instead, I’m going to talk about what was wrong with it. So, basically, the instruction was to make a…

Explaining the Joke

I know that explaining the joke kills it, but sometimes you have to break it down to understand how it works. In this case, I’ll be breaking down the Endless Running scene from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail. So for those who actually want to…

That First Set of Homework

The brief for this project was to film ourselves doing any sort of basic action. We could use as many shots as we needed, as long as the video was around 30 seconds long, and the camera was stationary. For those who haven’t seen it,…