Tuesday 11 October 2011
Thursday 29 September 2011
Basic Shot Types
This video introduces us to some of the basic shots in films, though they are not arranged in an order. And here, the categorisation of the shots is based on the distance between the camera and the object.
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Tea Shops in Malayalam Cinema
"In the 1954 film Neelakkuyil, directed by Ramu Kariat
and P. Bhaskaran, the human drama unfolds through the
shuttling of the narrative between the closed space of the
home and the open space of the world outside. In a way,
the local tea-shop is the centre of activity in the film. Most
of the characters are trapped in their own space and time.
But the tea-shop stands in their midst as the only modern
and secular space, a space where hawkers, fishmongers,
peasants and the local postman appear regularly as in a
photo session. The tea-shops with an occasional rush hour
also provide a counterpoint to the quiet and uneventful
life of the village. It is not a co-incidence that the
protagonist Sreedharan Nair (played by Sathyan) appears
not even once at the tea-shop, while Shankaran Nair, the
postman (played by P. Bhaskaran) makes it his favourite
hangout. The only other ‘high born’, we come across there,
is a member of a declining tharavad. For him the tea-shop
is a trading centre where he can sell the things he has
spirited away from the tharavad."
---Dr. C.S. Venkiteswaran
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Swami and Friends - R K Narayan
Do you want to get a soft copy of R.K Narayan's Swami and Friends? Then click the link below to go to Scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3473267/Swami-and-Friends-R-K-Narayan
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