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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.

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

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

Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat

Here is a choreography of the poem Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat from YouTube:

Fare Dodger-Schwarzfahrer (1994)

Hope that all of you have watched the German short film 'Fare Dodger'. If you haven't yet, here is the You Tube version. And if you are really serious about writing a review of it, the following details from Wikipedia will definitely help you.



Schwarzfahrer (also known as Black Rider) is a 1993 German 12-minute short film directed by Pepe Danquart. It won an Academy Award in 1994 for Best Short Subject.[1] The topic of the film is the daily racism a black man endures in a tram. The title is a word-play: literally, "Schwarzfahrer" means "black traveler" in German, but can also be translated as "fare-dodger." This word-play forms the punch line of the short film.

Plot

A motorbiker (Stefan Merki), who early in the film was unable to start his motorcycle, boards a tram, and witnesses a black man (Paul Outlaw) sitting down next to an elderly white woman (Senta Moira). In the entire 12 minutes, the old woman racially abuses the black man, stating they stink, are unintelligent, criminal and the perfect carrier for AIDS. The biker feels uncomfortable, but does not dare to interrupt. The black man stays quiet for the entire film, until the tram controller arrives: when the old woman produces her ticket, he grabs and swallows it. When the old woman accuses the black man of eating her ticket, he coolly shows his valid ticket to the controller; the latter nods at him and arrests the old woman. The punch line is that both the black man and the old woman are "Schwarzfahrer" now: the black man who rides a train, is a non-offensive "black rider", while the old woman now is a real law-breaking Schwarzfahrer (i.e. fare dodger). The one passenger the viewer knows who never possessed a ticket, the motorbiker, escapes without the controller checking his ticket.

Cast

Senta Moira as the Old Woman
Paul Outlaw as the Black Man
Stefan Merki as the Biker
Klaus Tilsner as the Controller

Acclaim

1993 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film — won
1993 Melbourne International Film Festival-best live action short film - won