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Monday, August 29, 2011

Mise En Scene - Mr. Vengeance

Mr. Vengeance is my latest work at film school, it's a Mise En Scene. A single take short film shot on 16mm film camera. From the first thoughts of the story to the final  screening of movie at L.V. Prasad film academy, it was an amazing experience.

The film is dedicated to my Guru - Chan Wook Park. The story is inspired from his Vengeance Trilogy. Even though I saw the third film (Lady Vengeance) after my shoot, I was amazed to see how much Chan Wook Park's work has inspired me.

The film was shot in one day. Even when your planning is near perfect, things can still go wrong. We did face few problems and at one point I seriously thought we wouldn't finish shooting the film. Thanks to my Sound Designer - Aalaap Majgavkar, Dop and a great crew, we were able to finish the shoot. I have to thank my Sound Designer specifically here, he took it to another level during post production. Even during the shoot I had a zillion things running on my mind and the one thing I totally forgot about was how the sound department were doing their job. Aalaap and his team did such a perfect job. I also have to thank all the actors - Ragav, Ashok, Nirmal, Daniel.

I had a story and a specific visual design for this film. Of course there are a million ways to shoot the same story, this is just one way. 

Hope it's worth your time.
Cheers
Pradeep Kumar