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available light. I prefer studio lights. A studio set-up is easier to work with
than locations.”
He prefers pre-planning his work rather than improvising on-the-spot.
He sits with his director for a script reading session. As he listens, he
visualises images. It is during these discussions that he plans his gear
and camera-angles. For his latest film Mynaa, he even used a storyboard,
much like the way an animation filmmaker makes visual or pictorial
short-hand notes of the story when he or she is scripting. This initial
pre-planning helps him during shooting, because he is ready to cope
with the other problems which may arise during shooting.”Although I
have not shot any documentaries, I personally feel my filming style is
somewhere near to the spirit of a documentary, my images speak for
themselves,” he says.
Mynaa for him was a challenging project. “In this film we mostly
used natural lights and very few studio lights,” he says. The film was
shot using available or natural light as a source and this poses its own
challenges. With the time of the day varying, the light levels may change
and unplanned situations can creep in. “We may have to wait for the sun
to come out, and so on. Mynaa was also shot inside a dense forest where
we couldn’t take lights, or generators. I was completely dependent on
sunlight, it was very tough working in Mynaa and a real
challenge for me,” says Sukumar.
According to him a DI puts him in the driver’s seat. “I can control,
“Kodak provides great latitude.”
Over the last ten years of my career, Kodak is the best raw
stock I’ve used. We get correct colours and so during colour
correction my work becomes much easier with Kodak stock. It
offers great latitude, for shooting in low light as well and using
Kodak is the most convenient way out. It is highly dependable
because with Kodak I know the results would come out perfect.
The black levels are perfect. For early mornings we use 5207,
for evenings 5207. For nights 5219 is a very dependable raw
stock from Kodak.
colour correct my images, and if necessary use computer graphics as well.
One can do a lot of things in DI, but it should be used correctly,” he says.
“Where my current projects are concerned, Mynaa released in 2010,
Konjam Veyil Konjam is yet to be released, and other projects are in preproduction,”
he says.
Technical Specifications
Film Mynaa
Director Prabhusolomon
Producer John Max
Stock Kodak 5201, 5207, 5219
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