February 3 , 2024
Time: 02:00 PM to 3:30 PM
A conversation on Independent Film makers and Screenplay
KSOU Campus, Mysuru
To recognize both the amateurs and professionals, the categories are set as: Students and Professionals. For each category, Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Story, Best Sound Design, and Jury Award - are some of the awards awaiting your films.
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Watching and critiquing a short film is always an intense and, making or breaking of your hope experience. Your mind undergoes a myriad of scenes of what the director will do with the screenplay and then you compare what commenced in the film vs what you had expected.
Every time it differs and surprises your imagination or what should happen as per you, is outwitted, it becomes a thrill to keep watching and it remains itched in your memory. As if the mind creates a special bucket space to store it.It makes you feel the time spent in watching the film was worth it and probably will use this film in your conversations and recommend it to others.
Coming to this short film “Writer”, the plot is a thriller, set against a deadline , the main character who is a writer has to come up with a story in competition with others that can fetch him the opportunity to make his story into a film. The plot thickens as if not for this win, the writer will be broke.
In the case of sports you have a specified rules, scoring opportunities and at the end of the specified time there is a result of a winner and loser. In this case, since it's a story, and a creative one, the acceptance of the story is subjective and not objective like sports. It makes it even more intense and filled with suspense as to what will the writer come up with and win it.
This film writer cleverly uses his situation as the story itself and deepens the plot by creating a nested story. This gives a unique experience to viewers in that, we know the writer is writing his own story, so ease of understanding and clear thread of a story in film, but as events happen with the writer, it sucks into the plot to think is it happening to the writer himself or to the writer in the plot created for the film?
This is where the screenplay, camera and music has tremendous scope and it has been used to the hilt, 3 characters all of them writers and they interchange in the film as impediments come in one after other to slow their story writing progress and push the narrative to the edge of the seat expectation.
Every time there is a cut shot, the next scene has a different face/actor as the writer and your mind automatically matches as to what's happening to this writer is actually happening to the real writer as well. This interplay of 3 writers scene by scene, plot by plot is so satisfying to watch and enjoy.
This film reiterates the fact that, if the writer or director has been witness to or part of the story that has happened, there is a lot more clarity of characters in the film, a lot more clarity of scenes and its maturity.
The ending was like a dead dodo, it kind of killed the entire build up temporarily, but it is so miniscule as compared to the rest of the story and screenplay that the film leaves a mysore pak taste in your mouth for a long time.
If the ending would have been as creative as the plot of the story, it would have been a sure shot repeat watch. As of now it's a definite good for one time watch and no regrets.
Review by: Ambarish Purohit
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