Tuesday, January 7, 2014

00:55 IST
Downstairs Room, Inderpuri
New Delhi, India

Late again. Stupid snoozes. It is probably the mark of a lazy person, snoozing. You're up, and you're awake, but you want to have a little lie-in and you tell yourself 'five more minutes.' And those five minutes become a rhythmic two hour long dream. OK so once up, went with mommie to the tailor to finalise blouses for the blighted divine weddings. Of course they are blighted - a slow, decay. Blah.

Went to read up about cinematography. Mr. Mascelli writes quite well. Read something about camera angles - subjective, objective and point-of-view. What we see on screen is the result of a camera capturing the moving image. So we see what the camera sees. The camera and the audience see the same thing, always. But the angles, according to Mr. Mascelli determine the camera's role and our role and our perspective of the moving image being watched. In an objective angle, the characters don't look into the camera. The shots are stable, straight sensible ones of objects or people who have no care nor curiosity for the camera. Think it is good for expositions. Subjective angles are participatory. The character acknowledges the camera's presence, talks to the camera. The camera or the audience is involved in the story. The camera sometimes becomes a character in the story. Now that's cool. Dadi talks to me and I capture her images while she talks. So the camera and Supriya is the same thing for her. When I watch the footage, I see her looking at me, the camera, the audience. So if I add my character to the story, it might make a lot of sense.

Happie birthday mommie! You become more and more precious to me with the passage of time! Hope to make a good Irish Mutton stew for yoo :)

Monday, January 6, 2014

00:04 IST
Downstairs Room, Inderpuri
New Delhi, India

So much to say and nothing to talk about. The better half of the day was spent in a hungover state. The childhood best friend had her bachelorette last evening and time was spent drinking and dancing and drinking and recording drunk videos and drinking the the muddy, icky brown liqueour of old monks. Finalised some blouse pieces today. Slept. Read a LOT of Delhi by Khushwant Singh. I really dislike his expressions. He is vulgar and uses too many adjectives. But the stories are fascinating, so is the form. He translates memoirs and writes them in the first person as memoirs. Fun to read. I fretted about the docu as well. Not done anything on it except for fretting. Need to make a start soon. Lazy daisy work please!