Friday, July 1, 2011

Zinfandel - the story behind the story

Zinfandel is a stroy about our notions of privacy and a bottle of wine.
It's set in a gated community, one of the numerous dotting India's Big Cities.

Its been in the making for over 6 months now.
With rehearsals, mock shoots, viral fever and people quitting.
Being a zero budget project, it started with the basic premise of 'Made from Beer and Love'. And it still is.

The first crew changed, it fell apart quickly.
And just as quickly a second one come onto being.
It has had its share of ups and down till now, but some core members have stuck around.
Actors Arpita, Vijay, ADs Fallah and Sandeep and me.
Amrita, my wife has griined and beared with us huddling in our flat working nights, shoving her into the study, out of the bedroom.
Simba, our very unsocial cat has come to be friends with the team.

This film is being made with a Canon EOS 5D MK II and shot with primarily a 50mm 1.8 lens.
It's written, directed and shot by me.

Here's the first official Trailer 1.



Coming soon are photos from the good old times, and the struggles in the new times.
There will pictues of people, videos, and very soon you'll see snap shots of our rough story boards.

Zinfandel is shaping up, in slow baby steps.

5 comments:

  1. Looks very professional, and, regrettably, very short! you have given us a teaser of a teaser... looking forward to more :)

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  2. Zin's certainly been one of the best times in my life. I've learnt, faltered, fallen, been picked up and held through, faltered again and learnt. And I've had the awesomest crew and cast to work with! I feel warm that the memories are still in making :)

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  3. well i promise tp come back with an extended 32 second trailer 2, and hopefully the whole 12 minutes of the film, in not so distant future.

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  4. looking forward to see more, its indeed a glimpse of big world of ideas there ! all the best for the full movie ;)

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