An
attempt to capture a festival on film…
.
Anil: Take any pictures?
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Tara: Four hundred photos. Forty footage clips.
That’s after pre-editing and throwing out the failures.
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Anil: Is there a theme? Is there a message? Is
there a story coming through?
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Tara: That’s the trouble. Shooting randomly at
a festival. Lots of tiny vignettes but no story running though them all. And
not many audible comments.
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Anil: It was an Indian festival. In Tokyo.
Multiculturalism?
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Tara: Indian dances with Japanese dancers.
Food, culture, music, people. And parrots. A lot of fun.
___________
Voice-over
Festivals may seem rich seams for filming. Leaving
aside the difficulties of shooting in crowds, the blurs, the interrupted shots,
it is possible to create short stories told in images and short takes. A series of visual vignettes.
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