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Beginning Sohni

October 20, 2015

IMG_0756The boost from getting a good edit on the Sorath storyboards helped me get started on the next story; Sohni. For Sohni, I like a lot of what I did in the drawn storyboards last year. Certainly the first portion of the story can be translated directly into photos with the puppets. It is actually a lot of fun to see some of the drawings transformed into photos with the actual puppets. What was imagined, begins to come to life. There are still backgrounds and proper lighting and of course the puppet performance to be added, but you can start to see a glimmer of what could be.Taking photos is nice, because I can start to see the actual elements that will be photographed and stage them accordingly. The richness of these handmade puppets starts to encourage me to bring the camera in closer where it fits with the story. Part of the beauty will be in those details that you would not get to see during a live performance.I also take a lot of extra photos of other angles that I can play with in the edit. It is a quick way of experimenting and seeing what choices beyond what I have previously storyboarded could come out of this process. Each revision of script, storyboard or music is another go at telling this story. Each progression leads to that final telling of the story, in the form of the film which is what people get to see at the end.

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