Workshop 1 – Day 6

Workshop day 6 – 2nd Feb, the day starts with usual wait for the Lahoris to come out of their guest house and this time me dragging them into the van. Today SM took charge and explained the actual planning of pre production. It was detailed lecture of how to plan a documentary.

Later Mr. Athar Zuberi joined us who took the lecture on camera and handed out his research to all participants which would help them in their production while handling the camera.

We had a documentary screened then. SM joined us back and further carried the camera handling class. The participants discussed the queries regarding their films while licking lollipops supplied by none other than SM himself.

With all this the class broke for lunch. As this was our last day in the hotel, everybody ate as it’s their last day in this world, tasting everything in the menu and all kinds of desserts there. (exaggeration for the sake of fun!)

After the lunch, Patrick and Grace joined us. They carried discussions with each group separately. Moving forward Patrick discussed some interview techniques. We had live interview sessions between Kayzad and Ali Ahmed which didn’t turn out to be such a good example. Everybody then pointed Lata to be as the next target due to her reputation of chatterbox. So Lata and Grace volunteered for it next, which turned out to be the most interesting interview. Kiran and Kamran showed us their talents and it turned out to be a pretty successful interview. A lot of mistakes were pointed out and a lot of things were learnt. Hence the day ended with a productive feel. But hey the day is not all over yet……we have planned our outing and here we go for it. Azaadi!