Paintings in Motion (A Masterclass with Gitanjali Rao)
“I would like to take the audience through a journey of how a painted image is infused with life and emotion to tell a story.
Like my own journey each time I make a film.”
Although animation is a complex production technique, the idea, the story, the story telling, scripting and finally the post production are not much different from live action film making.
In this Masterclass, through the making of her last short film TrueLoveStory, a film about love in the streets of Bombay, Gitanjali will take us from the origin of the idea, to the characters – who they are, where they come from – the style and design, the animatics with sound and music and finally the film in animation. She will go through the different explorations of mood, colors, sounds and music that shaped the film, and how to spin these together to create an emotional experience.
Gitanjali will show glimpses of her other films which are influenced by different Indian folk art styles and tell other similar stories, as well as discuss her various influences and inspirations of music, paintings, films, travels and life, while making films.
The presentation will be followed by informal interactions, comments and questions from the audience.
Gitanjali Rao
Gitanjali Rao graduated with honors as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, in 1994. She is a self taught animator, film maker, illustrator, teacher and theatre artist. She has since, independently produced, directed and animated three award winning short films, Orange, Printed Rainbow and TrueLoveStory. She also has a string of very popular and award winning animated commercials to her credit and is currently represented by Acme Film Works, L.A. Gitanjali also conducts workshops and presentations and has been in the jury at various International Film Festivals including The Cannes Critic’s Week 2011.
Her films TrueLoveStory and Printed Rainbow are showing at DIFF 2014.
Filmography
TrueLoveStory
Printed Rainbows
Orange
Blue
Girgit
Kaleidoscope