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Masterclass with the Master Himself: Session Details

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Learning from Ram Mohan Sir himself!

Date: 5th Dec. 2008
Time: 3 pm to 6 pm
Venue: Whistling Woods International, Film City, Goregaon East, Mumbai

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

1. Character Design – Approach
a. Personality Based
b. Design Based

2. Personality Based Approach
a. Based on Physical Appearance
b. Based on Attitude
c. Stereotypes
d. Breaking the stereotypes

3. Examples of Character design from my works
a. Realistic
b. Anthropomorphism

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

1. Interactive session
a. Give the Audience 3 different Character description
b. They choose and make one on the spot. They will need to carry paper and pencil. They can try all the three designs.
c. Give them 20 mins to finish
d. Collect the drawings
e. Sort the drawings and Choose one best from each category

2. Retrospective of Ram Mohan Sir’s career (While the sorting of drawings and selection is going on.)
a. A Look at some milestones in Ram Mohan Sir’s career
b. Some of Ram Mohan Sir’s Film clips

3. Q & A – 1

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

1. Design Based Approach
a. Head to body proportion
b. Suggesting volume
c. Stylisation

2. Taking the 3 chosen drawings
a. Adapting them to current prevailing approaches
b. Adapting characters to different mediums (Film, TV, Flash etc)

3. Q & A – 2

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Acting For Animation by Paresh Parekh

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Date: 18th October, 2008
Time: 5 pm to 8:30 pm
Venue: Ruia College – Screening Room, Ground Floor, Matunga, Mumbai

This highly interactive session, conducted by Paresh Parekh, included topics like:

1) Defining ROLE and CHARACTER and differentiating between them.
2) Line of action
3) Exaggeration
4) Emotions and expressions (the meaning & the difference)
5) Importance of the pose and the timing of the performance.

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About Paresh Parekh:

A Graduate from the National School of Drama (NSD), he began his career as an actor in Hindi & Gujarati Plays under the direction of theatre luminaries such as Barry John, Satyadev Dubey, Ram Gopal Bajaj and Naseeruddin Shah, among others. He has also had acting stints in numerous television serials. Paresh then went on to work as Chief Assistant Director to Ketan Mehta and has been the casting director for some major Bollywood films like Mangal Pandey – The Rising, Rang De Basanti, Naina and the upcoming project Colour of Passion based on the life of Raja Ravi Verma, the painter. He has trained numerous Film & TV actors like Neil Nitin Mukesh, Minisha Lamba, Imraan khan, Vidya Malawde, Shahnaaz Treasurywala etc. For the last 6 years, Paresh has been training Animation students. Now, at Frameboxx, he is responsible for incorporating acting skills in animation training and the process of film-making.

Masterclass in Animation

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Upcoming Event

Date & Venue: To Be Announced

Animation For Those Who Cannot Draw – Sanjiv Waeerkar, Creative Director, UTV

– The beauty of animation as a medium
– Animation is not about good drawing but good timing and great performance
– Observation skills on great performance
– Discussion on:

  • Plot of the scene
  • What is the story point?
  • Which are your money moments?
  • Options of performances for your scene (interactive group activity)
  • Your choice for the performance
  • Understanding the core requirement of the scene (interactive group activity)

Animation Film Case Studies – Vaibhav Kumaresh, Vaibhav Studios

– Screening of animation films in various mediums: 2d, 3d digital, Stop-Motion
– The making of the 2d animated ‘3×9 sequence’ for Taare Zameen Par
– The making of the digital 3d animation ‘Ooga Booga’ series for Neo Sports

Animation Production Control and Management – Ranjit Singh, Creative Producer

– An introduction to Production Management
– The Animation Process across media
– The Production department – Requisite Skillsets
– Setting guidelines
– Scheduling
– Data Management
– Asset Management and Handling
– Communication
– The Delivery Process
– Client Relations and Cost Control