May 30Virtual Production (deep dive) — Technology behind Avatar and Mandalorian is the key to the future of filmmaking and content creation.How Virtual Filmmaking is benefitting from Metaverse/Gaming, Animation technology, and vice versa. — Film is a medium that has always been a partnership between technology and storytelling. From its earliest days, the foundation was a technical breakthrough, which was the moving image film camera. And stories began to follow and explore what that camera could do. And the whole century we’ve been dealing…Virtual Production9 min read
Apr 14Why protagonist in Paul Schrader’s movies are always writing a journal?At regular interval the character is going to discuss his life with a therapist or she’s going to write letter or diary entry but she’s going to rise above the meat and-potato reality of physical world. — Chuck Palahniuk There are scenes written to let you glimpse into the mind…Voiceovers2 min read
Mar 21Law of ANTIFRAGILITY by Nassim Taleb — Don’t avoid, instead chase mistakes, failure, stress and chaos“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos; you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.” What is AntifragileNassim Taleb6 min read
Feb 18Story Prompt 2 — Stories Where Protagonists Life Goes From 0 to 100 (or vice versa)A small business idea can become a huge money-maker in the future. Just like that, what seems like an insignificantly small problem now can eventually destroy your whole life. The thing is, LIFE IS UNCERTAIN, we don’t know what’ll happen in the future. Like the famous saying of Lord Krishna…Storytelling2 min read
Feb 11Writing Horror — Ari Asters Formula For Turning Loss In Character’s Life Into A HorrorWhat if you wake up one day and lose something that is probably the most important thing in your life? It could be your family, lover, best friend, car, money, job/business, dog, cat, some secret super power or it could be even your desire to live life. A big loss…Storytelling2 min read
Jan 13How To Form Intimacy And Trust Between Characters In A Single SceneSometimes you just don’t have time or energy to carve out a detailed relationship between two characters or maybe you just don’t want to do so much effort and be lazy like me, but at the same time write compelling story that people will believe in. Whatever your reasons are…Writing4 min read
Jan 16, 20217 Simple Storytelling Hacks From Fight Club Writer — Chuck Palahniuk1. Recycle Your Objects This means introducing and concealing the same object throughout the story. Each time it reappears. The object carries a new stronger meaning. Each reappearance marks an evolution in the characters. Example: Diamond ring in Nora Ephron’s — Heartburn The diamond ring gets mugged from the narrator, then police found it…Chuck Palahniuk5 min read