Filming a documentary winds up being filled with choices. Some are good. Some are inevitably bad. Fortunately most proved to be pretty fun to actually make.. at least for me. Perhaps it's because I'm new to the process... Everything still seems fresh and exciting. Pradeep and I generally had a good time, despite the chaos of urban India. And the curiosity of what were often scores of on-lookers.
Deep and I spent parts of several days filming experimental footage in various parts of the city. The stuff was to be used for cut-aways, and to give the viewer a sense of what Delhi looked like to us. We wandered the streets of old Delhi. Some of this was used in the opening sequences of Champa Mera Sathi. Then early one misty February morning we made a time-lapse sequence at a major "clover-leaf" highway intersection on the Ring Road. It's a familiar place to Delhi-ites, not far from the famous INA market.
The footage was used in the first version of our film (27 minute cut) but later wound up on the proverbial cutting room floor. It was great footage, and a blast for me to help make (Deep - always the creative one - made his camera-box using an old shoe box and duct tape for the timed exposures.)
Deep and I spent parts of several days filming experimental footage in various parts of the city. The stuff was to be used for cut-aways, and to give the viewer a sense of what Delhi looked like to us. We wandered the streets of old Delhi. Some of this was used in the opening sequences of Champa Mera Sathi. Then early one misty February morning we made a time-lapse sequence at a major "clover-leaf" highway intersection on the Ring Road. It's a familiar place to Delhi-ites, not far from the famous INA market.
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