Showing posts with label diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diary. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2012

The Army Wives' Diary

Since I'm home these summer holidays, I decided to stay at home and relax. Until my Mum told me that there was going to be a social evening at the club in the town where Im currently residing in.

After a lot of hestitation and pestering I agreed to join in. I dont remember the last time I performed something, so I was kind of scared. But this proved to be a gala fun time for me.  The play was titled 'The Army Wives' Diary' and was a fun take on the different stages and phases that an Army wife goes through. There was drama and a lot of humour. I enjoyed myself thoroughly during the event.

Most participants were Army Wives themselves and wanted to have a lot of fun during this play. It was decided that the play would be all fun based and different roles and characters were assigned. I was asked to shake a leg and help out here and there. After what seems like years, I danced in public, with proper steps and chereography. I dont remember the last time I had so much fun!

I also volunteered to do some sort of publicity and handle their art direction. For funs sake, I made a couple of teasers and poster (after a full fledged photoshoot) for the event. These were sent out as circulars and got good a pretty good response. The photoshoot was also a whole lot of fun, with kids and aunties giving me some wonderful poses!

Since the play was a lot of drama, for the end, I thought it would be different and fun to have a proper credit sequence, so with prior permission, I started to build on that as well. I clicked candid shots, edited and added music and compiled it together. It was an amateur attempt at a credit sequence, but it did work finally!

The play was staged on last saturday and got a huge response and even a standing ovation! People enjoyed it and I did too.

I had a wonderful experience and enjoyed every bit.



The Teasers and Posters






                                   


The End Credits Sequence
















Colour for this chappal: Pink, Yellow and Green

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Project Diaries

For my on-going studio project, The Communication Survival Project, I was using a notebook that was in tatters (best if not shown) and I got some really strange looks from people when I opened it. I loved the notebook, but after pages started falling off,  I decided to make a fresh and new one for my first ever project! I happened to mention to Akshan, who gave me the definite "Ah yes, you SHOULD have a notebook"

I was sure I wanted a nice, thick, strong and hard cover diary. I hand bound the entire book, from stitching it to putting the cover, with the assistance of  my very helpful classmate Jasleen, and the Sachinbhai, of the Printing Labs at NID. The paper inside is executive bond and the cover is an old poster that was gathering dust in my shelf. Its of the very famous Kohinoor Typeface by the ITF. The reason why I chose this cover was because it did add a lot of stability and visual element,  since my project has a lot to do with languages and communication.

By the end of the entire process, it looked so nice to me that  I didnt want to write in it!

I also ended up making a small, centre stapled diary from the remains of the poster, to be used for notes and sketches. The pages of this diary are collected from old, one side used papers from different pads.


Thank you Jasleen for the last minute help!






The Diaries


The Main Dairy





The Inside Pages

Colour for this chappal: Black and White