Young Designers 2011

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Sushmeit Madhavan Nambiar | holyviper@gmail.com

Somewhere Down the Road

Film and Video Communication | GDPD
Guide: Sekhar Mukherjee
Sponsor: Self-Sponsored

Keywords
Relationships
Road trip
Suspense
Dialogue

Somewhere Down The Road, a self-sponsored 30-minute fiction film, is a tale of brotherhood and suspicion that follows the course of a road trip set in the semi-urban India of the 90’s. The processes of ideation, production and post-production were done meticulously to strike a balance between creativity and practicality. The story was constructed within a set of constraints so that it would allow me to steer clear of common disadvantages that student films have to commonly deal with.

In the film, a gangster and his young protégé set out to ride a couple of hundred kilometers for a job, just like any other day of work. The wind is gentle, the sun is shining and the journey is liberating. One of them, though, is troubled. A question keeps playing on his mind: “How do I treat the person who may have killed my brother?”
After completing the shoot that was long overdue, overcoming a set of production and financial obstacles and tiding over prolonged periods of editing and sound design sessions the final product emerged as a successful on-screen realization of my own writing, production, direction, cinematography and editing. The important aspects of the film are its dialogues and its larger, abstract backdrop.
The making of this diploma film required me to understand management, role-playing and risk assessment, besides the artistic aspects of filmmaking. It was an attempt to push the limits of what is achievable within a student’s budget, with limitated resources and exposure. The film has led me to discover concepts that might, in the future, lead me to define my own aesthetic language.