As the workshop progresses, we come closer to shooting the dialogue exercise. We are supposed to shoot it in the set that we had constructed a couple of weeks ago. The set was erected on a 80 ft. by 40 ft. studio floor.

We have become pretty punctual. We are all on time most of the time as far as coming for the morning session is concerned. And no one is complaining about working till late in the night. At times it becomes difficult to finish the blog by 10 am in the morning. But Mr. Tanmay lets us finish it before we start the next session. His inputs are not limited to the technicalities of the camera. He also talks of the way we are constructing sentences, and our use of words. He pointed out later in the day that Ashok uses very less words. Ashok is a guy who speaks very less. He is from Manipur. He speaks only in Poula (his mother tongue) and English, that too with an accent. I have seldom had a long conversation with him. And he writes short blogs - http://ashokveilou.blogspot.com/. But Ashok chooses his words very wisely. He does not have a huge stock of words that some of us have. But he thinks before he speaks. And what he says is simple and profound.

Jubaraj on the other hand uses jargons - https://feelsnicetoberude.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/day-6-terse-also-means-brief-jubaraj-j-barua/. He speaks very fast, body constantly fidgeting. Not that he does not have depth in his thoughts. I know that because he is someone I talk to a lot. But I am never surprised when people find him snobbish.

Soumee is quite fond of writing - http://blogsoumee.blogspot.in/2015/02/step-by-step.html. Writing is like a therapy to her. She is well capable of giving her thoughts proper words. Sumana (http://sumanabarman.blogspot.com/2015/02/digging-deep_2.html) on the other hand is not as vivid as Soumee. But she does not need too many words to make sense. I attribute this quality of hers to her laziness in general. Jokes apart...

We are all there in the department on time. But most of us have not finished their blogs. We all keep at it. Mr. Tanmay waits for us while we finish it off. We then move to the Classroom Theater. Jubaraj had made a video blog out of the video he had shot throughout the day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq2R7xkErB8. We watch it and Mr. Tanmay asks us what could have been done better. I look at Jubaraj and think of all the effort he has put in to make that, the late night effort on the editing system. It is a commendable effort he has put. But one has to always seek out the scope of improvement.

We were also given the schedule for the shoot. I am supposed to shoot the very first day, the 5th of Feb. Jubaraj is supposed to be my cameraman and Kirti will be looking after the sound recording. It is a sync sound exercise.

In the second half of the day, we take out Panasonic P2 cameras, they are the ones we are supposed to shoot in. Mr. Tanmay brushes up our basics on the equipments that we will be handling. Especially the tripod.

We watch Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953, Jacques Tati). It gave a good laugh to our tired bodies.