Prologue

This year would be full of surprises. I spent last 3 months trying to figure out technical mysteries and to be honest, I have succeeded in uncovering more than half of them. 


I have decided to do a teaser trailer this year, which would definitely be a better production than my last attempt to make something, this is because I spent all my vacations interning with different local media companies trying to peek into the professional world, experimenting with different sorts of equipment. Apart from that, I also gave a thought to what my weaknesses were last time. Time management, I learned, is a very important factor in the real industry and not working on deadlines means you are noncompetitive. Secondly, realizing the importance of sequence of activities that follow one another. This was however already cleared last year but this year I experienced it in more depth. Another important lesson was that media loves experimentation. Ofcourse, there is a proper way of producing something proper, but following that, I learned, we can tweak in some of our own flavor of experimentation in smaller portions of that media product. An example, in a film made in the Bollywood industry named 'Tere Bin Laden', the audio engineer had experimented with a new technique. Technically, it was a panned pre-delay, but it was a big success locally. Similarly, much of the media related to the film, music and television industry is practicing experimentation on their products, probably to make them unique and this is the magic that works. If that experimentation is done properly, it does work.


Along that as I previously mentioned, I took a peek into the professional world, I'll try explaining it shortly in this prologue. Truly speaking, cool technicalities do fill your product with a life. As Steven Spielberg admitted, it was music and film scoring that poured colors into his movies. I classify things with my own style according to my own ease. I consider three things to be important when considering a media product :- 


i- Creativity :- It does not matter whether you have the top notch gadgets or not. It's the unique-ness of the product that matters. 


ii- Quality :- It may be a useless factor at this stage, or may not be, but quality is something that makes people want your product. 


iii- Planning :- Improvisations are only good when a performer's performing live in stages, for a serious product, you need serious planning (this is the most important stage).




I'll try to bring all the above three into practice (as far as I can) and hence, this was so far a very short presentation on what this year is going to be about.