While experimenting isn’t new to Sandalwood filmmakers, this time director Imran Sardhariya has taken it a step further with letting the audience view beyond the usual angular shots.
City Express recently reported how director Tarun Sudhir captured a mega-fight sequence on a times slice effect shot for his film Chowka. Now choreographer-turned-director Imran is introducing a 360 degree Virtual Reality camera to Kannada industry through his film Uppu Huli Khara.
He has recently shot a promotional song gal gal gal enuthide..., the video of which will be out today. Expressing his excitement, Imran says the results are fabulous and anyone who watches the video on his or her smartphone will feel as if they are witnessing it live. This technology shows a video in 360 degree. Today, every industry is dependent on social media and I want to follow the trend through this promotional song,” he explains.
The camera brought in from Mumbai is a rig, which carries 10 to 12 cameras placed in all possible angles and shot at one time. And according to Imran, the post-production work gets more interesting when one stitches the shots together. It is not the regular editing like one does, but requires a software called Skydrop. One can watch it on YouTube,” he says.
Imran got to learn about this camera one-and-a-half years ago through cinematographer Venky who had
associated with the director for his debut project Endendigu. “Today as a filmmaker, we need to think of
different ways to promote our film. I thought the best way way is to bring in a new technology to attract the audience. The director, who has conceptualised, choreographed and executed the video will also be featured in the song along with the cast that includes Malashree, Anushree, Jayashree, Masha, Dhananjay, Sashi and Sharath. The six young artistes had seven-day rehearsal schedule before the shoot.
“If anyone missed out even a single detail, the scene had to be shot again. So the artistes had to be perfect with their moves,” he says.