A Wonderful Experience: Children’s Film
Festival at Pathways Noida by Tanvi Amrit,
Form 5A, Magazine Editor- Primary School
The Film festival was simply
amazing. Each and every one of us loved the experience of cinematic culture.
Lighting of the lamp by Ms. Indu Shrikent
Lighting of the lamp by Ms. Indu Shrikent
Watching the movies, learning how to watch them, making movie related posters…
in others words we did a whole lot in two days. The first day was quite a rush
due to the late start. Being the hosts we had to make sure everything went
perfect. At one time we were in a session, at the other we were in an
exhibition. One of the best things we learnt was ‘how to watch a movie’.
We
learnt about camera angles, movie genres, theme, characters and setting. We had
all our meals in the amphitheater, which was the perfect place but a shade
would have made it much better. We all enjoyed the film screening though it got
boring at times. I really liked day-2 screenings as they had a better storyline
and message behind them. The closing ceremony was not that good because nobody
wanted the festival to end but we know ‘everything must come to an end and so
did this film festival’. And I can never forget these 2 days … it was a
wonderful experience.
This week we had a first
International Film Fest in the school. We were excited and thought we would only
watch lots of movies the whole day. Then at the registration we Quiz
were astonished
to see that we will also have Workshops, Quizzes and the most obvious "
The Film Screening ". We were all put into different groups. I was in
Group No.3. On day 1 when we reached school, we kept our bags and went to the
cafetaria. Then Ms. Anuradha and
Ms. Pragati called our names Workshop
and gave us id
cards, a booklet and a pen and we went to a room in PYP Building on the 2nd floor.
As we were late in time so we thought we would miss our 1st workshop on Film
Appreciation and start with the iPad's one, but it was all opposite as well as
disappointing. We missed our iPad workshop!!! Then we went to our Cafeteria.
We realized that we were going to see the famous actor Roshan Seth Live.
Though
frankly, I have not watched any of his movies till date. But it was Amazing!
Then in the basement we watched some movies which were animated but some were
real. Still all were funny. Then we went to the
Amphitheatre for lunch and went
to the Exhibition in which our friends Paarth, Mitakshi, Noyonika, Arti, Tanvi,
Samarth and Rishab told us about evolution of Cinema. It was time for another
round of film screening. In that we watched 2 movies. One movie Vitthal was
very violent and because of the movie some people vomited and fainted. People
vomited because a boy Vitthal, by mistake, cut his small brother's little part
of the head, and he started bleeding. It was dreadful. Then the second movie
made our mood alright because it had a happy ending. Then we went back home.
On the 2nd day we straight away
went to our workshop on "Understanding Cinema" after breakfast. We
thought that this would also be a boring workshop as we watched parts of
the movies like Jab We Met, Sky fall and The great Dictator. After the fun we went to
the cafeteria for a quiz in which the Middle school students participated. After the quiz we
went for our film screening in which our topic was pollution and we watched
clips related to pollution. Then we went to lunch. After lunch we got to hear
speeches and after that finally it was expiry date for our fun film fest. It
was actually over… I couldn’t believe that 2 fun days had come to an end… may
be next year we will have it again!
What each camera angle meant, what close
up held a certain secret or how one film was ended. We realized this was also a
different form of art which was not very well discovered. These workshops or
this festival in particular exposed us to a different level of interpretations.
We’re glad we could be a part of it.
First International Children’s
Film Festival in Pathways School Noida,
As a whole the experience was something
completely different than other events we had been to in the past. We learnt a
different aspect of each movie, the story that runs not only on the screen but
how it was created in the first place.
The Film Festival, Saideep Ganesh, Gr 7
Unfortunately, I was not able to
attend both the days and any of the workshops for the film festival. But I got
something that I will cherish for life; I got a chance to not only meet but to
also be the one to interview Roshan Seth!
After the interview, I really
came to appreciate acting; Mr. Seth’s acting skills and acting as a whole. He
was so direct with his responses; one could see that he was not a great admirer
of Bollywood and its breed of actors. He gave us his definition of ‘talent’
and how one could differentiate between real and fake. I admire his enthusiasm
as an actor and I would also like to thank the teachers for giving me this
opportunity.
We also saw a
movie called Vitthal, which was an Indian short film.
Film Festival, an Amazing Experience ! Arshee Sahni and
Prithviraj Bisen Gr 6A
We had an International
Children’s Film Festival on the 5th & 6th of December, 2013 in our school.
It was the first of its kind. The film festival was a fun thing because we saw
different movies from different countries and got to know how movies are made
in different nations. It was an amazing experience for us as most of us in
school like watching films so we got to see more films, though of a different
kind – not like the regular Bollywood and Hollywood films that we watch.
We started off the day by going
to our form rooms for a little bit and then we went for the registration where
we got divided into six groups, I was in group two; it actually took a lot
longer than I thought. We came out about 20 minutes late. All because of that
the programme for the whole day was delayed. So that was a bummer.
Then we went for an assembly
where we met children from different schools that had come to visit during the
festival. The schools were Shiv Nadar School, DPS Mathura Road and Pathways Gurgaon.
During this inaugural assembly, two students welcomed the visiting schools .
They also welcomed Ms Indu Shrikent who led this film festival.
After that we went for film
screening where we saw some short films, so that kind of made up for the morning
because it was A LOT of fun. We saw movies from all over the world; we saw a
movie called ‘Grandpa’s Lamp’ which was a Japanese short film.
We then went for two workshops
where we learned about how a movie is filmed and how we should watch a film –
what we should focus on like the setting, the lighting, the camera shots, etc,
and the second one was about how to edit films using iMoive on iPads. My
favorite workshop was movie editing because we got to use iPads.
After the workshops Mr. Tagore
and Saharsh interviewed Mr. Roshan Seth,
the famous actor, who told us a little bit about his experience with acting.
There was also an Exhibition put
up by the organizers about 100 years of Indian Cinema. That was interesting!
The next day was the same thing
except that we had different workshops. And of course there was the quiz.
It
was conducted by Mr faizal and was about 100 years of Indian Cinema.
Overall I think that the film
festival was a very fun experience and I hope that we can have it again!
