Short films+All girls college+Fest Season

Posted on January 15, 2010
AS you know its fest season! And Today i attended the Christ University Fest InBloom 2010, well honestly we didn’t have much
fun as last year. But something very nice happened today….
(Of course i have to give a build up to what happened) So Jaison tells me about a short film competition in Jyoti Nivas COllege.
I honestly wasn’t that pumped bout it but he made sure i participated. So, i participated (ya Divya, you get credit too!).
In addition to the Short film competition there was a Ad Campaign competition. I thought it meant just making an ad, so i choose to
do a campaign for the New Beetle Car (the other topic was voting.) So i submitted that also.
And, i honestly didn’t expect to win anything since Christ College had already submitted 9 short films, i guess there were 15 enteries totally.
Then, i found out for the Ad Campaign i need to have a three member team and explain the campaign using ppt’s and spreadsheets, basically i lost
all hope.
But then Divya insisted i come to Jyoti to attened the competition segment (the fest is called Akshyana 2010). Meanwhile i was in Christ trying
to make sense why the fest sucked so much…anywho Arjun, Akshay P. and me left for Jyoti. The entry fees of 100 bucks immediately put them off and
they left back to christ (well tat was my suggestion, they didn’t abandon me).
Anyway, the screening starts…and the first comp was Ad Campaign. I choose to go second (i mean there were only two of us competing…and i was allowed
to campaign alone since there was only one team). The first team lacked preparation as they came to know bout the event very late. Finally, my turn came.
Well if you know me, i absolutely have no hesitation when it comes to going on stage and making a fool out of myself by talking crap and making jokes only
i understand…and somehow that works all the time :D
I am not boasting, but it was pretty obvious i would win the Ad Campaign. But what i honestly was worried bout was the Short Film Competition. They
immediately screened the 2nd Prize winner and i am not acting like those “actors during the oscars who fake praise their competition”. I dont know
the name of the film, but it was produced by Christ University and bout a girl finding out bout her father. I thought the story was brilliant. Throughout
the whole movie i was like (okay, i dont think i am gonna win, cause i dont have a fantastic story to tell.)
Well, as i said its fest season and only good things happen during fest season and i freaking won the Short film competition too. Honestly, the best
thing (even better than winning that shiny crystal trophy) was the reaction from the audience.
I participated with two short films: Study Holidays and What would you do?4. And Study Holidays won first place. The way the crowd laughed, commented
and reacted to every scene actually made me like my movie even more (come on, study holidays isnt my best work). At the end, when i heard the applause
for the film i literally became motionless and thought “God…i love you man” and just smiled my ass off. And the icing on the cake, after the movie was
screened i had to go and collect my trophy :)
Damn, Once in a while it feels good to be appreciated for your work. But more than winning, i am really gratefull to the JNC crowd for liking it :)
I hope you guys have a Cultural Fest cause i am into Western Acoustic too :) SO pls, dont charge me an entry fee this time.
Peace.

AS you know its fest season! And Today i attended the Christ University Fest InBloom 2010, well honestly we didn’t have much fun as last year. But something very nice happened today….

(Of course i have to give a build up to what happened) So Jaison tells me about a short film competition in Jyoti Nivas COllege.

I honestly wasn’t that pumped bout it but he made sure i participated. So, i participated (ya Divya, you get credit too!).In addition to the Short film competition there was a Ad Campaign competition. I thought it meant just making an ad, so i choose to do a campaign for the New Beetle Car (the other topic was voting.) So i submitted that also.

And, i honestly didn’t expect to win anything since Christ College had already submitted 9 short films, i guess there were 15 enteries totally. Then, i found out for the Ad Campaign i need to have a three member team and explain the campaign using ppt’s and spreadsheets, basically i lost all hope.

But then Divya insisted i come to Jyoti to attened the competition segment (the fest is called Akhyana 2010). Meanwhile i was in Christ trying to make sense why the fest sucked so much…anywho Arjun, Akshay P. and me left for Jyoti. The entry fees of 100 bucks immediately put them off and they left back to christ (well tat was my suggestion, they didn’t abandon me).

Anyway, the screening starts…and the first comp was Ad Campaign. I choose to go second (i mean there were only two of us competing…and i was allowed to campaign alone since there was only one team). The first team lacked preparation as they came to know bout the event very late. Finally, my turn came.

Well if you know me, i absolutely have no hesitation when it comes to going on stage and making a fool out of myself by talking crap and making jokes only i understand…and somehow that works all the time :D

I am not boasting, but it was pretty obvious i would win the Ad Campaign…and i won it. But what i honestly was worried bout was the Short Film Competition. They immediately screened the 2nd Prize winner and i am not acting like those “actors during the oscars who fake praise their competition”. I dont know the name of the film, but it was produced by Christ University and bout a girl finding out bout her father. I thought the story was brilliant. Throughout the whole movie i was like (okay, i dont think i am gonna win, cause i dont have a fantastic story to tell.)

Well, as i said its fest season and only good things happen during fest season and i freaking won the Short film competition too. Honestly, the best thing (even better than winning that shiny crystal trophy) was the reaction from the audience.

I participated with two short films: Study Holidays and What would you do?4. And Study Holidays won first place. The way the crowd laughed, commented and reacted to every scene actually made me like my movie even more (come on, study holidays isnt my best work). At the end, when i heard the applause for the film i literally became motionless and thought “God…i love you man” and just smiled my ass off. And the icing on the cake, after the movie was screened i had to go and collect my trophy :)

Damn, Once in a while it feels good to be appreciated for your work. But more than winning, i am really gratefull to the JNC crowd for liking it :)

I hope you guys have a Cultural Fest cause i am into Western Acoustic too :) SO pls, dont charge me an entry fee this time.

Peace.

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8 Responses

  1. Rashi
    January 15, 2010

    hey.. i usually don’t do this in fact i’ve never done this before but dis time i couldn’t resist. I saw ur work ’study holidays’ at JNC n den followed up on ur website n i must say ur brilliant. I really liked ur creativity, concepts and direction. Must say u will go a long way as a film maker and well, the first place for ur doc as well as advertising campaign was well deserved :) great job! :)


  2. Rashi
    January 15, 2010

    and btw its Akhyana :)


  3. Kenneth
    January 15, 2010

    hey thanks Rashi, and mistake Corrected :)


  4. Nelson
    January 16, 2010

    I know..I know..In Bloom is quite boring this time! [I'm from Christ! ;) ]

    n Kenneth,congrats on your endeavor..had fun going through ur blog!

    Keep up the good work! :)


  5. Kenneth
    January 16, 2010

    Hey, i really like your college Fest’s, ya but this time wasn’t as fun. Thanks a lot for going through my blog and pls continue doing so.


  6. Vinutha
    January 19, 2010

    Hey ! I had already watched this before but needless to say this was really hilarious and I enjoyed watching it ! It comes across as ‘flawless’ inits editing :)
    Loved the fact that you used a chemistry text [ that too , comprehensive ]! ;) Waiting for more !


  7. Kenneth
    January 19, 2010

    Hey thanks Vinutha :D Flawless is too dangerous of a word, i have a lot more exploring to do in terms of editing.
    (You have no idea how many nightmares i had because of that Chemistry Comprehensive book!)


  8. Anish Nadh
    February 27, 2010

    Hey Kenny,
    This is awesome. I went through this same shit man.. Wow.. Expecting to see more of these..

    Munky


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