Tag: story

• [29] Stop Making Excuses

  

  Excuses are the worst form of a seemingly incurable disease that can happen to us. It is another way of staying under the sheets when you should be going out. Let’s delve deep into the psyche of excuses today. Why do we make excuses? A task so daunting that makes us feel small, makes us…

  Rahul Gaur

  March 11, 2017

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  blog, blogging, everyday, excuses, lies, memory, poetry, selfhelp, story, thoughts, write

• [28] Gravity Is Working Against Me.

  

  “The Apollo program was a fraudulent NASA spaceflight endeavour which allegedly landed the first men on the moon.” said the head of the Flat Earth Society who sat next to me on the frisbee pendulum ride. It was an unusual choice of an interview setting but he wanted to prove a point. While the others…

  Rahul Gaur

  March 9, 2017

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  blog, Fiction, flatearth, fun, poetry, rides, script, shortstory, society, story, thought, thoughts, writingprompt

• [26] Dreams That Hit You.

  

  The impact of my body hitting the door was so loud that I made a big roaring sound. I wouldn’t have been able to hit the door this hard in my wakefulness because of my frail skeleton of a body. But my mind was more focussed on something else. The demon that hit me. I…

  Rahul Gaur

  March 4, 2017

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  blogging, dream, Fiction, poetry, prompt, script, shortstory, story, thought

• [25] Inside a Creator’s Mind

  

  I just finished watching the first episode of a Netflix documentary called “Abstract: The Art of Design” which profiles the illustrator, Christoph Niemann. The way his mind work is scarily similar to how your or mine might work but the art he produces is spellbinding. So what is the difference between him and us? What…

  Rahul Gaur

  February 28, 2017

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  abstract, blog, blogging, christophniemann, Cinema, design, documentary, illustration, Questions, review, story, thenewyorker

• [22] In The Mood For Love

  

  As the musical piece titled “Yumeji’s theme” invades the sound space of the visuals of Wong Kar Wai’s “In The Mood For Love” everything slows down as if we are watching a music video inside a movie. The re-appearance of this musical piece (a striking eight times) is a leitmotif to describe the relationship between Chow…

  Rahul Gaur

  February 19, 2017

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  blogging, Cinema, daily, diary, direction, films, flicks, inthemoodforlove, love, movies, poetry, review, story, wongkar-wai

• [21] What is a Story?

  

  Stories are dreaming with our eyes open. It’s the art of convincing people of a certain idea but with a narrative, they can relate to. A writer puts his scrambled thoughts in a structure which may be linear, non-linear. The most vital stories of our ages are the one where the writers have “something to say”.…

  Rahul Gaur

  February 19, 2017

  Reflections

  blog, blogging, Cinema, Questions, script, story, thought, words, write

• [17] Thoughts on “Arrival”

  

  A spoiler-free general review of Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” A slow start marked a heart-wrenching ride of the year. I checked the time elapsed and it was 25 minutes, feeling that the director could have cut the scenes faster or remove certain parts. Boy, I was wrong. What he was doing was giving us viewers a slow poison…

  Rahul Gaur

  February 13, 2017

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  Amyadams, Arrival, Cinema, Denis, movie, movies, poetry, review, script, story

• [13] The Balancing Act

  

  One thing I’ve learned directing my second short film is that management of the crew, actors and the DOP is essential for creating life on screen as desired by you. I’ve only looked at directing from a skewed perspective of it being a creative desire to infuse life into 24 frames a second. Never have I…

  Rahul Gaur

  January 29, 2017

  Reflections, Shoot diaries

  actor, blocking, blog, blogging, camera, Cinema, confidence, daily, india, location, mistakes, motivation, movie, movies, random, reddit, reflection, script, shooting, story, thoughts, Travel, write

• [12] Suspension of Belief

  

  Everything depends on the preparation…. or does it? I am in the process of making a short film and have completed the principal photography and I will soon start the post-production of the same. I wanted to talk about the problems I faced during the shoot and how control is just an illusion in film-making.…

  Rahul Gaur

  January 28, 2017

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• [10] A Restart

  I am a film-maker. Currently, a short film-maker as my hands is tied to make a feature film. I have written a story for a short film and have failed tried to make it two times. I am restarting it. Doubt creeps into my mind and plays a game with under-confidence which is tied to…

  Rahul Gaur

  January 17, 2017

  Reflections

  blogging, Cinema, mistakes, motivation, movie, restart, script, shortfilm, story