A 5-Day Workshop by Mr.Prosenjit Ganguly or PJ

It was a workshop taken by none other than Mr.Prosenjit Ganguly.It was a five day affair at the centre where in 30 students had participated. This seminar was worth to be a part of. Not only the students took back technical knowledge with them but they were also enriched with professionalism,positive attitude which happens to be the main criteria behind being successful in any existing industry.

Before starting the workshop he had divided the batch into 11 groups which consisted of students from the DAE and AAASP course.They had 5 DAE groups and 6 AAASP groups.

Day 1- PJ started with an Introductory speech where in he mentioned about how to make good films. This was followed by films which were showed to students like Oktapody and Overtime. Thereafter he spoke about pitching, Criterias on pitching, the preparations made or taken for pitching.

We had students who pitched in to give their inputs on the concepts of pitching.
Finally he concluded by merging all inputs and modifying their pitching.

After discussing about pitching, PJ spoke about thumbnailing. He showed them how to thumbnail stories. He adviced the students to thumbnail their thoughts. Hence the first step of thumbnailing was done.

He also touched the basics of character definition.

Day 2- The second day started with Sketching sessions. According to him there should be 15 mins of sketching practice in every class.

Then he was the model himself for Gesture Sketching. He spoke about the importance of Gesture Sketching, the methods of Gesture Sketching.

He spoke about the Making of Oktapody, Pirates.

He made correction and modified the thumbnailing and character definition.

Day 3- The third day also started with sketching, followed by thumbnailing and character making.

PJ then discussed different form of Arts. He asked students to make treatment sheets.
He introduced stylization to the students which was followed by screening of 2D and 3D films.

All this was followed by initialization of storyboarding where in PJ himself rectified for students individually on the board.

Day 4- Sketching was the first thing they started on the fourth day which was followed by showing different stylization by him. He then discussed how to fix your own stylization. They were made to use raw materials to make their treatment sheet. After thumbnailing and character designing the students started with their storyboarding.

Day 5- On the fifth day we had the seminar on Film Making in Academy of Fine Arts after which those 30 students went back to the centre to finish their incomplete work.On the last day PJ gave his last bit of suggestions to the students to complete their films.
In all there were 11 films in progress by the students. The faculty members were asked to overview their works and once completed these films would be sent to Mr.Prosenjit Ganguly.

Hence this was what covered in the 5 day workshop that he had with the students.
We are confident that the students graduating from this workshop would definitely be enriched with knowledge different from the rest. We wish them the very best in future and hope their films come out in flying colours.