The day-long CMS VATAVARAN Filmmaking Workshop for Children is one of the special programmes for children this year in CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival. The workshop will be conducted by Vijay Bedi and Ajay Bedi. As children, Vijay and Ajay had unique opportunity of accompanying their parents Naresh Bedi and Rajesh Bedi during wildlife filming. Both Vijay and Ajay are today established young filmmakers with several award winning works to their credit.

The CMS VATAVARAN Filmmaking Workshop for children is a unique mix of theory and hands on sessions, both of which will be conducted in the outdoors and indoors in Delhi.

Objectives of the Workshop

This is a stimulus workshop for students of standard X-XII who are wishing to pursue wildlife film-making as a creative, fascinating and responsible hobby and later on look at it as a career option as either cameraperson, editor, sound technician, producer, scriptwriter, director and so on.

Expected Outcomes

• The workshop will help give professional orientation about filming in general and wildlife filming in particular
• Creative Camerawork element will help improve techniques under expert instruction.
• Unique opportunity to try out a variety of different cameras and lenses suitable for wildlife film-making, including telephoto and wide-angle lenses, both fixed focal length and zooms.
• The workshop will help participants who already own a camcorder, to explore its features in more depth, and try a variety of attachments and ancillary equipment
• Help those who have yet to buy a camera and are confused by all the possibilities.
• Try out sound recording accessories
• Get familiarized with final cut pro - editing application software

08.30 am - 09.30 am: Session I: Inaugural
08.30 am Welcome by: Ms. Alka Tomar, Festival Director, CMS VATAVARAN
08.40 am Introduction to the wildlife filmmaking with video examples by: Mr. Vijay Bedi, Wildlife Filmmaker
09.15 am Tea and Refreshments
09.45 am Proceed to Delhi Zoo (National Zoological Park, New Delhi)
10.00 am Briefing and 30 minutes guided tour of the park for oreintation

10.30 am - 10.30 am: Session II: Wildlife Filmmaking
a) Stages and steps in film production
b) Roles and responsibilities of crew members
c) Camera - introduction to cameras, formats, lenses, support systems and techniques for working in the field and different types of cameras suitable for wildlife filming
d) Sound - the importance of the soundtrack and sound recording techniques
e) Wildlife Filming - key issues and cautions

11.30 am - 04.00 pm: Session III: Production
a) Shooting in the wild
b) Creative Camerawork - composing shots, perfecting pans, shooting for sequences
c) Script

12.30 pm Lunch Break
a) Sound Recording - An introduction to film sound and learning to listen. What good quality sound can bring to a production
b) Hands on examination of microphones, recorders and accessories
c) An overview of batteries, power supplies and tape stocks
d) Sound recording techniques

04.00 pm Tea and proceed to India Habitat Centre
5.00 pm - 7.00 pm: Session IV: Post Production
a) Editing - What is editing? Introduction to creative wildlife editing. The Basics.
b) Breaking Down The Edit - why do we cut? The elements of the edit
c) Short Introduction to Final Cut Pro
d) Review of the shot footages and laying out
e) Cutting a rough edit
f) Cutting edit master
g) VO and Credit rolls
h) Cutting a 2 minute master film

07.00 pm - 8.30 pm Discussion, Feedback and Conclusion