BROKEN

   The making of Broken is worth sharing. Creating our vision into the short film, that you are now able to watch, asked from all of us to work together,with a limited time and having to face a minimum budget, while overcoming the unexpected. 

 

Concretizing a project is an exciting and enriching experience. One of the major part to make it possible is to work efficiently with a  new team. The time we all first met was in a classroom at university. Aastha had organised such a meeting for herself to give us her vision and for us to get to know one another. Doing so made  us enthusiastic to get to work. We all took the time to discuss with each other, discover each other's background but mostly recognise that we share similar interests: cinema and video production. The hope of acquiring new skills and knowledge in a field to which we don't obviously have access to was given to us.

 

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Broken being a project which was created, produced and edit in a period of a month, resulted in rushing to get everything artistically and morally done to perfectly fit with our vision. However we did succeed. We believe that the key is to allow communication within the team, and the expression of the need and opinion of each member. Aastha, the film's director, did an amazing in guiding the crew. She took time of every one of us and persisted for us to bring out the talent that sometimes ourselves doubted the existence of. 
 

Everything was new, from the use of cameras and microphones, to working with a team.

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            It was the first time acting for both, Jenna Jenneva and Romman James. Their enthusiasm and ambition distinguished them from other candidates. Jenna is an extraordinary comedian who in a blink of the eye has put herself in the main character's skin and conveyed  the energy and emotions we perceived in Sia. Romman has taken the challenge to interpret a character who is as the same time unsympathetic to the audience and a man that Sia loves, for his qualities that are not obvious on the first look.

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Aasthat Tyagi was not only physically present on the set but morally for her colleagues. She would constantly be providing advices and directions to the actors and videographers that would need guiding. Aastha was determined in making each member of the team understand her vision of Sia's mindset. This cohesion within the team resulted in each of us doing our best to communicate the meaning and message of the emotional story behind Broken.     

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A real team was built during the artistic process that is Broken. The actors and cameramen would not simply go towards the director when facing struggles but would also come together and communicate on the most accurate ways to act such scenario, to enhance the emotions by the framing, and many other challenges artists and technicians go through during the production of a film. Each voice that was raised was listened, considered, and given an equal value.

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The scenario of Broken having been discussed with Fella Boulazreg, Aastha was open to the suggestions of the directors of photography. There was a true sense of unity between the directors of photography and the director to the point that each frame had to be approved by all of them to move on to the next. They agreed on the frames, the close-ups,the succession  of images and the ways the actions were going to be filmed. Aastha Tia Harsha Vardhan, and Fella Boulazreg, had the same vision of Sia's personalities, personal challenges and life.

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