{"id":7721,"date":"2022-01-28T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesica.in\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2022-01-28T18:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:17:30","slug":"sujith-sarang-mnmn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/sujith-sarang-mnmn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sujith Sarang : MNMN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sujith Sarang cinematography striked on a high note with Dhuruvangal 16, he continued to do many films in almost all south Indian languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recently his Tamil film Mudhalum Nee Mudiyum nee released on zee 5 OTT platform received positive feedback both from the viewers and critics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7723\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" \/><strong><em>Sujith shares his behind the scenes technical talk with SICA.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Tell me how was your experience working on MNMN<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I liked the core idea of the film as, it has nostalgic element and coming of age love story set in a school backdrop, i know Darbuka Siva for many years along with his passion for cinema.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>How you choose Camera and Lens for a project<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically I am not a fan of particular Camera, each and every camera has its own advantages, like Arri for its softer color palette, highlight rolloff, Red for its high resolution and Modularity. Also budget plays important role to choose camera.. For me both story and production value guides me to finalize a particular camera or lens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7724\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>It is surprising to know you had used Black Magic Ursa for this project.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I said earlier MNMN is a content based film to be done in a tight budget,Black magic ursa 4.6 k pro which I tested found that it had some unique features like good latitude,Internal inbuit ND filters,colors were natural and it had a different look from both Arri and Red.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Can you give details the format and approach towards this film<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I shot with Cinema Dng Raw format constant bitrate, before principle photography I tested it&#8217;s dynamic range with many lighting conditions, especially bright outdoors and lowlight indoors and i saw with my Mac which has DaVinci resolve software and color graded and was impressed with its dynamic range.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black magic camera with da Vinci resolve we can playback 4k footage smoothly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>What was your choice for Lens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier films I had used Ultraprime, then master prime,master anamorphic, kowa v lite anamorphic each had distinct look, this time I wanted to try something new..Rokinon Xeen lenses was very impressive interms of color reproduction, build quality, sharpness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This lens also performed very well under lowlight it has wide aperture of T 1.5\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7725\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6426-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><strong>What are the challenges of shooting.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any film shoot will have its own challenges, for me i always hate to be in comfort zone, that was the reason I had my mind shooting with BMC also other hand we have to be wise about choosing right time to shoot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MNMN most of the sequences are happening at exteriors and we have to shoot during May month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I made a clear point with the crew to shoot exteriors only with angular light.. We timed it accordingly by starting by 7 am to 10 am move to interiors then come back to exteriors again after 3 pm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7726\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MNMN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MNMN.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MNMN-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MNMN-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MNMN-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><strong>Sujith another interesting part of MNMN is your lighting scheme.. Can you tell about lights you had used.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you.. This film is mostly filmed in exteriors so I used polarizers to cut off the haze and give a clean look. Story also set in two different periods of time.. So I want lighting to have the difference.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically I used very limited source of light like 1.5 kw par, 4 kw par, few kinoflo tubes with 6.5 kv honda generator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For some interiors and even a pub sequence I used tubelight source, with Chinese lantern only.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0I tried to get as much as ambient light possible both in exteriors and also interiors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7730\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-28-at-11.40.18-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-28-at-11.40.18-PM.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-28-at-11.40.18-PM-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-28-at-11.40.18-PM-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-28-at-11.40.18-PM-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><strong>What was your visual approach to this film.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am aware that these kind of films need very good visual language. So I decided to keep school portions of the film takes place in 90&#8217;s more warm sunny mood with slightly colors desaturated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other part of story which happens present time I want to give more matured look into characters..so kept colors more vibrant and real.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7727\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-300x282.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-1024x962.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-768x722.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-1536x1443.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9885-1-2048x1924.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>Sujith regarding any special accessories you had used for creating a floating like movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mostly i went for steady shots for this film which I thought was very important for story telling.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For camera moves I tried more handheld shots,also used Easy rig.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes for floating feel I kept camera under a pillow that worked good for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Since OTT platform delivery formats are important can you share some key specifications.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zee5 Upload master<\/p>\n<p>UHD Video:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screen Resolution: 3840 x 2160.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MPEG:- HEVC (H.265) 50 Mbps. CBR (Constant Bitrate)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frame rate: 25 frames\/seconds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audio: Stereo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bit rate:320 kbps<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Channels: 2(stereo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audio Sample rate: 48kHz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subtitle :- VTT &amp; SRT<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7731\" src=\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AadavalluMeekuJohaarlu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AadavalluMeekuJohaarlu.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AadavalluMeekuJohaarlu-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AadavalluMeekuJohaarlu-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AadavalluMeekuJohaarlu-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><strong>Tell me about your next project<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My next is Telugu feature film AadavalluMeekuJohaarlu Releasing in Theaters on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Article by<\/p>\n<p>CJ Rajkumar<\/p>\n<p>Author\/ Cinematographer<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/sujith-sarang-mnmn\/\" data-numposts=\"10\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-order-by=\"social\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sujith Sarang cinematography striked on a high note with Dhuruvangal 16, he continued to do many films in almost all south Indian languages.\u00a0 Recently his Tamil film Mudhalum Nee Mudiyum nee released on zee 5 OTT platform received positive feedback both from the viewers and critics. 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