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<\/p>\nCinematographer Vetrivel Mahendran has done a lot of films in a quick span of time, currently serving as a excecutive committee member for SICA.<\/p>\n
Vetri\u00a0 recent conversation shares his film journey with SICA.<\/p>\n
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* Your very recent work as DOP with webseries getting wide attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is a zee5 original Sengalam directed by Ace film maker SR Prabakar sir, with a impressive cast it got instant success as soon it was released through OTT.<\/p>\n * What is difference picturizing a web Series.<\/strong><\/p>\n A lot of technical consideration has to be taken carefully especially shooting originals as every platform has their own choice of particular camera and delivery formats<\/p>\n Otherwise as a narrative point of view it as similar as we shoot a feature film.<\/p>\n * Which Camera did you shoot for Sengalam<\/strong><\/p>\n I choose RED helium 8k camera which was Zee5 approved camera along with Signature primes.<\/p>\n We shot the series for 75 days.<\/p>\n * Tell me how to do you ventured into film industry<\/strong><\/p>\n My uncle was a sound engineer who was working along with Music Director Deva sir..I too was interested into film making, after I had completed by B.com I tried to get into cinematography education at Adyar film institute…but I got admission only for editing.<\/p>\n Then after my film education I got opportunity to work as assistant cameraman to Mahesh Muthuswami sir.<\/p>\n *How was your experience working with Mahesh<\/strong><\/p>\n I assisted him for 5 films,each project was great learning experience for me.<\/p>\n Mahesh sir has strong technical background very knowledgeable..so it was like studying in a film institute for me and I observed many aspects of film making.. especially the way the screenplay has to be treated with visuals without complicating it.<\/p>\n * About your first film as Cinematographer.<\/strong><\/p>\n It was like a dream debut with a Visionary Director Prabhu Salomon sir.<\/p>\n Film title was Kayal. This film was like a travelogue a kind of attempt new to Tamil Cinema.<\/p>\n I traveled to very remote locations of our country that includes Chirapungi,Ladak, Meghalaya and Rajasthan.<\/p>\n With grand panoramic shots I tried very extreme closeups that got wide attention.<\/p>\n * Your next film Thodari is also a film had a travelogue kind of treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes to some extent…but thodari is much more complicated as we have to shoot entire film in a travelling train.<\/p>\n I had to shoot live train sequences and also with Blue matte.<\/p>\n * Vetri can you describe about your lighting plan you had done for Thodari<\/strong><\/p>\n Thodari shot with Arri Alexa and I have to lit up to nearly 500 feet Blue screen..I have to use nearly 40 to 120 space light hung from the top of the floor.<\/p>\n For climax sequences I used 50 numbers of 4k par HMI lights.<\/p>\n For the lighting idea was to imitate sky as a major source of light.<\/p>\n * Tell me your experience of shooting Vichitran.<\/strong><\/p>\n Vichitran was challenging project as it was already made in Malayalam and won national award,for Tamil version same Director was retained and I have been chosen as DOP.<\/p>\n Though Malayalam version was a hit I wanted\u00a0 to treat visually different also maintain the emotional flavour.<\/p>\n Main thing was it was shot at a hill station still I kept visually represent\u00a0 dry period of time.<\/p>\n Malayalam had mis en scene style shots .here at Tamil we composed it into several shot breakdowns.<\/p>\n What is your next project<\/strong><\/p>\n My next is Yaadhum ore Yaavurum kelir Directed by Venkatakrishna Roghanth starring Vijay Sethupathi.<\/p>\n This film I tried visually by creating Shallow depth of field even by using wide lens thorough out the film.<\/p>\n Who is your inspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n I watch many foreign language films learn different flavours of images…but my mind always get excited watching visuals of Pc Sreeram sir , Santosh Sivan Sir and Jeeva sir.<\/p>\n SICA wishes Vetrivel Mahendran a successful journey in filmmaking.<\/p>\n Article by<\/p>\n CJ Rajkumar<\/p>\n Author\/ Cinematographer<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thesica.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-29-at-13.32.51-1-300x169.jpeg\")
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Cinematographer Vetrivel Mahendran has done a lot of films in a quick span of time, currently serving as a excecutive committee member for SICA. Vetri\u00a0 recent conversation shares his film journey with SICA. * Your very recent work as DOP with webseries getting wide attention. It is a zee5 original Sengalam directed by Ace film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.1","language":"ta","enabled_languages":["en","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8279,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions\/8279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}