Describe the collaboration that happens in the course. Where were your crewmembers from?
Most of my crewmembers were from NYC itself, although there was a girl from Singapore, too. The collaboration here was in the form of division of duty. For instance, someone shoots the movie and the other edits it, but surely there has to be an agreement between them on what movie they want to make.
Honestly, it was difficult when you were tasked to collab but you could not meet face to face, which meant you had to look for people other than your crew members as actors. However, this was not the case for the crew members who lived nearby and got to meet each other.
Other than that, in this course everyone wanted to make movies based on their ideas, so it was quite undesirable to collab like that. I just thought it would be better to collab with students with different aspects of filmmaking.
What did you take away from the one-on-one discussions with your instructor, Shivani Khattar?
I learned quite a lot about films from Shivani, like the technical aspects of filmmaking, how different directors have their own approach to filmmaking, the film industry in NYC, and the film school in NYU itself. She was also very easygoing too, so it was really nice to discuss with her.
Describe a challenge you faced, either making your final film or during the class and how you overcame it.
Every time there was a new project to submit, [along] came another challenge as I had to figure out another movie to make. My way of figuring this out was to watch movies as reference, make the story or the theme about something I know (what I feel, my past experiences, what happens around me), and discuss it with Shivani.
