COVER STORY
Virtual production has made a big impact on Hollywood. Will this technological tsunami also wash over Indian cinema, drowning out conventional filmmaking?
1 January 2024
The latest issue unpacks the new technology of virtual production and examines what the transition from celluloid to digital cinema means for filmmaking and film-consumption culture. It will also look at the Supreme Court’s endorsement of the abrogation of Article 370 and what it means for the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir.
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In a few years, virtual production won’t be qualified as such; it will simply be called production. Because that’s how production will happen.
Colour brought us closer to lived physical ‘meatspace’ reality, but virtual production can very easily take us away from it
For decades, production designer and artist, Aradhana Seth, has worked on creating film sets that are intrinsic to storytelling.
Much like how cinema changed the lives of people in the previous generation, video games are doing the same for the current generation
Virtual production technology eliminates the need for Bollywood filmmakers to travel abroad. But what do foreign locations really mean, socially and politically?
Cinema and technology, a besotted couple across the arc of industrial modernity, is headed for a split
The recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the central government’s move to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution impacts Kashmir and its people deeply
The judgement of the Supreme Court in the Article 370 case heralds an ever-increasing disconnect between constitutional law and constitutional reality in post-colonial India
“Kashmir was constitutionally up for grabs. ‘Buy the exotic Kashmiri land’ and ‘marry the apple-cheeked Kashmiri women’ was the refurbished two-point policy of settling in Kashmir”
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In a few years, virtual production won’t be qualified as such; it will simply be called production. Because that’s how production will happen.
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Colour brought us closer to lived physical ‘meatspace’ reality, but virtual production can very easily take us away from it
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For decades, production designer and artist, Aradhana Seth, has worked on creating film sets that are intrinsic to storytelling.
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Much like how cinema changed the lives of people in the previous generation, video games are doing the same for the current generation
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Virtual production technology eliminates the need for Bollywood filmmakers to travel abroad. But what do foreign locations really mean, socially and politically?
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Cinema and technology, a besotted couple across the arc of industrial modernity, is headed for a split
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The recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the central government’s move to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution impacts Kashmir and its people deeply
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The judgement of the Supreme Court in the Article 370 case heralds an ever-increasing disconnect between constitutional law and constitutional reality in post-colonial India
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“Kashmir was constitutionally up for grabs. ‘Buy the exotic Kashmiri land’ and ‘marry the apple-cheeked Kashmiri women’ was the refurbished two-point policy of settling in Kashmir”
OTHER STORIES
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By appointing a mix of Adivasi, OBC, Dalit, and Brahmin leaders as CMs and deputy CMs, the BJP is keeping a close eye on the 2024 General Elections
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While the climate change conference marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era, India will have to urgently find ways to move away from coal. Securing finance for new projects is going to be a big challenge
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While the Union Territory has welcomed the abrogation of Article 370, it is demanding Sixth Schedule status and full statehood
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Over the last decade, the filmmaking and film-watching cultures have transitioned from celluloid to digital. The new tech has provided us several gains, but shouldn’t we also pause to consider what we’ve lost?
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There was an era when the most important person in a cinema theatre was the projector operator, often more than the owner.
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On August 6, 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. What follows are some of those chronicles from that time about daily life in a lockdown.
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After failing to shake off a fever for a week and feeling quite wretched, the author was taken to the hospital. The doctor ordered a few tests. The report confirmed the doctor’s suspicions.
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In this issue, Outlook looks at how filmmaking is set to change with virtual production. We have also tried to bring in the loss of cultural space with the phasing out of single screen cinemas documented brilliantly by Hemant Chaturvedi.
