Yaado ka Safar
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The song starts with the theme music piece of 50 seconds. It starts with a thumping, bubbly voice and then has 5 lines of piano music.
Location 1:
Either (a) A plain grass field, surrounded by beautiful mountains on all sides or (b) a huge garden with a lot of greenery, surrounded by mountains on all sides.
Details:-
From the start till the end of line of 1 of the theme music - The camera will start from a distant mountain or a very good looking natural scene (duration 30 seconds) and then rotate, without losing continuity and focus on ML (Male Lead, Sanket), for 3 seconds. The ML is dressed informally but not in any pompy style. He is wearing a white shirt (as white as possible and with a bit of shine too) and a casual blue jeans pant. His clothes don't look very costly but at the same time they look very decent, attractive and definitely not cheap. His appearance creates an impression of a very young lad in his early twenties (20-21-22), full of life and energy, optimistic about his future and rather less burdened about anything that can influence him. He looks very confident but at the same time balanced too (in short he looks natural - neither over-confident nor less confident). He is sitting on a bench (presumably) or a huge rock, with a blue guitar in his hands. (Kindly Sanket, remind me of taking my blue guitar along with myself, when we are on our way to Kashmir, for the Shoot). The strap of the guitar is black and he has strapped himself into the guitar. He looks to be in a pensive (thoughtful) yet delight mood as he embarks on a short journey of remembering (यादों का सफर) his beloved the FL (Female Lead) Yukta. The description is given here only in order to acquaint the artists and the camera crew. Else as mentioned above, the scene will not last for more than 3 seconds. Total time till now = 4 seconds.
NB: The entire video is of 4:12 minutes, i.e 252 seconds. In order to attain high quality, all of us should ascertain that not even a single second of the Shot content exhibits wastage or lowering of quality. The focus must be maintained all the time.
After 4 seconds:-
The camera moves into one of the eyes of Sanket (time given - half a second - to move from about 3-4 meter from him, where it was there originally in the beginning of this shot) and comes out from one of the eyes of Yukta. In short, this duration of total 2 shots taken at 1 location, described so far, is 4:30 seconds.
Location 2:
The balcony of a hotel room, decent looking, with a couple of pots of small plants with flowers on them, parched on both sides of the pillar, on which she has kept her left/right hand while standing there. She is looking straight (neither up nor down) and looks to be in a pensive mood too. She is informally dressed too (The story says she is in her own home, her own private room, though we might be shooting this inside a hotel room. We might try and hire a very decent, posh 2 BHK residence, for 1 day somewhere in Pahalgam or Sonmarg, if we can, so that it looks completely like a room of some home). For that I will move to Pahalgam 3 days before the Shoot date and search for such a rented residence. If Yukta, can remind me of this, it would be nice.
Shot no.3 :
The camera which had entered (zoomed into) one of the eyes of Sanket, at the end of the 2nd shot above, comes out from one of the eyes of Yukta in the beginning of the 3rd shot. As mentioned above, she is standing in the balcony of her home, looking straight (horizontal, parallel to the ground). She looks to be in a pensive mood. Yukta, the 1st impression is the last impression and this will be your 1st shot so the impression which you create should be marvellous. You should leave the viewers spell-bound by your beauty. Here is my description of how you should look here:-
Face - No extra makeup as you look much better with little or no makeup. Eyes should have that काजल but the eyelashes should never be red (as what you have put in one of your instagram photos recently). Red eyelashes look horrible on any girl. Eyebrows should be blackened. You look better without a बिंदिया so no बिंदी. Your hair MUST LOOK BLACK. I don't like blonde hair, especially when we are depicting an "indian girl" who is in love with an indian boy. Blonde hair is for western culture, not India. (It can look good if we are depicting a modernized female. But our story plot is of a सीधी सादी भारतीय लड़की, with indian values. So here black hair is preferable).
I strongly advice you to look into all your instagram photos and see earmark all those where I have made a comment of the type "Yes, like this" or "This dress" or "This look" or "Wow" or "You look beautiful here" or "Your best photo on Instagram". I need you to go through all the photos and search for my comments on them bcoz even at the time of commenting on them, what I had in mind was "how this particular look would fit into my song". So I need atleast that much preparation from your end, Yukta, so that you have a clear idea about how I want you to look in this video song. It may happen that your choice about your look may vary from my choice, but I request you seriously to focus on my choice here, because my choice will exactly reflect and later show to the audience, that very girl, which I want to be inside my song. If the looks will change from what I choose, it will be a pure disaster because a different look of a leading character definitely conveys a different message from what was originally intended. So, please focus on what I choose. (Later, after the shoot is over, you can immediately throw away the black hair look switch ON to blonde hair look once again 😀😀 I won't mind at all, if you get converted into a foreign girl in no time at all...😊😊)
Her nails are neat, a bit long and polished in red or pink. Please don't apply green, yellow or black nail polish. It looks weird if we are shooting a teenage girl who is in love.)
Yukta's dress will be informal, as already mentioned. She is wearing a pink/ blue/ white punjabi dress (kurta pyjama). There are 2 bangles in her both hands. Both of them are golden /golden colored. She wears a small ring in the middle finger of her right hand. Even her toe nails are polished. The color of the polish matches with her finger nails.
She is standing in the balcony, looking straight, as the camera zooms out of her left eye. She looks thoughtful. She is standing there in her balcony, with one of her hand put on the railing of the balcony pillar, whilst another hanging loose. The camera zooms out of her left eye and moves about 3 to 4 meters in front of her. Mr.Jayesh, here we would need a flying camera (drone-camera) which can remain stable in air while taking a shot. The camera should not move sideways and remain still. The motto of this shot is to emphasize on the beauty and charm of the girl. So it's upto you, how you decide to do it, but as said above, try and make the girl very beautiful in this shot. The camera zooms out of the girl's left and moves 3 to 4 meter in front of her. This happens in half a second (0:30 second). Then it stays there for 2 seconds, facing the girl who is looking straight into it. The girl is neither smiling nor sad. But, she is in a thinking mode. Yukta's face should be like - she is in a thinking mode, but not too serious either. Total shot length = 0.30+2 =2.30 seconds.
Total time gone till now = 4.30+2.30 = 7 seconds.
Till this time, the 1st line of the theme music is over.
4th Shot:
Location: A small road equally bifurcated in the middle. Ideally it would be the road/ pavement that leads to the main building of the Taj Mahal, but if we decide not to shoot in Agra as well, then we will find a road in Pahalgam / Sonmarg / Gulmarg which matches the one described above. A small road inside a garden will do. There are trees/bushes/shrubs with flowers planted on both sides of the road. Some sparrows/other birds are pleasantly flying across the garden. A cool breeze is blowing. The skies are clear. In short, the atmosphere is intoxicating (नशा चढ़ जाए ऐसा) It looks heavenly.
The ML and the FL are walking on that road, very close to each other. Whilst walking, the girl rests her head on the chest of the boy as her feet keep her moving forward. The boy has encircled his black jacket around his and the girl's head, while he keeps moving forward, looking at the girl, who has her head rested on his chest. (The scene reminds of Ashiqui of 1990, where the hero & heroine have such a shot). They keep walking for 7 seconds, until the 2nd line of the theme music is not over. In short, the 2nd line of the theme music will be shot in this manner.
4th Shot duration: 7 seconds
Total Time elapsed till now: 14 seconds.
5th Shot:
Location - same as Shot no.4
This happens in the 3rd line of the Theme music. The girl and the boy are standing face to face, on the paved small road, described above in Shot 4. The girl puts her right hand on the left cheek of the boy, smiles at him and then looks at him as if she is lost in him. Her immense love for him is seen in her eyes. She doesn't speak a single word but her eyes tell a lot. They tell the boy, "Don't u ever leave me, please." This scene is a test for Yukta's acting skills. If she can act in these few seconds and convey the message indirectly to the audience, without uttering a single word, it will definitely create a magical effect on them. But if she fails, well then, only God knows what will happen. I am very eager to see that Yukta succeeds in her attempt above. It's a challenge for a new actress but huge success comes only after meeting huge challenges. So let's see how well you can act in this scene, Yukta! I suggest you should start practising in front of the mirror for this scene from today because as mentioned earlier it's not an easy scene. If you think ke last minute me dekh lenge to ye bhi ho sakta hai ki tum isko thik tarike se na kar sako. So start practising from today.
During this scene, both are looking at each other straight into each other's eyes, face to face but the camera's focus is on the girl. In these 7 seconds, the girl puts her right hand on the left cheek of the boy as said before and both look at each other, straight into the eyes. The camera first shows both standing face to face (half a second), then the girl putting her hand on the boy's cheek (1 second). Then it shows the face of the boy who has become emotional due to this action of the girl (1.5 seconds). Then it shows the girl's face who, as mentioned above, has completely lost herself into her lover, gone very emotional as if her heart is pumping fast, and she conveys her very warm abd very true affections for the boy via her looks. The camera will remain on the girl for 4 seconds full, which gives her a chance to show her acting talent, through her eyes, as described above. This scene has the potential to create magic if properly done.
Total scene duration = 7 seconds.
Total time lapsed till now = 21 seconds.
6th Shot:
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