Mobile Phone Filmmaking Workshop in Payyanur
Designed and conducted by Amudhan RP (filmmaker / curator / trainer)

2024 August 4 Sunday 9 AM to 5PM,

Payyanur.

Course Schedule :
Session 01; 10 am to 1 pm
1) Introduction to camera / videography part 01 : theory and practicals
Downloading and installing appropriate Apps; basic steps to record images; video resolution,
white balance, exposure, focus
2) Introduction to editing part 01 : theory and practicals
Downloading and installing appropriate Apps; basic steps to edit images and sound; opening a
project, importing the footage, timeline, trimming, assembling, adding music, text and effects,
exporting the final file
Session 02 : 2 pm to 5 pm
1) Introduction to camera and sound part 02 : theory and practicals
Camera. : angles, shots, movements
Sound : ambiance sound, interviews, noise reduction
2) Shooting and editing with a concept : theory and practicals
Ideation, planning, shooting and editing interviews and cut aways / B roll shots
3) Feedback and closing remarks
Requirements : From the participants
Fully charged smart phones / iPhones, chargers, headphones / ear phones, internet connection,
and storage space in the phones.

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Amudhan R.P.
Born and brought up in a rural and small town background, Amudhan developed his liking for
cinema by watching popular Tamil films with his mother Pushpam, a farmer, while sitting on the
sand-bed in thatched and temporary cinema halls called Touring Talkies.
Cinema has always been a collective activity / place for Amudhan, in which people from different
backgrounds come together and imagine multiple worlds in a given short time.
After completing his Post Graduation in Development Communication from Madurai Kamraj
University and a two year stint from Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT),
New Delhi, Amudhan set up MARUPAKKAM (The Other Side, in Tamil) a media action group in
Madurai with his like minded friends to produce, screen and disseminate documentary films in
1996.
Amudhan has made around 20 films on various social, political and economical themes since
then. He also founded Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival and Chennai
International Documentary and Short Film Festival has been conducting them for over 23 years
and 10 years respectively.
He also curates various thematic film festivals across India. He has been part of many film
festivals in India as a Selection Committee and a Final Jury member on various occasions.
He has conducted Documentary Workshops at prestigious educational institutions such as
National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Central University of
Hyderabad, LV Prasad Film Academy (Chennai), St Joseph’s College (Bengaluru), Loyola College
(Chennai), Chetana Film Institute (Thrissur) and Sacred Heart College (Kochi).
Currently Amudhan is pursuing Mobile Phone Filmmaking since the Covid 19 induced lockdown,
experimenting on the medium while expressing human anxieties and reaching out to the nature.