Visualizing Stories,

Myths & Hidden Worlds

Sheher – e - Ishq 2020

Hyderabad Trails
The Chalet
 
What is a Chitrakatha?
Sequential narrative, or stories with pictures and
words

OR SIMPLY COMICS
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Lascaux Caves, (BCE 32,000)
Painter: Nainsukh, (1710-1778)
MECHANICS

 
 
Amplification through Simplification
Observing the Parts / Perceiving the Whole
The Form
Panels, Speech Bubbles and Gutters
EVERYTHING STARTS
WITH THE NOTEBOOK
 *Ideas
*Trivia
*References
*Situations
*[The Creative
+
Gym]
ONLINE AS WELL AS A
NOTEBOOK

EXAMPLE:

“Cast” your Friends

Introduction of a Shark always
helps
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IMAGINING THE
WORLD
A Search for the Central Image
 + CREATE!
DON’T
JUST
CONSUME

BORED IS GOOD
CREATION IS LONELY Analyze your boredom and
& THE PHONE IS YOUR ENEMY work with it

Writing is a Guided Daydream

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Maintain a
Movie/Book Diary
• One Line Comment:
Did you like it or not,
and why?
• Bad Movie/Book List:
What you would do
differently if you
were director/writer?
The City in Fragments
The "Char Bagh"
Four rivers of Heaven - milk, honey, water
and wine
Paradise as a walled garden

 
Typage
“Casting according
to physical type,
based on
preconceptions in
public ideology”
SM Eisenstein
Still from “Ivan the Terrible” (1942)
 Visualizing/
Reading the City
 Translating the City
 The Chahar Taq, (square) + ( dome) =
alchemical hope of squaring the circle, the
room of Man topped by the dome of Nature =
a sanctuary where God & Men may converse
The City of Endless Mirrors
Mount Meru recreated through a sacred Geography
The City as a Hologram
 
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Learning
how to
Read/Wat
ch

As an audience/fan
AND as a Pro
The CITIES BENEATH
THE WORLD BENEATH THE WORLD
Hyderabad / Hamburg
 The PREMISE
Finding the Zero Point

Database of “Lines”

Connect through myth and fable + Contemporary

Clash of Characters/Ideas/Civilizations + Strong

Conflict Point
 Structure
World War 1

Hollow Earth myths, but

through an Indian
perspective (Not Vril,
Scandinavian etc)

Naga mythology + S-
Bahn

City / Urban legends

 The Underworld of
Science &
the Underworld of Myth
 Be a Sponge!
Soak up:
Dialogue
Phrases

“Location Scout”
“Cast your movie”

ALWAYS
Ask the Question:
WHAT IF?
MAKING THE WORLD
BREATHE
Colours, temperature and tone
 The Page
How can the page be reduced to its constituent
parts?

Understanding the psychological need of the page

What is the emotional temperature of the page?
Where are the thematic elements placed?

Based on the above, how do you pick the palette?

Thank
You!