In this studio, students were offered various choices. They had to write and present a pitch for their choice. They worked on themes such as the story of mentally-challenged persons (A Day at Advitya), lives of rag-pickers in Mumbai (Acorn - Dharavi), Mixed Martial Artists (MMA) in India and the story of cafeteria workers at American School of Bombay (Waste of ASB).
Check out the short films our students have created:
As part of this studio, students worked with one of the slum-rehabilitated communities in Mumbai. On day 1, they started with brainstorming ideas on what it means to "belong". They learnt to speak in Hindi while they taught the community kids to speak in English. On subsequent days, they worked on the concept of the installation and finally installed their work in the community. During this process, students also worked on the concept of "impermanence" and created their own impermanent work of art within the school premises.
The photo-story studio worked in collaboration with short-film for community project. Check out the photo-stories they have created through this experience:
Mixed Martial Artists from India
​The Weight of Plastic_ - The story of ragpickers in Dharavi
Other than the theme for short-film studio, Photo-story students also worked on the story of learing disabled children and Education Through Sports, a football program started by young boys from a local slum to help other kids in the community,