Discussion on digital-filmmaking-for-nagaris

[Nagarick]

In technical terms, Slumdog Millionaire(Crorepati) is mostly CineForm
RAW acquired feature shot with the Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini camera.
More than half of the movie is shot using si-2k technology. Its a
digital cinema technology, not like those bollywood ancient bulky film
cameras used to shoot bollywood movies. Its a portable handheld camera
with hard drive keeping in backpack. SI-2K cameras can record upto 4
hours (160 gb hard drive). You can shoot the similar movie using cheap
HD camcorder with HD resolution. Slumdog Millionaire cost a $5 million
to shoot with total $13 million budget.

Learn following technologies

Add metadata with Adobe Bridge
Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro
Adobe After Effects
CineForm RAW specifications and AVI

They also used CanonCams i.e. Canon stills camera, which takes 12
frames a second.

Exercise:
Make animated version of slumdog millionaire... Keep the budget under
Rs. 10000.

Ref:
http://www.siliconimaging.com/DigitalCinema/SiliconImaging_faq.html
http://www.siliconimaging.com/DigitalCinema/