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The students of Hyderabad campus took the initiative of conducting
seminars every Saturday to develop their public speaking skills,
with the co-operation of the Centre Director and Dean. The topic
for the first Seminar in this series - held on 21.08.04 was
"Cinema as a Medium of Mass Communication".
Students
from different schools took part in the seminar. The management
showed its full support for the programme by inviting Mr. Senthil,
a well known and reputed Cinematographer from the Telugu film
industry. He was the Camera man for the national award winning
film "Aithey." Faculty & Staff members also attended
the seminar.
The
participants for the seminar were from different schools, the
first of them was Suraj Acharaya, a M. Sc Biotech student first
semester who spoke on the role of movies, and human psychology.
"One should make films for everyone and that it must be
inspiring and motivating to one and all," were Suraj's
exact word.
The
next speaker on the dais was Rahul a third semester BA Film
and video production student, he briefed the audience about
what films were really about and concluded by relating films
to fantasy. He literally defined what film making was all about
by saying "Film making is nothing but visual story telling."
Sreeram
Banda a third semester BJMC student spoke about the gender bias
in the Hindi and Telugu film industry, highlighting about the
social problems faced by the weaker sex in the industry.
Srinivas
Ram a third semester MJMC student made the seminar more interesting
by saying defining films as a transnational language, "films
know no boundaries and can penetrate through any cast, creed
and culture," he said. Another factorial point he made
was that films represented the thinking and philosophies of
the era it was made in giving examples from the films made in
50's and the present make of films.
The
Centre Dean Mr. Sri Guha said that he was overwhelmed by the
presentations made by the students, three out of four being
none related to films. He also said that he was impressed to
find students being so articulate. Mr. Senthil also said that
he was enlightened to find about the different perspectives
to look at a film, and said that he would like to return to
more of these seminars. The Centre Director praised the students
for giving different insights into the film industry and expected
the tradition to be carried on every Saturday.
Mrs.
Suryavathi, Faculty - SOUL proposed vote of thanks.
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