From Story to Screen: Narrative Development, Direction, and PostProduction of the Short Film ‘Jyoti’

Abstract

This short provides a full overview of a story about one sided love that turns into a ghostly curse. This project’s goal was producing a professional level short film that would be ready for OTT and Streaming platforms. The literature review shows the research and study behind this project and the references to study materials and other films that inspired the decision making of this project. The pre-production, production, and post-production phase was included in the methodology. I contributed to each part of the methodology with writing, mind mapping, planning, storyboarding, directing, editing, color grading, adding visual effects, animating the title, designing the sound effects and composing the music. The completed short film is the final product of this project along with this report that documents our creative and technical journey from generating the concept to planning, shooting, editing, finalizing the project and the lessons learned on the journey to completing this project.