A two-day training programme by Samadhan, a Jharia-based youth organisation was organised in association with renowned Bollywood editor Dilip Deo to upgrade the skills of the youth in different aspects of film making, including editing, scriptwriting and acting. The event was held at Maithon Lake on January 9 and 10.

On the first day of the workshop, the theoretical aspects of film making were explained to altogether 20 trainees. On the second day, various aspects of scriptwriting, direction, acting, camera production, editing of feature films, short films, documentary, music video and web series were explained.

Talking to The Telegraph Online on Sunday, KK Sharma (68), a retired scientist of Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) and the senior-most trainee in the programme said, “The training was extremely fruitful as the minor details of film making were taught in greater detail to us during the session on Sunday.”

“Though the majority of the 20-youths who participated in the workshop took interest in acting but I focused on editing and scriptwriting during which, Dilip Deo explained the scene heading and subheading writing, transition introduction, character introduction, action writing, dialogue writing and parenthetical writing, etc.” said Sharma.

During the training of film editing, the team led by Deo explained the different aspects like cut, continuity editing, continuity error, cross-cutting, cutaway, establishment shot, eyeline match, fade, jump cut, montage, roll cut, sweetening wipe, etc. were explained in great detail,” further said Sharma.

“I expect that the training would prove quite beneficial for the youths who will be able to make movies, short films, and web series on local issues. This will help create awareness among the people about the local issues and at the same time provide a new source of livelihood to the youths,” added Sharma.

Divulging more details, Samadhan Founder, Chandan Singh said that the two-day workshop was organised to appraise the vocal for local mission and to appraise the youth about a career in other fields other than preparing for competitive exams for jobs, etc.

Harshvardhan (13), the youngest participant in the training programme who also took a keen interest in editing said, “The training organised on Sunday was quite elaborate and various aspects of editing like the basics of formal language, intro, types of montage and parallel action about which we were not aware were explained by one of the best editors, Dilip Deo who has the experience of editing more than 25 movies.”