A Matter Of Choice

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"It was not too bad... but the bus was really scary from so close! I thought for a moment I was going to die.... well I did actually! After that it was all nice.... and the ride up here really interesting!"

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We were approached by the 'Green Leaders' team some time back - that's the team of people who try to spread awareness about environmental issues among the rest of us in the company - to create a video on the issues of waste management. We thought of doing it over a weekend, and then gave up the idea on the weekend over which we were supposed to do it... at the last moment - because of lack of preparedness. A week later, we decided to make another attempt, this time targeting completion by the World Environment Day - then about 5-6 weeks away.

Dale & I volunteered from the Movie Making club, so did Sushma, although she wasn't part of the club yet, she had just heard of the project from Om, who was - and I assumed that we could always rope in Vibhor & Neeraj to help out if really needed.

After a couple of week's worth of brainstorming session, we came up with a list of ideas which we will include in the video beyond Waste Management, and then Dale & I sat and planned to put a storyline around it. The initial draft of the storyline was interesting enough to get Vibhor & Neeraj involved, coming up with new ideas.

So we made the movie - a 15 minute affair - a documentary embedded in a funny story to catch people's attention. The screening in the office was reasonably successful & well received. Youtube allows only 10 minutes of video at a time, so we uploaded in two parts.

And ya, I made my acting debut in this Movie!

Here are the two parts.