CINEMATOGRAPHY - FTII / SRFTI
Price: Rs. 10,000
ABOUT US
15 Years Old Film School | Also Offers Online Coaching
Profile
Company Profile :
1.Center for Research in Art of Film and Television (CRAFT) is a 15 years old non-profit organization established in March 2006, in Delhi
2. It imparts autonomous short term and long term courses related to the film medium like direction, cinematography, acting, creative writing, TV jounalism, PR advt. and event mangement.
3.We have 7 Years Old magazine called: "Cinematography Art" aquterly Journal
4.This year we have alwaso launched new magazine" Bollywood and Beyond"
Trustees
AMITABHA SINGH- SHORT PROFILE
Amitabha Singh is well know cinematographer graduated from FTII PUNE IN 1994. Since then he has shot more than 600 ad films for directors like Shoojit Sarkar,Abhinay Deo and many More.Amitabh has shifted to feature film direction with the film...shortcut safari.here is the complte filmography Filmography Cinematographer | Producer | Director | Writer Cinematographer (13 credits) 2018 #PuranaPyaar (Video short) 2018 Love Handles (TV Series) 2014 Dabang 2 Pan Masala TVC Ft. Jimmy Shergill (Short) 2013 The Good Road 2011 Chillar Party (director of photography) 2011 Yeh Faasley 2009 Aagey Se Right 2008 Thodi Life Thoda Magic 2008 De Taali (director of photography) 2007 MP3: Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar 2006 Khosla Ka Ghosla! 2005 The Film 2004 Sau Jhooth Ek Sach 2016 Shortcut Safari (producer) 2004 Sau Jhooth Ek Sach (producer) 2016 Shortcut Safari ( producer and director)
Naresh sharma
Naresh Sharma- SHORT PROFILE
After graduating from FTII, Pune in 1993, Mr. Sharma worked as cinematographer for 12 years in bombay. His well-known work includes Music video “Nishani” of pop artist Jassi and two feature film ”Ladli”, funded by Children’s Film Society Of India, and “Sonam” about the Monapa language shot in Aruranachal pradesh. He has travel extensively in Europe while shooting ”Vivere” and underwater shoot on 40 islands in Bahamas and Caribbean . Mr. Sharma has curated a retrospective of FTII diploma package to Potsdam film school in Germany ,Tampere international short Film Festival in Finland and Indian film festival "Bollywood and beyond" in Stuttgart Germany in 2004 , 2005 , 2006 . He specialized in scripting short PSA films including well known series “each one teach one” for NLM and founded annual event PSA-CSR. Mr.sharma has directed 4-documnetry films 3-for PSBT, All Time Blues about brass band music culture in India, Rotigraphers of India:- about local photographic community and show must not go on about:- Cruelty against animals & one for MEA featuring kathak dancer Shovana Narayan and 5-intrenational dancers. currently he is Managing director of CRFAT film school and editor AND PUBLISHER of quarterly magazine "cinematography art" and in pre production of Hindi film "Aapka Bunty" based on novel Ms Mannu Bhandari .
Subash Sahoo
Oriya sound recordist Subash Sahoo
has claimed his second National award for his work in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Kaminey. Sahoo, a sound engineer and recordist from Film and Television Institute (FTII) Pune had won his first National award for Bharadwaj’s Omkara in 2008. “I’m delighted to win the award for the second time. I owe my success to my director Vishal,” says Sahoo, who is presently at his village Baluriya in Kendrapara. “It feels great that people in my state are noticing my work due to these awards,” he says. Starting his career as an Electronics and Communication engineer, Sahoo quit his job in Bhubaneswar and left for FTII in 1991
Aseem Sinha
Aseem is a trained editor from FTII
and has edited more than 50 feature films, a number of TV serials, corporate films and ads. His most prominent work in films includes that in Shyam Benegal’s Mammo, Sardari Begum, Zubeida, Welcome to Sajjanpur, Well Done Abba; A. K. Bir’s The Last Vision; Punkuj Parashar’s Beneras; Kalpana Lajmi’s Darmiyaan and Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani. He has directed two documentary films - 25 years of Subhash Ghai in Hindi Cinema for Mukta Arts and Paani for UNDP.
DINESH KHANNA
Associate Professor, Acting.NSD
Dinesh Khanna is an Indian theatre director and acting teacher at the National School of Drama. He is known for his productions based on The Boring Story written by Anton Chekhov, Dedh Inch Oopar, Zindagi Yahan, Subah ki Sair, aur Wahan by Nirmal Verma, and Rasapriya by Phanishwarnath Renu.
A graduate from Lucknow University with a diploma in Acting from Bhartendu Natya Academy and a post-graduate diploma in acting from the National School of Drama in 1986, Dinesh Khanna has been involved in acting, direction and teaching for the last twenty years. Deeply interested in literature and translation, he has written several articles on theatre. His published works include Kucch Aansu Aur Kuchh Phool and Abhinay Chintan.
JET-COACHING
70 MARKS DOMAIN SPECIFIC QUESTIONS-ANSWERS
Seventy marks are devoted to ‘domain specific questions’ which are descriptive in nature to evaluate the area of interest and students’ investigative adroitness.
The pattern of last year questions will help you understand the nature of questions.
Since it is descriptive in nature it is important that your thoughts should to be focused and fine tuned. You cannot beat around the bush.
Syllabus
Since there is specific syllabus is provided by the FTII-SRFTI in their prospectus for any course, based on what kind of questions were asked in previous years, list of questions will be prepared and sample answers would be provided.
As of now, only the
1.) Cinematography Section is Ready for FREE TRAIL, before buying the course.
2.) MCQ-Section is Ready for FREE TRAIL, before buying the course.
Rest will be Ready by 1st Feb 2021.
1.Syllabus:
Since there is specific syllabus is provided by the FTII-SRFTI in their prospectus for any course, based on what kind of questions were asked in previous years, list of questions will be prepared and sample answers would be provided.
1.Syllabus:
Since there is specific syllabus is provided by the FTII-SRFTI in their prospectus for any course, based on what kind of questions were asked in previous years, list of questions will be prepared and sample answers would be provided.
As of now, only the
1.) Cinematography Section is Ready for FREE TRAIL, before buying the course.
2.) MCQ-Section is Ready for FREE TRAIL, before buying the course.
Rest will be Ready by 1st Feb 2021.
There is no specific syllabus is mentioned in the FTII prospectus. However one can analyze the examination pattern of last years.
( Pl note carefully that examination pattern can change at any time like till JET-2018, There used to MCQ-on Mental ability which got discontinued since JET-2019, Hence it is strongly advised to read the prospectus, once the application announcement is made.
LAST YEAR Exam pattern:
30 MARKS OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS.
FTII -JET evaluates a student at two fronts; first, the level of information and second, the analytical power.
The 30 marks are allotted to objective type questions, out of which
a) 08 questions are related to GK and current affair
B) 15 marks are MCQs related to cinema
C) 07 art (painting, dance, music, theatre, photography etc).
To train the FTII aspirants of any course, Mr. Naresh Sharma (Director CRAFT) has written a book which covers the section ‘B+C’ as mentioned above. This book precisely caters to MCQ genre related to cinema and art section. ( There will not be any new edition of the book and will shift online after the sale of the book of 2020 edition) The price for that would be Rs 1,000/-.It will be ready after 1st Dec 2020 to buy.
70 MARKS DOMAIN SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
Seventy marks are devoted to ‘domain specific questions’ which are descriptive in nature to evaluate the area of interest and students’ investigative adroitness.
The pattern of last year questions will help you understand the nature of questions.
Since it is descriptive in nature it is important that your thoughts should to be focused and fine tuned. You cannot beat around the bush.
1) FOR JET-2019,we had classroom coaching organized for 20 days from 27th Jan 2019 to 17th Feb 2019 in the class we had
1.) 1-hr lecture about MCQ related to cinema, art, music, dance, painting, and sculpture discussed by our Director, Mr. Naresh Sharma, who has written a book on the same topic. Please note that the book: ‘How to Prepare for FTII-SRFTI-JET 2019’, will give you an idea about various possible questions that can be framed ,but there are many things which could not be covered in the book and discussed in these videos. Theses video recordings are available for private viewing loaded on You Tube .Students can watch these videos .
2.90 min to 120 mins of Domain Specific Class: Our CRAFT film schools Cinematography Faculty mentor and discussed the various aspects related to cinematography for 20 days
The sample of theses lectures are given below
4.MCQ: 1st feb
https://youtu.be/YxvT8zx5RkU
5.MCQ: 2nd feb
https://youtu.be/iYiqjdBNYXg
Cinematography: Video-Tutorials: 6th Feb 2019
https://youtu.be/_f_Rri_-iJ4
Cinematography: Video-Tutorials: 7th Feb 2019
https://youtu.be/XN_E2RcP3VY
Online website Program :As of now there are 150 questions are loaded on website.
if you are just keen to buy the book , pl also find the downloadable link of 6-pages sample of the book at below link.
https://www.ftiientranceexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sample_10_pages_JET-2020-FTIISRFTI-ENTRANCE-EXAM-.pdf
kindly fill up the form and make the payment from below link
https://www.ftiientranceexam.com/apply/
Online Website Program :- Also the online website and the price is 10k . Video lectures will be complimentary. Currently website is active only for Cinematography course , where you can join the free trail course.
if you like the content , you can buy the course.
The website of cinematography course has
# 150 descriptive questions with sample answers for domain specific section of - 70 marks .
# Solved answers of previous years question paper.
examples of various questions are given below related to Aesthetics + technical type
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Aesthetics :
How lighting affect mood and tone of a scene ?
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Make a list of 10- important things you need to take care while using a Drone camera for Video
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What are 4 Important points you will take care of shooting Fashion Models.
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What are 4 Important points you will take care while exposing a blur of waterfall and Mountains Sharp.
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What are 4 Important points you will take care while Shooting a Dance Performance for still camera.
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What are 5 Important points you will take care of shooting of any metal Product?
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What will be your camera setting for wedding photography?
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what will be your lighting approach to shoot a silhouette indoors?
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what will you consider in terms of camera setting when shooting A landscape of a valley with mountains?
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what will you consider in terms of camera setting when shooting street photography at night?
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Write 5 important point you will take care when doing any product shoot of glass or wine bottle ?
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Technical :
What are ND filters? Why do you need them and how to choose them?
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When would you use a graduated neutral density filter?
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How do the polarizing filters works and what is its purpose?
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What difference does it make if I choose to use a polarizer filter instead of ND filters?
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We can buy 85 mixed with ND 3/6/9 but why 80B is not available mixed with ND 3/6/9
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What does a black pro mist filter do?
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What is the difference between 1080i and 1080p camcorder?
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What is raw and What are the benefits of working with RAW
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How to Perform a Manual White Balance in video camera ?
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Why does a television screen flicker when you record a video of it when it actually doesn't?
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What is the Zebra Pattern function and what does it do?
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# Solved answers of previous year question paper.
online.craftfilmschool.com
is the link to log in for free trail course
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Interview of FTII 2019 Cinematography course Topper "Chetan Kapri" - https://youtu.be/UDSwaHF7Lv0
Interview of Roshan Kumar got selected in Both FTII and SRFTII cinematography course !! he was CRAFT FILM SCHOOL's regular course student.
https://youtu.be/tNGAncQmd9Y
Interview of Mohammed Owais, JET-2019 batch CinematographyFinalist
https://youtu.be/vRuqpkLVH8A
.................................................................................
In JET-2020, total of 41 students who bought our video lectures + book got call for orientation and interview for FTII/SRFTI .
1.Syllabus:
Since there is specific syllabus is provided by the FTII-SRFTI in their prospectus for any course, based on what kind of questions were asked in previous years, list of questions will be prepared and sample answers would be provided.
1.Syllabus:
Since there is specific syllabus is provided by the FTII-SRFTI in their prospectus for any course, based on what kind of questions were asked in previous years, list of questions will be prepared and sample answers would be provided.
As of now, only the
1.) Cinematography Section is Ready for FREE TRAIL, before buying the course.
2.) MCQ-Section is Ready for FREE TRAIL, before buying the course.
Rest will be Ready by 1st Feb 2021.
There is no specific syllabus is mentioned in the FTII prospectus. However one can analyze the examination pattern of last years.
( Pl note carefully that examination pattern can change at any time like till JET-2018, There used to MCQ-on Mental ability which got discontinued since JET-2019, Hence it is strongly advised to read the prospectus, once the application announcement is made.
LAST YEAR Exam pattern:
30 MARKS OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS.
FTII -JET evaluates a student at two fronts; first, the level of information and second, the analytical power.
The 30 marks are allotted to objective type questions, out of which
a) 08 questions are related to GK and current affair
B) 15 marks are MCQs related to cinema
C) 07 art (painting, dance, music, theatre, photography etc).
To train the FTII aspirants of any course, Mr. Naresh Sharma (Director CRAFT) has written a book which covers the section ‘B+C’ as mentioned above. This book precisely caters to MCQ genre related to cinema and art section. ( There will not be any new edition of the book and will shift online after the sale of the book of 2020 edition) The price for that would be Rs 1,000/-.It will be ready after 1st Dec 2020 to buy.
70 MARKS DOMAIN SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
Seventy marks are devoted to ‘domain specific questions’ which are descriptive in nature to evaluate the area of interest and students’ investigative adroitness.
The pattern of last year questions will help you understand the nature of questions.
Since it is descriptive in nature it is important that your thoughts should to be focused and fine tuned. You cannot beat around the bush.
1) FOR JET-2019,we had classroom coaching organized for 20 days from 27th Jan 2019 to 17th Feb 2019 in the class we had
1.) 1-hr lecture about MCQ related to cinema, art, music, dance, painting, and sculpture discussed by our Director, Mr. Naresh Sharma, who has written a book on the same topic. Please note that the book: ‘How to Prepare for FTII-SRFTI-JET 2019’, will give you an idea about various possible questions that can be framed ,but there are many things which could not be covered in the book and discussed in these videos. Theses video recordings are available for private viewing loaded on You Tube .Students can watch these videos .
2.90 min to 120 mins of Domain Specific Class: Our CRAFT film schools Cinematography Faculty mentor and discussed the various aspects related to cinematography for 20 days
The sample of theses lectures are given below
4.MCQ: 1st feb
https://youtu.be/YxvT8zx5RkU
5.MCQ: 2nd feb
https://youtu.be/iYiqjdBNYXg
Cinematography: Video-Tutorials: 6th Feb 2019
https://youtu.be/_f_Rri_-iJ4
Cinematography: Video-Tutorials: 7th Feb 2019
https://youtu.be/XN_E2RcP3VY
Online website Program :As of now there are 150 questions are loaded on website.
if you are just keen to buy the book , pl also find the downloadable link of 6-pages sample of the book at below link.
https://www.ftiientranceexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sample_10_pages_JET-2020-FTIISRFTI-ENTRANCE-EXAM-.pdf
kindly fill up the form and make the payment from below link
https://www.ftiientranceexam.com/apply/
Online Website Program :- Also the online website and the price is 10k . Video lectures will be complimentary. Currently website is active only for Cinematography course , where you can join the free trail course.
if you like the content , you can buy the course.
The website of cinematography course has
# 150 descriptive questions with sample answers for domain specific section of - 70 marks .
# Solved answers of previous years question paper.
examples of various questions are given below related to Aesthetics + technical type
|
Aesthetics :
How lighting affect mood and tone of a scene ?
|
|
Make a list of 10- important things you need to take care while using a Drone camera for Video
|
|
What are 4 Important points you will take care of shooting Fashion Models.
|
|
What are 4 Important points you will take care while exposing a blur of waterfall and Mountains Sharp.
|
|
What are 4 Important points you will take care while Shooting a Dance Performance for still camera.
|
|
What are 5 Important points you will take care of shooting of any metal Product?
|
|
What will be your camera setting for wedding photography?
|
|
what will be your lighting approach to shoot a silhouette indoors?
|
|
what will you consider in terms of camera setting when shooting A landscape of a valley with mountains?
|
|
what will you consider in terms of camera setting when shooting street photography at night?
|
|
Write 5 important point you will take care when doing any product shoot of glass or wine bottle ?
|
|
Technical :
What are ND filters? Why do you need them and how to choose them?
|
|
When would you use a graduated neutral density filter?
|
|
How do the polarizing filters works and what is its purpose?
|
|
What difference does it make if I choose to use a polarizer filter instead of ND filters?
|
|
We can buy 85 mixed with ND 3/6/9 but why 80B is not available mixed with ND 3/6/9
|
|
What does a black pro mist filter do?
|
|
What is the difference between 1080i and 1080p camcorder?
|
|
What is raw and What are the benefits of working with RAW
|
|
How to Perform a Manual White Balance in video camera ?
|
|
Why does a television screen flicker when you record a video of it when it actually doesn't?
|
|
What is the Zebra Pattern function and what does it do?
|
# Solved answers of previous year question paper.
online.craftfilmschool.com
is the link to log in for free trail course
.......................................................................................
Interview of FTII 2019 Cinematography course Topper "Chetan Kapri" - https://youtu.be/UDSwaHF7Lv0
Interview of Roshan Kumar got selected in Both FTII and SRFTII cinematography course !! he was CRAFT FILM SCHOOL's regular course student.
https://youtu.be/tNGAncQmd9Y
Interview of Mohammed Owais, JET-2019 batch CinematographyFinalist
https://youtu.be/vRuqpkLVH8A
.................................................................................
In JET-2020, total of 41 students who bought our video lectures + book got call for orientation and interview for FTII/SRFTI .
Short Profile of Mr. Naresh Sharma.
After graduating from FTII Pune in 1994, Mr.Naresh Sharma worked in Bombay film industry for 12 years as a cinematographer. He has the unique distinction of shooting underwater in Bahamas and Caribbean on more than 40 islands in the Bahamas and Caribbean .
As a director, he has made 3-documentaries for PSBT namely ‘Small town blues’, "Rotigrapher's of India" & "Show must not go on". His well-known work is a film made on 35 mm format for "Ministry of external affairs" about classical dance Kathak and its interaction with Ballet, Flamenco and Tap featuring Shovana Narayan and three other international dancers.
He was invited 4-times as curator to Indian film festival in Stuttgart in Germany.
In 2006, he relocated to Delhi and established “CRAFT” (Centre for Research in Art of Film and Television) to impart training in film and television related courses. He has authored a book " HOW TO PREAPARE FOR JET-FTII / SRFTI "entrance exam
For the last 6 years, he is editing and publishing a quarterly magazine “Cinematography Art” and recently launched another bimonthly magazine in Jan 2020 called "Bollywood and Beyond".
He is currently engaged in the screenplay development for the feature film based on the best seller of Hindi Literature “Aapaka Bunty” by Mrs. Mannu Bhandari and " Seraj Band Baja" by Jai Nanadan.
FAQ:
How many seats are there in FTII /SRFTI :
5- Gen category: 3- OBC: 1-SC: 1-ST
How many no of applicants are received every year in JET for cinematography course of 3-years film wing :
As per last year’s FTII face book page, out of 5293 (for all the courses) applicants, approximately 839 students appeared for cinematography course for the total 20 seats at FTII+ SRFTI .
How many no of Applicants are received every year in JET for cinematography course 1-years TV wing?
FTII/SRFTII do not disclose this info
I can prepare myself the Why should i join CRAFT for coaching?
you can most certainly do that
a) But when you are stuck and have doubts , whom you will ask.
b) Also think about your competitors who are guided by us who are expert in the domain of Practical Cinematography. Kind of guidance they will have and answers they will write in focus manner , you may not be able to write and their chance to secure high marks are much more Higher.
c) We are basically a film school working for past 14 Years since 2006. It is only in 2018, we also started helping students who wants to try for FTII .So we Understand what is required in various courses which can be asked in FTII/SRFTI ,JET, exam, as there is no prescribed Syllabus ! .
d) You can find sample answers of various questions which were asked in past 4 years to know what you are expected to write in a limited time.
e) Cinematography is technical subject and more than that at the end of the day is Aesthetics. So how to write those questions in specific way is tricky.
So think again.....do you wants to save your 10k or one year ? Also pl note carefully that we are not any other coaching center.
Pricing: You have two option for to choose for Cinematography Course.
Type: A:- Buy Website Course
you can register for online free trail Course which will give you what exactly will be there in terms of Questions and Answers.
once you are happy with the Content, you can Buy Website Course
The cost of the courses is Rs 10,000/-This won't include any support via email.
( Students who has already bought the video lectures via paying Rs 5k earlier, now needs to pay only Rs 5k to join the website prog )
Type: B. Buy Online Class : This will include access to the Website Course content of option A. Also you will have 20 days of online Class of 2 hr per day, which will start 30 days before and will finish, exactly 10 days before the next JET exam date.
These are doubt clearing session and a kind of revision class of cinematography JET domain-specific section of 70 marks..
The cost of the courses is Rs 15,000/-This include support via email.
( Students who have already bought the video lectures via paying Rs 5k earlier, now needs to pay only Rs 10k to join the website prog )
In both options, you will get complimentary video links of 20 days Classroom Coaching held in 2018.
SYLLABUS