"SHIELA of the sullen city" - Photocomic fr Campus

Hey Friends,

With due apologies for writing after a long hiatus and missing some fun-filled meetings with you guys , i am back on track for good!

My absence though hasn't been so unproductive either - before clicking some exclusive locales, landscapes and people during my journey to Warsaw and around, i had been working on a first of its kind Photocomic feature for the Campus 18 site- It's callled SHIELA of the sullen city.
It's an attempt to tell a story in photos and words combined with some graphics and using real people as key players. So unlike a graphic novel where mostly artwork and words are combined , here we sweated it out shooting almost in the same vein as we would shoot for a film- storyboarding , scripting, lighting, costumes , working on the post production and so on and so forth.

It 's going to be a bi-weekly feature and we'll make sure that it can get as kickass as possible. Right now , it's an experiment which if it's successful ( we hope so:) , we'll be coming over with more comix in the future.

As for this one SHIELA is the protagonist- and it is her gruesome revenge saga against some malevolent forces that infest an imaginary city- later their is a character of a nerd scientist and his frankenstein like creation whose destinies collide with SHIELA's and culminate in a poetic denouement.

To give you a partial glimpse of things to come here are some posters from the comic-











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Story& Photography- Rohit Ranjan
Script- Rohit Ranjan with Suamya Sen
Graphic manipulation: Pallavi Malviya
Based on an idea by Sumit Roy

Cast: Anannya Biswas
Varun Rampal
Aanchal Sethi
Monika Sawhney
Vineet Modi
Swati Chauhan
Rakhi
and others...

Coming to Campus 18 photgraphy site soon!

If you guys have some great ideas for a comic/graphic novel/short films/music videos etc...do share it with us and we will try to pull it together like a team!

Cheers,

r

Hey rohit.....the idea of shiela is fantafabulous....seriously!!!m sure i'll be a regular wid dat....neway waz also wonderin if you could have a comic strip based on this 'private eye' character...who keeps sneaking in and out of colleges trying to uncover some mystery related to college life....anyway waz just an idea...we had it for DICT in our collgege last year which is a hand made magazine complete with illustrations,paintings,and an editorial......something like JAM

thnks naznad. sorry for a late reply.

sure why not-we can definitely work on the college private eye theme. It sounds ineresting. do you have more ideas how to develop the story?

will work on it....il ask da other campus-ites in pune too....upd8 u soon....

hey cool. wll be lookin forward for fresh ideas always:)