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Mid-Term Report2013-14

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Core Team2013-14

Puneet Modi

Pankaj Saini

Arpit Aggarwal

Isha Aggarwal

Jose Philip

Sneha Banoth

Cynthia Haokip

Ipseetha Sethy

Chetan Garg

Korlakunta Anurag

Yeshi Dolma

Nitin Prakash

Harpreet Singh

Vibhu M. Bajpai

Govind Singh

Sanjay Manda

Ayushi Sullerey

Piyush Kumar

Anusha Reddy

Pratyush Sinha

Rohit Choudhary

Sumit Chaurasiya

Animation Club

Lifestyle Hobby Group Design Club

Film ClubPhotography Club

SEB Show-M & ArchiveRadio 90.4FM

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Table of ContentsAnimation Club 4

- Summer Workshop- Autodesk 3DS Max Workshop- On the Spot Competition- Project : Motion Tracking- Recommendations- Financial Details

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Design Club 6

- Festivals Design Team- Office of International Relations

Brochure : MOSAIC- Recent Work

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Film Club 8

- Insight 360- Campus Coverage- Video Production- Summer Movie Production

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Lifestyle Hobby Group 10

Photography Club 11

- Exhibitions- Competitions- Lectures and Workshops- Regular Work & Project

Radio 90.4 FM 12

- Summer Workshop- Challenges Faced

Show-M & Archive Club 13

- Movie & Match Screening- Movie Reviews

Students Editorial Board 14

- VOX Website- Meander

Financial Details 15

About MAAC MAAC is the high-end 3D Animation & VFX education brand of Aptech. MAAC prepared students for Animation, VFX, Filmmaking, Gaming, Web and Graphics Design. The Academy provided quality education through IIT Kanpur students-oriented courses, leading to top-notch workshop.

A workshop was conducted during the summer. It was taken by the professionals from the MAAC institute, which is a prominent institute dedicated to 3D animation. The numbers of students attending the workshop were around sixty. The workshop was of 40 days. Everything was taught from the grass root level covering all basic and advance features of 3D modeling and animation. Students who completed the final project were given a certificate from MAAC.

A two day workshop (24th and 25th, August, 2013) mainly for first year students was conducted in Computer Centre’s Windows Lab. 25 students attended the workshop. Main topics covered in the workshop were modeling and texturing.

An on-the spot animation competition was conducted on Oct 3 2013 (Thursday). The competition was open for all and was held at Windows Lab in Computer Centre from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. A total of around 20 registrations were received for which the theme was declared one day before the event.

A project on motion tracking is in progress in which all the secretaries along with the coordinators are working together. The new software introduced in the club for this is BOJOU. The club is planning to make short videos using this technique.

Last year, Animation Club faced several problems during the summer workshop due to miscommunication of terms with MAAC. Workshop was delayed three days by MAAC and even certificates of the last workshop arrived 8 months later. For this year, we made our terms clear that we will 50% of the fee before the workshop and other 50% in August after we receive the certificates.

Summer workshop by MAAC

Autodesk 3DS Max Workshop

On the Spot Competition

Project Motion : Tracking

Recommendations

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Animation Club

Summer Workshop - Fees collected from each student (₹500)- SSF Funds

₹60000₹29000₹31000

On the Spot Competition- 1st Prize: Rs.1500

- 2nd Prize: Rs.1000- 3rd Prize: Rs.500

₹1500₹1000₹500

Finances

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Aerospace Building

Summer Workshop Project Artwork by Maninderjit Singh

Entry in On the Spot

Animation Club

• Antaragni Design Team- Vibhu M. Bajpai, coordinator of design club is currently serving as Design Head of Antaragni.

Other members of Design Club are part of design team headed by him.- Other coordinators of Design Club often assist Antaragni design team in their work.

• Udghosh- A four-member design team was headed by Mr. Manas Singh, design head of Udghosh’13.

Executives of the design team were also the member of Design Club.• Techkriti

- Same is the case for Techkriti’13

• Opportunity for designing the brochure of OIR was given to design club by Himanshu Pandey, President Students’ Gymkhana.

• Our team worked closely with Prof. Anupam Saxena (Advisor) and Miss Bharti Sharma, Office of International Relations.

• Previously, some companies approached for designing brochure and were charging hefty amounts.• Due to high quality of work done, Mr. Nitin Prakash Mahour was rewarded ₹10000 for the work.

Festivals

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Design Club

Office of International Relations Brochure - MOSAIC

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Design Club

Insight 360 is a sister club to film club. It mainly deals with the video journalism of all the activities at IITK and surroundings. This is an attempt to revive the club. We have done with all the standards and we assure you that there is a lot more fun to come.

Insight 360

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Film Club

Video Production

Campus Coverage

• Organized a workshop on video editing and effects, in which tutorials were held on using the software Adobe Premier Pro, along with the camera handling and its techniques.

• Pre-production of the first movie to be produced exclusively by IITK students based on a social issue was completed, the shooting of which is scheduled for December’13.

• Completed the commercial project by www.freshmentors.com and produced 15 videos as a part of the project.

• Initiated the video type “Behind the Scenes” in the institute by making this video for fresh mentors project.

• Came up with a new logo for the club and incorporated it in all the videos produced by the club. With this we also initiated the idea of a moving logo in the institute.

• Produced a convocation video for the passing out batch of 2013 which was gifted in form of CDs to all the passing out students.

• More than 50 students were involved in these two summer projects for the first time in the history of film club.

• Initiated a new video journalism series “Insight 360” and have released its three episodes till now.• Covered all the events of Udghosh’13, musical extravaganza, Dramatics Eve and other events during the

semester.• Produced five promotional videos for Udghosh’13 including an exclusive interview with national Olympic

badminton player Ashwini Ponappa.• Produced promotional video for the DUGC/DPGC and By-Elections in the first semester.• Produced two inspirational videos for the institute teams for Udghosh’13 and Inter-IIT Swimming

Championship.• Participated in national level ad-making competition in Antaragni’13 with our entry “Quit Smoking or

Die”. Results yet to be announced.• Produced the most popular video by IITK students “Engineering Ka Frustnama “ with about 2 Lakhs views

and 2 thousand likes on YouTube.• Established a new YouTube channel “Films and Media Council, IITK” which has more than one thousand

subscribers by now.

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Film Club

Summer Workshop

Semester Ι, 2013-2014

• Freshers’13 saw participation some really enthusiast to spread glamour and dazzle people with their modeling skills. It encouraged us to lay foundation of this group.

• Increasing the purview of this group, we included various other things like restaurant reviews (brilliant idea given Mr. Anant Mundra), travel guides, lifestyle magazine and many more.

• We have already started off with restaurant reviews and plan to release a small booklet serving foreign students visiting faculty, new students and even others.

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LifeStyle Hobby Group

By Saikat Mondal1st Year Student, Department : Mathematics (BS)

Interested in Dancing, Fine Arts and Fashion Designing

Celebrating LifeAs the world observed World Suicide Prevention Day, Counseling Service planned to bring more awareness amidst the campus community with regard to this sensitive issue. 

Orientation ExhibitionA mini exhibition to display all the photographs clicked by photography club was put near the SnT pavilion.This had given a very good first impression of club works to freshers just after presentation during orientation.

• Campus Photography• Celebrating Life in collaboration with Counseling service• Eye - Spy hall level Photography Competition (hall 2,3,5 and 10 )• A hall level inter-wing competition in collaboration with Counseling Service was conducted

during orientation program.

• First introductory Lecture- An Introductory lecture was conducted in the first week of August which was intended to

introduce the club to the campus society and to make them acquainted with some basics of photography. We had a very good reception with about 150 people turning up.

• Lecture cum workshop Light painting by Shamik Ghosh.- As a new initiative a weekly meeting of club members was organized out of which first was

taken by Mr. Shamik Ghosh on Light Painting. After that the club meets on a regular basis for to click photographs of various domains of photography like product photography,fashion photography.

• Projects- Fortefotos : Colors- Emotion : Expression : Reaction

• Gate Exam photographs- Around 275 people turned for the photography sessions. People were really happy for the

quality of photographs delivered- We recommend that same facility must be used during orientation such that quality of the

photographs are good.

Campus Exhibitions

Regular Work and Projects

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Photography Club

Lectures & Workshops

Competitions

This workshop was mainly a Rj’ing summer course but we tried to include some extra things like:• A day was devoted for understanding music and its different notes and pitches etc.• We included some part of our workshop in improving the communication skills of an individual

and their body postures during communication.• Script writing and Voice editing were also included in the workshop.

Professional Details – • Mr. Vijay Banerjee - He has a great experience in the radio communication sector which stems from

his having worked with All India Radio unit for many years. He is Assistant director of All India Radio, Lucknow.

- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/vijay.banerjee1/• Mr. Anurag Dixit - A big big name in the field of Pop music. But don't get overwhelm by his

music career . Actually he is a top class RJ too and has hosted many shows on several Radio too.- Homepage - http://anuragdixit.net/

• Ms. Garima Tripathi -The bubbly anchor of 98.3 Radio Mirchi will be here these summers to interact with the students and throw light on the dynamics of RJing, along with the personality traits that make a perfect RJ.

- Profile - http://www.radiomirchi.com/kanpur/rj/garima/29403 • Mr. Mihir Swaroop - He has a great experience in communication and oratory skills and currently

works at AIR Lucknow.• Mr. Amit Tripathi and Om Prakash Sharma  - They are specialist in Radio Audio editing and

mixing and has a lot of experience in this field. They currently works as a project associate in Media center IIT Kanpur.

Other FeaturesWe organized a trip to Radio Mirchi Kanpur next weekend for all the participants in the workshop.Snacks were provided each and every day during the workshop and Heavy Snacks were provided on the Inaugural and Closing ceremony of the workshop.

Important statisticsTotal Number of students registered 48Total number of students attended every day 40 - 45

• NO Recording Equipments- Radio hobby group don’t have any facility for recording interviews and episodes. Always they

have to request Media Centre for facilities which is not available all the time.- We are getting RøDE mic, USB Podcaster and smart Lav, and Sony recorder.

• Limited Air Time- Air time for student shows is very less. Even considering the fact audience for radio is falling

exponentially.- We have planned to use sound cloud for purpose of content delivering and live streaming

through student server.

Summer Workshop

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Radio 90.4FM

Challenges Faced

• After receiving great feedback from the first movie review, we received mails from people who are also interested.

• Vinay Kamawalat, resident of Hall X contacted LDG group for the same.

• Including Mrs. Suchitra Mathur mam, we have planned movie screenings & discussions and review writing in FMC room for the group.

• We are hoping to extend this collaboration to Meander Magazine.

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Show-M & Archive Club

Movie Reviews

The Lunchbox: When Love overtakes Six SigmaBy: Ketan Bagga

Movie & Match Screenings

MEANDER

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Students’ Editorial Board

VOX POPULI

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Financial Details

Gymkhana

SSF

31/05/13 Fee Collection 39000 Animation Club Fees Collection

18/08/13 Summer Workshop 21000 Animation Club

23/09/13 MAAC -60000 Animation Club

23/09/13 Movie Production 9525 Film Club

19/09/13 Opening Balance 218000 Other23/09/13 FujiFilm HS50 -30000 Photography Club Bought for issuing to other councils

20/10/13 Advance -50000 Film Club RøDE MICS

DRPG

31/03/13 Opening Balance 328000 Other

14/04/13 Paper Distribution -6300 Student's Editorial Board

05/05/13 Printing -2944 Other

24/05/13 Projector Screen -3400 Show-M & Archive Club

25/05/13 Cable Wire -900 Show-M & Archive Club

26/05/13 Sound DJ -2000 Show-M & Archive Club

31/05/13 Samsung Scx-4701ND -14000 Other

12/06/13 Firewire Cable -354 Film Club

12/06/13 MiniDP to HDMi -364 Show-M & Archive Club

15/06/13 Campus Diaries -6405 Photography Club

15/06/13 Sony DVC mini DV -90 Film Club

15/06/13 DVH Cleaner -450 Film Club

15/06/13 Canon EOS Bag -600 Film Club

15/08/13 Sound DJ -3000 Show-M & Archive Club

28/08/13 Sound DJ -3000 Show-M & Archive Club

22/09/13 Audi Booking -6050 Show-M & Archive Club

27/09/13 Dish TV subscription -285 Show-M & Archive Club

28/09/13 Dish TV set up Box -1800 Show-M & Archive Club