User:Avinoddop

A. Vinod bharathi I work as an assistant around three years. After completed my assistant job... I gaffed a bit, assisted a little bit and was shooting industrial films, documentaries, commercials and other small jobs. I worked in Chennai on documentaries, industrial films and commercials as a cameraman. They were all small projects. I was still shooting mainly short films and some documentaries and always working on my craft and building my reel, with the idea that one day I would shoot features. I shot sales films for medical companies promoting new products and techniques, small dramatic religious films for a company T-Series, which distributed them to temples, and some variety shows. I got a lot of jobs through people I knew in during my assisting days. It's very important to make friends because they're the ones who are going to want to bring people they know along when they get a job. We had our own revolving group of guys who all did different jobs depending on who was shooting and who was gaffing. See More What can I say; I've been shooting film ever since... Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work with many of the best cinematographers around. The great thing is that I was exposed to many approaches and styles. I learned what I liked and I learned how to problem solve for a variety of lighting situations. My favorite lighting style is to shoot with natural-looking, motivated light sources. I enjoy working with large soft sources and then "paint" in the shadow areas. I work very hard to make certain that whatever story is being told is enhanced and communicated with the light and images. To me, the best cinematography is the kind that takes you into another world? Cinematography that brings you the experience of the story and makes you quickly forgets that you are watching a movie. Seamless and realistic. I've been blessed by being able to make a living doing what I love to do." I was born in Chennai, India in a working class (Indian term: Lower Middle Class Family), hard core Tamil speaking family. I spent my formative years in Chromepet that is where I grew up. My father was working Editor of Nammathu Vishwakarma Magazine. My mother is whole world centered on her kids and the home, so as you see, I led a very sheltered childhood with little or no contact with the outside world so to speak off. My father had a still Instamatic camera that fascinated me but I was forbidden to lay my hands on it, its funny but somewhere my curiosity in photography actually developed I was forbidden to touch that camera. My Mom envisioned me as a Military man. But.........

As cinematographer

 * Sadagara (2012)
 * Gokulakrishna (2012)
 * Chithiramandhiradhali (2011)
 * Arriyan (2010)
 * Dheemaku (2008)
 * Jotheyagi Hithavagi (2007)

As director

 * Oli(Sound (2011) (Tamil)

Awards

 * 2004 – Spark 2004 Award for Best Cinematography for Short Movie Udhavum Karangal