Updated On: 07 July, 2020 01:25 PM IST | Mumbai | Partnered Content
You dont make a successful film just like that. It takes a lot behind the scenes for a film to be as good as it appears on the screen.

Darpankumar Patel
Movies can demand a lot out of one as an individual. The situations are not just challenging but they are new. One has to keep evolving and keep pushing themselves. It's an unsaid rule. This is the best thing about the new Director and Director of Photography, Darpan Patel. Shall it be "The Briefcase", his first film as a Director of Photography, shot within a tight schedule with more than 45 camera setups a day in hot and humid Florida, or "Rook", his first feature film as a chief lighting technician in freezing temperature up on the Rocky Mountains. "He was being frost bitten and yet he had solutions to all the lighting challenges we were facing on that day with a brightest of smile there is. A true mark of an extraordinarily skilled and a champion human being." As described by Mauricio Vega, the director of photography, Rook. He recently finished his first short film as a director - Last Words. Let's get to know his experience with that in his own words.
"You don't make a successful film just like that. It takes a lot behind the scenes for a film to be as good as it appears on the screen.