Dear Friends

Film making is serious business in India and I believe that more films 
are made in India than in any other country in the world today. NID has 
an active film and video department and a NID Film Club which has 
produced a journal called "Cut Here", and issue no.4 is available for 
download from our website at this link below: (pdf file format 2.94 mb 
in size)
<http://www.nid.edu/download/cuthere4nov05.pdf >

I have contributed a speculative paper (pp 19 -21) exploring the 
emerging opportunities and convergences with the media turning digital 
and broadband. I have quoted below some details about the journal from 
a note by its editor. This is a rare product from a design school in 
India and I feel that such efforts need to be encouraged.

I would invite you to download the free copy from the website and look 
forward to your comments and suggestions directly to my mail ID 
<[log in to unmask]>. If some of you wish to contribute to the future 
volumes on research issues pertaining to media and design, the 
editorial team would be happy to hear from you. You may write directly 
to my colleague Arun Gupta <[log in to unmask]>, editor of the journal, 
if you wish.

I hope that this will help make this journal a sustainable and valuable 
offering from an Indian design school  in the days ahead.

With warm regards

M P Ranjan
from my office at NID
7 December 2005 at 8.40 pm IST


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................................................ the fourth (November 
2005) issue of the NID Film Club print magazine CUT HERE (on cinema and 
related matters) is now put up (as a downloadable PDF file / 2.94 MB) 
on the NID website http://www.nid.edu

The link is - http://www.nid.edu/download/cuthere4nov05.pdf

This 'Cut Here' is, to my mind, one of the best we have attempted so 
far. From remembering the horrors and lessons of Hiroshima, to paying a 
richly deserved tribute to one of the stalwarts of new Indian Cinema - 
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, this issue traverses stimulating territory.

The importance of sound and its careful design, especially in the 
indolent camcorder times that we live in, is brought in through thought 
provoking pieces by well-known industry experts. The captivating story 
of a musical rediscovery in the Caribbean adds to this aural 
celebration.

Portrayal of women in films is an issue which concerns a set of 
contributions, while the ill effects of globalisation and outsourcing 
on national cinemas concerns another. Yet another contributor talks 
about the salubrious consequences of international exposure.

A group of articles celebrate the spread and spirit of Indian 
mass-market cinema and claim its legitimate space in the sun, while 
some others look humorously at its conspicuous inadequacies. The brave 
new frontiers of Moving Image, in the hi-tech convergent world of 
today, is the subject matter of few well-informed reflections.

Happy reading! Do revert back with your feedback.

Arun Gupta
Faculty, Film & Video, Chairman, NID Film Club and Editor, Cut Here
National Institute of Design (NID), Paldi, Ahmedabad 380007
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

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Prof M P Ranjan
Faculty of Design
Head, NID Centre for Bamboo Applications
Faculty Member on Governing Council (2003 - 2005)
National Institute of Design
Paldi
Ahmedabad 380 007 India

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