Ashwin Kakumanu Instagram – Here’s a fun blast from the past! Way back in 2004, my friends and I tried to make a pilot/ feature film of sorts and did auditions for that. This was the casting call/audition poster. We designed the poster to look like it was the scribbling of a bored school kid on his lab notebook(since the story was about 3 friends in their 12th standard) I illustrated it using the images as a reference and we stuck this poster all around town, in Cafe coffee days and landmark and Odyssey etc. I’m not sure if it was loud enough to grab people’s attention,but the simplicity and quirk of the design is what I’m most proud of. We got far enough to cast the characters and shoot a few days. It was a big task to get students to come over the weekend to shoot, and to set the story in such a big space, like a school (seriously shout out to those students who showed up to support us) We later realized that by doing this, we didn’t have the money to see the shooting through..🙄 We failed big, but the lesson learned was to start small.😌 . . . . #blastfromthepast #lifelessons #creativity #runandgun #learningonthejob #whatyoucantlearninfilmschool #becauseyoudidntgotofilmschool