Students’ Works

October 18, 2024: Whistling Woods International Fashion & Costume Design Students Showcase a Blend of Traditional Techniques and Modern Innovation at Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024

July 25, 2024: Folk Art Exhibition by the Department of Animation & Game Design Semester 1 Students

The students of the Department of Music put together an ensemble performance, paying a musical tribute to the living legend, Mr. Herbie Hancock. The performance was an eclectic spin on one of his all-time iconic riffs, reimagined as a smorgasbord of sounds from the Indian and Western palettes. 

Performance by WWI School of Music, Batch 2024:

Aaditya Mehta, Aditya Kamble, Anushka Mahanta, Calvin Charles, Harsh Gadkari, Madhura Padave, Srinjoy Das, Suhastic Das, Tupur Verma, Prabhat Sagar, Pranav Barange, Ratul Mehra, Rishabh Borchetia, Rishabh Malik, Rohan Upadeo, Shruti Tatake, Tushar Nagwani Sagar, Pranav Barange, Ratul Mehra, Rishabh Borchetia, Rishabh Malik, Rohan Upadeo, Shruti Tatake, and Tushar Nagwani participated in this performance.

May 27, 2024: Event Education Festival, pioneered by the WWI Department of Event Management, concluded its 4th edition

April 5, 2024: Taal Musical Performance by Actors’ Studio Sem 4 Students

April 3, 2024: Cook Off by the School of Media and Communication Students

The Animation and Game Design department hosted ‘The Animation Hackathon/Game Jam 2024’, a thrilling event that challenged students to create films or games within a timeframe of 48 hours. This high-octane event witnessed students engaging in spirited yet healthy competition, showcasing creativity at its zenith.

 

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Whistling Woods International School of Music students experienced a remarkable opportunity to witness the legendary Jazz musician, Herbie Hancock at the NCPA. Originally scheduled to attend his masterclass, the excitement peaked when the event organisers proposed WWI Music students to perform for him. This unexpected invitation led to the assembling of a student band, who rehearsed diligently for days. To perform, alongside the talented students from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, in the presence of the maestro along with award-winning vocalist, Dianne Reeves was no less of a surreal moment. Being part of such esteemed company was an immense honour, allowing for not only witnessing the brilliance of Herbie Hancock and his phenomenal band but also gaining invaluable insights from him and Dianne Reeves, culminating in an unforgettable performance.

Whistling Woods International students from the Visual Communication Design, Design, accompanied by the HOD Mr. Milindo Taid and faculty Ms. Devyani Arya, visited Paris, France, for a study tour and workshop as part of their curriculum.

The two-week visit was an intense and engaging period of discovery and learning for the students, as they visited design studios, museums, and art & design hotspots, immersing themselves deeply across the historic, vibrant and stimulating capital city of France, Paris.

Hosted at the Design Campus of École de Communication Visuelle (ECV), our students also participated in quite a few workshops and expositions across the city, and they concluded the trip with the “Paris Mon Amour” exhibition, showcasing their posters, sketchbooks, and design processes.

The short film is a psychological thriller which has won multiple awards at the esteemed Tagore International Film Festival in the following categories: Critics Choice Award, Debut Filmmaker, Film on Women, Film on Disability Issue, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Amature Film and Women’s Films.

The film has also been officially selected for the Goa Film Festival and the Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival.

” 1200+ applicants across India, 80 selections, 10 teams, and it was great to be part of Designathon 2022 at Lollypop Design Studio. Super intense 24 hours to work towards solving a real-life problem. The journey was a roller coaster but in the end, it was worth it.

Kudos to our team – ‘Happy Accidents’ as in design there’s no such thing as making mistakes. Made some amazing friends, interacted with insightful mentors, and had the pleasure of creating an intense solution winning the Second place at Designathon 2022.

Thank You Anil Reddy for being extremely approachable and sharing your experiences with us, Nikalank Jain and Karthi Subbaraman for being the best jury members, for sharing your learning, providing feedback, and helping us set the right direction by guiding us from time to time.”

Film ‘Mera Number Kab Aayega’ by the alumni of Whistling Woods International received a number of awards and accolades

List of WWI Alumni who are part of this project:
Writer & Director – Jayant Gupta (Screenwriting department 2020)
Production Designer – Kabir Dhawan & Jahnvi Shah
Assistant Director – Ishutosh Pandey & Vandana Laikar
Editor – Jaitre Surti
Music – Siddharth M.

Awards and accolades so far:
1. Indo French International Film Festival – Winner (Best Indian Short film)
2. Port Blair International Film Festival – Winner (Best Indian Short film)
3. Golden Sparrow International Film Festival – Winner (Best Indian Short film)
4. 7th Art Independent International Film Festival – Winner (Best Short film & Best Director)
5. The Raw Films festival- Winner (Best Actor & Best Music Director)
6. Black Swan International Film Festival – Winner (Outstanding Achievement award)
7. Indie Film Festival – Marudham – Winner (Best Short Script)
8. Jaipur International Film Festival – Official Selection (Result awaited)
9. LIAFF – Best short film(less than 40 min.)
10. Golden Leaf International Film Festival – Winner (Best Short Script)

Two films by the alumni of Whistling Woods International were selected as winners for the Emerging Artist Festival:
Shikhandi– Best Film
Grandma’s Tale of The Magical Ou-tenga– Best Story

Below mentioned are the alumni who worked on the films respectively:

Shikhandi
Director: Sahil D. Gada
Writer: Sahil D. Gada
Producer: Ruhila Sardesai
DOP: Dhrupad Shukla
Editor: Alvina Joshi
Sound Designer: Aaqib Sayyed
Music: Rakshit Malhotra

Cast
Lead: Dev Shah

Crew
Asst. Cameramen: Karandeep Chhabra, Divya Kalati

Grandma’s Tale of The Magical Ou-tenga
Director: Rishab Thakur (Student)
Writer: Rishab Thakur
Producer: Whistling Woods International, Mumbai
Editor: Rishab Thakur
Sound Designer: Aaqib Sayyed
Music: Swapnil Singh
Art Director: Jasbinder Singh (Faculty, School of Animation)

Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the most celebrated festivals of India, marks the birth of Lord Ganesh.

The elephant-headed God was once created in a completely human form by the Goddess Parvati. She moulded him from clay, turmeric and other natural herbs and gave it life. Ganesh Idols made from clay and natural herbs benefit the ecosystem they enter after being immersed in the water.

Taking this ideology forward and our pledge to support sustainable development at the WWI campus, the WWI Earth Charter Team has created this eco-friendly Ganpati idol by using clay, edible pearls, and edible glitter. The idol’s crown is embedded with Sitaphal seeds, which was planted on our campus after the visarjan.

Idol Made By:

Pooja Puri, School of Media and Communication | Anushri Iyer, School of Filmmaking | Shreya Heda, School of Media and Communication | Danish Alvi, School of Event Management | Pratham Goel, School of Filmmaking

Whistling Woods International alumnus Siddharth Roy has been felicitated with ‘The National Youth Award’ 2018-2019 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. The award was conferred by the Hon’ble Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur. Ms. Usha Sharma, Secretary (Youth Affairs), and Deirdre Boyd, UN Resident Coordinator were also present at the award ceremony. The ceremony took place at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Siddharth Roy was among the seven youths selected from pan-India, the only one from Maharashtra (2018-2019).
Siddharth has completed his graduation in Media Management from Whistling Woods International and is an author and a community enabler.
He has also previously received awards like – Rashtriya Gaurav Samman (2019), Promising Indian of the Year (2019), Mayor Innovation Award (2019) and the Manuscript of the Year – Lit O Fest Mumbai (2018).

Congratulations to WWI Alumnus Jitan Harmeet Singh on receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the Best Cinematographer for the movie, Khuda Haafiz.
We wish you immense success in the future.

We at Whistling Woods International, thank all our students and alumni for such soulful albums, singles and podcasts that narrate stories with a blend of joy and excitement.

We wish our students and alumni immense success in the future and hope they create many more songs and podcasts in the coming year.

Congratulations to our students from the School of Filmmaking and Actors’ Studio for their work on the music video, ‘Wish You Were Here’, now streaming on YouTube.

It is a soothing yet exciting hip hop music video, depicting a love story posed in a post-apocalyptic scenario highlighting our straggling world. The song invariably imbues its listeners with a sense of saudade and covet.

We are proud of our students and wish them infinite success and opportunities in the future.

Crew and Cast
Writer/Director: Aditya Vikram Chawla
Executive Producer: Jonnathan George
Editor x Colorist: Kartikay Bhardwaj
Cinematography: Mihir Fichadiya, Digvijay Killampilli, Nikhil Pires
VFX Team: Ramanuj Deka, Aman Bhuyan, Rohit Sharma, Priyanshu Sah
Production Assistants: Rahul Chowdhury, Sharang Sharma
Poster: Nabankur Bora
Cast: Khushbu Ghimiray, Akhil Sharma

Our students from the School of Design as part of the Art Direction for Advertising course created illustrations based on the quote – “A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.”

Word and image communications were explored by using cut-out pieces of letters from print media, by combining text with hand done illustrations. Creative interpretation and evocative as well as imaginative leaps with words and images is what each of the students attempted to achieve.

We are proud of our students for these creative interpretations, in translating anthemic quotes into visually arresting word-image frames.

Our students from the School of Design created hand-done artworks as part of their assignments for Art Direction for Advertising. Exploring anthemic visual language drawn from a diverse range of art styles and movements, the students repurposed these to contemporary branding and marketing communications.

We are proud of our students for working on their artworks that reflect such interesting insights and displays an abundance of creativity.

Congratulations to students of Whistling Woods International for creating and curating a series of podcasts named Goonj, which ranked 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 on 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲- India’s podcast charts in the stories section. Goonj is an OTT version of audio files that comes in an episodic format where they narrate stories with a blend of joy and anticipation, that absorbs your mind till the end.

We are proud of our students and wish them immense success and endless opportunities in the future.

Congratulations to our #WWIStudent Tejas Shukul for his work in the series ‘Serious Men’, which is now trending number one on Netflix.

We wish him immense success and endless opportunities in the future.

Congratulations to our #WWIStudents @theadityagudadhe, @thecamerachild, @prashant_chaudhary_personal , @iamhbn, @culkidspa, @devadas_official, @vaibhaviyer_official, Arpit Sawant, @jyotiharlalka, @thekatfilms, @immatipsy, @radhika._.12, @m_chaudhary1_, and @shivanginiupadhyay for their work in the music video ‘Jiyun Kaise’ sung by Suhayb Nazyr. The video is released by Bon-Bros Records in association with Vishwaditya Productions. The music video has garnered over 1 million views on YouTube.

We wish them immense success and endless opportunities in the future.

Our student, Prakash Tuli, from the School of Design, worked on designing an application conceived as a consolidated one stop OTT (over-the-top) solution that allows viewers to stream original, regional, and exclusive content, spread across various platforms.

As an avid watcher of OTT content, Prakash assessed that although the advent of streaming platforms have given users myriad advantages over conventional TV, the OTT platforms come with their own set of pain points. In turning a hunch into a full-fledged UI/UX design brief, he attempted to create a user-friendly consolidated solution that would discourage the often encountered ‘app hopping’ and override subscriptions as well. He designed the application and gave it a contemporary name ‘Oodles’, while, in terms of function, allowing the audience to discover and reimagine movies in their own capacity, rather than with the help of AI.

We are proud of our student for applying his insights in meeting the user experience challenges faced by large numbers of streaming content consumers in India, and abroad.

Congratulations to our WWI Students for their work in the short film ‘Muskaan’, which won the Festival Finalist Award at the Cosmo International Film Festival for Best Film on Women Indian Short Film and garnered official selections at Lift-Off Global Network, Tagore International Film Festival, Prisma Independent Film Awards, and Cosmo Film Festival. The film was also nominated in a competition for several different categories – Student Film, Debut Director, Best Soundtrack, and Amateur Film.
The film was also nominated in a competition for several different categories – Student Film, Debut Director, Best Soundtrack, and Amateur Film.

Writer, Director, and Producer – Vikhyat Srivastava
Director of Photography – Pratyush Saini
Editor – Kanak Arora
Sound Designer – Gunavardhan Chimmani and Shubh Tandon
VFX – Shreyas Gupta

Production Designer – Yash Talmale
Costumes and HMU – Jigyasha Soni
Associate Costume Designer – Muskan Mahajan
Line Producer – Shivam Jaiswal
Actors – Rishika Chandani, Yash Bagadia

We are proud of our students and wish them immense success and endless opportunities in the future.

The podcast narrates a story of a man living next door to an annoyingly intruding couple. A tale that revolves around the search for truth and the mysteries of perception.

Written, Directed and Music by – Kanishka Pal
Produced by – Armaan Kaul and Sneha Agarwal
Starring – Anil Charanjeett, Divyansh Jain, Jasmine Grover, Sai Godbole and Aditya Shastri
Sound Design by – Himansh Malviya
Team Goonj – Laili Dutta, Rohitendra Chatterjee, Rachit Daruka and Vedashree Adige
Marketing Team – Priyanshi Savani, Tirtha Nair, Vandana Arora
Data Management and Analytics – Tanya Verma

We are proud of our students and alumni for curating such suspense-filled masterpiece.

Listen to the full episode on @goonj.podcast

Congratulations to our #WWIStudents Rayyan Sher, Rishav Chakraborty, Lakshya Marwah, Dev Patel, Mrunmayee Tare, Dia Maini, Ekta Sethia, Samasti Rana, Khushi Gandhi, Anant Joshi, Anshuman Johri, and Sourav Biswas for their work in the music video ‘Yeh Kahani Tu Rehne De’ sung by Raj Barman in association with Pixel Grabber Productions Pvt Ltd. The music video was partially shot at Whistling Woods International and has already garnered over 2.5 lakh views on YouTube. It is also doing well on online streaming platforms like Spotify, Gaana, Wynk, and Apple Music.

Congratulations to our #𝐖𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 Anshuman Rai, Aryan Kataria, Divyam Jain, Amrit Basavaraj, Kanak Arora, Shreyash Tatuskar, Shrey Srivastava, Swapnil Singh, Arpit Sawant, Akshata Garima Malhan, Muskan Mahajan, Armaan Kaul, Anshuman Johri, Tanushka Sujeet, Rohan Dutta, Pranit Sareen, Harkirat Kherwal, Paraakram Singh Chauhan, Divyam Jain, Nidhi Wagle, and #𝐖𝐖𝐈𝐀𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐧𝐢 Vahini Pandita for their work in the music video ‘Saath Chal Zara’ in association with Zee Music Company and The Kat Films.

Our student, Harshita Bachani, from the School of Design, worked on sustainable visual design projects as part of her graduation thesis project – delivering on design interventions under standard industry conditions. During her years in the BA Visual Communication Design programme, Harshita showed a keen interest in hand-crafted work, and she furthered her passion by taking on a sustainable packaging thesis project that had her effectively address bio-degradable packaging, brand identity, brand story, and brand positioning. Her sustainable packaging project was sponsored by a green business startup, Baroda.

As a young aspiring designer who has a special interest in handmade and sustainable products, she made a pitch to the sponsors with a hand-crafted sketchbook that delighted them. She was taken on board to design the packaging for fragile products made out of clay and wire. She underwent a rigorous, iterative design process to arrive at her final concepts, in keeping with the green business goals of the project sponsors.

The challenge faced while working on sustainable packaging was thinking out of the box while bringing the design process to life.

We are proud of our student for applying her abilities to demonstrate such creative concepts.

Our student, Bhavish Shah, from the School Of Design, worked on three visual design projects as part of his graduation thesis project – delivering on design interventions under standard industry conditions. His years in the BA Visual Communication Design programme held him in good stead in getting a grip on areas that were certainly challenging – brand identity, brand story, menu design, product listing, content production, brand guidelines, brand positioning, marketing strategy and content strategy. His restaurant branding project was sponsored by The Reform Design Studio (TRD Studio), Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.

As a young designer he looked under the hoods of the businesses of the clients and conducted extensive research and design iterations, before arriving at the branding, visual identity and visual story-telling ideas for three separate food businesses – ‘Flip & Toss’, a Quick Service Restaurant catering to youth; ‘Go-Food'(GOFO), a Food Truck catering to office-going professionals, and ‘Athidhi’, an Indian restaurant being set up in Wiesloch, Germany.

Congratulations to our students from the School of Music, School of Media & Communication, and School of Fashion, for their work in the Music Video ‘Picture Frame’ that is now streaming on Spotify and YouTube.
Picture Frame is about the feeling of reminiscence. When one moves away from their friends and family to start a new phase in their lives, they often tend to change. But the feeling of falling back upon or stumbling onto such memories in the form of photographs is what keeps one grounded.

We are proud of our students and wish them immense success and endless opportunities in the future.

Congratulations to our WWI Student Ansh Chomal for his work in the short film ‘Cage,’ which won an award at a national film festival and 2 official selections, 1 award nomination (for The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards, UK), as well as achieved ‘Top 15’ finalists out of 672 entries in the ‘Shorted India’ lockdown film challenge.

The short film is a representation of the entrapment encountered by the protagonist during the COVID-19 lockdown. Devoid of any dialogue, the narrative of the story is dictated by background music that fills the film’s silence. The alliance of the sound and visuals depicts the emotion and sentiment of the mundaneness of the daily life of a human being.

Congratulations to our students Kabir Singh Manchanda, Nikhil Sinha and Swapnil Singh for re-creating the soulful version of our National Anthem in association with Merchant Records, owned by the music duo Salim-Sulaiman. This song was composed and sung by our students as an ode to all the freedom fighters of India.

Congratulations to our student Keshav Tyohar for re-creating the soulful version of our National Anthem in association with Merchant Records, owned by the music duo Salim-Sulaiman. This song was composed and sung by our students as an ode to all the freedom fighters of India.

Congratulations to our student Chaand Bajaj on the release of his second music video ‘Maa’ in association with White Hill Music. He composed this song as a heartfelt dedication to his mother.

Congratulations to our students, Sourav Biswas – Director of Photography and Rishav Chakraborty – Editor, for their work in the music video ‘O Meri Jaan’ in association with Sony Music India. We wish them more success for their future endeavours.

Congratulations to our student Chaand Bajaj for his first music video release ‘Tera Naam Daata’ in association with Shemaroo. A genre that he always wanted to be his first, he composed and penned this soulful devotional song.
We wish him immense success and more such opportunities in the future.

CAST:
Bhaskar – Vikrant / Anish / Abhay | Sudhir – Aditya / Devansh | Chandu – Lochan / Rajat / Harshit | Parag – Rahul / Veer | Prabha – Ishita | Bhabhi – Anmol | Anjali – Sabrina | Amma – Arjoo | Dadi – Deeksha | Ranju – Shlesha

CREDITS:
Playwright – Mahesh Elkunchwar | Play Adaptation in Hindi – Vasant Dev | Directed & Designed – Salim Arif | Assistant Director – Sagar Jatt | Light Design & Operation – Aadesh Sharma | Poster Design – Anish Bansod | Sound Design – Bhavya, Shiv Hari, Allen, Guna Vardhan, Shubham Muyal Production team – Ariana, Prakhar, Devansh | Set design – C’estlavie, Anisha

Based on any product of student’s choice, they had to develop an Ad-campaign of three advertisements for a magazine. This project helped them go through the same process an Ad agency would go in developing a campaign, right from the strategy to photography, copywriting and layout composition. Going through the process step-by-step, they came up with their own campaigns for brands they like.

They also worked on the films of their choice and took the dominant colour from the film and made an art film poster. The only constraint was to stick to only one colour for the whole poster. Based on this, they had to interpret what part of the story they want to tell about the film through posters keeping in mind, that it is the first impression of a film before you get to experience it.

Picture captured by Anand Pandey – Student, WWI School of Filmmaking, was featured on the official social media pages of Nat Geo Traveller India. He captured the photo of Sudama Setu, the 545-foot long suspension bridge, which connects Dwarka with Panchnad.

Students of WWI School of Animation & Game Design, showcased their artwork at Comic Con 2019, India’s greatest pop culture event. Comic Con 2019 featured the best of comics, books, film & TV, merchandise & gaming events, surrounding the popular adaptations. The students created & designed graphic novels namely Adhikar, Bhairava, Ephemeral, Menkapura & Nirvana. The graphic novels were highly appreciated by the audience & the students were admired for their passion & creativity.

Students of WWI School of Media & Communication attended Production Design Workshop on November 5, 2019. They designed miniature sets and displayed their work.