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Hours and hours of group meetings, complete with endless food, laughter, gossip, fights and perhaps very little work. That's how most projects back in college got done! 
  
And that is mostly how our year end project – to shoot, style, make up, conjure up, write, and do everything to make a kickass advertising film – went. I won't disclose the results...*ahem*..we were great...mostly.


The idea was to style a bachelor pad, a one room apartment, in all its messy glory after a night of drunken revelry. After days and days of looking around we chanced upon this attic space that made each one of us smile a goofy grin! It was one of those dreamy attics that you always want to live in just once! Nevermind that all the windows were sealed shut, the floor peeling, dirt permanently glued to places and it being the most barren of places around. We had a lot of work ahead! And a day to set the place up!


And voila! Like a proud parent i present the after to a lot of hardwork and a lot of fun! We dusted, mopped, peeled off the shut windows, borrowed a fridge, a tv, and other knick knacks. And at the end of it all, we just sat here like regular college friends, eating pizza and making the place a mess. Like a real one room house!


Ofcourse the pretty needed to be marred with the actual effects of the night's revelry. Bottles were strewen around, last night's pizza boxes came to good use, books, clothes, boxers, the never ending list...




We didn't have enough cushions and thus ended up using random scraps of fabric to fill in empty cushion covers. We scouted thrift stores, sales, dumpyards, our own houses and even friends houses! 
 
It's funny that a part of each one of ours' personality made the sum total of the final result...




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  1. shivangini 10 May 2013 at 17:03

    mana where did you find this attic! what a lovely space and what a good job!

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    1. Mana10 May 2013 at 17:05

      A friend told us about the empty attic in his building. Interestingly...i live here now! The landlady built two flats here. :D

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    2. Mana10 May 2013 at 17:06

      Oh! And thank you. It was the most fun i've ever had.

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  2. Unknown15 May 2013 at 01:01

    Good work and good utilization of the space... :)

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