Bad Month for world Cinema Fans are continue with the sad demise of veteran Sri Lankan cinematographer, and film and television director and producer Andrew Jayamanne. News came as Veteran cinematographer, Film & television director & producer, Andrew Jayamanne passed away in Italy at the age of 71. About Him Andrew Jayamanne ඇන්ඩෘ ජයමාන්න (alternative spelling Andrew Jayamanna, 9 November 1943 - 29 August 2014) was a Sri Lankan cinematographer, and film and television director and producer Early life Jayamanne is the eldest of ten children born to Vincent Jayamanne and his wife Beatrice Perera. He was raised in Periyamulla in Negombo, the town on the Western sea-coast where his father was born. Jayamanne did his elementary studies at St. Anthony’s boys School, Dalupotha, Negombo. In 1955 he joined the Archdiocesan College of St.Aloysius, Colombo, with the intention of becoming a Catholic priest. But due to a health condition, on doctor’s advice he had to abandon his studies and engage in manual labour. Career Beginnings Ataweni Pudumaya (Muhurath) While at college, Jayamannes teachers recognized his love of photography and assigned him to handle the cinema and audio visual equipment in the college. Later he joined the Radio & Electronics Laboratory at Kotahena. In 1962, he joined Vijaya Film Studios and Laboratories of Cinemas Limited, at Hendala, Wattala. In 1962 he started his career as an assistant cameraman at the Vijaya Studios. As an assistant cameraman and camera-unit in-charge he worked on over 40 feature films, both domestic and international. This gave him the opportunity to work under many cinematographers and to study film laboratory techniques, sound studio work, film editing, production designing and production management. Professional career While working at Vijaya Studios, Jayamanne met Sri Lankan director Titus Thotawatta. In 1970, he left Vijaya to join Thotawatta in the production of Haralaksaya, marking his debut as Director of Cinematography. Jayamanne continued to work as Thotawattas principle cinematographer through the latters final film Handaya. Jayamanne was employed by many other veteran directors, and became a favorite of new directors for their debut projects. His contribution to the films of Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, Vasantha Obeysekera and Parakrama Niriella were highly acclaimed by cinema critics and Journalists of Sri Lanka. In 1972, when the State Film Corporation called for registration of cinema technicians, Jayamanne registered as film director, script writer, cinematographer, editor and production manager. He is the only person in Sri Lanka to have been registered in five categories. Instructor In 1972, Jayamanne was invited to conduct classes for beginners interested in cinema and television at the Paul VI center, Fort, Colombo, organized by the OCIC Sri Lanka. He started training with Super 8 format and slide show programs. Then as VHS came to industry it was introduced to beginners. He held two short film festivals with his students at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. In 1983 Jayamanne had the opportunity to attend a professional video program training offered in Taipei by Santa Clara University. Jayamanne was subsequently called up by the Television Training Institute, Sri Lanka to train video technicians for Rupavahini and ITN, the two national television channels. The courses were later extended to train video teams of the Army, Navy, Police, Education, Agricultural, health, and many other government institutes. In 1986 Andrew Jayamanne was commissioned to train the staff of ITN network studios. During this course several practical programs were produced. The long-running ITN serial Kopi Kade is an offshoot of these training classes. “Kopi Kade” drama was designed to be a low cost a multi-camera production by shooting and editing on line within few hours. since 1985 Andrew Jayamanne was train the students of OCIC cinema & television work shops Jayamanne organized another 6 months course for “Television Program Production Training Institute” for Media Centre at Deans Road, Colombo. Six of these programs were conducted. During 1992 and 1993, Jayamanne was retained as a visiting lecturer at Sri Jayawardanapura University and Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo. He extended the video production training classes to remote areas like Trincomalee (three programs), Horuwpatana (one program) and Negombo (two programs). These were conducted as one week full-time courses. The students were trained to use available still or mobile phone cameras for creating short films. In 2002 He was called up by the Vietnam Television channels workers forum to conduct a workshop in Saigon. Dear Sir May your Soul Rest in Eternal Peace! From All of us Here in Cinema & Music For Life & Pleasure- සිනමාව සහ සංගීතය - ජීවිතය විඳිනු පිණිස.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:29:06 +0000
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