Filmmakers Talk 19 - Voice Over Instructions

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Filmmakers Talk-18: Life of a freelancer

Filmmakers Talk-17: Sound PJ.

Filmmakers Talk 18 - Life of a freelancer

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FT#17 - Sound Pj

FT#16-Filmmaking Dictionary: Deadline

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Filmmakers Talk 17 - Sound Pj

Sorry I had to crack this bad joke.
For those who don't know, Pj stands for Poor Joke.

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FT#16-Filmmaking Dictionary: Deadline

FT#15 Casting Director

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Filmmakers Talk 16 - Filmmaking Dictionary: Deadline

How many times has this happened to you on projects where the deadline has come and gone but you are still making changes.. leave a comment below to let me know if this happens to you..


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FT#15 Casting Director

FT#14 Director at PPM

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Filmmakers Talk 15 - Casting Director

Let's see how many of you actually get this, leave a note in the comments if you do get it..

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FT#14 Director at PPM

FT#13 Agency Comments

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Filmmakers Talk 14 - Director at PPM

Ever done referencing for something that has not yet been created...

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FT#13 Agency Comments

FT#12 Creative Ends

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Filmmakers Talk 13 - Agency Comments

Most recently came across this agency that asked me to zoom into the shot but without loosing any information.... Please help if anyone know how to do this..

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FT#12 Creativity Ends

FT#11 Fix In Post

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Filmmakers Talk #12 - Creativity Ends

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FT#11 Fix In Post

FT#10 Producer to Client

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Filmmakers Talk #11 - Fix in Post

Of course you have heard this..

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FT#10 Producer to Client

FT#9 Post Producer to Agency

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Filmmakers Talk #10 - Producer to Client

It's not new to hear Clients asking for the edits to be presented at their office, while there is no problem with that except when they expect changes to be done right away.. small changes like "make the super bigger" and "keep this shot longer".. problem is there are further similar changes to these changes..

This one is dedicated to all post producers who would love to tell the clients when they don't want to come to the studio but ask for changes immediately...

...just come to the studio

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FT#9 Post Producer to Agency

FT#8 - Client to Agency

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Filmmakers Talk #9 - Post Producer to Agency

Been hearing this over the last few projects, where while everything else gets delayed the deadline for delivery does not shift, on one such occasion the Agency said "Since we have lesser time for post, how about we do the 15 sec cut down first and do the Master 30 sec later.." its a very straight forward answer to be given to such a question..

Of course, this answer applies only to advertising...

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FT#8 - Client to Agency

FT#7 - Agency to Client

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Teaser for Cadillac ATS

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Another challenge given to me earlier this year, Cadillac ATS was launching a new model and of course the teaser had to be out before the actual campaign was shot and delivered, so after a long chat with the agency we discussed to use the previous years footage, the givens were we cant show too much of the car since the model has changed and it says coming soon, it had to showcase from last years campaign the different locations that the car was shot at, also the different weather conditions basically everything from the challenges that were shot in the previous years, also had to include the human element, scale and production scale, and most importantly it will be only 15 sec long. Another problem faced was that all the earlier footage was shot in different formats so had to try and bind that in as well. The result is what you see above. Of course the last image of the car is the final car which is just a still image tracked on with the earlier shot car... let me know what you guys think..





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Casting Brief Q10: Any thing in the role, that might require a warning.

For the entire list of casting questions go back to

Casting Brief

Question 10: Anything in the role, to be done, that might require a warning.

This is a very simple question, should be known when the script is read already, but if something is left to be written or there is doubt then this question should be asked.  The question would be will the individual role involve anything like Kissing / Nudity / Semi Nudity / Stunts / or some physical altercations like going completely bald in some scene etc. 

There are also simpler warnings which the casting director also needs to check, like the role may involve playing of an instrument or as simple as driving a car, or riding a bike, swimming, dancing, singing, etc.. you do not know how many actors do not know how to do some of these things or they may just want to learn how to do some of these things so that it looks a lot more genuine when they play the role.

Again this knowledge helps in the actor deciding if they want to be part of this or not or if they need some clarification as to how far will a certain shot go etc. Like in cases where the look of the actor would change would be needed to know by people who are already working on other projects since a change in look would affect the continuity in the other places

For the answer to the previous question see
Casting Brief Q9 - Individual Character Brief

Read on for the next question
Question 11: Reference of role

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Casting Brief

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Filmmakers Talk #7 - "This has to be delivered now"

This one is dedicated to all the Agency & Client folk who wake up just before the deadline and go "This has to be delivered now.."

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FT#6 - Brief to casting

FT#5 - Dedicated to clients

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The story behind GEM Hospital's AD Series

The story behind GEM Hospital - a series of 4 commercials made in very very low budget.

One directors illness is another directors film.

One evening at 5 pm I get a call from a producer asking me what I was doing the next day,
"Free, but why?" I asked,
"Can you direct some AD films tomorrow?" he went on
Shocked for moment then all the questions flowed "What, Tom? Where? How?"

So the director who was to direct these AD's fell ill and the location, actors, DOP etc were all booked and advances paid in some cases would all be lost, so I got lucky. (In a very low budget film thats like all money spent) I asked for the scripts which was promptly emailed across to me and I read them, there was no treatment note or references, or any homework done by the previous director or if done were not shared and by this time it was 6 pm, with all the chat over the phone and the booking of tickets I was off to the Mumbai airport by 7pm for a 8:15 pm flight, still talking to the producer on route,  passing on a few instructions of things that could be done and with questions still flowing I was off to Chennai.

In all the confusion of trying to answer my questions, booking my tickets and making sure that I got to the airport on time the producer missed his flight, he was coming from Bangalore, luckily since the distance is not too much he caught a night bus to reach early in the morning, so much for our plans of meeting late in the night to discuss details. At least I got to meet the DOP and discuss with him the way he was looking at these films, I was still trying to get all the films clearly into my head to see which way I could treat these films the best.

At 6 am I finally met the producer, we had a short discussion where I learnt that the client was a friend of the producer and on his request was ready to invest a tiny sum to make a few commercials. We reached the location which I was having a look at for the first time, followed by the actors, briefed them along with makeup and choose the costumes (which were self owned options carried) Then along with the DOP made a shoot plan and and the rest is there for you to see.

4 commercials all shot in one day with a turnaround for shoot less than 12 hours (at least for me) These are my showreel versions, the client versions ran in theatres and a few cable channels in the south region of India. Do let me know what you think of them.

"Missed Call"

"Treadmill"

"Sweet Tooth"

GEM Hospital Sound Sleep*

*For some reason the last video has some glitches post upload in youtube, tried various exports so click on the link above to see in Vimeo.

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Filmmakers Talk #6 Brief to Casting Director

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FT#5 - Dedicated to clients

FT#4 - Agency to a young director

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Filmmakers Talk #5 Dedicated to Clients

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FT#4 - Agency to a young director

FT#3 - Editor

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Filmmakers Talk #4 - Agency & Young Director Talk

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FT#3 - Editor

FT#2 - Director

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Filmmakers Talk #3 - The Editor

If you have never done "post-production" you would not have heard this...

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FT#2 - Director

FT#1 - Producer

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Filmakers Talk #2 - The Director

I am sure that people of all departments have heard this from the director before..

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FT#1 - Producer

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