Thank You video production

After the numerous times of changing my idea and the initial script, I finally settled down and decided on my final Thank You video concept.

As I mentioned before, my video is like a demonstration of a part of the three piece scheme.

The Storyboard:







The location I chose (the conservatoire) was perfect! Apart from the light that kept on changing every three minutes.
My actress Natalia came to see me at 1pm that way we had 2 hours of rehearsing before the DOP came to shoot. I'd like to thank Tom Pykett again, he basically saved my project. Tom joined our course this year, came from Confetti Studios. I had only heard about the technical abilities people at that school have. Yesterday I had a chance to see it with my own eyes. I'd never worked with somebody that knows so much about film production before, was amazing. He understood my vision right away and made it work. Thank you Tom!!!








I looked at the footage on Premiere today, looks good! It's one minute long tracking shot, all I am going to do is colour grading and synchronising the sound because we recorded it on Tom's camera (my Rebel doesn't have a whole lot of audio options).










Still working on the paperwork, the plan is to get EVERYTHING done tomorrow!

This short video taught me that you just can't be a 'one man band' when it comes to shooting. I had a hard time finding help (everybody I knew were mega busy that wednesday). To be honest, that was the first time I directed something, now I feel I was a little bit too picky and fussy about some shots, but that happens when you stand aside and watch the whole thing instead of staring at the camera screen. You start seeing tiny flaws and want to fix them right away. It was fun and great experience no matter what.

StartUP factory

It's business, it's business time!




This assignment is about coming up with a business plan for your own creative company. And it's not as simple as it sounds, especially for a person like me that has never had an actual interaction with the inside of that kind of business.
Anyway. The reading list:

Soul food and music By Kim. Errington, Neil Maycroft and Jim Shorthose

Fish, Horses and other Animals by Jim Shorthose

Advertising Creative by Tim Altstiel and Jean Grow

How to do better creative work by Steve Harrison




My business idea is about starting up a company that would provide advertising service which would be based on traditional understanding of art & design. That would involve practitioners from different art backgrounds coming together and collaborating. The startUP company would specialise in advertising on three different platforms: print media, web and video.
In terms of the team, I would be looking for people that specialise in areas I'm not familiar with: web and graphics. If I'm lucky, I'd find a person that specialises in both in order to keep the crew as small as possible.
My client would be someone starting out his own career (mainly in art or creativity related businesses such as hairstyling/make up, architecture, publishing, gardening, etc) and in need of branding and self - advertising. The main goal of my company would be providing people with simple, creative and effective advertising material that would be comprehensible in the first place.


And NOW- the fun part where I have to figure out business values, business plan, sustainability and all those things I'm not aware of.
Two intense weeks ahead.