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YOE- 6.6 - UI developer
Wipro 18LPA 1.4 variable + 1lakh JOININGBONUS - SSE
HCL 20LPA 8% variable - R&D team NOT IN ANY PROJECT
WISSEN TECHNOLOGY 20% LPA Fixed - Senior Consultant
All are from Bangalore.
I am confused to pick better one.
Thank you.
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Congrats! Welcome to production. This is the fun and truly crazy part. Just know that the money combined with the limited time frame of prep combined with the even more limited time frame of the shoot is a pressure cooker. Stuff will go wrong and that’s ok.
This process is all about solving problems and setting yourself up for success.
1. Director search - maybe you’ve already got a director on board, but if not, you now need to sell your idea/script to directors. First, search for a director. Your producer will probably send you a list. But you should be looking too. This is huge. Pick a director who has the tone and style you love for the script. Got a list? Great. Now make a director reach out deck. This is a brief basically. Introduce the idea, have the scripts, but then also do a mini treatment. What’s the tone? What’s the look? What’s the set design? What’s the shooting style you’re thinking? Give them a taste of where you’re head is at so they can feedback against that. Then you’ll talk with directors, get treatments, evaluate how they’d bring them to life, have another phone call to discuss. Once you internally align on a director (if you’re not single bidding), you’ll sell them to the client. Pick the best/most important pieces from their treatment and walk the client through.
2. Casting - You know all those people in your scripts? Write short descriptions of them. A little summary of the character and their role. Maybe some personality notes. And then include details. You’ll get some initial casting links with tons of videos. Watch them. Pick the ones you’d think would be best. If the majority aren’t right, tell your producer why and they’ll relay the feedback to the casting agent. Then you’ll get another round of links. And so on. Once you have your selects, the casting place will have callbacks. In normal times, you’d go into a casting agency with the director, they’ll bring in the selects, and they’ll audition while getting notes from the director. Once you’ve seen all the selects, you’ll pick the best for the roles. Generally the director leads this and you chime in.
You’ll usually have 1st choices and 2nds as backups. Then this is where we make another deck, with a shot of each actor, a link to a portion of their audition, and a description of what they did well since people don’t always watch the links.
3. Locations - write a short brief of the different locations in your spot. Include relevant details. But most importantly include references. References are king/queen of production. While you’re doing other stuff (like callbacks) a location scout will be driving around in a weird wide brimmed hat and oakleys (don’t ask me why but it’s the uniform) looking for locations. They’ll send you pictures of the directors selects/favs. You ask questions about angles and what’s dressable/notdressable. You can also ask for more if you’re not getting what you need. In the same way you get feedback on art direction, you can give feedback on stuff (to a reasonable degree, don’t be a dick... but know what you need). After that, you’ll present locations in a deck to client. Inevitably they’ll kill the only one that there’s 0 backups for and you’ll be panicking in a hotel looking through volumes of pictures for something serviceable.
4. Production design and dressing and wardrobe - can you tell I’m a writer cause I limped these into one group? Honestly, your interactions with each of these are just similar processes. Startpulling references early. Have a look you want to achieve for a living room? References and write a brief. Need a funky robot? Pull references and write a brief. Have people in your spot? Pull wardrobe references and write a brief. Along the way, you’ll get updates from the production company on set dressing options, wardrobe, and production design. Give feedback. When you’re in a semi decent spot, put a deck together and show your client. They’ll probably say they didn’t think the robot would be so roboty. Convince them otherwise or you’ll have to go tell that production designer, “sorry about that robot you worked 72 hours straight on which perfectly fits the brief. We need something different.” Then ride in the rental car back to the hotel with your producer and feel bad.
5. Gain 15 lbs (only applicable if you’re traveling) - with all the decks you’ll be making to brief people and to update the client, you’ll need fuel. Everywhere you go, people will hand you food. This is a good move from the production company’s position because well fed clients are happy clients. Oh yeah, you’re a client on production but you also have your own client. Remember that dynamic, it’s important. Anyway, my favorite move is to find a grocery store nearby and get some healthyish snacks and stuff to keep in my hotel fridge so I don’t eat crap the whole time. But you do you.
6. Shooting boards - your director will work with an illustrator to board out the shots you’ll capture. Roll up your sleeves and dig into this because this is the time to ask for shots you thought you talked about but didn’t. Ask them to take you through it. Ask about coverage. Ask about camera moves. Get into the details. Think it all through.
7. Tech scout - are you ready to feel awkward and in the way? That’s what this is for. A tech scout is when the director and their different dept. leads all go to the locations to specifically plan out each shot, determine lighting needs required for different shots, figure out shot order based on sun position, and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn’t concern you... because you’re a client and you’re paying for their expertise. Alllll you’re here for is the director to finish with their team and then walk you through each shot. So you’ll be standing off to the side a lot. It’s ok. Ask questions and confirm things. This is a good chance to get on the same page before the Prepro meeting get into it.
So that should lead you to the pre pro meeting and through most of the prep. Maybe I forgot something but this feels like enough to chew on.
If I can offer one personal piece of advice, don’t drink the night before a shoot day. It’s not worth it.
You’ll also be putting a lot of mood boards together for casting specs, locations, props/set design, wardrobe, etc. So lots of making sure everyone is on the same page to steer the production company in the right direction with all things visual. Hopefully, you’ll get to be on all the casting calls, director calls, fittings, etc. as well. Film productions are my favorite part of my job.
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Moodboards AF.
No such thing as too much detail.
congrats on getting on a production! producing work is definitely one of the fun parts about being a creative.
i wrote a couple things to help first timers with exactly what you’re talking about, if you’d like to read them (some is also spoken to in some of the above great answers):
https://jeremycarson.com/prepro
https://jeremycarson.com/shoot
https://jeremycarson.com/picking-director
Your cd should help guide you. Let them know this is your first shoot and ask for them to explain EVERYTHING. Yes boards and treatments come from director usually but sometimes if it’s a tech client and the script involves a lot of UI, this will come from agency and get handed off to the director
Already some good advice here, just to throw in usually my AD partner takes visual stuff like props and makeup and wardrobe and I take more story related stuff like casting. But if it’s heavily weighted one way or another we definitely help each other out. Both of you should be able to do both, and should be commenting and adding to each other’s work on both
Get to the gym ASAP, cause you’re going to be eating anything and everything from craft services.