Still frame from a directed film

DevantayJ ✶ Film

Direction ✶ music video ✶ brand film ✶ documentary

Moving
pictures

Photography is one frame doing the whole job. Film is the opposite discipline, and I keep both, because thinking in sequences is a large part of why the stills hang together in the first place.

How it runs

Treatment
first

Nothing gets scheduled before there is a document: the idea, the references, the look, the locations, the shot list, and the budget it needs. It is a page or two, it is quick to write, and it is the only way to be sure the film in your head and the film in mine are the same film.

After that it is the usual shape. Pre production and casting, a shoot day or three, an offline cut for notes, then grade and sound. Two rounds of notes are included, and a third is rarely needed if the treatment did its job.

Stage 01
Treatment
Stage 02
Pre production
Stage 03
Shoot
Stage 04
Offline cut
Stage 05
Grade and sound
Stage 06
Delivery
Notes
Two rounds included
Stills
Unit stills available
Book it

Got a track,
or a brief?

Send it over. A voice note and three references is genuinely enough to start, and Whatsapp is the easiest way to send one.