SearchingSirocco

It is not easy. First and foremost. Contact people as much as you can and meet them. Nothing will seem to happen at first but you will find your way. I have never directed an ad film but i have been on ad film sets as assistant art director and i know how to shoot ad films. So i was trying giving my resumes to ad film production houses and meeting advertising house, i also showed them my showreels but it produced no result. The problem with many production houses is that they produce in house ad films which is bad for independent film makers like me. During my course of meeting these film people, I met Parikshit Vaidya ( on whom I am going to dedicate an entire blog post soon). He was one of the most sorted man i have ever seen in my life. We became friends because he is an avid animal lover and you can talk to him at lengths about animals and loving them. He loves stray dogs and cats and he will leave no stone unturned to help them and i have witnessed one incidence myself. He gave...

I learned about advertising from books. As far as I remember I after college the only place I wanted to be was advertising and the reason was not work but cool factor. I really believed that advertising was the place I wanted to be until I actually got the chance to join an advertising company and they were paying peanuts as I was new to advertising. It was the worst one month of my life and I had to drag myself to work each and every day. What was the problem, you seem to be working? Firstly, I feel that the work of advertising is limited to Jumbo Xerox copy shop. They are creating stuff and arts of illustrator and photoshop. Most of the kids that I have found in advertising don’t read books and they are there because of cool factor as well. Sometimes when I would talk to them while smoking cigarettes outside, I would then get to know how frustrated they were. No one likes to go to job. Everyone seemed to enjoyed there but they don’t seem to be feel that they belong there. Sec...