Simply put, documentary is all about documenting different aspects of reality with an intention to maintain a record as it is. Earlier called actualities films, documentaries are primarily made for the purposes of instruction, education, observation, revelation of truth, or to maintain a historical record. Documentary form of storytelling has been shifting its shape ever since the earliest days of cinema and can be divided in six major modes of filming as poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. Depending on motive for making a documentary, you can choose the mode in which you want to shoot.
Whether the documentary is intended for an Institution/ organization only or you want to showcase it in film festivals or later sell at any OTT platform; Argalian Pictures is a one stop solution company that can help you with complete production services for documentary filming. We are well equipped to take care of each project from concept to completion. Right from concept development stage, our scriptwriting team and production design crew gets engaged for script development, shooting script, storyboarding, cast assessment, location scouting, budgeting and scheduling that is necessary to get the camera rolling on time. Argalian pictures has a team of skilled technicians and crew, and during filming you can avail services of capable director, DP/ cinematographers, Cameramen, Gaffers, location sound mixer, boom operator and art director to create aesthetically pleasing compositions. Our production house also provides the best post production services like editing, DI, DCP conversion, ADR, Picture editing, Sound editing, Mixing, Foley, M&E, trailer, titles, and Dialogue Scripting etc.
OUR PROCESS WORKFLOW
Our work process is divided in three major stages, before we hand out the final product to you.
Pre-production
Laying the right groundwork is essential to developing a great video. Pre-production is where we figure out the best game plan for your concept. We work on storyline, the look/feel and style, we write the script, cast actors/ narrators, as required, decide on location and set design, and lock down all the other details involved with how the actual video is going to look, sound, and perform.
Production
We’re rolling! Now that we have the road map developed in the pre-production stage, it’s time to put it all together in front of the cameras. This is where our professional crew of director of photography, camera operators, sound engineers, and lighting techs and art directors do what they do best – film a great video.
Post Production
If production is putting all the ingredients together to bake the cake from the recipe developed in pre-production, then post-production is putting the icing on that cake and making it look irresistibly delicious. Our editorial post-production team kicks in to shape your story, handle color-correction, dubbing, clean up the audio, add music, and in general make sure your video looks exactly like we planned in pre-production. It’s at this stage that you’ll see the first cut.
Final Revisions/ Output
Once you’ve seen the first cut, you’ll have a chance to share your thoughts with us. There is one round of revisions allowed at this stage, within reasonable expectations and within the scope of the original video concept. With the final cut complete and your approval signed-off, we create high quality files of your video that can be used for a variety of formats, be it for the web, OTT channels, film festivals or broadcast television.