Any film with a run time of less than 40 minutes (including opening and closing credits) is called a short film. So basically anything from 15 seconds to 40 minutes can be decided for length of a short film. It makes sense for amateurs, indie filmmakers or emerging production houses to make short films at the beginning of their careers, since short films can be shot in low budget and sometime with no budget at all! Generally funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsors, or personal fund, short films are the best medium to showcase your talent to secure funding for future projects from private investors, a production company, or film studios and get noticed at local, national, or international film festivals. But, one should know, making a professional short film is no easy job at that. As rightly quoted by famous filmmaker Martin C Scorsese; “A short film is even tougher in a way because it has to be a film”. It’s always challenging to shoot a film with proper flow to the story within a small timeline that doesn’t seem too rushed or incoherent. That’s where you require an experienced team for your project.
If you looking to produce a short film to enter in a film festival or pitch to any television or OTT channel, Argalian Pictures is a one stop solution company that can help you with complete production services for short film. 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 any actors, 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 te