- short tutorials<\/h6>\n- production diaries<\/h6>\n- \"everyday\" behind the scenes<\/h6>\n- hiring calls (we will let you know when we are hiring... the hell with it! just send us your CV at contact@holamedia.eu<\/a> ... don't wait for the call!)<\/h6>\n- some diy stuff (sometimes, either because of budgets, or time, or just because we cannot find what we need in shops, we are building stuff)<\/h6>\n- our crew (almost every team member will post periodically on this blog and they will tell you how things are going or they will just say hello in their way)<\/h6>\n- help (sometimes we need help! we might need your help with a location\/campaign or something...you know, a guy knows a guy that knows a guy..)<\/h6>\n- and probably some more!<\/h6>\n
*by the way, if you guys have any suggestions, feel free to comment or write us an email<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nThat being said, I will share with some behind the scene stories about our latest music video production.<\/p>\n
Rootkey feat. Hubert Tubbs - Factory Puppets<\/h4>\nLabel: Italica Records<\/h6>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/numafilm.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vlcsnap-2017-03-12-23h45m48s190-1024x547.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWe are not a BIG production company, actually we are quite a small one, but some\u00a0of the things that characterizes our team is passion, hard work and dedication. In other words, we put\u00a0everything we got in a project.<\/p>\n
Here is how everything happened. Rootkey<\/a> came to our offices quite decided that he wants to make a music video at Hola Media after he took a journey on the internet looking for what we did, he almost made a study regarding our company and \u00a0basically we were\u00a0the production company that he was\u00a0looking for.<\/p>\nFirst meeting was a relatively short. About 2 hours, discussing terms and having some wide discussions about the whole concept. Shortly after, we started pre-production and settle the production budget. When you look at the cast and crew you notice that we had quite a few\u00a0people around. Well, where there are people involved, you have to be prepared for everything. Also, many characters means higher costs for our client, so we tried to fit within the budget that we've discussed initially. After the two day casting for our characters we almost had all the actors that we needed, minus some key characters, so we ended up with another two days of phone calls until we got them all.<\/p>\n
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Locations were next.<\/h4>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/numafilm.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture-1-1024x617.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nYep! The key word for location scouting is \"adventure\", even though\u00a0we had most urban scouting for interiors, it doesn't mean that things would go easy on us. We didn't have a budget for building sets, so we had to rent almost every location. We went for Airbnb<\/a>\u00a0instead of asking friends, but I will get back to you on\u00a0this because I wan't to share with you guys an interesting (it was not so great then) story from production day #2 in the next blog post.<\/p>\nGoing further, for a couple of scenes we used Airbnb, we had access to an amazing steampunk bistro\u00a0(Joben Bistro<\/a>), a \"home coffee\" place called Meron<\/a> a meat cutting factory (Carmangeria Moldovan<\/a>), two hotel apartments (Castelul printul vanator<\/a> and Haller Castle<\/a>), one dental clinic (Novodent<\/a>) and three\u00a0outdoor locations, one for the dancer (with many graffiti), one forest and one for the old man in the wheelchair.<\/p>\nFor this last location we needed a lake with a wooden dock. After we browsed Google maps we decided make a short trip near Cluj Napoca at Martinesti to see if the location was any\u00a0good for us.<\/p>\n
We found an amazing frozen lake with the perfect wooden dock. Cadrage is the app that we are using when doing scouting and work like a charm. You can find it on App Store<\/a> and Google Play<\/a> for ~ 13$<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/numafilm.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cadrage_snapshot_2017-02-10_17-25-08-1024x485.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAs a conclusion, we settled all actors and locations in 8 days. (in parallel with that we made our shot list, moods, equipment lists, everything we needed to fix in pre-production). When I say settled, I mean contracts and agreements signed\u00a0and I advise you to do the same in your future production to avoid unwanted surprises.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Production - Day #1<\/h4>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/numafilm.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vlcsnap-2017-03-12-23h43m49s990-1024x547.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAfter a week of meetings, scouting, preparing...we were eager to start shooting this video.<\/p>\n
On average, we were shooting 2-3 hours in every location, plus travel times and gear preparation.<\/p>\n
We started with the cafe scene early in the morning. 06.30 was the meeting time at the office with the crew because we needed to start shooting at 08.00. When shooting in a location that's also a business, like Meron (they make amazing coffee products...if you end up in Cluj Napoca you might want to stop here for at least a cup of coffee) \u00a0even if you got the place for a few hours or a day, take in consideration\u00a0what that means for them in terms of sales. I recommend you to try and make your shots work as well as you can. The guys\u00a0at Meron were awesome!<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/numafilm.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vlcsnap-2017-03-12-23h44m34s305-1024x547.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWe ended up using almost all the coffee shop, but we had fun and made our time there worth something. We had 4 shots here and made them in about 2 hours with mounting and dismounting equipment included.<\/p>\n
- \"everyday\" behind the scenes<\/h6>\n- hiring calls (we will let you know when we are hiring... the hell with it! just send us your CV at contact@holamedia.eu<\/a> ... don't wait for the call!)<\/h6>\n- some diy stuff (sometimes, either because of budgets, or time, or just because we cannot find what we need in shops, we are building stuff)<\/h6>\n- our crew (almost every team member will post periodically on this blog and they will tell you how things are going or they will just say hello in their way)<\/h6>\n- help (sometimes we need help! we might need your help with a location\/campaign or something...you know, a guy knows a guy that knows a guy..)<\/h6>\n- and probably some more!<\/h6>\n
*by the way, if you guys have any suggestions, feel free to comment or write us an email<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nThat being said, I will share with some behind the scene stories about our latest music video production.<\/p>\n
Rootkey feat. Hubert Tubbs - Factory Puppets<\/h4>\nLabel: Italica Records<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWe are not a BIG production company, actually we are quite a small one, but some\u00a0of the things that characterizes our team is passion, hard work and dedication. In other words, we put\u00a0everything we got in a project.<\/p>\n
Here is how everything happened. Rootkey<\/a> came to our offices quite decided that he wants to make a music video at Hola Media after he took a journey on the internet looking for what we did, he almost made a study regarding our company and \u00a0basically we were\u00a0the production company that he was\u00a0looking for.<\/p>\nFirst meeting was a relatively short. About 2 hours, discussing terms and having some wide discussions about the whole concept. Shortly after, we started pre-production and settle the production budget. When you look at the cast and crew you notice that we had quite a few\u00a0people around. Well, where there are people involved, you have to be prepared for everything. Also, many characters means higher costs for our client, so we tried to fit within the budget that we've discussed initially. After the two day casting for our characters we almost had all the actors that we needed, minus some key characters, so we ended up with another two days of phone calls until we got them all.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Locations were next.<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nYep! The key word for location scouting is \"adventure\", even though\u00a0we had most urban scouting for interiors, it doesn't mean that things would go easy on us. We didn't have a budget for building sets, so we had to rent almost every location. We went for Airbnb<\/a>\u00a0instead of asking friends, but I will get back to you on\u00a0this because I wan't to share with you guys an interesting (it was not so great then) story from production day #2 in the next blog post.<\/p>\nGoing further, for a couple of scenes we used Airbnb, we had access to an amazing steampunk bistro\u00a0(Joben Bistro<\/a>), a \"home coffee\" place called Meron<\/a> a meat cutting factory (Carmangeria Moldovan<\/a>), two hotel apartments (Castelul printul vanator<\/a> and Haller Castle<\/a>), one dental clinic (Novodent<\/a>) and three\u00a0outdoor locations, one for the dancer (with many graffiti), one forest and one for the old man in the wheelchair.<\/p>\nFor this last location we needed a lake with a wooden dock. After we browsed Google maps we decided make a short trip near Cluj Napoca at Martinesti to see if the location was any\u00a0good for us.<\/p>\n
We found an amazing frozen lake with the perfect wooden dock. Cadrage is the app that we are using when doing scouting and work like a charm. You can find it on App Store<\/a> and Google Play<\/a> for ~ 13$<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAs a conclusion, we settled all actors and locations in 8 days. (in parallel with that we made our shot list, moods, equipment lists, everything we needed to fix in pre-production). When I say settled, I mean contracts and agreements signed\u00a0and I advise you to do the same in your future production to avoid unwanted surprises.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Production - Day #1<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAfter a week of meetings, scouting, preparing...we were eager to start shooting this video.<\/p>\n
On average, we were shooting 2-3 hours in every location, plus travel times and gear preparation.<\/p>\n
We started with the cafe scene early in the morning. 06.30 was the meeting time at the office with the crew because we needed to start shooting at 08.00. When shooting in a location that's also a business, like Meron (they make amazing coffee products...if you end up in Cluj Napoca you might want to stop here for at least a cup of coffee) \u00a0even if you got the place for a few hours or a day, take in consideration\u00a0what that means for them in terms of sales. I recommend you to try and make your shots work as well as you can. The guys\u00a0at Meron were awesome!<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWe ended up using almost all the coffee shop, but we had fun and made our time there worth something. We had 4 shots here and made them in about 2 hours with mounting and dismounting equipment included.<\/p>\n
- some diy stuff (sometimes, either because of budgets, or time, or just because we cannot find what we need in shops, we are building stuff)<\/h6>\n- our crew (almost every team member will post periodically on this blog and they will tell you how things are going or they will just say hello in their way)<\/h6>\n- help (sometimes we need help! we might need your help with a location\/campaign or something...you know, a guy knows a guy that knows a guy..)<\/h6>\n- and probably some more!<\/h6>\n
- help (sometimes we need help! we might need your help with a location\/campaign or something...you know, a guy knows a guy that knows a guy..)<\/h6>\n- and probably some more!<\/h6>\n
*by the way, if you guys have any suggestions, feel free to comment or write us an email<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n That being said, I will share with some behind the scene stories about our latest music video production.<\/p>\n We are not a BIG production company, actually we are quite a small one, but some\u00a0of the things that characterizes our team is passion, hard work and dedication. In other words, we put\u00a0everything we got in a project.<\/p>\n Here is how everything happened. Rootkey<\/a> came to our offices quite decided that he wants to make a music video at Hola Media after he took a journey on the internet looking for what we did, he almost made a study regarding our company and \u00a0basically we were\u00a0the production company that he was\u00a0looking for.<\/p>\n First meeting was a relatively short. About 2 hours, discussing terms and having some wide discussions about the whole concept. Shortly after, we started pre-production and settle the production budget. When you look at the cast and crew you notice that we had quite a few\u00a0people around. Well, where there are people involved, you have to be prepared for everything. Also, many characters means higher costs for our client, so we tried to fit within the budget that we've discussed initially. After the two day casting for our characters we almost had all the actors that we needed, minus some key characters, so we ended up with another two days of phone calls until we got them all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yep! The key word for location scouting is \"adventure\", even though\u00a0we had most urban scouting for interiors, it doesn't mean that things would go easy on us. We didn't have a budget for building sets, so we had to rent almost every location. We went for Airbnb<\/a>\u00a0instead of asking friends, but I will get back to you on\u00a0this because I wan't to share with you guys an interesting (it was not so great then) story from production day #2 in the next blog post.<\/p>\n Going further, for a couple of scenes we used Airbnb, we had access to an amazing steampunk bistro\u00a0(Joben Bistro<\/a>), a \"home coffee\" place called Meron<\/a> a meat cutting factory (Carmangeria Moldovan<\/a>), two hotel apartments (Castelul printul vanator<\/a> and Haller Castle<\/a>), one dental clinic (Novodent<\/a>) and three\u00a0outdoor locations, one for the dancer (with many graffiti), one forest and one for the old man in the wheelchair.<\/p>\n For this last location we needed a lake with a wooden dock. After we browsed Google maps we decided make a short trip near Cluj Napoca at Martinesti to see if the location was any\u00a0good for us.<\/p>\n We found an amazing frozen lake with the perfect wooden dock. Cadrage is the app that we are using when doing scouting and work like a charm. You can find it on App Store<\/a> and Google Play<\/a> for ~ 13$<\/p>\n As a conclusion, we settled all actors and locations in 8 days. (in parallel with that we made our shot list, moods, equipment lists, everything we needed to fix in pre-production). When I say settled, I mean contracts and agreements signed\u00a0and I advise you to do the same in your future production to avoid unwanted surprises.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After a week of meetings, scouting, preparing...we were eager to start shooting this video.<\/p>\n On average, we were shooting 2-3 hours in every location, plus travel times and gear preparation.<\/p>\n We started with the cafe scene early in the morning. 06.30 was the meeting time at the office with the crew because we needed to start shooting at 08.00. When shooting in a location that's also a business, like Meron (they make amazing coffee products...if you end up in Cluj Napoca you might want to stop here for at least a cup of coffee) \u00a0even if you got the place for a few hours or a day, take in consideration\u00a0what that means for them in terms of sales. I recommend you to try and make your shots work as well as you can. The guys\u00a0at Meron were awesome!<\/p>\n We ended up using almost all the coffee shop, but we had fun and made our time there worth something. We had 4 shots here and made them in about 2 hours with mounting and dismounting equipment included.<\/p>\nRootkey feat. Hubert Tubbs - Factory Puppets<\/h4>\n
Label: Italica Records<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLocations were next.<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nProduction - Day #1<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/numafilm.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vlcsnap-2017-03-12-23h45m55s126-1024x547.png\")
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