Hello everybody, I'm new on the subreddit, however I'd prefer to share a few of my expertise of 5 or so years working solely as a inventive assistant and ghostwriter for administrators in creating pitch decks (aka director's therapies). I don't need to self-promote, so I’ll chorus of providing you with my minibio, however I'd be completely happy to reply any questions on this gig within the feedback. A number of the most well-known prodcos I did therapies for embody Iconoclast, Landia, CANADA, and Eyeforce.

Corporations specialised in therapies, like ambushed.television and thecollectivepitch.com, are few and work on a complete different scale, so that is aimed extra at freelancers. I even suppose that, with a small group of gifted researchers, we may put collectively some sort of shared (personal) database to seek out one of the best references for our moodboards, storyboards and so forth.

Okay, so the instruments I most use.

flim.ai and frameset.app are at present my go-to databases for iconographic analysis. They provide related companies, however have wildly totally different frames and types. I did a fast search to show my level: Flim has 27 Apple spots on their database, whereas Frameset has over 60. And many don’t repeat themselves (Flim has This watch tells time, Frameset doesn’t, as an example). Frameset has a greater search engine for digicam actions, albeit very removed from superb, whereas Flim appears to serve me higher on music video clips.

As soon as you utilize each to look for a similar scenes and references, you begin to see how wildly totally different the outcomes are, and the way it might make sense to be subscribed to each of them, however when you're trying to paying for only one, I'd advocate Frameset. I've been utilizing it for significantly much less time than Flim, nevertheless it persistently turns up higher outcomes. It's additionally cheaper, and there's just one subscription stage, which already permits direct downloading. Flim's PRO plan is at present sitting at FIFTY EURO/month. Fucking ridiculous. I simply have the essential plan, as they provide me the Vimeo/Youtube hyperlink and the timecode of the minimize I'm taking a look at.

BTW, two very useful instruments for Vimeo/YT obtain are the Video Downloader for Vimeo extension and stacher.io (which is only a front-end for the yt-dlp command line utility, however I like fairly issues).

For HD movie body grabs, you all most likely already know this one: shotdeck.com – when you don't need to pay for it, simply make a brand new account each 15 days, as a result of they don’t ask for bank cards. I'm not saying it is best to, however let's simply say I'm already at my 83rd gmail account for brand spanking new Shotdeck accounts. Lovely web site, lovely challenge – and so they lately added industrial work too, though their advert database sucks in the mean time.

eyecannndy.com generally is a good place to begin for a particular sort of approach or digicam trick it is advisable discover.

are.na is an ever-growing clusterfuck/rabbit gap of fantastic stuff, when you comply with the proper channels. It can provide your therapy a really explicit layer of coolness. Additionally nice for selecting up casting pictures as references for what you need in your individual challenge. Some persons are beginning to compile iconographic frames/gifs of there too, nevertheless it's nonetheless weak for this a part of the analysis.

I don't know what's the neighborhood stance on AI however, not less than for us visible researchers, AI picture turbines equivalent to Midjourney have been a gamechanger. Typically the challenge's key idea is method too absurd or particular, so AI (and the rising management it offers us over its creations) actually helps when placing a storyboard collectively, or proposing new set layouts, parts, objects, and many others. I truly realized the way to use Midjourney very early on, and typically administrators will rent me for 1 or 2 days with the challenge already accredited, so I can work with the artwork division to create props and ideas like this (xmas advert, I blurred the shopper and the company):

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The Photoshop AI additionally turns out to be useful when I’ve to edit/erase particulars in frames. But it surely sucks to think about new parts, so I simply use it as a fast erase device mainly.

ChatGPT helped me get out of author's block extra instances than I'd prefer to admit. I fed all of it my 100+ therapies and mainly educated it by myself writing fashion, so I really feel very assured in asking it to complete a setence or recommend a title now and again. Additionally, English isn’t my first language, so I normally ask for an entire fluency overview earlier than submitting something to the administrators' eyes. I at present have the Plus model of GPT, and it’s fairly wild how a lot smarter it sounds than its earlier iteration.

(Disclaimer, this can be a 100% human-written submit.)

Lastly, having an organized Dropbox with all of your frames and cuts is totally important – movies are inclined to repeat themselves, and perhaps a Barilla spot you researched 4 years in the past has an ideal analysis for a Heineken advert you're researching immediately. So know the place your shit is, to work sooner. And as Dropbox is thought for deleting accounts with copyrighted materials now and again (the dude from Rick and Morty misplaced TBs and TBs of analysis a couple of years in the past IIRC), I really feel having a backup on arduous drives can also be a should.

I feel I lined all of the vital instruments I take advantage of to compose my therapies. What I actually need to know is: what instruments do YOU use? Why are they higher than those I discussed? I'd like to optimize my workflow, so if anybody has a neat tip or trick relating to picture analysis, please share!