Vivek Kandasamy

799, Gnanagiri Road, E-mail: [email protected] CONTACT Sivakasi Website: https://filmengineers.com India - 626189 Phone: +37258157465

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To utilize my strong technical, analytical and team building skills on a platform where I can grow along with my team that I work with and share my knowledge & perspective for the betterment of story telling process & content creation.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Founder / CEO February 2020 — Present Film Engineers "Every story deserves to be told"

With all the experience I've had over the past 12 years in the Film making business along with my technical & software development skills, I founded Film Engineers with the passion & determination to design & provide technical tools to creatives with the mission of providing content creators, the creative freedom.

Digital Film Engineer / Workflow Producer December 2015 — December 2019 Bollywood / Film Industry To be a story teller has always been my hidden passion. Being a Digital Film Engineer with Virtual Cinematography skills adds more to my current job profile. Delivering visuals from an unique perspective to involve the audience to perceive the story is an art. Combining my artistic vision & technical skills from my past work experience and knowledge in game design tools like Unreal Engine & Unity makes it easy for me to be an effective virtual cinematographer on-set.

Workflow Producer / DMT Oct 2013 — November 2015 Prime Focus Ltd - Creating project-based digital workflows keeping three main factors (Budget, Timeframe & Technology) to achieve smooth, economical & effective shoot and post production experience for our clients. This includes visiting our clients with our marketing team to understand their needs and provide them with an approximate quote on the spot makes us more professional. - Training & collaborating with DITs& supervising the workflow (Both on-sets / Remotely) to maintain hassle-free shoot days. - Integrating with other pipelines (Dailies, VFX, DI, Deliverables, etc) & updating them on project basis. - Conducting workshops for Cinematographers (Our clients) explaining the latest technology in cameras & post production workflow. - Researching & Designing / Building custom on-set equipments based on project's needs. - 24hr on-call for emergency situations & support.

Vivek Kandasamy 1 Digital Imaging Technician June 2011 — Sep 2013 Freelancer A digital imaging technician (DIT) works in collaboration with a cinematographer on systemisation, signal integrity and image manipulation, to achieve the highest image quality and creative goals of cinematography for a film by implementing and configuring all technical parameters to correspond with a project's requirements.

Technician / Data Wrangler Dec 2010 — May 2011 Yogi Media To handle the data generated from the Digital Film Cameras and process it for post-production workflow pipelines based on the client's requirements.

Technician / Camera Dept Oct 2009 — Dec 2010 O2 Pictures To make sure the Digital filming cameras are properly rigged for filming on film sets. Troubleshoot if any accidental errors occur during the shooting process.

EDUCATION

Computer Engg (Dip.) 2005 — 2008 TNDTE Project Experience: Virtual Student : Theme of the project is to accomplish a composite video of a virtual 3D character and real world environment. Team Size: 5 Duration: 3 Months Tools Used: Maya, Motion Builder, After Effects, Adobe premiere pro

Visual communication 2008 — 2010 Annamalai University Project Experience: Thalassemia : A CGI presentation for a NGO based organization funding orphans suffering from a disease, thalassemia. Team Size : 1 Duration : 30 Days Tools: Maya, After Effects

Advanced cinematography (art & craft) — 2017 Global cinematography institute Advanced crash course and practical workshops on advanced cinematography techniques.

ASC Masterclass — 2017 American society of Cinematographers Advanced techniques approach towards modern cinematography, taught by the ASC members.

INTERESTS

Cinematography, Visualization, Film engineering (Research & Development of innovative tools & methods that can be

Vivek Kandasamy 2 used to reap the most out of available technology to favor the story telling process), Entrepreneurship, Travelling & understanding different cultures.

CAPABILITIES

Strong social skills & ability to educate, lead and manage a team. To relocate & start over wherever my entrepreneurship journey takes me. Can design, device & maintain a workflow / pipeline based on requirements. Remote administration & 24/7 on-call responsibility.

PROJECTS

Baapu Kya Che (cinematographer) - 2018 Raabta (digital film engineer) - 2017 Rock On II (camera operator) - 2016 Geboren am Ganges (German) (DIT) - 2016 Neerja (digital film engineer) - 2016 Rodina (Russian) (digital film engineer) - 2015 Words With Gods (digital film engineer) - 2014 Fireflies (digital imaging technician) - 2013 3G (digital imaging technician) - 2013 Table No. 21 (digital imaging technician) - 2013 Marina (digital imaging technician) - 2012 Commercials (150+) (DIT) - (eg., Honda, Dabur, Unilever, Aquaguard, etc..)

For entire project list, visit my IMDB profile: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5090692/

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that all the details given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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