Introduction to Video Testimonials
Where to look and how to choose the characters?
A course by David R. Romay , Director, producer and writer
About the video: Where to look and how to choose the characters?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll tell you about the options and resources you can use to find your first character candidates. ”
In this video lesson David R. Romay addresses the topic: Where to look and how to choose the characters?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Testimonials. Discover how to find great characters in true stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“(music) Obviously, there are several ways to find characters. One is if you have a big brand behind, that is paying you, it's a professional job and the other one is a smaller personal project. Obviously, you're going to have as fewer calls, let's talk a little bit about the two. If it's a personal project, the first thing you have to do is look for the social environment you need for your piece. It's a silly example, but if you're going to talk about ethnicities or you're going to talk about indigenous cultures, you're going to have to go to a state where the indigenous cultures are import...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
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Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, Storytelling, TV, Video, Video Editing
David R. Romay
A course by David R. Romay
His work as a scriptwriter and director, which he has been developing for more than a decade, has led him to work for commercial brands such as Coca-Cola, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Pfizer, Volkswagen or Televisa, among others. However, it is in the documentary field in which David R. Romay moves with greater ease. In 2005, he produced the documentary Toro Negro , which won numerous awards at international film festivals such as San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Havana and Cannes.
In addition, he has directed and written documentaries for Clio TV (the producer of the historian Enrique Krauze) and, in 2010, he wrote and directed several chapters of the documentary series Heroes de Carne y Hueso , premiered on the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence. In 2012 he co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Oro, the day that everything changed , a film that tells the story of the Olympic football team, which won the gold medal in London 2012 and, it has become one of the most watched sports documentaries in Mexico.
In the field of fiction, he highlights A solas , a short film premiered at the 2009 Morelia Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award at Short Shorts México. And the recent premiere, at the Shanghai Film Festival 2018, of his first feature film: Behind the Mountain .
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