Work at Ucronía

Feb 2010 - Aug 2011 
  

"First Martial Arts Short Movie in Spain" (Valencia and Madrid, España)
  

Title
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor and Actor. 
   

Responsabilities in this role included   

As a Producer, Director, Writer, Editor and Marketing Manager:

• Developing the first Valencia Martial Arts short movie. Writing an original screenplay.
• Sourcing prospective contributors and collaborators willing to work in a newcomer´s project.
• Creating a detailed plan of action and timetable for production in Valencia, organizing the post production schedule and budget allocation and expenditure. Conveying the movie´s idea and style to the crew.
• As a director I would make key decisions on a daily basis managing a team of 25 people comprised of: Actors, Photography team, location collaborators and sound expert. Coordinating and motivating staff on set. Explaining the actors the style of the movie in order them to approach appropriately every scene, assembling everyone's talent.
• Selecting the appropriate music, compositors and soundtrack.
• Creating and directing the movie´s Martial Arts choreography and action sequences, and also teaching some of the actors how to move, fall, punch and react to the hits and blows.
• Casting operations, handling problems with the crew and staff and Directing the screenplay supervisions.
• Scouting locations and deciding the film set. Carefully planning every scene shots and angles.
• Edit and color correction of the movie using Sony Vegas Pro Suite. Designing the movie´s poster and making of videos.

As a leading Actor:

• Playing the leading role of the movie and transmitting the characters feeling and emotions in a believable way
• Acting on very demanding action scenes.
• Understanding of the scenes and dialogues, remembering the body movements and language.

Achievements in this role included 

As a Producer, Director and Marketing Manager:

• Created and produced a 24 min. HD Movie that was acclaimed to having a unique and original script, distinguishing itself from the rest of Spanish short movies for his action and non linear story development.
• Choreographed all the Action and Martial Arts scenes. Pioneering in doing a Martial Arts short movie in Spain.
• Improved production and managerial skills by directing a team of people with a very limited pay, and successfully directed and organized the team to work on 9 different locations under difficult circumstances. Also gained ability on working under stressful condition, working with an extremely limited budget balancing income and expenditure.
• Gained excellent working knowledge on how to storyboard and plan every scene, camera work and movie equipment. Also gained experience casting and looking for the proper actors to portray each one of the characters.
• Successfully edited the movie and learned about the editing process by analyzing and working with every single shot.
• Gained very valuable knowledge and experience on internet movie marketing and content management, studying the customer´s behavior and acceptance of visual material depending on the audience´s features.
• Designed along with visual animators Ucronía´s poster and other visual material.

As a Leading Actor:

• Got some positive acting acclaims by the audience on successfully portraying the character´s emotions on every scene, proving being able to direct and playing the leading role on a movie.
• Gained experience in the acting field by carrying the major role of the film.