ROHIT S. SARDESAI

• Develop project plans and schedules for production & artists team.
  - Communicate with producers, coordinators and creative leads regarding directives and production requirements of specific projects
  - Report directly to Head of Production - for all production related requirements and updates
  - Work in collaboration with Head of Department (of respective departments) in order to understand and execute project work.
  - Work with production coordinators & project leads to ensure deadlines are met.
  - Support/work with VFX Producer to create master and delivery schedules for production.
  - Oversee coordination of dailies and reviews, ensuring accurate notes are taken and production priorities are distributed and followed through.
  - Oversee outputs and deliveries
  - Create and maintain weekly status reports to track shot progress.
  - Forecast and communicate any delays or escalating any issues to VFX producer and company management Team including Head of Production and Central Production Managers.
  - Maintain all MPC Platforms - for Scheduling, on-going work tracking & artist management.

• Worked as Production Manager, in city of Mumbai. Projects looked after are as follows :
  - Visual Effects (Shot Finishing)
  - Television Commercials (Post Production)
  - Animation (2D)
  - Title Designs (Online Videos/Promos)
  Extensively work on Production Management of above service lines.

• Worked as VFX Line Producer for URI - The Surgical Strike Film Visual Effects
  Work included:
  - Shotgun Implementation - Helped the Studio in implementing Shotgun in VFX pipeline
  - Trained the team members on Shotgun and its relative aspects including:
  - Supervisors
  - Team Leads
  - Artists
  - Shot for VFX Inventory check
  - Helping The VFX Producer in Preparing Budgets
  - Preparing Timeline and schedules
  - Communication with client for understanding briefs, scope of work, budgets & time line required for the project
  - Final delivery of the project for domestic and international release.

• Line produce VFX on TV & Film schedules.
• Managing Artists - assignments, schedules & deliveries
• Planning of deliveries with Production Managers, Head of Production & VFX Supervisor
• Work closely with Team Lead, Second in Lead & accordingly report to VFX Supervisor for any issues, solutions & deliverables.
• Communicate with client/show site for production related matters.
• Drive coordinators & production assistants through their training & daily operations. Also, monitor their progress.

Tasks update & tracking.

• Ensure smooth functioning within team, grievance handling
• International & Domestic Client Communication.
• Ensure individual performance is aligned with company's vision, mission & values
• Responsible for managing artists, schedules and client expectations of company’s service lines including Digital Videos, VFX, Animation & Rotoscope.
• Maintain up-to-date schedule, recognize hard work of in-house teams by keeping moral up but know how to get work delivered.
• Managing all regular production personnel assignments including assignments of team leads, coordinators & artists. Assignment of supervisors and producers per production, with management's approval.
• Assisting and advising in effective implementation of company policies.
• Assisting in effective management of clients by ensuring production work force that is well matched to creative and technical requirements on individual department basis.
• Liaising with Supervisors & Producers to run effective postmortem assessments on all major productions.
• Reporting of all production activities to Supervisor on daily basis & to CEO on weekly basis.
• Participating in company activities, both professional & motivational.

• Work with in-house VFX teams.
• Liaison with clients for working towards achieving output.
• Reporting to CEO & VFX Producer for all management purposes.
• Communicate with artists and management to provide the desired output.
• Coordinate with all faculties of studio pipeline in order to maintain communication and dataflow.
• Production workflow planning – scheduling – deadline allocation 5.
• WEB4ME LIMITED (AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND).
• Taking care of entire video side of business.
• Acting as a liaison between clients & Web4Me.
• Handling video pre-production, client presentations, video production & post production.

• Freelance Senior Videographer.
• Managing team of 4 camera operators.
• Working on schedule of 19 hours spanning 2 days.
• Taking care of on-site lighting, camera operation & sound recording., for “Theo” A Chinese Documentary Film.
• Shoot Supervisor for entire schedule.
• Officially selected for Beijing Film Festival, 2013.
• Official Entry for Berlin International Film Festival, 2013.

• Edited 3 minute long music video on tight deadline of 16 hours.
• Rendering final output for multiple formats such as TV, internet, mobile uploads 10. Responsible for editing & launching teaser video for company’s upcoming event

Senior Video Editor for Istanbul Film Festival 33rd Edition. ( Freelance )
- Promo Editing.
- Title Designer.

• Performed post-production work, including assembling raw material, editing sound and sequences and providing final product within time and budget constraints.
• Organized assets by collecting data from camera media, transcoding video and audio files and managing file backup to digital asset management system.
• Edited motion design and visual effects for video. Promotion campaigns.
• Demonstrated ability to understand director's artistic vision and maintain alignment with vision throughout editing process.

• Conducting testimonials & interviews of clients.
• Editing montages and testimony videos.
• Adding motion graphics and 2D animations elements.
• Set up for shots according to production schedules, weather and lighting conditions and available equipment.
• Set up technical details of shots, including lighting and sound.
• Handled transportation of NZ$2500 worth of equipment for shoots.
• Storyboarded films and recorded over hours of footage for over projects spanning across year.
• Used Adobe Software set-up to edit footage into correct order and add effects.
• Collaborated with team members to develop content and message of over hours of footage, per month.

• Shot live auction event with 3 cameras.
• Camera 1 for audience.
• Camera 2 for auctioneer.
• Camera 3 for individuals in crowd 12.
• Set up for shots according to production schedules, weather and lighting conditions and available equipment.
• Produced original video content by working collaboratively with producers, designers and art specialists to facilitate multimedia production.
• Handled transportation of NZ$3000 worth of equipment for shoots.
• Set up technical details of shots, including lighting and sound.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.

• For Students of University of Auckland:
• Responsibilities involved following:
• Film Making Theories.
• Pre‐Production Planning.
• Production Supervision.
• Editing.
• Theories and techniques.
• On‐Shoot Supervision.
• Post Production.
• Both theoretical & practical 14.
• Collaborated with students to complete homework assignments, identify lagging skills and correct weaknesses.
• Integrated technology into sessions to further enhance student learning.
• Drilled students on subject matter and used flashcards and writing techniques to improve recall.
• Arranged tutoring environment to support optimal learning.
• Used tutoring software resources for different individuals with unique learning styles.
• Provided early intervention assistance to struggling students.
• Met with students and discussed educational goals and expectations.

• Worked as on-shoot Visual Effects Supervisor.
• Digital Visual Effects Artist.

Responsibilities included:

- Video shoot of live events for The Australian Capital Territory Government

- This was through private contracts

- Collecting & compiling shot footage

- Organizing & Selling footage to government's media representatives

I worked as Post Production Executive for:

- Asian studies - ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (The Australian National University)

- Responsibilities included

- Videographer

- Editor

- VFX Compositor

- Color Grading for

- Project Details:

- Live stage performance capturing (Including rehearsals)

- Chroma Room news shoot

- Video shooting of live events (for footage of news coverage)

• Managed teams of Roto Artists.
• Responsibilities included managing Rotoscope work of other artists, recruiting and training artists and coordinating to ensure quality of deliverables.
• Managed projects like Dragon ball Evolution, Quantum of Solace, Little Zizzou and large Indian Productions like Ghajini, Chandani Chowk to China.
• Delivered 48 shots of "X-Files : I want to believe" project by managing team of 12 artists with 20 hour turnaround.
• Recruited and trained team of 12 artists and supervised their rotoscope work to deliver Indian movie project Ghajini project within 25 days.
• Took initiative to manage shot collection, sequencing and quality control of team of 36 artists.
• Coordinated with multiple offices while simultaneously contributing individually as Roto Artist.