20 Questions Film » Commercials http://20questionsfilm.com art is in the questions you ask Sun, 05 May 2019 09:51:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 WATCH: The Difference Between Commercial And Narrative Directing http://20questionsfilm.com/watch-the-difference-between-commercial-and-narrative-directing/ http://20questionsfilm.com/watch-the-difference-between-commercial-and-narrative-directing/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:27:12 +0000 http://20questionsfilm.com/?p=1520 Jessie Harris, Director and Founder of the NFFTY Film Festival in Seattle, discusses the differences between commercial and narrative directing. He’s done both and he’s bringing up some good points to keep in mind, if you are currently doing one and want to try your hand at the other.

 

Jesse Harris is a Los Angeles-based commercial director with numerous projects under his belt, working with some of the biggest companies in the world. He is also the founder of NFFTY – a Seattle film festival for talented, young filmmakers. The biggest of its kind, actually.

]]> http://20questionsfilm.com/watch-the-difference-between-commercial-and-narrative-directing/feed/ 0 WATCH: How To Get Professional Representation as a Director http://20questionsfilm.com/watch-how-to-get-professional-representation-as-a-director/ http://20questionsfilm.com/watch-how-to-get-professional-representation-as-a-director/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:27:05 +0000 http://20questionsfilm.com/?p=1460 What comes first; the chicken or the egg? The representation or the jobs? While it might not be feasible to put yourself in the running for directing national commercials right out of the gates and without representation, that doesn’t mean you can’t (or shouldn’t) do the same work under the radar.

Commercial director, Jesse Harris, talks about how he first got professional representation as a director and how he got to a point where he felt he was ready for it.

 

And while on the subject, let’s have him elaborate a bit, shall we?

 

Jesse Harris is a Los Angeles-based commercial director with numerous projects under his belt, working with some of the biggest companies in the world. He is also the founder of NFFTY – a Seattle film festival for talented, young filmmakers. The biggest of its kind, actually.

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