davide janssen

After a few months of travelling and having worked in the advertising industry for a few years beforehand, I wanted to broaden my horizon and learn more about the art-industry and the events within. I found an apprecticeship at Unfair, where I learned about the incredible diversity and inner workings of the artworld, by helping produce events such as Unfair18 and an art auction in collaboration with Christie's.

After working on agency side for a few years, it was time for me to see how things are done on the other side of the fence. Next to my position of Project Manager of both the team and keeping check of where each project was status-wise, I also set-up shoots (managed pitches, budgets, locations, crew and post) and communicated with the clients. The new roles were a challenge, especially when it came to juggling the titles and responsibilities. These challenges, however, made me focus at higher level, and taught me a multitude of invaluable lessons in management, team-communication & efficiency. Clients included: Netflix, Porsche, Samsung, CPNB & Winq among others

Learning the ropes. From filming, recording sound, editing and producing, RedRum enabled me to experience a little bit of everything. Next to the office-management on the side, of course.

Turning the creative into film. Setting up & overlooking the budget/planning, finding the most suited directors and, in co-operation with the chosen production company, set up the shoot. Afterwards oversee the edit and/or animation process to in the end deliver to client the desired deliverables. Setting up and versioning all deliverables, when required.

In this time I was able to fully focus on learning about production, which was on a new scale from what I had previously seen. The budgets were bigger, the clients massive, and I got to go along with the big producers to see how they tackled these projects.