Sriram Venkit
A misfit, an advertising/marketing geek, a recent graduate of the Creative Brand Management MS program from the VCU Brandcenter, currently squatting, albeit legally, in New York. Was hypnotized into the world of cinema the day I saw Satya.

 

Sriram Venkitachalam's Blog

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    The Marketing of Paranormal Activity — on AdAge
    Paranormal Activity, a horror flick was produced for $15,000 a couple years ago. It opened on limited screens the weekend of October 2nd 2009 for a gross of $500,000, with a wider release the weekend of October 9th for a gross above $ 7 million. As a marketing-advertising geek/student/professional, I believe better business and better marketing = more creativity and better...
    by Sriram Venkitachalam at October 12th, 2009 at 02:10 pm
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    Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven Shows A New Style for Drama
    Akin’s The Edge of Heaven is a moving story of lives intersecting out of fiction like coincidence yet convincingly real because of its matter of fact presentation. I put Akin between the dramatic Hollywood or Indian cinema style and the straight forward, non-actors casting, documentary like Irani films of the Makhmalbafs. The story skids through briskly. Characters...
    by Sriram Venkitachalam at September 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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    Two Lessons I Learned from “Synecdoche, New York”
    *Warning: Reading this post will spoil the film for you.* Brilliant film. I felt embarassed about my little ideas after watching this film. I’m not going to critique or appreciate the film microscopically for two reasons: one, I feel incapable of it, and two, I took a lot out of the film, so I’d rather talk about that. Please note that I am not always looking...
    by Sriram Venkitachalam at September 7th, 2009 at 04:09 pm
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