Contact
One email address. It gets answered.
No form, no gatekeeper, no “fill in your budget range” dropdown. Write to him directly and say what the project is.
- Ash@ashwinmitchell.com
- @itsashwinish
- Live site
- ashwinmitchell.com
- Based
- Los Angeles, California — travels for work
- Available for
- Staffing, writing assignments, editorial commissions, unit stills, portraits and headshots
- Response
- PLACEHOLDER — no published response time in the content brief
Make it easy to quote
What to put in the brief.
For a photography commission
- What it is — editorial, portrait, headshot, event
- Dates, or the window you are working in
- Location, and whether a studio is needed
- Who or what is in front of the camera
- What the images are used for, and where they run
- How many finished images you need
- Budget, even approximately
For unit stills
- Production title, format and runtime
- Shoot dates and shooting location
- Union or non-union
- Whether you need BTS, key art, poster imaging, or all three
- Delivery deadline and what it feeds — press, marketing, awards
- Who to coordinate with on the day
For script work
- Which script you want to read, if it is a sample request
- Who is reading it and why
- For an assignment: format, length and the deadline
- For notes: page count and turnaround
Writing excerpts are on the writing page. Full drafts on request.
For anything else
- Teaching, workshops and talks — get in touch
- Press and interview requests
- Print enquiries and exhibition invitations
If you are not sure which of these you need, say what the problem is and he will tell you.
Before you write
You may already have your answer.
- Rates — editorial from $1,500/day, headshots $350, portraits from $550, stills at IATSE for LA union productions.
- Screenplays — loglines, comps and samples for all four scripts.
- Stills credits — twelve films, six vertical series.
- Background — education, teaching, awards.
Ash@ashwinmitchell.com
Screenwriter, filmmaker and editorial photographer. Los Angeles.