An Industry Case Study
Narrative | Dramatic Features
Film Name: Nate & Jamie
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Kashif Boothe, Yazz Anderson – Moore, Troy Aidoo
Producer: Kashif Boothe, Yazz Anderson – Moore
Production: Kashif Boothe Entertainment
Budget: £10,000
Financing: Self – Funded
Shooting Format: Canon 650 1st Season – SONY AS 7 Mark ii Season 2
Screening Format: 16:9
World Premiere: YouTube
Awards: Favorite Web Series Ensemble at the 2018 Screen Nation Digital iS Media Awards 2018
Website: https://www.youtube.com/c/KashifBoothe
The Official Nate & Jamie S1E1
Nate & Jamie – Web Series – S1E1 Double Date
A Short Biography of Kashif Boothe
Kashif Boothe is an Independent filmmaker under Kashif Boothe Entertainment. His web-series Nate & Jamie won Favorite Web Ensemble at the Screen Nation Awards in 2018. He executive produced, multi award-winning series Talia Versus. And the short film Black Man Stand, which won Best Documentary at the London Short Series Festival 2019.
Kashif has worked successfully on Big Brother, The Elaine Paige Talk Show and Jamie Oliver shows. He has been working in the TV industry for 8 years across factual, scripted and media operations at ITV, Discovery Channel, Channel 4, Green Door Pictures (Idris Elba’s), and Reggie Yates.
The Kashif Boothe Interview
indieactivity: What is your film about?
Kashif Boothe (KB): Nate & Jamie is an award winning comedy web series starring Joshua Samuels and Samuel Williams. The show is about the antics of two mischievous young adults Nate (Samuel Williams), and Jamie (Joshua Samuels). The pilot episode of the series is rests on a story by Joshua Samuels. The pilot episode is originally a one off comedy sketch, that is now a web series.
Tell us about the festival run, marketing and sales?
Kashif Boothe (KB): Nate and Jamie is has nominations for 9 awards, winning one – Favorite Web Series Ensemble at the 2018 Screen Nation Digital iS Media Awards 2018.
Give the full Official Synopsis for your film?
Kashif Boothe (KB): Nate & Jamie is an award winning comedy web series starring Joshua Samuels and Samuel Williams. The show is about the antics of two mischievous young adults Nate (Samuel Williams) and Jamie (Joshua Samuels).
The first season follows Jamie and the ups and downs of his new relationship with Michelle (Lauren Douglin). Nate gets into a lot of situations he’d rather avoid. He has good intentions but gets into tricky situations.
Season 2 picks up from season 1 finale, and episode 4 of the spin off web series Imperfect. Where Michelle (Jamie’s Ex) makes it clear that she is done with him and Sam (the girl Nate pursued in Season 1) and her boyfriend scare off Nate and make sure he doesn’t bother Sam again.
Throughout the season it follows Jamie moving on from his breakup and realizing that he is still in love with his old girlfriend Vanessa (Jamila Wingett). Nate needs a new place to live after his Mum kicked him out and begins to date two girls at the same time. Will Jamie get his old girlfriend back? And will the two girls Nate is dating find out about each other?
Development & Financing?
Kashif Boothe (KB): I wrote the first season of the web series in 3 months and the 2nd in 4 months. I financed the series from my savings and wages from my job.
Production?
Kashif Boothe (KB): The first season is shot over 8 months with each episode shot in a day. As the episodes were predominately set in one location or were easy to set up as multiple locations. I edited the series on Adobe premier and had assistance from an edit consultant.
The series was shot multi cam on dslr cameras and in London at houses, hotels, bar lounges and retail stores and the episodes from the series were released from November 2016 – July 2017. I wrote, produced, directed and edited the first series due to a limited budget and resources.
The second season was shot in 3 months and shot single cam on SONY AS 7 Mark ii Season 2. It was shot in London in apartments, hotels, bar lounges, café’s, clubs and coffee shops. In Season 2, cinematographers, directors, producers were brought onto the season after the success of Season 1, episodes 1 – 3 were directed by Yazz Anderson – Moore and Troy Aidoo directed episodes 4-5.
The series was shot by cinematographer Carl- Ward Reid and assisted by Musonda Chola, with additional assistance from the PA and 1st AD. The second season was written and produced by me (Kashif Boothe) and edited by Saraphina Mattis. Season 2 premiered on October 11th 2018 and ended on December 6th 2018.
The Release?
KB: I released the series on YouTube
Advice from the Filmmaker?
KB: I think the best advice I can offer anyone starting in the industry is to be you. That might sound cliché but that’s the best thing I’ve learned. I took advice on numerous occasions, that I need to be very chatty or be more of an extrovert to get to where I wanted to be.
That’s not me, I’m an introvert and when being myself I am able to bond with the right the people, which will lead to my next opportunity. If you don’t have the budget or the connections, don’t worry about that, just go out and do it. Once you’ve made the film or series you will meet people who are fans of your work such as writers, directors, producers who will want to work with you to take your next project to the next level.
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