FRAME 001  /  PUNE, INDIA  /  MIT WPU · BBA '26
SIDDHANT
MISHRA

Frames. Sound. Grade. Story. Business.

Colorist Director DIT Sound Design Music Supervision Creative Marketing
SEEKING INTERNSHIP  //  FILM & ENTERTAINMENT
PUNE • MAHARASHTRA • INDIA
FREAKINGHAMITMAN@GMAIL.COM  //  ◉ 2025
001 — Profile
Behind
the Frame

A BBA student at MIT WPU with a parallel life on set — directing, shooting, grading, and sound-designing real commercial work for brands and creators. Not a hobbyist. A practitioner.

I understand the business layer that most creatives don't: distribution, brand strategy, audience analytics, pitch decks. And I understand the craft layer that most business students never touch: node-based color workflows, sound design, codec pipelines, and what a frame is actually made of.

The intersection of those two things is exactly where production houses need people who don't slow down the pipeline.

450K+ YouTube subscribers
on client channels
E2E End-to-end production:
story → grade → delivery
3+ Active brand clients
(Kellogg's, Wakefit +)
NODE DaVinci Resolve &
TouchDesigner fluency
002 — Selected Credits
The Work
◈ Flagship Project — End-to-End Production
Director & Lead Producer  ·  Commercial Spec Ad
Hippo Chips — Startup Revival Campaign
Complete end-to-end production: story, direction, lighting, sound design, editing, and color grade. Built as a strategic creative asset for a university brand-revival case study — earned top faculty commendation for bridging business strategy with cinematic execution. The rare project where the MBA deck and the DaVinci timeline lived in the same brain.
Direction Lighting Sound Design Color Grade Brand Strategy
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◈ Narrative Film
Colorist & Sound Designer  ·  Short Film  ·  In Production
COLUMETRI
Currently executing end-to-end color grading in DaVinci Resolve and designing the complete sonic landscape for an independent short film. Full node-based grade from conform to final delivery.
DaVinci Resolve Color Grade Sound Design In Production
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◈ Brand Campaigns
Commercial Editor  ·  Aryan Kataria (450K+ Subs)
Kellogg's Chocos — Brand Integration
Edited a commercial integration that balanced strict brand requirements with the high-energy creator pacing audiences expect from a 450K+ sub channel. Every cut had to serve two masters simultaneously.
Commercial Editing Brand Integration Creator Economy
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Editor  ·  Deesha Katkar
Wakefit — Commercial Reel
Cut a promotional reel with a focus on engaging visual hooks and seamless product integration — the kind of edit where the product feels like a natural part of life, not an interruption of it.
Promotional Reel Visual Hooks Product Edit
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Director / Shooter / Editor  ·  Aapka Jags
Hapka Restaurant — Launch Campaign
Handled the complete production pipeline: direction, lighting, cinematography, and post for the restaurant's launch content and ongoing digital reels. Drove digital engagement for a commercial hospitality brand from day one.
Direction Cinematography Hospitality Brand Launch Content
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◈ Digital Content & Creator Work
Self-Shot & Edited  ·  Personal Portfolio
@freakinghitman — Visual Storytelling
A self-directed portfolio demonstrating a distinct cinematic eye: intentional color application, considered framing, and an editorial sensibility that treats Instagram as a gallery, not a feed.
Photography Cinematography Color Application
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Shooter & Editor  ·  Aapka Jags YouTube
Long-Form Narrative Content
Shot and edited full-length creator content maintaining viewer retention through dynamic sequencing — the discipline of making a long form video feel shorter than it is.
Long-Form Edit Viewer Retention YouTube
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Editor  ·  Aryan Kataria + Aapka Jags
Short-Form Retention Edits — YouTube Shorts
High-performing, fast-paced Shorts optimized for algorithmic reach and audience engagement. Every cut at the exact moment attention would otherwise escape.
Short-Form Retention Editing Algorithm Optimization
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003 — Technical Arsenal
Tools of
the Trade
Post-Production
DaVinci Resolve — Color & Grade
Node-Based Workflows
Sound Design
TouchDesigner
Video Codecs (ProRes / H.264)
Camera & Production
Videography & Cinematography
Digital & Analog Photography
Lighting Design
DIT Workflows
Color Science (RAW / Log / Rec.709)
Creative & Marketing
Commercial Brand Integration
High-Retention Editing
Pitch Deck Design
Audience Analysis
Photoshop / Illustrator
Music & Audio
Music Licensing (Master / Publishing)
Sync Identification (Mood / BPM / Genre)
Multi-Genre Vinyl Archiving
Emotional Pacing with Sound
004 — Education & Business Acumen
The Other
Half
Bachelor of
Business Admin.
MIT WPU · Pune · 3rd Year · 2026
Rapid Commerce Strategy: Deep organisational and marketing analysis of Blinkit's pipeline — speed, distribution, and last-mile economics.
Business Model Innovation: Developed a comprehensive business model canvas for LinguaStay, exploring new market entry and monetisation frameworks.
Brand Revival (Hippo Chips): Built a full strategic case study that didn't stop at the deck — produced a commercial spec ad to execute the strategy on film.

A BBA student understands budgets, stakeholders, release strategy, and audience segmentation. A filmmaker understands light, sound, rhythm, and emotion. Most internship candidates offer one of those things.

The Hippo Chips campaign is proof that both can live in the same deliverable — and in the same person.

What this means on set
I can read a budget breakdown and a colour scope at the same meeting. I can write a marketing brief and then go grade the teaser for it. I will not need a translator between the creative team and the business team.
005 — The Obsessions
What Drives
the Work
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Cinema
Active Letterboxd reviewer. I study the visual language of highly stylized, character-driven television and film — not just what directors did, but why it worked. Film analysis as craft education.
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Vinyl & Music
Multi-genre collector. All genres, no hierarchies. I can hear when a track is wrong for a scene the same way a colorist can see a blown highlight — automatically, viscerally, before I can explain why.
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Photography
Digital and analog. Stills are the grammar of cinema — every composition decision I make with a camera reinforces how I think about the moving image: light, shadow, negative space, timing.
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Physical Media
Vinyls. Blu-Rays. Criterion pressings. I study historical trends in media packaging and archiving — there's a reason the object matters. Ownership of art is not the same as access to it.
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Film Business
Distribution, rights, marketing campaigns, festival strategy. Art doesn't reach an audience without commerce. I'm equally interested in the infrastructure that makes the film exist as in the film itself.
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Visual Systems
TouchDesigner, node graphs, generative art. I think in interconnected systems. Understanding not just what a tool makes but how its nodes talk to each other — that's the DIT mindset applied to everything.
006 — Let's Make Something
Siddhant
Mishra
✉ FreakingHitman@gmail.com ⊕ @freakinghitman ⊕ Letterboxd

Pune, Maharashtra  ·  MIT WPU — BBA 3rd Year  ·  Open to relocation