Production house · Chennai
Brand films and reels for Chennai
Manufacturing, SaaS, silk, jewellery and food: Chennai brands have stories worth filming properly. I’m Yedukrishna Suresh, and YKS Productions is my independent production house. For Chennai brands and companies I make brand films, digital ad films, corporate and capability films, product and catalogue shoots and vertical reels, directing, shooting and editing them myself.
Proof, not promises
Work brands have actually run
Chennai shoots are planned as travel shoots, with travel inside one all-in quote.
Marriott campaign film · play
Above: the campaign film from the Marriott Coorg project. Brand content for Vaseline (Unilever). And a campaign reel that crossed 3.3M views on Instagram.
Why Chennai brands call me
Craft brands and engineering brands
Chennai has two kinds of brand that rarely get filmed well. One is the craft brand: silk, jewellery, textiles and food businesses with decades of heritage, now selling on Instagram and marketplaces. The other is the engineering brand: auto components, manufacturing and SaaS companies that need to explain what they do to investors, partners and hires.
Both need the same thing: someone who can find the beauty in the process. For a craft label that means texture, hands and close detail, and models who wear the product well. For an engineering company it means lighting a factory floor or a product so it looks precise rather than industrial, and an edit that explains without boring.
Vertical video is a big part of what Chennai brands ask for, so most shoots are planned to deliver reels alongside the main film.
What Chennai brands book
Common briefs
Saree, textile & jewellery campaigns
Campaign stills, catalogue images and reels, with models cast via YKS Talents.
Capability & plant films
For auto, manufacturing and engineering companies: process, precision, people.
SaaS & company films
Culture, hiring and founder films for Chennai’s tech companies.
Restaurant & food brands
Hero dishes, process shots and short food reels.
Locations
Shooting in Chennai
Chennai has a strong visual identity: the temple streets and colourful houses of Mylapore, colonial buildings around George Town and Egmore, long beaches along Marina and the East Coast Road, and modern tech corridors on OMR. Temples, heritage buildings and beaches can need permission, and I check that during planning.
Heat and humidity shape the schedule for much of the year, so outdoor work goes early morning or late afternoon, and kit and talent get proper breaks. The northeast monsoon (roughly October to December) is the main season to plan around.
Deliverables
What you walk away with
| Format | What it’s for | Typical cuts |
|---|---|---|
| Brand film | Homepage, launch, investor and sales decks | 60–120 s master + short cut-downs |
| Ad film (digital) | Meta, YouTube and OTT pre-roll campaigns | 6 s, 15 s, 30 s versions in 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 |
| Corporate video | Company profile, culture, hiring, events | Master film + social edits |
| Product video & stills | E-commerce listings, launches, ads | Hero shots, detail shots, short loops |
| Reels batch | Instagram and YouTube Shorts | A month of vertical edits from one shoot day |
| Testimonials | Customer and founder stories | Interview cuts with b-roll |
Recent work
Stills from brand productions
More on the brand work page, fashion and real estate films.
Who you’re hiring
One person, start to finish
I want to be straight about this, because most production-house websites aren’t. YKS Productions is me, Yedukrishna Suresh. There is no office, no account manager and no junior who turns up on the day instead of the person you briefed. I write the treatment, direct, shoot and edit.
When a brief genuinely needs more hands (a gaffer for a big lighting set-up, a sound recordist for interviews, a stylist or a make-up artist), I bring in freelancers for that project only. They report to me, they’re in the quote from the start, and you still deal with one person from first message to final file. If the shoot needs faces, I can cast them through YKS Talents.
What that means for a brand in Chennai: one conversation instead of a chain of hand-offs, decisions made on set by the person who will edit the footage, and a quote that is one all-in number rather than a rate card with extras.
How it works
From brief to final cut
Brief
Send the brief on WhatsApp or through the quote form: what you are launching, who it is for, where it will run, and the date you need it by.
Treatment & quote
I come back with an approach (look, references, shot list outline) and one all-in number covering shoot, edit and any freelancers the brief needs.
Pre-production
Locations, permissions, casting, props and a call sheet. You approve the plan before anyone is booked, so the shoot day has no surprises.
Shoot
Sony FX3 for video, Sony A7 IV for stills, real lighting and a gimbal. I direct and operate the camera myself, so what we agree is what gets shot.
Edit, grade, deliver
I edit and colour-grade what I shoot, then deliver every cut and aspect ratio you need for web, social and ads, with revisions as agreed in the quote.
FAQ
Questions brands ask first
Do you shoot saree and jewellery campaigns?
Yes. Fashion and textile work is a big part of my portfolio, including campaign reels for a saree label. I can cast models through YKS Talents and deliver stills and reels from the same day.
Can you make vertical video for our brand?
Yes. Most shoots are planned to return 9:16 edits for Instagram and YouTube Shorts as well as the main film. See reels production.
Do you make factory or capability films?
Yes, within your plant’s safety rules. I plan the shot list with your team so production isn’t disrupted.
Where are you based?
Bangalore. Chennai is a short trip, and travel is folded into the all-in quote.
How much does it cost?
Every project is quoted as one all-in number once I know the brief: number of shoot days, locations, cast, and how many cuts you need. There is no public rate card because two “brand films” can be completely different jobs. The fastest route is the 60-second quote form or a WhatsApp message.
Do you own the footage, or do we?
You get full usage rights to the delivered films and photos for your brand, including paid ads, as set out in the quote. If a cast member’s usage needs to be limited (for example to a period or a market), that is agreed up front.
Can you edit footage we already shot?
No. I edit what I shoot, because the edit is planned on set. I’m not an editor-for-hire for other people’s footage.
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