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Autotune Your Ass Off

A music video where songwriter/music producer Sawan helps an ambitious ass fulfil its dreams of being a singing superstar, with a bit of help from autotune softwares.

  • Sawan Dutta
    Director
  • Sawan Dutta
    Writer
  • Sawan Dutta
    Producer
  • C B Arun Kumar
    Producer
  • Sawan Dutta
    Key Cast
  • Kajal the Donkey
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Music Video, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 30, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    2,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Full HD DSLR
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • International Music Video Awards
    London / Budapest
    Finalist
Director Biography - Sawan Dutta

Sawan Dutta graduated as an architect from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture. After working as an architect briefly, she switched to music professionally. She is now a Mumbai / Bangalore based composer, music director/producer, songwriter and vocalist with over two decades of musical works under her belt.
Her commercial projects include a variety of platforms and genres such as Bollywood films, over 200 TV show themes and scores, commercial ads, documentary soundtracks, non film albums, and music for theatre and installations.
Sawan is currently best known for her pathbreaking Song Blog, The Metronome, which she hosts at her YouTube channel. Here she creates original quirky songs and supporting videos about a range of unusual subjects with her partner, C B Arun Kumar. This includes what is possibly the first and only collection of Recipe Songs in the world! Over a span of 5 years, The Metronome has garnered 3.7 million views, generated numerous Viral Hits and attracted widespread media coverage.

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Director Statement

This was the first episode of The Metronome, my Song Blog at YouTube. And since I'd made this song about autotune and pitch correction, I decided to work with an unusual and difficult to autotune co-star on my song and video - an actual ass!!! This was possibly one of the funniest and most difficult shoot CB and I have done, since its nearly impossible to actually "direct" a donkey :) And working with the kind of severely limited budgets we had, we could only afford one hour with the donkey!!! We were pretty happy with the end result :)