Another
quote from Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, from an interview in the Sept. 08
interview in the Harvard Business Review, explains how they develop movies at
Pixar:
“In the early stages of making a movie, we draw storyboards (a comic-book version of the story) and then edit them together with dialogue and temporary music. These are called story reels. The first versions are very rough, but they give a sense of what the problems are, which in the beginning of all productions are many. We then iterate, and each version typically gets better.”
The
exciting thing is that with current technology it would be relatively easy to
do this yourself for your short film, even your feature film or novel. The
drawings don’t need to be great art, just good enough to show what’s happening,
and the dialogue could be recorded by friends or an amateur acting group, or
out-of-work actors you pay for the day. Yes, it would be rough, but it would
probably also be very helpful.
I’ve never tried it but it would be an exciting experiment.
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