Drawing within the lines takes talent
December 17th, 2006We have completed:
- 75 out of 111 scenes for storyboard sketches
- Designs for 43 out of 53 sets/locations
- Designs for 10 out of 52 props/gadgets
- Designs for 6 out of 15 vehicles
I’m personally sketching storyboards to help us reach our New Year goal of completed storyboard sketches for every scene.
Collaboration is hard! Working alone can be a lot easier as many artists are aware for a variety of reasons. However cinema is a collaborative media. No one person can do a project of this magnitude alone. So how do you get everyone on the same page to agree on the next step forward and find consensus of artistic vision?
You don’t. Everyone comes to a project like this with a scope in mind of what they want to do and how they want to participate. Parameters are set, “the lines,” so to speak providing the outline of the vision that the person(s) with creative control have in mind. In this case the creative control lies with myself as the director. So the challenge is setting parameters, “the lines,” but leaving enough open to inspire creativity.
As a participant the challenge is learning to set a reasonable scope and focus that allows you to enjoy the process of “drawing within the lines.” Thats hard if your normal mode of operation is working alone, having complete creative control and starting from scratch building every work of art from “soup to nuts.” Clearly no one person can do that on a collaborative film project. You have to be willing to start with what has already been done, find what works about others contributions and build from there.
Working within certain parameters is not only requisite, its a higher level skill. Drawing within the lines takes talent. More talent then scraping everything around you and starting with a blank page. It’s the difference between creating with limited resources, (the contributions of others), versus creating with unlimited resources, (a blank slate). Working within finite parameters requires more creativity and resourcefulness, and I hope we will find, leads to a better creative outcome.
Empress hairstyle
By Diana Viaches
