weekly update

Many new developments have arisen since my last post. I have met with my composer, Pierre Andre, and just received a signed copy of our contract. I'm excited to begin to hear his work as our meeting left me confident that the quality of the film will will be upheld through his involvement.

Another new addition is a spine for this piece. Much of the feedback that I have been receiving with my latest animatic is centered around the juxtaposition of man and nature, which really isn't what I'm trying to do. After a lot of digging I came upon a poem by Edgar Allan Poe called "The Domain of Arnheim." The first part discusses the philosophical and artistic aspects of composition, and ends with a two page description of a man's journey down a river into a new, fantastic realm. The sharp contrast in storyline between these two parts led me to think that Poe was giving a stage on which to practice the theories on composition that he discussed in the first part. And so this is exactly what I'll be doing. The sequence of 8 shots will still be entered and exited in the same way - through a man's (presumably the poet's) study, but now what we see inside of it will have a linear and purposeful correlation.

This also means that I can focus my designs in a story-driven manner, as opposed to generating them "randomly." Structure breeds success and that is what I have now found - structure.

In the days to come I'll be posting many of the images that I have been generating. I've been busy designing the compositions through film studies, thumbnails, and sketches, and have created quick mock-ups (collages) of each image.
Here's a taste for now: