Sunday, May 10, 2015

EDDIE DRAWINGS

Here's part of a doodle script I did for a film that was never made. We were between shows at Spumco and John allowed me to write this while we were were waiting for the next thing.

Doodling is a great way to do a script for first-time, try-out characters because you quickly find out whether the characters work visually. In this case the girl character worked fine, but the guy didn't.








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5 comments:

  1. nodnarB1:25 AM

    Wow, that's a great one Eddie! I love how well the characters emotions come across, it's really funny. I was wondering if on the second panel of the second page you would cut to a shot of just the guy? (when he is digging in his pocket) or if you ran out of room on the paper and it is supposed to be one continuous shot?

    Thanks for posting your drawings btw! I love em!

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  2. Eddie Fitzgerald7:59 AM

    Nodnar: I thought of this as an illustrated script so I didn't think much about cuts or camera moves when I drew it.

    If the film had been made I might have given Ghengis a couple of quick reaction shots, one of them where you indicated. It depends on what version would have played the funniest in editing.

    You brought up a fascinating subject. This is the kind of scene that could have been done two different ways. I could have added more funny acting which would have required more cuts, or I could have kept it lean and mean and did most of it on a long master shot. Probably I'd have done it most of it as a long shot.

    So many variables enter in to these decisions: the talent of the artists working on the scene, the context of the scene in the larger film, and the demands of the medium itself.
    On that last point I'll add that sometimes I think of film as an alien beast with mysterious needs that we can know only through intuition.

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  3. nodnarB8:04 PM

    That is a really good way to think of it. Maybe there are just too many things to consider to try and worry about it all at once.

    I run into that when trying to story-board or do a rough draft on a comic. I am always amazed at how much some of my favorite artists can get away with. It's almost as if there is a secret agreement when you sit down to watch/read something that you will give the artist the benefit of the doubt as far as continuity goes. Of course the artist has to have skill though.

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  4. Eddie Fitzgerald10:30 PM

    Nodnar: I'll try to do a post about this subject soon. It'll give me an excuse to discuss what Mike Barrier had to say about this in his new "Funnybooks" book.

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  5. nodnarB1:30 AM

    Awesome, I look forward to it!

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