boards boards boards! from Boston

Hello from definitely NOT Los Angeles! My brain has definitely decompressed in the last few days. The other day it was snowing so I ducked in a bookstore/cafe, grabbed some soup, and got some storyboards down on paper. Huzzah! Here's some photographic proof (taken with my phone, hence the fantastic resolution).

And it's on 7x10 paper, too! O snap!! Well, it would have been kind of difficult to walk around with my 12x18 big stack-o'-newsprint. It's almost as if I'm... adapting. Scary.

Spring Break has covered a year's worth of weather: solid overcast, snow, super sunny, and now rain. But you know what? I have a raincoat. So there. The show must go on! And it's my birthday, darn it!
Here marks the turning point in the preproduction of my thesis. From now on, things will be AWESOME. Do it to it!

Visual Development

O HOLY COW I went a little nuts looking for pics to accurately try to sum up everything that's buzzing around in my head. To be truthful, though, the visual style for "The Fountain" is probably the most solid thing about the film; I've known exactly how I want it to look since day one.

Rather than spam up the post with a bunch of differently sized images right now, I will resize them, maybe even make an influence board/chart (ooh! fancy) and repost it later. Until then, please watch this for a good idea of the role that color will play (or what I want it to play).

Mark Osborne's "More"
http://vimeo.com/988244

Also, check out these buzzwords:
futurism
german expressionism
art deco
Tim Burton (also for color, and angles! Oh my, the wonky angles.)
Gotham City (any designs, but with the white/grey coloring. this also counts for Tim Burton, too...)
"The Fall" movie (also also color and angles. and absolutely AMAZING shot composition)
Hugh Ferriss (amazing renderings of architecture and visions of metropolis in the early 20th century)
Gehry. 'Nuf said. Just look at his buildings. Do you see any right angles?
Fritz Lang (METROPOLIS!!!)
Shaun Tan
forced perspective and anything off-angled or warped
restricted color
paper cutouts / texture


Oh... ok, here are a few pics for now, because I'm nice and these are my absolute favorite. More to follow.





Some more colorful ones: