"" bshawise: Initial Art

Friday, June 12, 2009

Initial Art

This week, Joe asked me to do some initial art for the feature film we hope/plan to shoot in the spring of 2010. He had a meeting with a potential investor. Creating art for a film is hard to do when all you have is a screenplay. I asked my new friend Lay to do a line drawing for me. Joe and I banged out a synopsis together. Which, I found is also surprisingly difficult to do. And here we are. This little graphic doesn't capture the comedic vibe of the story completely/perfectly, but for now, it does the trick. It takes what mostly feels like a distant, hard-to-imagine-us-ever-really-completing dream and makes a little more real. And that's kind of exciting.


I'm guessing you'll have to click the image to read the text.

6 comments:

bww said...

very cool. I've read the screenplay and it's excellent. Brad you have to think Matt Damon and Benny boy sat around one day with just a line drawing and screenplay of Good Will Hunting, they ended up dancing on the oscar stage.

dream big grasshopper.

ylmurph said...

do you like apples Brad?

bshawise said...

true story. matt damon just now emailed me. he wants me to send a petition to Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 (S. 624)

ylmurph said...

tell him you'll sign it if he'll star in the balloonier and make balloon animals for small children at the premier.

I hear that's how they got him to play Jason Bourne

John Shaw said...

looking good

Mark Barnett said...

A prominent Christian businessman, aiming to capitalize on the current interest in Bible-based stories, has launched a nonprofit group that will fund faith-based and family-friendly feature films. Mike Ilitch Jr. whose family owns the Little Caesar's pizza chain, the Detroit Red Wings and other sports and entertainment properties, has started the Christian Film Fund through his Florida-based Prelude Worldwide Ministries.

"We want to be the Miramax of the Christian-filmmaking industry,'' said Mark Koch, founder and co-chair of Prelude Pictures, Prelude Worldwide's entertainment arm. `''The Passion' ...