SCRATCH TRACKS When Fishy animator Guillermo Gomez first joined the project, one of the first things he said to do was create a scratch track of the song with all the dialogue. What is a scratch track? It’s a rough recording of the film song and dialogue. The goal of a scratch track is get …
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CH 3: Of Plots, and Scripts, and Shot Lists
Taking Flight: STORY IDEA to SCRIPT Developing a story idea usually involves crafting a logline and writing up a short one page treatment; however, in this case, I already had completed song lyrics which told a narrative tale of sorts. What I needed now was a fully-fleshed out, structured plot with dynamic characters. My song …
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The Story of an Animation Ch. 1
” Down the Rabbit Hole” Several years ago, I joined a San Francisco–based film cooperative called Scarycow. After volunteering on a couple of projects as a PA and location scout, I embarked on a journey to create a short animated musical film based on one of my scripts called “The Fishy’s Tale”. This is a …