Ch. 5 Scratch Tracks and Storyboards

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 …

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 …