Ryan Koo announced that his screenplay for Man-Child had been accepted into the IFP’s Emerging Narrative Program, a program which as he puts it “provides mentorship and access to producers.” His script was picked along with nineteen others, out of literally hundreds. Much praise to him.
He mentioned that to supplement his screenplay, he will bring along a “multimedia lookbook,” which is a “lookbook” with a twist. A lookbook is comprised of still images from already produced works, in order to showcase how one wishes one’s film to look. Instead of still images however, he will be using video clips, hence the name “multimedia lookbook.”
It was very interesting to me that he would do this, because I thought of something similar (although I have no doubt this is common practice in the film making world) in regards to story boards, however. It just so happens that I cannot draw, I am perhaps the worst at it. Every time I came across the use of storyboards, whether on ‘behind the scenes,’ ‘making of’ featurettes from my favorite movies, or read about what the purpose of storyboards is, I always wondered how I would ever reach the next step if I wouldn’t have storyboards to explain to the crew and the actors what I meant, I could always have an artist make them but how would I explain things to him or her? Then I thought that using scenes from my favorite movies, ones that conveyed a similar message, would clear things up for everybody and keep me from going insane.
I’m happy, as someone who is looking to be active in the film making realm, to look to others and find that I have a similar way of thinking or frame of mind as them. It calms me down and reassures me that I am not too far off. As for the Emerging Narrative Program, I will be looking into that.
Technorati Tags: IFP’s Emerging Narrative Program, Man-Child, access to producers, multimedia lookbook, lookbook, storyboards
