DATE: 3/27/21
LOCATION: Online
INSTRUCTOR: Kevin Mellon
PRICE: $40

Scripts are one of the first steps in making any TV show or movie and are the first blueprint for the audience's journey through the story with the characters. Entertaining and engaging on their own, scripts also contain problems that have to be solved visually through storyboards before dozens of artists start animating, before sets can get built, and before CG artists create fantastic new worlds or effects.

Kevin Mellon, a Story Artist who has worked on the Emmy award-winning Archer (FX), Dicktown (FX), America: The Motion Picture (Netflix), Black Lightning (CW), The Vampire Diaries (CW) and current Art Director on an unannounced project for Marvel/Hulu, will walk you through analyzing problem areas in a script, and how to think and draw your way through them.

Topics to be covered:

• The script as a blueprint. Aside from being a great read, what does the script tell you about how to make it into a TV show or Movie? Does it give you enough information about: The characters? The set? Costumes? Action sequences? We’ll discuss how to determine what’s missing via reading the script, conversations with the director, and where you can add to/help them (and other department heads) have the information they need to really make the story come to life.

• Pre-visualization: Defining the moments the script does not.

• The set is a character. We always talk about the “human” side of things, but it’s high time we treat the set just as equally.

• Scripts are not TV shows or movies. Storyboards, while much closer, are not TV shows or movies. We’ll discuss the differences and go over the goal of Storyboarding and Pre-visualization in the creation of a TV show/film. We will also go over the difference between boarding for live-action and animation.

• Q & A! It’s honestly the part Kevin likes best, so here’s hoping there’s time.