MY RADIO INTERVIEW ON STORYBOARDING MOVIES!!!

Months ago, Sam Heer (as in Samantha) of Blog Talk radio arranged a radio interviewwith me for some time in the fall. Well, we finally took care of it on November 9th. I triedto be as concise as possible on the art of storyboards. Have a listen by clicking on this link.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/123-film/2010/11/10/guest-warren-drummond–story-board-artist Enjoy!! W

THE AMAZING DRAWING MACHINE…

Well, I missed the last few weeks with you my friends, do to an onrush of work.

I had been working on the remake of DEATH AT A FUNERAL (because two years between versions is not too soon) for the better part of a month. It was a lot of fun to work with Neil Labute, whom I’ve known about five years and the D.P. Rogier Stoffers, who was a joy.

Neil was busy re-working the script and so I worked directly with Rogier (pronounced “Ro-hair”).  He likes to shot list but he certainly gave me some creative room. Rogier very smart  and generous, and knew what shots he could not do because of time and logistics.

And example would be a shot I had where a character (played by Luke Wilson) getting out of a car. I had designed a camera pulling out of the car window. 

Well, as Rogier told me, the car would be on a rig (where the actors only pretend to drive as the car is pulled on a platform. I then redrew the frame with a stationary camera and the character would move out of the camera frame, but stay on the platform.

I wrapped that film last week, and started my fifth Adam Sandler (known for now as “THE LAKEHOUSE PROJECT”) the next day! Director Dennis Dugan and I have worked together ever since my two day stint on “BIG DADDY”. We have developed a great short hand in between our “playing the dozens” and generally goofing around.

Dennis also has a baseball prodigy son named Kelly, who will be tearing up college baseball very, very soon.  Kelly is a nice of a young man as he is a baller.

“Doogie” doesn’t really shot list with me. We’ll discuss a scene thoroughly, and then Dennis will let me go off and do sketches. Then, a day or two later I get notes. Then I do changes as I do finishes.

Next week, I’m starting yet another film. More on that…

THE STORYBOARD ARTIST STRIKES BACK

I’m doing three commercials this week! A Mcdonald’s job, a promo for The Academy Awards, and a Panasonic gig. It’s been a good week. I missed getting a dance movie at SONY. I sent some killer samples, too. Their loss. I am still up for a couple of features. Totally, unrelated, my son Joshua got an excellent character report from one of his teachers, who feels Josh is very smart and well behaved. Always good for a parent to hear.  Running to an Visual FX meeting after today’s gig.  Trying to get phone time with a manager who actually liked one of my scripts and wants to discuss it. We will see. It’s been a busy week.

BACK TO BACK STORYBOARDS AND NO SLEEP - PART 2

Okay, I am doing one of those back to back gigs. Actually it is a same time - two gigs as I have been working storyboarding on a PUSSYCAT GIRLS  video at the same time as doing spec boards for a director who has a meeting TOMORROW, so I am sorry that I don’t have time to write and gab. The video job was fun with lots of waiting mixed in with a lot of boards in little time. The other gig is still going on. My good friend Jim Magdaleno pitched in to finish a bunch of pages off my roughs.  My wife Betty just massaged my very sorry drawing hand.  Love her. See ya.