The second talk of the festival on day 2 was by Marc Silk, who is a voice actor. I didn’t exactly learn anything from this talk, apart from the benefits of using a professional voice actor, but the whole talk overall was very funny and entertaining.
The last talk of the day, and one of my favourites of the whole festival was by Christian De Vita, a storyboard artist who worked on fantastic Mr. Fox. I seen Fantastic Mr. Fox a couple of months before and really enjoyed the film. Christian talked through the full process of drawing out storyboards. He talked about how closely you work with the director, because working as a story board artist is really putting down the director’s vision onto paper. And judging by what Christian said, all of the shots were pre-meditated by the director, to the extent that the director would act out the scene for every single character. Being a storyboard artist sounds like a challenging job to do, as Christian said he had to redraw one scene 38 times. And he worked on the storyboards for the whole film. Doing storyboards is something which I would like to cover in more detail at some point, as it will allow me to develop my drawing skills more. One piece of advice Christian did give was to have an adaptive drawing style if you want to be a storyboard artist; as you draw to suit the director, which will be different in most cases.
Overall I took a lot of inspiration and motivation away from the festival. Sometimes all you need is a bit of a jump start, and going to this festival really gave me a jump.
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