Yesterday's Sketchbook

[tealin]

Page One - On Sunday I listened to 'Fat Man on a Bicycle' (a segment I'd recorded off Saturday Night Fry when it was on BBC7) and felt a lot better. What follows are bits and pieces for a Statement.
Page Two - More bits.

Seeing V again tonight, this time with a friend from school. How many times will I need to refresh my memory, I wonder, before enough of it sticks?

Comments

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

There's a LOT I could say about this, but given that I'm a slow thinker and a much, much slower typist, would you forgive me if I attend to other things (the movers are coming tomorrow morning with a new desk - I still have to clean out the old one!) until I can give this the time it deserves? (And you know I will!) Is there something brief but significant I can say in the meantime, without opening the floodgates? Basically:
-Because a lot of movies were performimg poorly under the old system (boarding without a script), and/or being drastically re-written or cancelled well into production, and a lot of live-action people were taking over Disney animation, it was decided that every movie should start with an approved script, and be assigned at least one full-time writer
-This generally didn't help much, because:
--The best writers were either busy, too expensive for Disney, or not interested in animation (there have been a few exceptions)
--The writers who came our way generally had little or no experience writing for animation - were live-action wanna-be's - and as such were poor collaborators, possesive of their material, tired of the endless revisions, didn't think as visually, or were primarily "polishers" - reworking dialogue, coming up with funny one-liners rather than generating new content - and we've gone through them like toilet paper, after spending a LOT of money on unusable material
--the people in charge who approved the scripts that would move into production were morons

--even the better-written scripts still needed extensive reworking because what read well on the page often did not translate when storyboarded visually(apparently Pixar has gone through this, and now relies strongly on the director {and his/her story crew} to generate the content from beginning to end)

Luckily, it appears, at least at Disney, that this is all about to change. More later...