{"id":70,"date":"2011-04-07T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/04\/07\/terry-gilliam-how-to-use-storyboards-for-film\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:39:00","slug":"terry-gilliam-how-to-use-storyboards-for-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/04\/07\/terry-gilliam-how-to-use-storyboards-for-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Gilliam: How to Use Storyboards for Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20468154\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes I was just enjoying drawing these things and they risked becoming illustrations rather than storyboards. But some scenes, say of the statue of the head with a horse in &#8216;Munchausen,&#8217; that came out of drawing something. I actually started drawing an equestrian statue and thought, &#8220;oh, this looks better without the head on.&#8221; And then once you have the idea that the heads off the statue, &#8220;let&#8217;s have the head on the floor. And it&#8217;s got to be a big head, and people are living in the head.&#8221; So that&#8217;s something that came out of a drawing.\u00a0<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">The storyboard becomes my insurance policy &#8212; if I ever run out of ideas, I go back to the storyboard &#8220;just do that, and, I&#8217;ll have a film.&#8221;\u00a0<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/> Oftentimes we put a billboard up on the set with the storyboard so that people on the crew can come by and say &#8220;Ah, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on.&#8221; And that&#8217;s what helps, again, showing people what we&#8217;re doing that day.<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/> It&#8217;s often the easiest way to communicate with people. It&#8217;s accessible to everybody, and, anyone can come by and enter into dialogue with it. The more I can put out there for people to see, the better I am able to communicate.\u00a0<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/> The way I work with a set-designer, I have a lot of paintings and I bring in photographs, and things I&#8217;ve spotted on location, and accumulate a lot of material, and then start drawing\u2026.\u00a0<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it \u2013 I do actually like it because it says certain things. It&#8217;s about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we&#8217;re just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television&#8217;s saying, everything&#8217;s saying &#8216;That&#8217;s the world.&#8217; And it&#8217;s not the world. The world is a million possible things.<\/center><center><\/center><center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;\">\u2014Terry Gilliam: Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam<\/span><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Gilliam\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Gilliam<\/a><\/center><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I was just enjoying drawing these things and they risked becoming illustrations rather than storyboards. But some scenes, say of the statue of the head with a horse in &#8216;Munchausen,&#8217; that came out of drawing something. I actually started drawing an equestrian statue and thought, &#8220;oh, this looks better without the head on.&#8221; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyboards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}