s34 in progress 1
In the film when January remembers something from his childhood it is going to be an animated scene. As I mentioned before each scene is going to be done by a different artist and the idea behind that idea is that January’s point of view is unreliable and the further back it goes the less reliable it becomes. Pretty much everything in this movie is contradicted by something else that happens. It’s the nature of the film – everything is based on the idea of Janus words, which mean one thing and it’s opposite depending on the context. That is the key to the poetry in the film (if anyone can decipher what the hell I’m talking about regarding this let me know. I’d love to know if that comes through to anyone when the film is out) and to a lot of the circumstances of the story. Even January’s name comes from the greek mythological god Janus.
So I just finished editing the scene in which January recounts a tale from elementary school which John Brosio illustrated with chalk on a chalkboard and I photographed. I think it is a great scene, and it is one of the only comic relief moments in the entire film I think. I’m considering posting the sequence on youtube – let me know if you’d like to see it ahead of the movie being done and if I get enough interest I’ll post it.
s34 in progress 2 – John Brosio drawing away in his studio
