We have been working for 4 weeks to get everything prepared for our shoot day. It looks like this is never going to end! Seriously, it has been a big challenge to find the best props/costumes to satisfy the look and feel of our movie and to accomplish all the requirements for our director, Michael Chase.

My experience with the pre-production of “The Music of Erich Zann”, has been a pain in the ass. Everyday I go home and my body feels perfect, but my mind is so exhausted. Thinking about all the possible scenarios for everything and being one step ahead at all times minimizing all the possible risks that the project may have really takes a toll on one’s mental capacity.

Imagine thinking about something for 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week! We are really scared right now, because we are just one week away from our shoot day and we have not been able to get a storyboard artist and the final storyboards finished. We just had a review with Michael Chase and Alistair MacLeod, and after 30 minutes, nothing got accomplished or resolved.

Storyboard draft

Our movie will involve a lot of visual effects and the scope for the post-production is huge. For this reason, we need to get storyboards completed. This will help the director and the visual effects supervisor, Emanuele Bignone, on the shoot day.

At this point, we are continuing to search for a storyboard artist and have just spoke to Jessica Leigh and Sebastien de Castell, the Executive Producers, about this issue, in hopes to get some feedback. They advised us to keep looking for a storyboard artist and to set up a new meeting with all the people involved in our project to finish what we started.

After a meeting with Patricia Rangel, a member of the VFS Classical Animation Alumni, she decided to finish the storyboards. This lead to total collaboration with key individuals such as the Director, Visual Effects supervisors and the storyboard artist, who managed to finally finish our storyboards.

Final storyboard

So far EMB has taught me how to identify risk factors, especially when something is not working and to take action in a diplomatic way.