‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ Director Explains What It Took to Pull Off One of the Year’s Most Charming Movies
10.08.2022 - 23:03
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The original “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” video premiered in 2010. Have you been working on the movie for 10 years?No, we weren’t continuously working on it for 10 years. We worked on it for seven years.Yeah, let’s start when we first started pounding the pavement trying to get independent financing for it.
If you include all those steps, any movie might take that long, I don’t know. But this one was a long time, partly because of financing it independently and partly because we made it in a way that is pretty unique. I’m not so sure that a movie has ever been made this way before.
There’s a sense that we had to finish and lock a certain phase of production before moving on to the next one. Whereas a movie that was made with a more traditional route, you’d probably be doing all these things simultaneously.For example, we essentially wrote the screenplay and recorded the audio simultaneously. And at the end of that process, we had a locked radio play that we were happy with.
And we’d play it for producers, and they’d be like, “Oh, this drags or whatever.” And that was two-and-a-half years. And then towards the end of that, we moved into storyboarding with me and Kirsten Lepore, the animation supervisor. We literally just sat down and spent a year storyboarding the whole movie and testing it with audiences.Once you have the boards in there, you can show it to people and see if it was working.
And then once we were happy with that, we moved into the live-action production. And after live-action, we then moved on to the animation. There wasn’t a lot of rolling into the next production phase.Did you have the ability to adjust the different sections as you went along?Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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