External Client Project - Short Film: Drawing Greg

For my external client project I collaborated with Daniel Bissill and we decided to create a short 15 minute film which we will enter to the 'Bang! Short Film Festival' in Nottingham.

Daniel Bissill and Chris Thorby

Synopsis
Colin, a shy, young and lonely artist who enjoys reading comic books discovers a coupon for a free sketchbook. He eventually learns that anything he draws within this sketchbook becomes real. He fulfils his loneliness by drawing a friend called Greg who brings fun to Colin's life.



We called our film collaboration 'Giant Panda Productions' and we have a Facebook page which we used to keep people updated on our progress.

facebook.com/giantpandaproductions

Here is the behind the scenes video of 'Drawing Greg'. During the shooting our film we set up another camera to film the process. We have edited some of that footage together in this video and we recorded a voice over of us talking about how it all went.

This is a short teaser trailer we created in a silent film style. We didn't want to give too much away so we used this style to present something short and comical with a brief description of the story. Using Premiere Pro we put it in black and white, added noise to create an old film look and used silent film speech cards.

These are all the storyboards from the film. I worked on these from the screenplay I wrote with Dan Bissill. In the end we had to change a few scenes so some of these storyboards were rejected when we started to shoot the film.

Dan did a photo-shoot of the characters and crew in the green screen room. I edited this image to create this poster for our film and I am quite pleased with it. I think the comedy of the film comes across through this image of Greg on Colin's back. Greg is holding up the drawing of himself so the audience clearly know he's the character drawn to life.