Media Practices- Contacting the Experienced
Over the weeks, I made some research and made a small contact list for our presentation about being a storyboard artist. We decided to focus on different aspects of being a storyboard artist. I personally decided to focus on the independent side of being an artist, and how to navigate through the crucial pre-production stage almost alone.
For the project, I gathered a small list ofpeople and already contacted two;
Steve Ahn: Ex-Dreamworks TV storyboarder who is now producing his independent mini-series,
Jeremy Luther: A multi-talented artist with a fine art background but does a lot of directing and storyboarding for advertisements and short indie films,
David G. Derrick: A Disney and Dreamworks storyboarder who recently worked on Moana, and runs his independent comic on the side.
I decided to send the mails with a certain sets of basic questions regarding storyboarding but then ask a few specific ones regarding their specific style or area.
Right now, I didn’t get any replies (even when I sent a follow-up for Mr. Ahn) but still trying. I haven’t contacted Mr. Derrick yet since he doesn’t seem to have an email address, thus I might send it on his art page on FB. One thing we realised about storyboard artists, is that they don’t give many options when it comes to getting in contact. We believe it might be because of how they might get into jobs in their close circles but even then, it’s an interesting phenomena in the current age of globalisation.
Still, we have hope and we will try to do the best we can to deliver some good information.










