Inside the Magic: How James Cameron and Disney Are Revolutionizing Animation—Secrets Revealed by Pietro Schito
Ashley
So, well, that’s an excellent answer. And I think that’s, you know, I hope people really listened to that. Let me dig into a couple of little points there though. So when this producer suggested that you make this web blog, production blog, you already had some experience doing web development, correct? Like you already knew how to lay out websites, you had something, things that was just, you had to like learn that to figure it out or to be part of it.
Pietro Schito
No, I mean, I always loved computers. And since I was a kid, so I would do, you know, this is something that, you know, most of the audience doesn’t even know about like front page microphone front page, all the way ways to create a website. But it was more about the documenting with the, with the camera, I was expecting, you know, a big camera, they gave me this handicap, like very cheap and had to, you know, the interesting enough, the construction and prop department, they created. I didn’t even have a microphone. They didn’t have a budget. It was, was all improvised. I didn’t have a camera. And the prop guy created an adapter for a microphone to be there. It was very interesting. And but it was more about shooting on set. And so would want from, you know, live action sets, you start very early in the morning. And so sunrise to sunset is, is, you know, it’s your time for light. And so it would, I would go and interview all these departments. This film is set in the 40s, in the 40s. So it was very interesting. They built an entire town, small town. And so it was interviewing the actors, but also, you know, costume designers casting, the head of casting and that’s the web component helped. And actually was because they, they were reporting to investors, this is an indie production. So they use the behind the scenes for many promotional clips and things like that. But the coincidence happened because they needed to show and prove that to their investors that, you know, we’re advancing, we need more money. But look, we built a town, the casting is has started. And so they needed that. And it was a very interesting coincidence, for me was a learning experience because I, you know, I was a driver or even assistant to an actor or someone, a PA, I would have never been able to learn so much from all the departments. Now, another coincidence that was very interesting is that there were two people from Pixar at this on the set, they had, they were working on and off at Pixar, one from Lucas film, and doing storyboards, they had a very interesting approach to storyboard for that film, I got to chat with them through the interview, because, you know, people are busy on set. And it’s not like they have time to tell you all about their experience. And to me, it was fascinating. Even the style of the storyboards was very, you know, animation like, and, and they remember asking them, you know, your experience in animation. So I think that any, anything that brings you into people who love film, even if it’s not, you know, the exact thing you want, even if you’re not at Disney, or I don’t know, the studio that you think of as the perfect environment, you will always find options and contacts that that can help you.
