Having just wrapped the film, I flicked through our earliest sketches.
Art Director James McKay and I started this huge undertaking mid Summer, sat in a ventilated conservatory reading Olivia Race’s script, breaking it into key scenes, story beats, locations, and talking ideas. Instead of viewing film adaptations, we went back to the book in the hope of coming up with a new visual take on this story, James captured a lot of these by illustrating on a copy of the script from which I started roughly breaking it down into storyboards.
Visual ideas always grow and change over time. What is amazing looking back is how many of the key shots came out of this afternoon collaboration.
James and I drawing and talking ideas.
James McKay, surrounded by research, creating his first rough concepts on the script