Word: storyboarding
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...year-old president and chief executive. One McDonald's spot, called "Silent Persuasion," in which one deaf student uses sign language to propose to another that they visit a McDonald's on the way to the beach, was the second most popular U.S. commercial of 1986, according to Video Storyboard Tests, which polls consumers...
What is the most familiar U.S. advertisement? For years the answer was the Marlboro Man, an American icon who helped make the Philip Morris cigarette the nation's best-selling brand. No longer. According to the latest report from Video Storyboard Tests, a New York City firm that rates the ten most noticed print ads, Marlboro has been edged out by Calvin Klein, the designer whose suggestive series of underwear ads first appeared in 1982. Says Dave Vadehra, president of Video Storyboard Tests: "Calvin Klein has managed to do in three years what it took Marlboro 20 years...
...hands. The camera then focuses on the comic book as it lies in the front lawn garbage can, letting the wind-ruffled pages tell each story by segueing from animated stills to live film and back again. Other devices borrowed from comics are the occasional intrusion of storyboard frames, dialogue boxes, and in moments of horror, the heightening of unrealistic background colors...
More and more, Disney is setting its animators to work on gutsier movies that seize audiences instead of rocking them to sleep. One feature in the storyboard stage, The Hero from Otherwhere, is about two schoolboys who find themselves on a strange planet whose black leader persuades them to help destroy a wolf that has been ravaging the land. Another, Spacecraft One, about a mile-long spaceship in its search for life on other planets, is Disney's most elaborate sci-fi undertaking since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Black Cauldron, still in the treatment-writing stages...
...sort of anxious resignation set in. A scene that looked relatively simple laid out on the director's storyboard, one that called only for Bruce to negotiate a left turn, might take two days to shoot. To combat ennui, Spielberg and Dreyfuss would sing comedy songs by Stan Freberg, a hero of their teen-age years. Spielberg also had a primitive projection room constructed on one of the boats. "Universal had only two films they could send us from their Boston office," Spielberg recalls. "We watched Ma and Pa Kettle On the Farm...