Making The Visit - Design

This is a new sketch of Oksana's family home. If you look at the shot of the house at the beginning of the storyboard movie, you will see certain similarities, but the house is starting to take on a more rustic appearance. Also, the entire scene has less of a storybook quality in this sketch and is actually getting a little more lonely and sinister in tone.

At this point it should be obvious that I am in no hurry to finish this film. I am fully engaged in a battle to carve out the reality of the film. This fight with my undisciplined imagination, distractions, vague notions of what will look good, clumsy drawing skills, shifting impressions of a scene, an incomplete understanding of nature, too little observation of real objects, constant profound worries about how I will make all the characters actually move, and simple fatigue is the fight that will refine and hone the movie until it becomes obvious how it will all work together. You must be willing to get into this fight if you want to make something. You don't need to fight if you are going to advertise breakfast cereal with a cartoon. But you will need to fight if you are going to make something to be seen by that person who you imagine to be your most intelligent and perfect audience member. You must always make your movie for this super-person who understands all and sees all there is to see. This ultimate judge of your movie never has to pay to see your movie. This person gets in free and you never know when they are going to show up. So you must be ready.