THE SECOND | Animatic vs. Final (Bonus Video)

A side-by-side comparison of the animatic for “The Second” and the final film, with commentary provided by Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou. Please enjoy, and we’ll see you for the next project.

Storyboarded by Taylor Ramos
Edited by Tony Zhou

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Commentary Start, Realities of Production
02:09 Project Origins, Barry Lyndon, Creating Animatic
03:07 Working Process with Animatic
03:50 Green Screen PMP, 2nd Unit Reshoots
04:52 Zorro masks, long lenses, compromising with locations
06:07 Compressing multiple set-ups into one
06:59 Splitting up locations to break up movie visually
07:30 Duel negotiations
08:21 The Back to Back shot
09:01 Taylor’s plexiglass drawovers on set
09:33 Paul and Ethan in the argument scene
10:38 Composer, music cues
11:09 Tony’s composition vs. Taylor’s composition
11:31 Yes it was a real cloud passing his face
12:00 Painterly sequence, gun montage, VFX sky replacements
13:00 Subjectivity, no dialogue at beginning or end
13:50 Directing Ethan & Colton for the duel
14:40 Alfonso's moments of "ma," Taylor's first drawing
15:31 Deleted Shots & Scenes & Thank Yous

Links to some of the clips
The Rescuers (1977) story session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flLu5iDVI7c
Zootopia (2016) deleted scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnH46nq8gao
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) animatic clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rcVFEgCaOM

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