Gooseberry: Conversation in a Laundromat in Paris

Bart · April 25, 2014

Why are they in a laundromat?

Writer Esther Wouda and director Mathieu Auvray meet in a Paris Laundromat to discuss the writing process of the Gooseberry Project.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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ssnbee

25 April 2014 at 19:48

I thought this was a fun interview. I’m so excited for Gooseberry!
They must have been using a nice microphone. I expected the noise from the machines to be too loud.

JG Loquet

25 April 2014 at 20:54

Very interesting. Esther, I like your work on Sintel very much, and really connected to the story and message. So I’m impatiently looking forward to seeing what comes out of your work with Mathieu on this project. Good luck !

IamInnocent

26 April 2014 at 00:13

And all the time under the threat of a wide angle… unless you were into one of those parallel universe!

Light Bwk

26 April 2014 at 06:59

Being a screenplay writer myself, I know the feeling they are experiencing. In the early stages, all is unknown, very scary, white canvas, much headache. Later when a skeleton is built the fine tuning happens. This stage will start carving the overall feel and mood of screenplay, lot of rewrite, Should this be first shown or later, same message different sequence will produce different level of emotion impact. To get 120 pages, it feels like you are writing 200+ pages with the extra 80+ pages discarded in either draft or fully written form. One thing any screenplay writer has to do, staying honest with the grand vision. Sometimes subtle things will change the whole movie feel. Always keep that in balance. Screenplay is the art of inducing emotion, almost like engineering with nuts and bolts in very specific shapes and sizes to produce a moving part, just like Howl’s moving castle, just need some script magic. ;D

BlenderPlaza

26 April 2014 at 14:46

Very interesting interview! And very nice interview partners. Beautiful woman :) She could also do some toothpaste commercials with her perfect white teeth :)

SRoach

27 April 2014 at 14:16

I’ve been concerned the movie would have a bittersweet ending.
Now I’m more so.
I anticipate a good movie, I’m just hoping for a happy ending.

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