In an interview with Nick Park by Ron Barbagallo, Nick Park expressed that he was a little vigilant whether his first featured film, Chicken Run would be as affirming as his 3 short films
Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out.
Photograph by Aardman / BBC.
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He says that sometimes these short films work because they are short. So, he had to wait for the right idea to come along, one that was big and vast enough to make a full-length movie. He wanted an idea that was inspiring enough to sustain him through for the next four or five years.
From the interview Ron has done with Nick Park, I concluded that it was likely to develop the film working in a pair or group because ideas could bounce back and fro developing more creative ideas.
For his latter feature films, Wallace and Gromit and the Wererabbit, the wererabbit idea came in a lighting strike manner.
Usually one of them will be typing the script and one of them would be drawing, or making a mock up model in clay and that happens vice versa when moving forward to plan a movie production for W&G.
Braining storming over a scene is important in the production of Wallace and Gromit.
Nick Park and his team would come together to see ways they could improve some scenes to make it funnier, thinking up of better lines of dialogue or making a scene even quicker. Even loosing a couple of scene is worth it if they were not going to use it.
HIS INSPIRATIONS !
Nick Park loved slapstick comedy such as Buster Keaton and all the Laurel and Hardy films.
That is probably why he got Gromit to look at the camera as though Gromit acknowledge that he has audience watching him. Nick also finds satisfaction of everything he love coming together such as Jules Verne stories, TinTin Adventures all coming together but with the atmosphere of a Alfred Hitchcock movie. These were the things that influences his way of storytelling.
Nick park always start his films off by drawing. It was by drawing a rocket that he started off his film A Grand Day Out, it led him to think that it would be great to just build it. Nick enjoys drawing shapes that he liked.
Nick tries to keep the hand-made quality that W&G has since it’s beginning. Just because it became into a feature film he didn’t want to suddenly become slicker or have another visual quality therefore the same special Aardmix plasticine is still used.
