The storyboards for Ms Green & Other Lovely Beasts were made by Mike Cosford (visit his website HERE), with whom we had worked with before on For Want Of A Nail. Fun fact: on FWOAN, some of the storyboards depicting the protagonists had a striking resemblance to the actors that played the parts - before they had even been cast! However, this time around we already had our cast in-place, so there was no magical precognition (as far as we know, anyway!)
Here are a few comparisons between Mike's storyboards and snapshots of the finished film.
The main opening of the film takes place inside a fantasy world in Elnora's mind, brought to life as if a scene from a Universal Monster Movie from the 1930s and 40s. Tilting down from the naked branches of December trees and tracking forward, we come to find Elnora isolated and (seemingly) talking to herself ... but she's not really alone. The bottom of the garden at producer Ali's mother's house was transformed into the outskirts of a rural cemetery for this scene...
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Elnora Green (left) is a pet memorialist and pet therapist (pre-morterm) to the stars of Celebrityville, while Parker Flynn (right) is the new taxidermist to the stars, a soon to be celebrated master of his craft. They team up to form a niche market artisinal business ... but where will the fractured bounds of love, death, and psychopathy take them? In the above scene, Parker instructs Elnora on the basics of taxidermy as simmering romance and hidden secrets bubble beneath the tuition.
Ed Gein (left), the notorious serial killer and grim legend of 1950s rural Wisconsin, comes to Elnora in the fantasy world in her mind as she searches for meaning amidst the baffling world of Celebrityville. Elnora had a strange and tumultuous childhood and her formative teenage years were spent with her head buried in books about the darkest depths of the human condition - and it was Ed who was her gateway into increasingly strange corners of existence.
How life should be and how life actually is, has always clashed inside Elnora's mind as her warped and curious expectations conflict with the confusing reality she is continually faced with. To her the real world just doesn't make much sense at all ... if only things played out as they did in the fantasy land inside her mind, where everything plays out like some strange collage made from fragments of fiction. Of course, how Elnora views the world and how everyone else sees things can lead to some awkward exchanges.
You can follow the film's progress on Facebook and visit the Oakhill Productions website.
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