Final
Draft (rough cut):
ARTIST
STATEMENT
If
I were to sum up the film’s plot, I would say:
“Guardian
Angel is just the story of a little girl going to heaven.”
However,
If I were to sum up the core mantra behind this entire film project,
I would say:
“Guardian
Angel’s main focus is nuance.” An act of creating harmony; an
equilibrium between quarrelling and polarized objectives.
James
Cameron once said, “Filmmaking is war. A war between business and
aesthetics.” Although I had managed group logistics and cut
my teeth working on small, individual animation projects in the past,
Guardian Angel has been my first project in which both faculties had
to be taken into account. Balancing these two extremes meant walking
a tightrope--between making an animated film beautiful
and
making sure the animation is actually finished
before the deadline;
I felt that the challenge of finding and maintaining the equilibrium
between the two to be greater than the native summation of its
constituencies.
Script-wise,
I also wanted to shy away from stereotypes and predictability.
Although I was initially inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen’s
The
Little Matchstick Girl,
I ended up deviating significantly from the original characters by
creating character agenda, and having the characters actively
interact with their environment (instead of passively reacting).
Guardian
Angel is less about a pretty little girl floating to heaven on a free
ticket; rather, it is about a person learning to recognize one’s
selfish mistakes--and the subsequent redemption of one’s soul.
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