Terilyn shropshire biography sample

Shropshire, ACE. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. You want to start bringing that kind of character stuff into the animatics as much as you can. We had storyboarded the opening scene of Twisters , where we first meet Kate and see her out in the field. We took our storyboards, added the voices, and added sound effects to help us until we could shoot it.

But that only gets you so far, emotionally, until you find moments in the dailies. Jeb is played by the lovely Darryl McCormack , and he gives her this look as she comes out of the van, which I held for a moment because I wanted the audience to really start to feel the love that these characters have for one another early on. The best part about going through the visual effects journey in Twisters was the amount of time we were able to work together, because they were just down the hall from us.

In the very beginning we had visual effects reviews sometimes once or twice a week. And then it became even more frequent as we were getting closer. We talked about each tornado and what they would look like and what the purpose of each tornado was within the story. So we could take those tornadoes that Warren Hickman, my VFX editor, created and just drop them as templates.

Acclaimed editors Terilyn A. Shropshire (LOVE AND BASKETBALL, THE WOMAN KING) and Shannon Baker Davis (THE PHOTOGRAPH, QUEEN SUGAR) discuss taking risks.

It also helped to take them into a visual effects review. Anytime we had a question, we would bring in our visual effects supervisor, Ben Snow, and go over these things. It really was helpful. And I found myself asking for a lot more handles early on.