Showing posts with label Mark Turner visual artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Turner visual artist. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

"To the Diggers" Film Revives Production

Above, one of Mark Turner's drawings for the combat section of the film "To the Diggers". (copyright 2011)

"To the Diggers" went into hiatus during the stage production of "The Little Prince" but now resumes its slow evolution.
The art work of the film has progressed through the poetic sound track depicting massive crowds, political campaigns, war, historic dictators and the news media. It now enters a sequence of human casualties in the wake of disasters.
Mark researches and draws all the pictures sometimes taking a whole day to complete one. He then scans the drawing and inserts it into the film using motion graphics to pan, zoom and apply special effects to it. Every visual is timed second-by-second to the spoken word, sound effects and music of the sound track.

A drawing by Mark Turner depicting rescuers aiding a victim of a natural disaster for the film "To the Diggers". (copyright 2011)

Completion of the film is projected within about two more months and then Mark begins the next short art film. Our goal is to produce a prototype collection of art films to demonstrate the Film Gallery Café where guests will view and discuss the films and framed art used in them. At the heart of our mission is the faith that our viewers will meet God both in our art and in the conversations it stimulates.

"Little Prince" Is Loved by All

In the photo above the Geographer (Donna Turner) talks with the Little Prince (Marjorie Oslie) in the reader's theater style stage adaptation of "The Little Prince". Mark Turner's artwork provides the backdrop for the scene in this audience view point photo by Shinichi Evans. Full view of the artwork below. (copyright 2011)

Horizon Gate collaborated with St.Paul's Cathedral Center for the Performing and Visual Arts in the production of "The Little Prince" based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Three performances took place February 16 - 18 in the chancel of the cathedral with most of the tickets sold and the final evening sold out. Donna played two characters and a narrator. Mark created drawings and digital art to provide 56 slides as projected backdrops for the play.

Mark Turner's artwork for the Geographer's Asteroid scene in the first photo above. (copyright 2011)