‘Transformers One’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Hello, my title is Josh Cooley. I’m the director of “Transformers One.” “We have to hurry.” “I nonetheless suppose we now have higher odds preventing than outrunning them.” “Wait, we now have cogs! We are able to rework now.” “That’s proper.” This scene is about midway in the course of the film after we see that our 4 characters who weren’t capable of rework earlier than get these transformation cogs. And so that is our first probability to have the ability to rework of their total life. I’m fascinated about the precise toy of a Transformer. I had all of the toys rising up. More often than not, they had been simply sort of sitting round on the bottom half remodeled as a result of they had been really fairly exhausting to do. And so I assumed it might be enjoyable to truly see our characters battle sort of with the identical approach that I struggled with the toy, which isn’t absolutely realizing do it. It’s really a second to have some aid, some comedy aid in right here. However there’s nonetheless hazard. They’re nonetheless being chased. They’re nonetheless being attacked. So one of many issues that was vital was to not neglect that. And so you possibly can hear the sound and the blasters from the weapons which are being shot at them. Every part is telling us that this can be a very critical scene. However what’s taking place to them is definitely humorous. And I believe a part of the comedy that performs nicely is as a result of we’re not poking enjoyable at it or making an attempt to wink on the viewers. This can be a actual hazard that they’re in.