‘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 now we have higher odds preventing than outrunning them.” “Wait, now we have cogs! We will remodel now.” “That’s proper.” This scene is about midway in the midst of the film after we see that our 4 characters who weren’t capable of remodel earlier than get these transformation cogs. And so that is our first probability to have the ability to remodel of their complete life. I’m enthusiastic 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 truly fairly onerous to do. And so I believed it could be enjoyable to truly see our characters wrestle sort of with the identical method that I struggled with the toy, which isn’t totally figuring out methods to do it. It’s truly 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 essential was to not neglect that. And so you may hear the sound and the blasters from the weapons which might be being shot at them. Every little thing is telling us that it is a very severe scene. However what’s taking place to them is definitely humorous. And I feel a part of the comedy that performs properly 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.