InterBEE REVIEW2011 (EN)

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“Working at the BBC taught me just how big a task it is to produce a televi-sion program. There are hundred or more people involved in one program, and the production costs are considerable. In working on a large-scale program such as that, when you attempt to try something new it involves a lot of effort and cost. In fact, I proposed various innovations using VFX but was told that they would “cost too much” and were “impossible due to time restraints.” This led me to create a proposal that would let me be entrusted with directing, and in return allow the CG to be created for free. The BBC accepted this proposal, and I was able to work on VFX programs that I could direct myself. I ended up making things that would have taken a great deal of money and human resources to create in the studio (laughs)”. In this way, Mr. Edwards gained atten-tion by producing outstanding VFX televi-sion series such as Attila the Hun (2008), which he directed himself while working on the VFX. In 2008, at the 48-hour Film Challenge at the UK’s Sci-Fi-London film festival, Mr. Edwards won a prize for his film. This prize-winning work formed the basis for Monsters, which was his first experience directing a feature film. The production personnel for Monsters comprised of only six people: twoOverseeing his own VFXin VFX programs he directsTakes up the challenge of producinga movie using six people,including the actors14

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