Carlos Saldanha Directing Rio

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0:01 Interview us at the metro um can you kick things off and tell us a bit more about the film rio well rio is a very personal. Project for me I am originally from rio brazil and I always wanted to make a movie with the backdrop of the city um but the story. Is about a rare bird blue so it's a personal journey of this character that is going to go through a lot of adventure and fun. And in a way he will find his freedom in rio and find his heart in rio how much fun did you have making the film because I got a sense. Watching it that you had a lot of fun making it making rio was a way just to get closer to home so I enjoyed every day of the you know production. Just because for two years I got to like you know feel less homesick by just watching the footage and having a lot of fun the music.

0:42 Is something in particular I wanted to talk about because it's quite different from a lot of the other animated films out there what led you to choose the music it was quite a funky. Collection of tracks a great like you know contribution of like sergio mendez which is the guru of brazilian music and also with a collaboration of will. I am and jamie foxx and a brazilian percussionist carlinius brown all these elements together made the music very unique and I wanted to feel unique I didn't want it to feel like a musical. I wanted to feel like a movie where music is part of the the element of the story is that your own taste in music the kind of brazilian. Kind of feel yes I love brazilian music and I I love all kinds of brazilian music and I try to represent a little bit of each one of them there but I try to blend.

1:21 With some other flavors to make it feel like you better for my years I guess. And what would you say sets this film apart from all the other animated films out there this movie is very unique in the sense that um I have like different characters. That I don't think people have seen before it's in a location that's very little explored and it has an element of music and story and heart. And fun that I think is very unique to the story one thing I can't get my head around with an animated film is how do you direct. An animated film like if a parrot does a scene not the way that you want it to do to do that you can't you know get the parrot. To go back and do the scene again how do you direct an animated film we're doing stages first I direct the actors like you know for example.

2:02 Jesse eisenberg and hathaway will I am jamie foxx we have a session with them that will record the script and they have to perform and act. With that voice recorded I take it back to the studio and then they I direct the animators to interpret that performance so the actors that you got in the film. Why did you choose them in particular well I first of all when I create the characters I try to create a profile of these characters. And try to get a little bit of a sense of their personalities who they are who they could be and then based off of that I go. Through a list of like you know you know actors and actresses that I feel that could be that voice so that's a process that takes a while once I just I define. That I pick my first choices and I present them with the story the movie the character and if they accept that becomes the voice of the characters.