"The Bremen Town Musicians". Authentic histories

how to create a favorite cartoon of our childhood. The authors of the cartoon did not know how to make a cartoon-musical for children, but very much wanted the audience to "sing a cartoon." It was the right decision - we still remember and love songs from there. And happy to show "Bremen" have their own children. As often happens in such cases, a lot had to create "from scratch" and to solve problems by using ingenuity and dexterity.

Inessa Kovalevskaya, the director of many cartoons of our childhood, recalls the history of the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians". Hardly anyone has a better director will be able to reveal all the details of the process and show viewers "inside».

Website is a story that the director told the site 2danimator.ru, with materials from her personal archive.

Starting young, no one famous composer Gennady Gladkov, poet Yuri Entin and director Inessa Kovalevskaya decided to make animated musical for children. What is a musical, it was known about, but what is a cartoon, and even children, the authors did not know.

Gradually, the outline began to emerge. The basis for a musical animated film was best to take a simple and familiar tale, to the story was clear from the actions of the characters. And instead of narratives all the forces directed to the creation of musical images of heroes.

It remained to find a story, but try to find one that no one has ever filmed? em>
So, "The Bremen Town Musicians"! Available are dog, cat, donkey and rooster - strolling musicians. "Musical Director" was the young man, he is subsequently Troubadour. But if the hero Troubadour, the tale must certainly be a princess! Princess And, of course, has a father-king and his royal palace, the crowd of courtiers. The brothers Grimm whole drama is reduced mainly to the episode of the robbers - it means to be royal protection to protect.

Now, all the characters of the future movie named. With these sketches born film unsightly:





It should be noted Yuri Entin feature poems written for this movie. They are very expressive, full of humor and accurately characterize singing characters. In many verses funny wordplay: "Oh, early to rise Guard!" "We have all the roads of the road!" "In the royal chambers lost peace!" And "The Castle, I locked up!". All these literary jokes adorn the songs, make them amusing and memorable.

While the fairy tale about the music evolved, composer Gennady Gladkov wrote to her music. Couplets immediately liked not only the group working on the film, but their singing and other studio members.



Gennady Gladkov, Inessa Kovalevskaya .... Max Zherebchevsky

The studio "Soyuzmultfilm" did not have the necessary capacity to record the music as the composer conceived it. Long grammzapisi agreed with the studio "Melody". They invited the quartet "Accord", while very popular, consisting of two female voices and two male.

Record assigned to night - another free time in the studio "Melody" was not found. A small orchestra of recorded music, in part, which consisted mostly young musicians. The composer himself conducted the orchestra, Gennady Gladkov. Em> arrived! B>

Anatoly Gorokhov

With barely started recording ... It's just fortunate that in making the film attended a wonderful sound engineer and later composer Victor Babushkin. Recorded serenading troubadours, their duet with Princess. The turn to the ensembles. And it turned out that Oleg Anofriev - a good simulator. The sound producer of the singer recorded on separate tracks, and then joined together, adding juicy bass Anatoly Gorokhov. Bo-o-Olsha secret! - He sang for the King weak tenorochkom Gennady Gladkov. We got to the verses of these robbers, and again a dead end ... At the head of the gang should be a woman - Atamansha. Lyric soprano Elmira Zherzdevoy did not suitable for this. Then Oleg Anofriev offered to sing and atamansha! All were dumbfounded. But he insisted, then asked which of the actresses have to "see" as atamansha? - Most likely, Faina Ranevskaya? - Excellent! I'll try to "turn Ranevskaya"! - Said Anofriev and went to the microphone.

Oleg Anofriev and Elmira Zherzdeva

Recording safely over. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As stated in the Russian proverb - a blessing in disguise! From the studio grammzapisi & quot; Melody & quot; We went home in the morning. Moscow has not yet awakened to clean streets and rare car seemed fine, life - an amazing and totally happy ...

Max and Inessa Kovalevskaya Zherebchevsky

So about heroes, the heroes get votes. It remains the most difficult - to come up with their appearance. Artist Max Zherebchevsky offered his own version.











Why do you need and making the director? Script writing the script, the poet - poetry, composes music composer, the artist draws the characters, the actors voicing the roles animators animate characters. What remains to share the director? Each of the participants in the creation of the film sees the future differently.

The task of the director - to put together a mosaic of artistic perceptions so that they looked intact and not piecemeal. At the same time we consider that every creative person is very vulnerable and difficult to accept criticism. Em>










The hope was that, instead of resentment artist still listen to the opinion of the members of the artistic council. Members of the Arts Council were remarkably unanimous in their opinion that these figures do not correspond to the scenario, and especially music. We must pay tribute to Max Zherebchevskomu - he agreed.

After the search, and new disputes Troubadour type found in some foreign magazine portraits of avant-garde musicians. em>





Princess with funny tails sticking out in different directions, offered an assistant art director Svetlana Skrebnёva. Dress for Princess director found flipping through fashion magazines from abroad in a closed library, State Committee for Cinematography.



In the new form appeared, and other musicians. Even the wagon became a suitcase on wheels. King, security and court challenges are not made, but the robbers ... Animated robbers, characters quite common, but need special, anyone not like! The film is to start production, and "own" the robbers were not. At the studio he was declared unofficial competition. But it was not!

One day, as he was by far the most beautiful, the editor Natalia Abramova studio brought colorful calendar, which shows the trio was the best-known comedians: Yuri Nikulin - Goonies, George Vitsin - Coward and Yevgeny Morgunov - Experienced.



Here they are - our heroes! Robbers!



Atamansha to be done to match the rest.



Literary script is very different from the director. Storyboard attached to the script, it resembles the modern comics and drawings comprises frames. The film is removed out of order, all the scenes are scattered, and everything to come together into a coherent whole, directing the script and storyboard are the basic guidelines for all work on the film. Unfortunately, the director's only preserved sketches:





Preparatory meeting between the Arts Council completed a film studio, takes all the work done. Allegedly creative and production team. It includes: I.Kovalevskaya film director, art director M.Zherebchevsky operator Petrov producer Babushkin, assistant director, assistant to the artist S. Skrebnёva, E. Tertychnaya film editor, editor A. Snesarev, a group of artists and animators production manager.

What are wizards? When it was invented, you need to show all these fantasies to the viewer. But these artists painted life there, and they should not be like real people. Who will make the fantasy move? At the time, the film studio "Soyuzmultfilm" had prepared his staff on special courses. We came here very young, are studied and then worked almost all his life. In the studio each had a permanent place with the indispensable mirror. Cartoonist look in the mirror and imagines herself a wolf or kitten and will transfer everything on paper.

No wonder if the studio in the hallway someone suddenly meowed or jump by bunny - it's just part of the image of the artist! em>

Laboratory paints studio



Sometimes profession cartoonist compared with acting. Normal actor get used to the role, adapting your body creates an image of it. Animator not only get used to the role, it creates an image, which in nature. He gives his gait, habits, character, connects it with the voice. Even when his character is "dead." Try to imagine how goes the chair as a table dreams, angry pillows or dancing spoons! You can not? So you're not an animator! Em>


«As for the film" The Bremen Town Musicians ", at the same time there are 16 animators. Only a very small directorial experience could make me go to such an experiment. More than that, I myself never allowed! - Says Inessa Kovalevskaya - As with most of the animators on the film "The Bremen Town Musicians" I met for the first time, the job scene at first sounded at random, without regard to capabilities and features of this artist. Only after a while, after watching the first trial multiplicative, I began to better understand who and what kind of job offer. " em>
«I worked in many films directed by I.Kovalevskoy. Each time after the end of the film was a sense of celebration. I think that the audience watching these cartoons music, feel the same. I would like to tell you about the wonderful profession and animator. This artist-actor, which should be thoroughly gifted person. He must have the skills and other professions: musicians, dancers, athletes, constantly watching everything that is happening around. Multiplier spying habits of animals and birds, it can be compared with a magician that can revive painted people, animals, birds, giving each its own character. For example, in the film "The Bremen Town Musicians", developing a scene with the cat-fakir, I had to remember how to work in a circus fakir. How to move his hands as he manipulates his cloak, from which there are strange things ». Em>

I would also like to talk about Alexander Davydov. He recommended as an interesting multiplier and turned. Later, as a director, he directed the film "About Parrot Kesha 'and' Once the peas, two peas».

In the painting "The Musicians of Bremen", he entered easily and freely with an episode where the wandering troupe as stuffed pyramid stands in front of the royal palace. Then it splits and continues eccentric dance.



Explain in words only, which is to be dancing, it is practically impossible, it needs to be a choreographer. Directed by "how could" showed multiple, that many times listening to music, celebrated on the exposure sheet notes. Then he rewrote the record yourself on tape and left singing ...

«The scene turned out exactly how I imagined it, and represents and even better!" - says Inessa Kovalevskaya. em>
«I would not call it a good draftsman. But his ability to listen and hear the music, which is not the same thing, the ability to accurately accents in the movements of the characters, a heightened sense of screen time is great! "- Says Inessa Alekseevna. Em>

Abstracting from the topic, you can tell a funny story related to the predatory episode. After the end of the film the creative team of directors with new paintings went to Kazan: "The Bremen Town Musicians", "spies", "Cheburashka" and others. Admission was wonderful.

The escort team is very serious and taciturn official from the rental. After a short speech viewers watched the program, and the band backstage sat at the table, listening with half an ear to the reaction of the audience. And every time, as soon as it came to the room with the robbers, our "serious official" sheepishly apologized, getting out from behind the desk and went to the auditorium to watch your favorite bandit number. Em>



"Oh, early to rise Guard!" The audience saw, heard and remembered! In this great merit of the artist - the multiplier Vitaly Bobrov. His accent, finds in gait and facial expressions recorded a striking episode, which is liked by the audience. An excellent draftsman, who managed to both people and animals, and the dynamics and lyrics, dreamer and inventor, genuinely enthusiastic with their work.



Feed rough sample glued into the ring and is run many times in a row. Immediately director and artist are making their corrections. There is discussion, debate. Last roughing samples, both its own and others' - an excellent school for animators, where you can learn a lot and hear a detailed assessment of their work and to see their own mistakes. Gradually, as the multiplicative ready, connect to business and management studio: drawing, fazovka, fine lining, shading. More and more the Studio working on our picture. It is no longer a dozen and a hundred pairs of skillful and hard-working hands. Fazovka - roughing, finishing, or on celluloid joins layout that makes the multiplier into a single unit that creates a movement on the screen. Finally, fill, when the characters of contour, transparent, become full, colorful characters in the film.



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