(23 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
Paris, January 22nd 2009
1. Wide shot of the Louvre museum with the Pyramid
2. Mid shot people entering the Louvre Pyramid
3. Mid shot people watching Egyptian sphinx inside the Louvre’s medieval hall
4. Pan of the Louvre’s medieval hall to the exhibition entrance
5. Mid shot of the exhibition poster “The Louvre invites comic strips”
6. Close up of a comics-style Mona Lisa
7. Mid shot reporters visiting the exhibition
8. Mid shot of Fabrice Douar, exhibition curator, talking to reporter
9. SOUNDBITE: (French) Fabrice Douar, curator of the exhibition :
“Comics are not just a funny thing, they’re of all different kinds. There are humorous comics and they are perfect in their own genre, but there are also contemporaneous comics, which belong rather to creation, there are graphic novels, there are thrillers, there’s Manga, and here it’s not entertainment anymore, it’s about the exchange between an author and a reader like in any form of art, an exchange between a creation and its audience. So comics are not always just funny or entertaining, and the Louvre museum is not always dusty and boring.”
10. Mid shot of people watching comic strips and drawings on display
11. Pan from a comic strip by Hirohiko Araki to a comic strip by Bernar Yslaire
12. Close up of comic strips on the wall
13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Fabrice Douar, curator of the exhibition
“What defines art? It’s funny because we’ve always wondered. When photography appeared, the question was : ‘is photography an art?’ Cinema took an incredible long time to establish itself as an art when today no one could question that. Comics are an art like other arts, it’s not the contemporary art, it is one of the contemporary arts. And what distinguishes comics from those others? Nothing much. There are only authors that use their hands for most of them since they draw, they use a pencil, colours, felt-tip pens, even watercolour, and with that they construct a story.”
14. Pan from reporters to author Bernar Yslaire drawing
15. Close up author Bernar Yslaire drawing a character on a computer screen with an electronic pen
16. Close up Yslaire drawing eyebrow
17. Close up of the character drawn
18. SOUNDBITE: (French) Bernar Yslaire, comic strips author
“For anyone who does plastic arts and expose at the Louvre, it’s a consecration. And it’s the first time comics are presented at the Louvre so it’s even more prestigious to be one of the four who are supposed to represent comics here.”
19. Close up of a comic strip by Bernar Yslaire on wall
20. Close shot of one of Bernar Yslaire’s characters on computer
21. Wide shot of several comic strips by author Nicolas de Crecy
LEAD IN :
Comics, long a staple of the French literary diet, are moving to centre stage.
From Asterix and Obelix, to Tintin – the stories of a young Belgian reporter – the French public has long adored their cartoon heroes.
Now the visual world of comics is being embraced for the first time by Paris’ Louvre museum.
STORYLINE :
It is perhaps an unusual event for one of the world’s most celebrated museums.
A new exhibition, “Small Design: The Louvre invites Comics” opened Thursday, January 22, 2009.
Comic strips from five authors are on display.
Fabrice Douar, curator of the exhibition, says like all art, comics represent “an exchange between a creation and its audience.”
Douar suggests that the focus on comics prompts the viewers to re-consider what is ‘art’ ?
The Belgian cartoonist, invited the live audience into his digital world of comics, where images are created not with a sketchpad and crayon, but at the click of a mouse.
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