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Transcript of DIRECTOR STUDY: ANDREW ADAMSON By Leisha Stapleton.
DIRECTOR STUDY:ANDREW ADAMSON
By Leisha Stapleton
BIOGRAPHY
Born In: Auckland, New Zealand, 1966
He lived in Auckland up until he was 11 years old, where he
moved to Papua New Guinea
He prefers the New Zealand education system because of it’s
emphasis on creativity.
- “I think there’s an openness in New Zealand and a freedom, in
the way I grew up anyway, that encouraged the openness of
imagination.”
He started his career in an Auckland computer animation
company. “The Mouse That Roared”
BIOGRAPHY CONT.There he studied advertisements and station logos. He did
a advertisement for ‘Minties’.
When he went to the U.S.A for a conference, he was hired
by a California company ‘Pacific Data Images’.
He got into visual effects and slowly got into Jurassic Park
(1993) and Pixar’s Toy Story (1995)
PDI soon joined forces with ‘DreamWorks’ and made
“Shrek” (2001) which won the 1st Academy Award for a
feature animation.
FILMOGRAPHY:
DIRECTED
- 2001 Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance
Party (video short)
- 2001 Shrek
- 2004 Shrek 2
- 2005 – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion
Witch and the Wardrobe
- 2008 – The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian
CURRENT PROJECTS
2012 – Mister Pip (post-production)
2012 – Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away (completed)
PREFERRED STYLE
He doesn’t really have a preferred style but he
does work with animation and Special effects a lot in
his movies as he grew up doing animation in New
Zealand and America.
IMPACT OF THEIR F ILM WORK ON NZ SOCIETY
He didn’t have much of an impact on New Zealand
society due to his movies being big overseas.
The movies such as; The Chronicles of Narnia were
filmed in NZ.