THE TELEVISION SERIES MOCK-UPS

A mock-up is nothing more than the storyboard that is used in cinema, but instead of making shot by short sketches of the initial script, with the relevant technical indications, a home video is recorded of a series of sequences, previously worked up by the whole company, with technical orientations and outline dialogues. Once the mock-up is considered finished, the definitive script is written. The aim of all this is to work out artistic and production questions at the same time as investigating the visual language and explaining the project to as wide a group of people as possible. The video saves a number of interminable conversations. The method used, which may vary slightly according to the theme of the series, is the same as that to be used in the final production. The television team, then, are presented with a finished series to which they only need to give a definitive format and guarantee the technical quality. With the mock-ups all the indications are implicit: staging, pace, music, characters, interpretation, dialogues, spaces, locations, costumes... It is only necessary to organise what is already organised, bearing in mind that mistakes might have been made and the continuing need to revise the dialogues. Everything is in place to obtain the best results. With this procedure Albert cleverly imposes his artistic and production criteria. And the result bears the stamp of Els Joglars without any external filter, only ours, and our way of working. A mock-up is nothing other than a cast-iron guide, the intelligent flight of the eagle.

Lluís Elias. Preface to the first volume of the works of Albert Boadella obres d'Albert Boadella