Shark Tale: Mark Solomon on cutting star voices
Mark Solomon also talked with Kingdom of Dreams about editing DreamWorks' Shark Tale, a star-voice comedy whose cast included Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, and Robert De Niro. When the audience already knows the voices, the cut has to make them feel like characters instead of cameos floating through jokes.
Star-driven animation can tempt an editor to linger on recognition. The better instinct is rhythm: get in on the intention of the line, get out on the reaction, and let design and performance do the celebrity work.
Solomon's two DreamWorks conversations, Chicken Run and Shark Tale, make a useful pair. One is handmade and painstaking. The other is a studio comedy with famous mouths. Both still come down to timing.
Go deeper on Kingdom of Dreams
- → EP 172: Mark Solomon on editing Shark Tale
- → EP 159: Mark Solomon on editing Chicken Run
- → EP 118: Tim Johnson on Over the Hedge
Browse more editor conversations in the Kingdom of Dreams archive.
Original Kingdom of Dreams craft take based on our conversation with editor Mark Solomon (EP 172).