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Week 15: Thursday, May 3rd
Final Presentations

  • Character Designs/Turnarounds
  • Storyboards
  • Animatics :15 or :30 seconds in length
 Don't forget to turn in final version of:
  • Final Liberty Valance Storyboards/Animatics
Thumbdrives with the above files labelled correctly.
lowercase

MORNING CLASS

yourname_anim380_s1_2018_finalstoryboard

AFTERNOON CLASS

yourname_anim380_s2_2018_finallvanimatic
lv=liberty valance

Week 15: Tuesday, May 1st
Final Exam
Final day to practice presenting work
Tweak, Revise, minor changes to final projects



Week 14: Thursday, April 26

Review Final Projects, revising/tweaking

Final Exam, Tuesday, May 1st
Final Opportunity to improve your final project.
You should have a final version of:
  • Character Designs
  • Storyboards
  • Animatics
And don't forget, the final version of Liberty Valance storybards/animatic.

Julissa Padilla's article on Randy Cartwright

Randy Cartwright's Student Animation film.

Room and Board (5:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4AojZ4KeY







CGI Animated Short Film ''Love story of two couples'' HD (3:58)


CGI 3D Animated Short Film "SCREEN ROMANCE" (5:24)




Thought of You (3:05)


2D Animated Short Film "GRAVITY" (2:10)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1Ek6Pjw7s




Week 14: Tuesday, 4/24


Review and Re-Present Boards


View:
Taylor K

Andrew



Kyla  Domestic Violence PSA

When it’s hard to talk, it’s up to us to listen



Bhu

Android Commercial 2016 Rock,Paper, Scissors


Jacques Tati- Where to Find Visual Comedy




Sylvain Chomet


Triplets of Belleville

https://youtu.be/Gvoggqq5Pv0


The Illusionist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TglK8v1xs


Stromae - carmen



Week 13

Class 26: April 19


DUE Thursday April 19

Homework 10:  Produce a Turnaround of your Character(s) in your final project. It should be in a rough stage at first, think about construction shapes.This will show how anyone can draw it "on model."


View:
Badly Drawn Roy 
https://youtu.be/a11gESQ3wXw

Alan Shannon: The Curious Case of Roy O'Brien

https://youtu.be/G3g3FgQGv8A



Class 24: Tuesday, April 17

For Final Project, DUE: Thursday, May 3rd


DUE Thursday April 19

Homework 10:  Produce a Turnaround of your Character(s) in your final project. It should be in a rough stage at first, think about construction shapes.This will show how anyone can draw it "on model."

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, May 1st

But what's on the Exam? What do I study??

Scroll down through the past classes of this post and you will find things highlighted in red. https://youtu.be/O1_0hS-Km98
Review your past MidTerm as well. 



For Final Project, DUE: Thursday, May 3rd



Class 30 , May 3: Final Presentation: Storyboard of Commercial on a Data Disc: 



·       Liberty Valance Final Storyboards/Animatic 

·       Final Project: Commercial or PSA Storyboards/Animatic

·       Final Model Sheets and Turnarounds Character Designs

Activity
Points
Assignment 1:             Thumbnails    
5
Assignment 2:             Rough Storyboards 
5
Assignment 3:             Final Storyboard
10
Assignment 4:             Final Spot/PSA
15
Mid-Term Exam
10
Homework:    
20
Final Exam:
15
Attendence:
20
Total
100


 













TURN IN: Proj 03 Liberty Valance FINAL Animatic and Storyboard.
Proj 04 FINAL Storyboard/Animatic of :15 or :30 Commercial spot or PSA.

ALL FILES need your name_projectname_Version#
I.E. JimRichardson_Storyboardproj03_V005

on a DVD Data disc, LABELED and with a cover,
Your Name
Your Class: Anim380_S1 or Anim380_S2
Year: Spring 2018 
Instructor: Jim Richardson







Joe Ranft Storyboard Pitch:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wjk4_otc-o

Homework 10:  Produce a Turnaround of your Character(s) in your final project. It should be in a rough stage at first, think about construction shapes.This will show how anyone can draw it "on model."




Week 12:

Class 24: Thursday, April 12

No Sh*t There I was

https://www.go90.com/videos/2yJXRABL2X7

https://www.go90.com/videos/4q98GJfgUsL

https://www.go90.com/videos/7UAYbPEBGbn?tab=related



Review Character Designs / Storyboards WIPs




VIEW: Same Subject, different Flavor

Adam by Peter Lord  7:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6-ek6g04b8

Adam and Dog :15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKuPLVNsZzY



Homework 10:  Produce a Turnaround of your Character(s) in your final project. It should be in a rough stage at first, think about construction shapes.This will show how anyone can draw it "on model."


Class 23: Tuesday, April 10
STORY PLOT/CHARACTER

DUE:Homework 09: "Isle of Dogs";
write the premise and chart the "Inciting Incident", the plot points, the crisis, the climax and the resolution.


Figment Educational series
https://youtu.be/mzZTpksJH74 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlmxYq0RGEE






Films by Kirsten Lepore



Move Mountain: (11:12) https://youtu.be/cZ9d4MHqEzg

A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape, but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself. A story about illness, perseverance, and our connection to everything around us.



Animated on location at a beach, in snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.



Animated Filmmaker Kirsten Lepore | KQED Arts 7:25





Week 11:

Class 22: Thursday, April 5

Reviewed Rough Storyboards in class and gave notes for revisions. Make changes or revisions to boards, be prepared to show rough Character Designs on Tuesday, Class 23.

Here's a final storyboard I pitched to McDonald's for a :60 spot featuring Ronald McDonald helping a kid. The idea was that Ronald makes bigger and bigger balloon things which eventually becomes a balloon elephant. The spot was never made, but it was an entertaining idea which showed Ronald goofing around and entertain a kid.
:60 McDonalds Spot entitled "Balloons"
 
 




Brad Bird talks about deleted scene "Meet Gusteau" 3.45



5:45



Ratatouille deleted scene: Remy's first day 5:00




Ratatouille Deleted Scene - Heist/Fantasy 5:30




VIEW:

Animation story in Song


Rooty Toot Toot:(7:35) https://vimeo.com/121033862


Log Driver's Waltz: (3:00) 
Special Delivery (7:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaFi3DCHjak


Homework 09: Go see "Isle of Dogs"; write the premise and chart the "Inciting Incident", the plot points, the crisis, the climax and the resolution.








Class 21:  Tuesday, April 3
DUE Homework 08: Find a PSA or Commercial and review it

Everyone should have a rough Storyboard of 12 panels at the most, as a jpeg. These rough boards will be projected and reviewed by the class. Any comments or suggestions will be discussed. Your commercial needs to promote your idea or product within the :30 space of time.

Here are two great sources to find commercials...


The Hall of Advertising



60 minutes interview with Joe Sedelmaier

https://youtu.be/IlNvC08fRLI


One of the most famous commercial directors of the 1970 - 1980's was Joe Sedelmaier. You can see more of his work at his website: http://sedelmaier.com

Here are examples of commercials we showed in class.

Commercials


Lauren

  

Yashi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFvgc9ahgc
This PSA entitiled "Set Yourself Free"

Seth 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJ82IRqAzw

Lubna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1UPc01_Kk

Angellica
https://youtu.be/Y-P0Hs0ADJY

Maria 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7maNRtFVB0

Julissa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoeKvqIRyIs

Jada 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw3HfRMruC8

Jocelyn



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmHzsXO1EZg&t=81s

Homework: Rough Storyboards to show Thursday's class



Week 10:

DUE Homework 07:  Come up with 1 rough idea with a premise  and character.

Premise / Character for Final Project 
a :15 or :30 Commercial / PSA 

Final Project should be big enough to view when projected. 


McDonald's has an need for a commercial, their ad agency; Leo Burnett USA is given the assignment.


This is a Creative Development request. 


This is known as "The Brief".




After several In Agency storyboard reviews, the Agency approved this storyboard to pitch to McDonald's.

 Once pitched to a group of McDonald's executives, the boards were approved and production began.



The Copy Writer finalizes a written script and production notes. 

The Art Director, began designing the appropriate props and costumes needed for the final spot. 






This information as well as the storyboard is used in the bidding process...

All the above information is also given to the TV networks to make sure they don't have any legal issues or problems with the commercial in production.


Once the commercial is shot and edited together, McDonalds is given "Client Approval" to view the Final Cut and make sure they don't have any problems with it. Revision notes are addressed and changes are made. The Client must approve everything every step of the way.

Finally, the final spot appears on TV...

The gorey details can be follow in the link below.



Commercials

1969 Alka Seltzer "Spicy Meatball" Commercial



Airline Commercials


Southern Airlines Second Class

TWA English Europe - Peter Sellers
TWA European
1st Ronald McDonald

McD #3

McDonalds - Flying Hamburger - USA, 1968

Squire Fridel
Toyota $600 Discount commercial


Burger King



McDonald with a Storyline

McDonald Grimace

FEDEX 10 spots

Japanese Commercials
Tommy Lee Jones Coffee Commercial
Alien Jones in researching the Earth

Homework 08: Find a commercial with a storyline and provide a link and write a review. Like this one...

HW 8-Commercial
https://youtu.be/cbU3cihcSqE
An Amazon commercial from 2016 that originally aired in Japan. It tells the story of a young couple who brings home a baby, but the baby is afraid of the family dog.


The baby is fond of a stuffed animal lion, and the father gets an idea and orders a product from Amazon. The package arrives and it is a “Lion Mane” for the dog. With the dog wearing the mane, the baby is no longer afraid and the dog feels welcome again.


I think this is an effective commercial and I remember it being very popular. It really appeals to the viewer’s emotions by telling a cute story in order to sell the service.


Week 10: Tuesday, March 27

DUE Homework 07:  Come up with 3 rough ideas with a premise  and character.






Here's what we are doing the last 5 weeks of class.

Week 10: 
Premise / Character for Final Project a :15 or :30 Commercial PSA

Week 11: 
Character Designs / Thumbnails

Week 12:
Production Blog
Model Sheets
Storyboard Pitching

Week 13: 

Rough Storyboards for :15/:30 project
Storyboard Pitching / Practice

Week 14:  
Storyboard Pitching / Practice

Week 15:  Final Exam
Final Storyboard Pitching / turn in Final Liberty Valance animatic.



3 Premises, pick the best one.



Does your premise tell or show a short story or an idea in 
:15 to :30 second?

How can use animation in a interesting way?


Finalize the premise to the final project's timeframe and bring it in thumbnail form on Thursday


VIEW:  Variety of PSAs



Keep America Beautiful - (Crying-Indian) - 70s PSA Commercial







MTV A Thin Line, Cafeteria Advertisement  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRUFvQ_25eg
 




Dont Text and Drive PSA  https://youtu.be/MEg7GvFQYtQ



The World of Autism PSA | Autism Speaks   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0idZghw97dc



Affordable Care Act







Best PSA of all time!

 

What makes up a good character?


Nobody is perfect. Everyone has flaws in real life and in stories. These flaws make your character more appealing or relatable to the audience. We want to see what they will do next. Perfect people are not relatable, they have no problems, no flaws and nothing to learn from, because they perfect. 



If you can't think of any flaws, here's a list of many to choose from: https://writerswrite.co.za/123-ideas-for-character-flaws/ 



Story Arc: Character (has a problem) fear or flaw and they either triumph or fail with their problem



Character Research



1) People Watch: See Character traits and stories in action. You can learn a lot by just observing others around you. At the Mall. Library, Bar, etc.



2) Co-Workers: Analysis  their flaws, their quirks, gestures, funny things they say or do, their mannerisms, body language; all these bits of character can go into your character as long as it makes sense to you.



3) Relatives: If you know of someone in your families or circle of friends, try imitating someone you know quite well. Pretend to act like them, even if it's how they would walk into a room.  Or how would like ask for directions? Think of a simple situation.



4) Character Traits:

Physical Traits: Positive/Negative. How do they walk? Balanced/off balanced? Body Type, hair/ eye color, young/old, male/female?



Each character talks differently from each other in a different voice. What are the words they use? This can show their level of education, an accent may show where they are from, attitude or temperament, what type of person they are. 



Character Personality Traits

Once you have created a list of these character traits, you will know about this character. Try imagining how this person would react, walk or talk. Pretend to act like this person, even take the test below as if your character.
 
 This is the Meyers-Briggs Character personality chart which shows 16 common personality types. 

Take this free Personality test to find out what personality type you are: https://www.16personalities.com


Then pretend to be your character and take the test again as your character.

Method for naming Characters



Once you have written out your Character Traits, figured out their Personality, you need to figure out the design of the character.


Character Design can be broken down into two main types: Realistic or Stylized. Realistic would be trying to mimic reality



whereas Stylized would be caricatures or parodies of reality. Disney's Mickey Mouse would be a stylized character.


Stylized characters can be just as simple as a box, where to make it come alive you need to show that it has weight, volume, and a personality.

Creating a good animated character is always a challenge. The character has to be visually appealing and have a personality. There are a few things to keep in mind when designing your characters.

When animating in 2D, keep in mind that the character you create is not too complex because it has to be easy enough to reproduce. When animating in 3D (ie. computer-generated animation), the character that you create can be from the simplest to the most complex because you only have to create it once, but keep in mind the computer hardware requirements for animating very complex characters.

To create a well designed character here are some steps to follow:

To start off designing your character, you need to brainstorm some ideas. A good place to start is by collecting images of animals, people, and objects to be used as reference materials. Good reference materials is essential to the believability of your character creation. 



Here are several ways of getting ideas for your character.



One easy way of generating ideas is to take something organic and combine it with something inorganic. First create a chart with two columns with the labels organic and inorganic and then start writing down whatever you can think of into these two columns. 



Once you think you have enough ideas, start pairing one item from the organic column with one from the inorganic column. An example would be: a snake and a car type of character.



Another more complex way of generating ideas for characters is to create a chart with the following columns: body type, head type, arms/hands type, and legs/feet type.





Once you have created these chart headings, it is time to fill in each column by writing whatever comes to your thoughts. The chart shown below, gives you an idea of what you can place into the different columns.





IDEAS FOR CHARACTERS
Body Type
Head Type
Arms/Hands
Legs/Feet

 Human Muscular

Cobra Gorilla Lion


















Once you have this chart made up with the different things, you can now start playing with ideas by mixing the first column with the different rows and the other columns. An example of a type of character could be: tiger-horse head with a human body-type quadruped, mechanical winged-creature.
 

VIEW:  

The Stain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=80juKtg1TSk


The Last Knit: (5:00)
 

The terrible thing of alpha 9 (6:00)
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2010/04/27/the-terrible-thing-of-alpha-9/ 


A terrifying alien creature on an alien planet, a courageous spaceman armed to the teeth with modern technology, what could possibly go wrong?

Homework07: Rough out thumbnail ideas of a :15 to :30 Storyboard as a Commercial or a PSA.  Bring it in to work on in class.



Week 9:



Class 18: March 22nd  STORY CONCEPT AND IDEAS

Coming up ideas.


Writers/Drawers: Idea Gathering


Right Brain thinking only, Anything is possible and keep your eyes open.



Keeping a sketchbook/Journal handy. Ideas or sparks of inspiration happen when you are doing  something else. You are thinking about them, when you are doing something else like, when you are waiting in line, doing laundry, taking a walk, taking a shower, cleaning your room, taking a walk, working out at the gym, etc. 



Draw or write something, anything every day. 



If you have a flash of an idea, write them down , record it on your phone and collect all these little idea bulbs into your sketchbook/journal.  



Finding Inspiration in Situations, Overheard conversations, Current events, Current trends, Personal Experience, The future, etc. 



Take Time to explore and research. Sketchbook/Journal.



Coming up ideas. Brainstorming,

Getting out any idea, image, cartoon gag,  character trait,



"What if" stage: Asking questions about your idea to get more ideas.
 



Dr. Ronald Chevalier - The Art of Inspiring Oneself (1:25)




Your animation should be telling a story whether to entertain, inform, teach or inspire. Will it help your audience or just entertain them?


What will you use to grab your audience's attention? 

Do you have a "Hook", a story device that will grab your audience's attention and keeps them watching until your story is over. 


What do you want to do? 


Can you take a well know story and update it or change the situation or characters? 


Your story can inform, entertain, help a cause or a situation


Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story (18:00)

https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_stanton_the_clues_to_a_great_story#t-1137149


IN Class: Clustering

What are some Topics for Themes?

Clustering

Clustering is also called mind mapping or idea mapping. It is a strategy that allows you to explore the relationships between ideas.

  • Put the subject in the center of a page. Circle or underline it.
  •  As you think of other ideas, link the new ideas to the central circle with lines. 
  • As you think of ideas that relate to the new ideas, add to those in the same way.

The result will look like a web on your page. Locate clusters of interest to you, and use the terms you attached to the key ideas as departure points for your paper.

Clustering is especially useful in determining the relationship between ideas. You will be able to distinguish how the ideas fit together, especially where there is an abundance of ideas. 

Clustering your ideas lets you see them visually in a different way, so that you can more readily understand possible directions your paper may take.

In Class: Brainstorm a Theme: What is the about film?
BRAINSTORMING STORY IDEAS CHART
Character
Setting
Motivations
Obstacles
outcast from a planet living on earth
modern day large city
rescue earth friend from alien assassin
defeat the evil assasin who is more powerful
outcast from society
near future after a great war
to find the truth
fear of the truth
friendly alien
haunted island
stop the destruction of a planet
stop a madman from releasing bomb
martial-arts expert
ancient city of gold
stop the spread of a disease
overcome the lost of family
100 year old muscular-man
African rain forest
stop biological warfare
fight agents and expose the truth
drunken man
bar
to become a king
to deny belief in a higher being
roaches
in a fridge
to have lunch
to unlock the door to the treasure
 

 Add your own...
BRAINSTORMING STORY IDEAS CHART
Character
Setting
Motivations
Obstacles







































Developing Your Ideas Into a Concept
After you think you have enough entries in the list, you can start formulating the concept of your story. To begin your development, here is a sentence that will help you to organize your ideas:

This story is about __________________________(character),set in _____________________________(setting)
to do something_____________________( motivation), but has to overcome _____________________(obstacles).


In Class: Clustering and Freewriting



Free Writing - 5 minute writing warm up.


  • Find an area of interest – an image, a word, phrase or idea.  One way of starting is to write a quick list and see which item appeals most.  Or you might want to find a sentence from a story or poem as a way of kickstarting your writing.  You might also start with a question (this works well for developing characters and also for essays, academic writing or non-fiction).


  • Write nonstop for your allotted time slot (five or ten minutes).  Write rapidly, without stopping to correct or reread or edit. The point is to generate ideas on paper, so your pen must keep moving. If you find yourself getting stuck, rewrite the title or first line of your topic a few times to get going.


This works best by writing long enough to begin to run out of ideas.  Pushing through that barrier of not-knowing-what-comes-next is often where the real creativity happens because we need to start thinking more laterally.






VIEW:


Theme Recycling
From Viborg , Denmark


Poseidon (:30)  https://vimeo.com/233453677

Plastic Fireworks (:30) https://vimeo.com/256773020

Atlas Animation
Recycle PSA (:30) https://vimeo.com/233453677
Strange Beasts 
https://youtu.be/HeGWoh0rUvw



Homework 07:  Come up with 3 rough ideas with a premise  and character.






Class 17: March 20th  Storyboard Final
Returned Graded: Midterm Exams

The next 6 weeks of this class will be devoted to:

  • Coming up with a simple character story based on a theme
  • Rough design of Main Character, 2 supporting Characters
  • Rough to Final storyboards ( 6 to 12 panels)
  • Final Turnarounds  and Model sheets
  • Learning how to pitch an idea/board
  • Setting up a Production Blog for Senior Project

Coming up with a storyboard to a :15 to :30 commercial of your choice.

View/Review Final Storyboard Animatics

View/Review Liberty Valance clip: Watch the background during a second viewing and see how they shot this scene by adjusting their set and camera set ups.
https://youtu.be/mejzuQ9kVbs

Topics for Themes
Final Project:  :15 /:30 Pitch Board ( 6 to 12 panels) featuring your character(s) and story situation.

VIEW: Related Theme: Black Hula and Not One of Us
Black Hula (4:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzzPoQfjPw
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ps7vi
Not One of Us: (9:00) https://vimeo.com/218948976/bcef298527


Happy Spring Break!



BTW, Dragon Lullaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgAZkrmDOXE

this film was an edited version of the final film, called "Reversal of the Heart" and makes more sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHLwG3ioD4Y

Week 8

Class 16:Thursday, May 8

MidTerm Exam

Review Storyboards WIP Quicktimes

Suspense Story building 
Groups of 5 write the beginning of a story using a story prompt. After 2 minutes, everyone passes their paper to the right, they will have 3 minutes to read what was written and to continue to write the story. The story is passed again and the next writer has 4 minutes to read and add to the story. This process goes on until 


Story Four Square (if there's time)

VIEW: Double King



Ping Pong/Zig Zag Structure Main character’s endless pursuit of crowns is the main plot of this film. He hunts down other kings and takes their crowns. First the rat king, then the pumpkin king, fly king, snake king and so on an so forth. He murders one king before taking their crown, remains unsatisfied, and then pursues another crown. The cycle repeating over and over again, even after he dies and is transported to the after life: He see the that king of death has a crown and attempts to take it.



Circular Structure The story ends with the main character getting the biggest crown he’s even seen from the king of death. He steals it and runs, just as he did in the beginning with the rat king. Our main character learns absolutely nothing.





Class 15: Tuesday, May 6

Ric Heitzman, Senior Studio lecture

In Class:
  • Review of Storyboard WIPs
  • Mid-Term Review
  • Story idea exercise


Week 7

Class 14: Thursday, May 1

Reviewed Storyboard rough drawings/animatics WIP.


Class 13: Tuesday, Feb 27



Contrast




Can help define the focal point of a shot as well as create Depth in the composition.

The eye is attached to what is different.




Light objects stand out if everything else is dark.



Contrast between objects can affect the emotional response of the viewer.



Light images feel closer to us while Dark images recede. With Color images, warm colors feel closer and cool colors recede.

This is confusing, since the range of light to dark is much lower in objects that are far away. Distant objects are lighter due to atmospheric perspective.



To add depth to a scene, we need to add a foreground element, Middle ground  and a background.



CONTRAST

 

Show Experimental Animation; The Shirley Temple  






Overlapping images




ASPECT RATIOS



Horizontal and Vertical information based on projection size of the final image. You need to know this information, especially in post production to keep ratio constant.



1.33:1

Also known as 4:3 aspect ratio for TV 16mm/35mm Academy aperture.

1.43:1
Traditional IMAX screening

1.66:1
Common European Widescreen standard; Walt Disney Feature Animation uses this format.

1.78:1
Also known as 16:9. Most common Widescreen format for video games and commercials.

1.85:1
US and UK widescreen standard for Theatrical films

2.35:1
Also known as 35mm anamorphic projection, Panavision or Cinemascope
(Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia)

Changing  the Aspect Ratio will squeeze or cut off the edges of the image applied to a different Aspect Ratio. In the past, Widescreen format films had to (Pan and Scan) to show certain important visual information


You place the Camera where you place your Audience.
3 Basic Shot choices
1.     Wide Shot
2.     Medium Shot
3.     Close Up
     
From these basic shots are an infinite number of variations.

Extreme Wide Shot EWS: featuring the background and how small character is to it.
GBand U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9cfQx2OZY
Wide Shot (WS): Long Shot featuring full shots of character and location.
 Full Shot (FS): Showing the entire figure in a shot along with the background
Cowboy Shot: Medium FS
From above the head to lower thigh, in order to see the guns and belt.
Medium Shot (MS): Most used shot, top of the head to above the waist.
Close Up Shot (CU): Top of Head to neck.
Choker Shot: Tighter shot than Close Up, Cutting off top of head and just under the chin.
A true Choker Shot
Extreme Close Up (ECU): Usually on the Eyes, Mouth, Nose, Ears...

 

or can be on an object to show detail
Over the Shoulder Shot (OTS): During a conversation scene.
Point of View Shot (POV):
From the Character's perspective
 From the eyes of the character
From inside the character's empty refrigerator
Reverse Shot: A shot where the camera cuts to the other person talking or
a camera angle showing what going on behind that shot we are seeing.

Reaction Shot: To how the character's reaction to what has just occurred.
 
Simple Conversation coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLkUHZ1qips

This a great scene where one character is meeting his alter ego. Watch the acting and use of shots to show how 1 person can turn into two different people.
 
Insert Shot: An insert shot, a quick shot inserted in between a sequence of shots. Usually an important piece of information.

180 Degree Rule Broken and Destroyed: 
Spot Eye Line problems, breaking the line and how many apples she tosses.

Review Problems with STAGING and other things:
 
Classic UPA style animation

  
Week 6
 

Class 12: Thursday, Feb 22


DUE: Homework 5: Linear Structures.

Included the Link and describe the scene you are reviewing, timeline info.

Quicktimes of Work In Progress (WIP) of Storyboard Assignment.


A good magician controls his audience's attention as he performs. He uses misdirection to make his audience look away as he is doing something else.

A good Storyboard artist, Animator or Director directs the audience's eye to where they want the audience to look or to notice.  



A single Storyboard panel contains 3 things. 

  • Screen Direction referring to Camera Left or Camera Right.

  • Camera Height, the physical position of the camera.

  • Camera Lenses information




Here is the same basic scene from 3 slightly different camera angles. The camera is on the same side of the character to help show how the change in Camera Height can effect the feeling of the scene.      


A level camera on the character, gives the feeling the lady is remembering something or someone. A scene like this often is accompanied by a camera move either in or out depending upon the point in the story that it appears. 
  


Positoning the camera below and looking up at the character is known as a low angle. This gives a more heroic or dramatic feeling to the shot.
 
With this type of camera angle, it gives the character a sense of accomplishment.  It's basically putting the character on a pedestal. It harkens back to the age of Kings and Queens standing on their balconies looking down upon the peasants.




The opposite of this is the downshot or high camera angle. It gives a sense of bewilderment or loss. That perhaps the character didn't get what they were after. Like the first example you will often find a shot like this accompanied with a camera move out. It can also be pushed to give a stronger feeling. A downshot also helps to give scale and place the character into their world.



Each Storyboard Panel also needs a focal point or a Center of Interest.




By designing elements in your composition to emphasize or
direct your audience's eye to the focal point.







There can be as many as 3 focal points for one storyboard 
panel.



1) Primary is only one or the most significant or important 
object in the composition.



2) Secondary is the second object your eye will notice in the
composition.


3) Tertiary is the third object, sometimes the third might arrive
later adding to the composition.

Finding Vivian Maier
https://youtu.be/er8-Vq__cRE

VIEW:

Pigeons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cji1HqXySXY



Before Sunrise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuq8GunJjos
 
Perspective: True, Cheating, Hanging and The Grid Trick


One Point Perspective: 
Begins with a Horizon Line and One point 

Add lines aiming at the Vanishing Point
 



Add Horizontal Lines to create Depth





2 Point Perspective:

Two points on a Horizon Line







 

3 Point Perspective: 

Bird's Eye View







Worm's Eye View 











BUT





YOU CAN CHEAT BY...




Adding a Grid into your panels will help with establishing Depth. 





A bad Storyboard Artist draws flat boring images






This is a very flat 1 point perspective image, but it still works. 

 Add a little perspective...





Hanging Perspective

Hanging Perspective is a quick way to plant figures and objects of the same size onto the Horizon line. 



You can go back  to refine them later, change their poses, but keep them in the same place.

"Hanging" from the torso...
"Hanging" from the knee...



And Now, The Grid Trick






Add a grid in the background and move it around 



TAH DAH!





View: LOU: Bully learns not to be one.



That's amazing! 

But what about Homework 06?

Before and After: Take a 6 shot sequence from your Junior Film BEFORE and apply More Depth/Use Grids to improve your 6 shot sequence. Show Before and After. 
HW06 DUE: Thursday, March 1st , if not before.


Storyboard Refresher: Cinema Language: Shot Choices 1 - 6

View:
A Lesson in Staging: 12 Angry Men: https://youtu.be/nWCgA7h99Nc


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