dpFebruary 29, 2008 2:54 am

wk 3: The Blogosphere- YOU’RE NOT ALONE!!

We are in the communication industry, and blogging has emerged as the principal global publishing mechanism of the 21C.

Take a look at some of the online communities of screen and visual arts:

Quarterlife 

myfilmblog

Moviemaker 

And the Winner Is.. 

Film Editing Schools 

Using the Boolean search techniques you’ve ben shown, you’ll be able to hook into an international network of screen creatives. There’s more to the web than YouTube! 

 

By now your blog should be established and operational and the link forwarded to me by email… if not get it done NOW!!

 

Helpful sites if you are new to blogging:

Wordpress 

blogsome forum

its all beta 

visibone colour guide 

 

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dp 2:41 am

wk 2 Montage and Production Process

 

Its important to grasp the workflow of a story idea from conceptualisation to finsihed product.

Here’s Pixar’s Production Process for Monsters Inc, Toy Story

link 

  • Script, Conceptual Design and Storyboard. In Animation, these three activities happen simultaneously. Unlike in live action film where you need to have a script before you can start storyboarding, with animation the storyboarding and conceptual design happen alongside script development as equal parts of the story creation process.
  • Animatic. Once the storyboards begin to give shape to scenes, the Editorial Department begins to put them together in a story reel, or Animatic.
  • Modeling. After the story has evolved to the point where the company feels committed to actually making it into a movie, the modeling department begins creating all the characters and sets that have been developed by the Art Department in the conceptual designs.
  • Voice. Voice actors are cast and the voice lines are recorded
  • Set Dressing. The Set Dressing Department is responsible for taking all the props and putting them together to form the sets in which each scene takes place
  • Layout The is the stage at which each shot that was planned in the storyboards is finally put together in the 3D world with the characters and sets provided by the modeling department.
  • Animation
  • Lighting
  • Rendering
  • FX

 

 

define: MONTAGE

1) the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated shots or scenes which, when combined, achieve meaning (as in, shot A and shot B together give rise to an third idea, which is then supported by shot C, and so on), or 2) a series of related shots which lead the viewer to a desired conclusion (as in, shot A leads to shot B leads to shot C… leads to shot X; shot X being the outcome of the sequence).

Shot 1: MASTER of young woman drying the dishes

Shot 2: CU of the phone ringing as she picks it up

Shot 3: MS of floor as plate comes crashing down 

In isolation, each of these shots has limited meaning, but when assembled in montage a new meaning is created, generating an emotional response from the audience.

This is VISUAL NARRATIVE. 

 

 

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dpFebruary 19, 2008 3:12 am

Welcome…. week 1

OK, so you’ve got a story to tell. Whether you’re into animation, motion graphics, compositing, new media or video production the foundation of SCREEN is storytelling. So that is where we’ll start, with the conventions of storytelling. If you are able to apply yourself to the reading you will be given each week and extend it with your own research, then apply your understanding into each project, you will be able to look back on this year and recognise the importance of the foundations delivered in this program. Even if you have no intention of ever being a writer for screen, a storyboard artist, a cinematographer or a director, it is essential that you understand how each of these roles depend upon each other.

This blog is, like the projects you’ll be working on this year, a dynamic evolving site.

You are expected to check in every few days to keep up-to-date with the site’s content and read messages relating to the program.

Apart from notes specific to upcoming classes, there will be resources, exhibitions and events, and postings of recent student work (completed or in progress). There’s a lot of ground to cover, so lets get going…

Animation Production Houses
Animal Logic, AUST & USA

Method Studios, LA

the mill, UK

Studio Ghibli, JAPAN:   Hayao Miyazaki

Film of the week
No Country for Old Men

Animators
Lorenzo Fonda

Research
The PreProduction Pipeline: Animatic
Stop Motion Animation Handbook
Compositor

 

For Next Week

Bring the outline of your story/animation project to class for discussion.

• You should have at least three potential characters
–  1 x protagonist
– 2 X Key Support (e.g. an antagonist and a love interest)

• a brief character biography of the protagonist

• a Seven Step outline:

1.The Setup (of P and their world)- who they are, what they do, needs, goals, problems.

2. iniciting incident: how P responds when challenged by an event that shifts the course of action/affects their goal or need by presenting a central problem/conflict.

3. act One Turning Point: describe P’s response to a further complication that adds to the conflict.

4. Mid-point: describe P’s response when they hit the bottom- i.e. central problem threatens to overcome them.

5. act Two TP: P’s response to a key conflict thar is a result of central problem. Steer drama to act 3.

6. act Three TP: describe P’s response when all key elements of problem come into conflict at once.

7. Resolution or denouement: how P resolves or deals with the outcome of all this. Tie up the key storylines.

from Writing Your Screenplay by Lisa Dethridge, p 191-192 

 

links: 

The 4 P’s of Screenwriting

Characters

 

 

 

 

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