Thursday, September 4, 2014

Final Project

Due: September 11th
Storyboard/Animatic

Photoshop - Template - SD
Photoshop - Template - HD

Create a storyboard and animatic for a short story 5-10 pages. Choose a short story, it may not come from something already produced for tv/film. I.E. no tv sequences from Seinfeld or Dexter.

Storyboard the story using the 5 C's of composition. Be sure to include shots, transitions, camera movements within the storyboard.

You may draw the storyboard by hand, use photos, or a combination of the different methods. Your storyboard should be in professional presentation quality.

You'll also take your images and create an animatic of the story. Be sure to record and include basic dialogue, possible mood music and important sound effects.

You will present both Thursday September 12th, pitching me the story as if I am an investor in your movie.

Stories
Twenty Great American Short Stories
Children Short Stories
Classic Short Stories
Fiction - The Eserver Collection

Audio Sources on the Internet
Sounddogs.com
Freesound.org
Archive.org

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Storyboard/Animatic

Due: September 4th
Storyboard/Animatic

Photoshop - Template - SD
Photoshop - Template - HD

Create a storyboard and animatic for a short story 2-3pages. Choose a short story, it may not come from something already produced for tv/film. I.E. no tv sequences from Seinfeld or Dexter.

Storyboard the story using the 5 C's of composition. Be sure to include shots, transitions, camera movements within the storyboard.

You may draw the storyboard by hand, use photos, or a combination of the different methods. Your storyboard should be in professional presentation quality.

You'll also take your images and create an animatic of the story. Be sure to record and include basic dialogue, possible mood music and important sound effects.

You will present both Thursday September 4th, pitching me the story as if I am an investor in your movie.

Stories
Twenty Great American Short Stories
Children Short Stories
Classic Short Stories
Fiction - The Eserver Collection

Audio Sources on the Internet
Sounddogs.com
Freesound.org
Archive.org

Friday, August 22, 2014

Visual Animatics

Animatic

In animation and special effects work, the storyboarding stage may be followed by simplified mock-ups called "animatics" to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing. At its simplest, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence with a rough dialogue and/or rough sound track added to the sequence of still images (usually taken from a storyboard) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together.

This allows the animators and directors to work out any screenplay, camera positioning, shot list and timing issues that may exist with the current storyboard. The storyboard and soundtrack are amended if necessary, and a new animatic may be created and reviewed with the director until the storyboard is perfected. Editing the film at the animatic stage can avoid animation of scenes that would be edited out of the film. A few minutes of screen time in traditional animation usually equates to months of work for a team of traditional animators to manually draw and paint all those frames, meaning that all that labor (and salaries already paid) will have to be written off if the final scene simply does not work in the film's final cut. In the context of computer animation, storyboarding helps minimize the construction of unnecessary scene components and models, just as it helps live-action filmmakers evaluate what portions of sets need not be constructed because they will never come into the frame. Animation is an expensive and labor-intensive process, so there should be a minimum of "deleted scenes" if the film is to be completed within budget.

Often storyboards are animated with simple zooms and pans to simulate camera movement (using non-linear editing software). These animations can be combined with available animatics, sound effects and dialog to create a presentation of how a film could be shot and cut together. Some feature film DVD special features include production animatics.

Animatics are also used by advertising agencies to create inexpensive test commercials. A variation, the "rip-o-matic", is made from scenes of existing movies, television programs or commercials, to simulate the look and feel of the proposed commercial. Rip, in this sense, refers to ripping-off an original work to create a new one.

Article: The Importance of Animatics

Toy Story Storyboard Pitch / Animatic




The Incredibles Animatic




Gorillaz Dare Music Video Animatic



Actual Gorillaz Dare Video

Friday, August 8, 2014

Basics of Storyboarding: Part 2

Topics Covered

  • Camera Movement
  • Cutting (transitions)
  • Continuity
  • Breaking down a piece shot-by-shot


Dolly Left



 Zoom vs Dolly 



 Fading/Dissolve/Montages 


 

Rocky Montage

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Basics of Storyboarding

Topics Discussed:
  • Five C's of Composition
    • Continuity
    • Camera
    • Composition
    • Cutting
    • Close Ups
  • Wide Shot
  • Full Shot
  • Medium Shot
  • Close Up
  • Extreme Close Up
  • Over the Shoulder
  • Point of View
  • Bird's Eye
  • Worm's Eye
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Extreme Close Up













Over the Shoulder













Point of View















Bird's Eye View













Worm's Eye View



Friday, August 1, 2014

  • Gesture
  • Human Proportion
  • Angles

Gesture: Line of Motion





 Gesture: Step-by-Step