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
Visual Storytelling
Thursday, September 4, 2014
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
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
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
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Basics of Storyboarding: Part 2
Topics Covered
Dolly Left
Zoom vs Dolly
Fading/Dissolve/Montages
Rocky Montage
- 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:
Full Shot
Medium Shot
Close Up
Extreme Close Up
Over the Shoulder
Point of View
Bird's Eye View
Worm's Eye View
- 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
Full Shot
Medium Shot
Close Up
Extreme Close Up
Over the Shoulder
Point of View
Bird's Eye View
Worm's Eye View
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