Fall 2017 - CLASSES - anima_210_01 syllabus

CLASS SCHEDULE:   Wednesday, September-6-2017 until  Wednesday, December-13-2017

Week 1     

Wed. September 6th 

• Introduction - mine and students, class/ PROJECTS /grades;  goals and expectations
• Intro to visStory (iPhoto) 
• Discussion and analysis: Visual language of film, overview:
• Why do we watch? two examples of story...
• What is a story, what is a character?
• Character vs. Plot driven
• Threshold of awareness
• events of the story (visible) vs. structure of the storytelling (invisible)
• Gestalt of Story / Kevin Richardson
• Overview of continuity style of film-making, three act structure, hero's journey
• EX-position, CO-nflict, R-esolution
• anticipation, action, reaction
• Show, Don't tell :  
• Visual Storytelling example: Oh Brother where Art Thou
• Example of Drawing Style: Secret of the hidden date by Tamar Blumenfeld.
• Aim for the heart, but work at a structural level
• Two objectives of cinematography:

1. Be clear and consistent - do not confuse the viewers. (mannequins example; deep vs. flat shots, when is ambiguous space ok to use ?) 
2. Enhance the story with cam angles, cuts and visual elements that complement each story point's mood/message. (Yes, once that you know how, you can do fancy stuff to wow viewers.

• However -- Learn and know the rules before deliberately breaking them to your advantage.
• Camera framing ("shot types"): EWS, WS, LS, MS, CU, XCU (Martin Curley) or Ron Doucet's Storyboard Cheat Sheet or Jordan's shots (png).
• "Mom" 12 min animation, time permitting to review shot types. (from Chung Ang University Animation lab, Korea 2016).

• Takeaway points: Make them care. Awareness threshold. Know the rules but pick only the ones that work for you. Storyboarding basics(!)

Week 2   

Mon. Sep 11th

• Lecture: 
• Camera Angles - high (dw), low (up), dutch ( elementsofcinema.com )
• Rule of Thirds (Am.Beauty, The Fall) vs. Symmetry (2001: 1,2, Am.Beauty)
• 180 degree RULE, 'the line'(paprika), Axis of Action, crossing the line.
• Re-establishing the 180 line (Match Point, Woody Allen 2005)
• ... vs. Breaking the line (The Shining's "Mr. Delbert Grady" the bathroom scene, Stanley Kubrick 1980. Imitation Game 2014 (from my gDrive only)
• Storyboarding basics (by Rad Sechrist)
• clarity in: shape, tone, space, location, mood, action/motion
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• Eye line -or- eye trace (Amélie)
• [An ocean of tips by Ron Doucet.]
• Showing one thing at a time - beats - and pacing [ "I'm on a Boat" (only first 30 seconds!!) /The lonely Island.  Amélie 'love at first sight'.]
• Beats are like...punctuation!
• Story telling is story delaying - (JAWS opening, Amélie: 'fantasy & reality' and Out of Sight 'Karen's in the Lobby')
• Bruce Blocks' 7 visual components of film: 
• space, line, shape, tone, color, movement & rhythm.
• Workshop
• draw 5 frame story using only basic shapes (cube, spheres, cones)
• begin working on Project 1

• Takeaway points: beats, one thing at a time, the 7 visual components.

Wed. Sep 13th - Project 1 due !

• DUE: Project 1
• Critique project 1 --  might take most class time....
• [Intro to visStory (iPhoto)  if have not done before ]
• begin Contrast & Affinity (iPhoto, time permiting)
• continue with Space (next talk) time permitting.

• Takeaway point: The contrast & Affinity concept.

Week 3   

Mon. Sep 18th

• Lecture:
• Conclusions from project 1.

• continue Contrast & Affinity talk
• Space (iPhoto)  Deep / Flat / (Limited)
• Depth cues: size difference, shape change, perspective/vanishing points, object movement (in/out), camera movement (dolly,push,crane), texture diffusion, aerial diffusion, color separation, overlapping, up-down-near-far from horizon.
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• Flat cues: size constancy, minimal perspective, perpendicular obj move, cam   pan/tilt (or tracking action), same aerial diffusion, none overlapping, less up-down;same horizontal planes, defocus BG.
• Reversal of depth cues: color separation (warm BG, cool FG), tonal separation (bright BG, dark FG), textural diffusion (less FG, more in BG), size difference (reversal of the expected). 

• Ambiguous Space
• Lack of revealing movement, unknown objects size, unfamiliar shapes and patterns, mirrors reflections distortions, cam disorientation. 
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• Flat vs Deep ---> awkward, comical(?), theatrical, picture-book like vs. exciting , real-life, dramatic :
• Scenes from Moonrise Kingdom (trailer!, cliff dialogue kiss) 
• ...vs. the Matrix (lobby shootout) 
• Goodfellas sequence with Cam Zoom in vs. Push in (z 2:33-:40, p 3:00-:15 )

Additional photos credits:

[Stairway to Contrast BW image Photograph by DONATA WENDERS: http://twistedsifter.com/2012/05/picture-of-the-day-stairway-to-contrast ]
[Planning-diagram of Affinity by CS Odessa LLC, 1798 Technology Dr Ste 244,San Jose, CA 95110:   http://www.conceptdraw.com/solution-park/seven-management-and-planning-tools ]

• Lab: 
• Explain project #2.
• Deep vs. Flat - take 30 minutes and find an interesting location on campus. Make at least 2-5 different pairs of drawings of that space, one from a Deep perspective and one as Flat space.
• [ (on longer semesters) Begin researching scripts/films for proj 2 -?]
• Takeaway points: differences between flat, deep & ambiguous spaces

Wed. Sep 20th

• Lecture:  (after review of any left projects #1 storyboards)
• Continue Space talk, things to consider:
• the physical space we shoot, draw or render
• the differences between the physical and what appears on paper/screen
• characteristics of the final 2D image we watch (deep? flat? ambiguous?)
• the challenge to portray real world deep 3D on a flat screen (what can we do?)
• Space in production (why for Anim?!)/ same scene in the 3 Spaces (iPhoto, mention forced perspective, Hobbit how to , LOTR how-to)
• Flat vs Deep: theatrical, fairytale, fable, comical-? vs. exciting, dynamic
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• Deep & Flat in production, examples (iPhoto)  
• Deep space happens only in our brains:
• Anamorphic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk
• Ames Room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttd0YjXF0no
• On sidewalks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlz2yWtaYlw

• 30 minutes break/task drawing Deep vs. Flat on campus

• More talk:

• Aspect Ratio & Frame Division; space secondary sub-components (iPhoto)
  (credit: Bela Borsodi for VLP Album 2011, four color frame division)
• Contrast & Affinity of Space components (iPhoto)
• Lab 5:30pm -
• Storyboards examples from popular films
• Go to one of the frame still sites from this blog, or others of your choice. Find 5 interesting stills and redraw them in storyboard format, using simple primitives in the composition.
• Continue working on project 2
• Understanding each visual component in its contrast & affinity context, will make it possible to create a more meaningful visual story structure.   
• Takeaway pts: 
• How do we fake 3D depth on a flat paper? 
• When do we choose not to? 

Additional photo credits:

Tim Bartram 2013 http://www.tapscape.com/how-big-should-the-screen-size-be-on-a-phone/  [Laptops pile 700x400]
Ryan Nakashima (The Associated Press) Sun, Dec 18, 201?

 [old TV 421 × 302] http://www.hersutah.com/story/tv-companies-have-year-pipe-down-loud-ads 
Spencer Caldwell Design 2010 http://www.cultofmac.com/64314/check-out-this-awesome-chart-of-apples-screen-sizes-including-rumored-air-netbook/ [Apple purple screens 640 × 2848 ]

 Steven Hoober 2012 http://floatlearning.com/2012/06/responsive-principles-more-than-designing-for-size/ [Displays_andPhones_in white 855 × 267 ]

(two business people mirroring: http://www.parexcellencemagazine.com/business-and-career-articles/mirroring-can-be-an-important-part-of-developing-business-relationships.html )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)#Previous_and_currently_used_aspect_ratios [Aspecs jpeg edited in Illustrator, from wiki]

'Four color staging' image was made by photographer Bela Borsodi for VLP's album Terrain in 2011

http://www.popphoto.com/news/2013/06/photo-optical-illusion-will-blow-your-mind?src=soc&dom=fb  

two people walking between shadows ('Walking in step at Tate Modern' Photograph: Richard Thomson. www.guardian.co.uk - 723 × 480 )

Week 4 

Mon. Sep 25th

• Lecture:
• Line and Shape (iPhoto)
• Bruce Block's Line types: edge, contour, closure, planes intersection,  imitation- through distance, axis, track.   
• Class exercise : 5 more of your selected film frames, in basic lines and primitives, on 2x1" storyboard frames  (We will demonstrate first).  
• Insert shots: American Beauty (pool), Jurassic Park III (Spinosaurus vs. T-Rex)
• Lab:
• Work on project #2

Wed. Sep 27th 

• Lecture:

• Contrast & Affinity of Line & Shape (iPhoto)   
• Orientation:    --   |   / 
• Direction:   wind rose
• Quality:    Curve  vs.  Straight
  Straight lines, generally might be associated with: direct,aggressive,bland,blunt,strong,dominant,unnatural,rigid.
  Curved lines, generally might be associated with:  indirect,passive,natural,childlike,romantic,soft,safe,flexible.
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• Shapes, basic primitives:  O  circle,   [ ]  square,    /\ triangle
• C&A of Shape, Shape in production (iPhoto CH2.4)
• Contrast & Affinity of Shape
• Line & Shape in production 

• Lab:  
• 180 degree rule in action, ways of re-establishing the 180 line:
• Create a 5 - 10 frame sequence using 2 primitives. Establish a 180 degree line between the two. 
• Use one of the three methods of re-establishing the 180 line:
• One actor moves (to reestablish the line) during the shot
• The Camera dollys (to reestablish the line) during the shot
• Create an inset shot or have a third element enter the scene, to 'reset' the scene or establish a new line.
• Lab time for project #2, time permitting.
• Takeaway points: What are lines' Orientation, Direction and Quality ?

Week 5 

Mon. October 2nd

• Lecture: 
• Quiz: What are lines' Orientation, Direction and Quality ?
• 'Traffic' the movie - Drug Bust (fun house) shootout shape example...
• [finish the 180 rule exercise (ask missing students to explain the 180 rule)]
• Answer any Project #2 work related questions. Is everyone working on a their selected clip ? 
• [Watch clips: cross cutting from match point, matrix -? time permitting] 
• Building tension:
• American Beauty (Joyless?)
• No Country for Old Man (waiting in dark hotel room) 
• Story; pivoting between hope and fear :
• The Host ("Gwoemul") 14:30-17:14, Joon-Ho Bong/ Korea 2006
• Bourne Ultimatum (Bourne vs. Desh), Paul Greengrass 2007
• Paperman, John Khars 2012. [Best Animated Short 2013 Oscar and Annie]
• 20 minutes drawing exercise - roughly draw a single campus space from 5 different shot angles. Please put 1-2 very simple characters in them (we'll revisit chars in the following weeks).

• Lab:
• Work on project 2 finals
• Takeaway points: basic shapes usage, how to build tension, pivoting between hope & fear.

Wed. Oct 4th -- Project 2 Due !!

• DUE: PROJECT 2
• "Dailies": <- explain the term
• Screening and review of Projects #2  -- may take more then the 3 hour class ...

Week 6   

Mon. Oct 9th 

• (review extra projects #2 from last week, when class > 12 students)
• Discuss second project's conclusions

• Lecture:
• Tone (iPhoto slides)
• Controlling Tone with texture & light: art direction, lighting, exposure
• Camara aperture F-Stops
• Lighting basics: 3 point lighting scheme (prod practical lighting)
• Drawing tone - Mark Kennedy/ TempOfSevenCamels (also ToneAndValues)

• Lab:  
• Watch film noir clips ( Manhattan opening!, Casablanca: at the bar (?), More building tension : Touch of Evil, SorryWrongNumber (or not?), Casablanca: Finale )
• 15-20 minute drawing exercise - find 3 interesting objects or locations to draw. Change the lighting in your drawing to reflect a different time of day and/or mood. Add a character to your scenes.

• Explain Project 3, time permitting - extra challenge ...
• [ add choices, selecting of 1-2 elements per group:
• Objects: knife, gun, lipstick, a snake, key, chalk, scissors, blue jeans, a wallet, motorcycle, 
• Scene: nightclub, horse race, liquor store, casino, back alley, museum, library, car dealership, cubical land, hairdressing parlor, 
• Mood: anger, envy, obsession, mad love, jealousy, stress,  ]

• Takeaway points: Tone with Texture (art direction) vs. Tone with Lighting

Wed. Oct 11th  (yom Kippur)

• [About horizon line in composition] 
• [Traffic' the movie - Drug Bust (fun house) shootout shape example...]

• Lecture:

• Drawing characters for storyboards
• Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston 3rd of 12 Principles of Animation = Staging (also, Principle of Anim by Andrew Schmidt) :  Mark Kennedy's Seven Camels storyboarding blog.
• The importance of Silhouette [Cinderella (from 11:00) 1922]
• Posing and the 12th principle of Appeal [ Paul Briggs, ('onAnimation')]
• Use what we've learned about Straight vs Curved line association.
• For our storyboards (and beyond): make them easily differentiated - hair, cloths, body type, height, etc.
• Character Reference: 
• Miyazaki's Wind Rises ₪ Spirited Away chars
• ...Look at storyboards from various films for Character portrayals 
• (Disney's 50 most influential animators -?)
• Lab:
• 15 minute drawing exercise - redraw your 3 (out of 5) shot angles of that space on campus, from last week's exercise, see if you can improve the original characters' poses, appeal and action.
• Takeaway points: Importance of characters' clear silhouette & appeal.

Week 7   

Mon. Oct 16th 

• Lecture:
• Show Wolf Children/ Mamoru Hosoda:  Lateral Tracking for it's alpha channel transparencies in layers  
• Movement 
• Either Prezi (have these three links up: 
• FPS demo
• PeeWee
• ATM neon
• or  iPhoto images, first 2 slides only, then play 'life' link below----v
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• Actual = life, 
• Apparent = film and life (FPS demo, ATM neon, PeeWee ), 
• Relative = to BG (car & water balloons, children of men )
• Simple vs.Complex (screen space - in/out)
• Screen world movement: Obj, Cam, viewers' Point of Attention (AKA "eye line")
• Object: direction, quality, scale & speed.
• Camera: direction (2D vs. 3D),scale, speed
• straight/curved, like lines' emotional associations
• Cam 2D: pan, tilt, zoom.
• Cam 3D: Dolly, Crane, Track in/out (=push/pull)
• Viewers' Point of Attention "eye trace"/ "gaze locations"
• far/intense (The Insider 1999, Michael Mann, DP Dante Spinotti),  near/calm (Sky-fall 2012, Sam Mendez, DP Roger Deakins)
• Lab:
• Creating Animatics in Premiere Pro ('cause After Effects was an overkill):
•  Key-framing Zoom, Pan/Tilt, Dissolve, animation w/Alpha channel - BRING Princess and the Frog - Disney "Cell" 
• Edgar Wright - Visual Comedy (by Tony Zhou)
• plan out the scene for project 3 from a top-down orthographic angle. Find the important plot areas, actor paths and conflict points.
• Takeaway points: Actual, Apparent and Relative movements. Obj moves. 2D/3D Cam moves.

Wed. Oct 18th 

• Lecture:
• Explain: 9 quadrants (nothing to do with the 180 line), BBird's production cost reduction (pt of attention) mirage's car (no turn tables), show children of men ( for apparent motion in BG) 
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• Rhythm (iPhoto samples)
• alternation, repetition and tempo
• Rhythm on stationary objects (iPhoto) 
• Rhythm on moving objects (iPhoto/"Finder" balls movies)
• editorial rhythm
• The Event - continuous vs. fragmented:
•  Fragmented: Sky-fall - mind the gap
•  Continuous:  Children of Men : car scene.
• Alejandro Gonzåles Iñårittu Birdman was made to look like a single shot (!) DP= Immanuel Lubezki.
• Russian Ark ballroom scene, Hermitage museum in  St. Petersburg
•  (R.A.: The making of, trailer , also Alfonso Cuaron's "CoM" car shot making of)
• The "Hitchcockian power of editing": A-Wa, North by Northwest (tunnel)
• Animatic/ sound requirements for projects 3 & 4.

• Lab:
• begin hunting/creating sound fx
• thumbnail workshop for project 3

• Takeaway points: Alternation, repetition and tempo. Fragmented vs. Continuous editing.

Week 8   

Mon. Oct 23th           

• Lecture: 

• [ Review: Middle third Gray ranges (iPhoto slide) vs. Mark Kennedy's gray proportions , finish "Tone in Production" ,  Clarify: flat TV lighting! ]
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• Color iPhoto (flicker, wikipedia, Kristjan Reinsberg/ Estonia, "Gabe"-colors: complementaries )
• Physics of color
• Hue, Saturation (http://colorisrelative.com by "Gabe"), Brightness (+relative brightness)
• Wikipedia's 'color meaning/Psychology & Meanings table Blue/Green Distinction: qīng (Chinese: 青), Cultural differences, National colors
• Cultural color & symbolism, Color meaning, Color_in_culture___Wheel 
• Color and Mood  (Huffington Post), 
• (Kristjan's color wheel, tints and shades)
•  Wikipedia's color temperature'


• Watch clips from Traffic (blue, yellow), Eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind; "remember-me", The Incredibles  (DVD Ch11: 'Helen suspects'...?), Sleeping Beauty


• CCD = Charge-Coupled Device
• sorry for traffic ... + show clip of funhouse/ shapes.
• Lab:
• Creating animatics in Premiere Pro :
•  Key-framing Zoom, Pan/Tilt, Dissolve, animation w/Alpha channel [ BRING Princess and the Frog - Disney "Cell" ]
• [ ...
• Editing aesthetics and shot planning (Walter Murch p.18)
• Cutting on motion and/or sound
• Teach fake 2d camera moves (see class week 13-14)
• Show Project #2 highlights and discuss (peers review each other's)
• Are all ready to deliver project #3 on Wednesday ?
• How many prefer more lab and less lecture Today, Monday 10/26th ? 
• ... ]

• Takeaway points: Color is relative (".com":)

• Source images credits:

• [Spectrum comparisons: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tests/incandescent-vs-compact-fluorescent-vs-led-ultimate-light-bulb-test#slide-1 ]
• [color wheels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color ]
• [two color spots:

• http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tests/incandescent-vs-compact-fluorescent-vs-led-ultimate-light-bulb-test#slide-1 ]
• [three color spots http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/RGB_illumination.jpg ]
• [Hue, Saturation, Brightness, color ‘meanings’  http://www.pinterest.com/pin/341077371751615166/  http://kristjan.eu/ultimate-color-theory/ <- pg removed I think ]
• [120/6 rods/cones:http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/rodcone.html] 
• [photoreceptors:http://www.flickr.com/photos/physicsclassroom/galleries/72157625110255449/#photo_4602238247]
• [Complementary colors: http://colorisrelative.com/color/learn/top-3-things-to-know-about-complementary-colors/ ]
• [subtractive complementary hues: http://colorisrelative.com/color/learn/top-3-things-to-know-about-complementary-colors/ ]
• [De- and Saturation: http://colorisrelative.com/poles.html ]

Wed. Oct 25th     

• Lecture:        
• Finish Color: temperature, extension (iPhoto)
• Interaction of color, (Josef Albers / book) 
• Color (is Relative) by a 'Gabe' & Richard Nelson
• Interaction of Color B&W BG,  Complementary Colors, '10 commandments info-graphics'
• Proportions matter,see Bezold Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezold_effect
• The Last Emperor  Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio Storaro: According to director of photography Vittorio Storaro in Visions of Light (1992), he used the phases of light to represent different stages of the emperor's life. Red, the color of the blood that starts the flashback and the opening doors it cuts to, represents birth. Orange is the warm color of his family and the forbidden city. Yellow is the color of the emperor's identity and the sun. Green, the color of the tutor's bike and hat, represents knowledge. The forbidden city only has the first three colors because it is a limited portion of reality.

• Lab   
• Michel Gondry (French music videos director*) color video/s.  * also the Ethernal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Colors in video : stromae tous les memes

• resource credits: 
• [Complementary colors: http://colorisrelative.com/color/learn/top-3-things-to-know-about-complementary-colors/ ]
• [subtractive complementary hues: http://colorisrelative.com/color/learn/top-3-things-to-know-about-complementary-colors/ ]
• [De- and Saturation: http://colorisrelative.com/poles.html ]
• [Color Is Relative: http://colorisrelative.com/bwbox.html http://colorisrelative.com/poles_3rd.html]

• Takeaway points: When colors interact, proportions matter. What do colors mean?

Week 9

Mon. Oct 30th - a 2017 fall visit to SFMOMA !

• Explain Josef Albers (B,W & cyan) + Bezold effect - review slides from last class.

• Lecture: 
• Exposition examples: Star Wars IV 'title card'/'crawl' (1977, or  2015 Epi. VII)
• Story intensity and Visual intensity  (iPhoto)
• EX.position (Star Wars IV 1977, Untouchables 1987, narration Shawshank Redemption 1994 )
• CO.nflict (=rising action) CX. Climax (The ShawShank Redemption '94 Climax !!)
• R.esolution (The ShawShank Redemption '94 ending, Casablanca '42 ending )
• Mapping intensity curves
• List of Visual Components & Subcomponents

• Lab:
• Proj #4 story and beat boards/shot list   
• Edgar Wright - Visual Comedy (by Tony Zhou)

• Takeaway points: Mapping visual components to story intensity curves.

Wed. November 1st - Project 3 due !!

• DUE: Project 3, screenings
• Lab:
• Critique of project 3

<<  Spring break, during spring semesters only...  sorry :) >>

Week 10

Mon, Nov 6th 

• [ continue review of project#3 animatics, if any left]
• Conclusions from project#3 - open for discussion - get your 10 participation points!

Lecture:

• Examine storyboarding styles and requirements : 
• show Princes & the Frog's Disney Cell (BG vs FG)
• Storyboards from popular films (other examples)
• Sita Sings the Blues/Nina Paley 2002-2007  11:35- 14:30 (fake cam moves with 2d layers) and "2.5d" History of Activism (causes).
• 
  
• Editing aesthetics and shot planning (Walter Murch p.18)
• List of Visual Components & Subcomponents
• 
  
• Editing examples
• Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), 25:00- 34:24 "traditional"
• Brazil (3/10) Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer (1985) HD

  (4/10) Central Services Pays a Visit 

• Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) -  
• ch#3 The Dawn of Man, 10:00- 22:00.                                 1 night, also 2.5 - 4M years(!), Time Compression.
  ( 2 jump cuts )
• Finding Nemo (2003) - ch#16 55:30 ...  Montage of rumors (Mariln tells his story).

• Cutting on motion and sound  

• Why our brains don't "explode" at film cuts? ( Director and Editor: Adam D’Arpino )

• Or: cutting on an association - cut to a visually similar element between the two shots: Example: '"Love Recipe" / France 2008 Mopa Animation school 

Lab: 

• Ideas/Thumbnail/beat-boarding for project 4
• Create a short 5-panel story reel in Premiere Pro
• Work on Project #4 story main ideas [+ maybe beat-board/shot list ]
• Breakdown your IP project #4 into optional visual elements
• Takeaway points: How do we fake 3D cam moves in 2D art? 
• Editing considerations / What could be some of our editing options?     

Wed. Nov 8th

• discuss project 4, brainstorm story ideas
• 30 min Lab: Beat boards for what is still IP (in progress) for project 4
• 20 min scanning full pages (not individual frames) into Drive/proj#4 

• <15 min break>
• 20 min Lab - "DAILES": Beat Boards for project 4
• Story structure:  Plotting vs Pantsing
• Work on Project #4 story /beats/shot list/thumbnails 

Week 11

Mon. Nov 13th

• Lecture: 
• Using Maya basics to help plan scenes
• Discuss "Hitchcock Layout" as a class assignment
• Lab:
• Use Maya and pre-built models to block out a few quick camera angles in 3D. ( or: Draw boards of the Notorious scene, following script)
• Work on Project #4 story boards.

• Takeaway point: How do we layout a 3D scene to make a story better understood?

Wed. Nov 15th 

Lecture:

• Using Maya con't if needed 
• "Hitchcock Layout" conclusion

Lab:

• Notes on 'Notorious' in 3D
• Show Pandora commercial for its 3D camera Layout/Previz (google Drive, Mac HD or from Vimeo: Office, Kitchen )
• [ or Break down a scene from a Pixar(?) film and plot out intensity curves for various visual elements ]
• 3D workshop, time permits, or P#4 revisions

Week 12

Mon. Nov 20st

• Lecture: 
• none.

• Lab:
• 25 min Lab:
• Using abstract shapes and photoshop, make two quick sequences, one featuring heavy contrast, of a chosen Visual Component and one featuring heavy affinity in another chosen Visual Component
• Project #4 story nailed down- refining boards   

Wed. Nov 22

• Lecture: 
• Watch clips from Iron Giant -or- Ma'agalim Jane Bordeaux (lyrics) , Uri Lotan (animation director)
• 
  
• DAILES: Story summary and beat-boards /shot-list 
• Editing for motion continuity
• 
  
• Lab:
• Offer: practice camera moves in AE, to whom needed 
• work on P4 story boards

Week 13

Mon. Nov 27th 

• Lecture:
• [30 minutes for private CCA Course/Teacher evaluation.]
• Watch clip of The Mascot - stop motion animation by Ladislas Starewicz 1933 (france, BW w/sound) re: borrowing ideas...
• DAILIES: WIP boards or preferably animatics at this point
• Critique WIP
• Lab
• work on P4 revisions, mostly animatic/effects adjustments 

Wed. Nov 29th

• Mention: "Pixar's" 22 Rules of Story /Analyzed by Stephan Bugaj
• 2016 Oscar winning short animation Bear Story, by Gabriel Osorio & Pato Escala
• 2016 Oscar nominee short animation We can't live without cosmos, by Konstantin Bronzit
• DAILIES: animatics
• Lab : work on P4 revisions, mostly animatic timing and sound fx adjustments

Week 14 

Mon. December 4th

• Lecture
• < if spill over from last weeks >
• The Danish Poet (2006 Torill Kove Norway/Canada, 2007 best anim short academy award, was nominated again in 2015 for the short "Me and my molten") 
• Lab
• Work on finalizing project #4

Mon. Dec 6th

• Lecture
• < if spill over from last weeks >
• Lab
• Work on finalizing project #4

Week 15 and LAST!

Mon. Dec 11th

• screen  < See David Hockney theory on photo-real paintings (for now...  1, 2) ? >
• DAILIES: Final animatics
• Lab : work on FIANL finals, hopefully mostly sound adjustments by now

Wed. December 13th - this is it : finals screening !

• DUE: FINAL PROJECTS + snacks, in class