Hi, Lily Great drawings. I wanted to know something. How do you plan and execute a complete project, i mean chosing which portions of a story to animate and which to be closeups?
There could be a very long answer to this! :p There is a lot of planning involved! I find that an Animatic is one of the most useful tools for planning out a film. It gives you a complete overview of how the final film might look. It's also a good check to see how the overall timing and flow is working. When planning out shots, it's best to think about exactly what purpose each shot has. This also applies to what type of shot it is, e.g. a close-up or wide-shot. If the audience should see a subtle reaction or an expression from a character, you won't be able to see it from far away, that would be when you need to use a close-up - to see details. Every shot in a film has a specific purpose - whether it's telling the audience something about the character, environment or plot of the story. Hope that helped :)
First Apologies for mis-spelling your name :[ Next Thanx a lot! in shots/scenes without dialog, eg; ' a person gets up from a table and does some house keeping -closing the book he was reading and shutting a light off etc; - then gets out of the room' and if this complete shot was completely animated. my question is while editing which shots do we cut-away and which to keep, also what is the minimum number of seconds between two cuts should be maintained.
There is no rule to how long a shot should be - you have to use your own artistic eye to make the judgement when editing. It's good to have variety though, if every shot was the same length of time - it may start to look boring. In regards to which shots to cut and which to keep, again this is to do with how you are telling the story and what details you wish to highlight to the audience.
Hi, Lily Great drawings. I wanted to know something. How do you plan and execute a complete project, i mean chosing which portions of a story to animate and which to be closeups?
ReplyDeleteThere could be a very long answer to this! :p
DeleteThere is a lot of planning involved! I find that an Animatic is one of the most useful tools for planning out a film. It gives you a complete overview of how the final film might look. It's also a good check to see how the overall timing and flow is working.
When planning out shots, it's best to think about exactly what purpose each shot has. This also applies to what type of shot it is, e.g. a close-up or wide-shot. If the audience should see a subtle reaction or an expression from a character, you won't be able to see it from far away, that would be when you need to use a close-up - to see details. Every shot in a film has a specific purpose - whether it's telling the audience something about the character, environment or plot of the story.
Hope that helped :)
First Apologies for mis-spelling your name :[
ReplyDeleteNext Thanx a lot!
in shots/scenes without dialog, eg; ' a person gets up from a table and does some house keeping -closing the book he was reading and shutting a light off etc; - then gets out of the room' and if this complete shot was completely animated. my question is while editing which shots do we cut-away and which to keep, also what is the minimum number of seconds between two cuts should be maintained.
There is no rule to how long a shot should be - you have to use your own artistic eye to make the judgement when editing. It's good to have variety though, if every shot was the same length of time - it may start to look boring. In regards to which shots to cut and which to keep, again this is to do with how you are telling the story and what details you wish to highlight to the audience.
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