Today we started looking at Storytelling and Staging. Justin went through some camera shots that would help aid storytelling. Our first activity of the day was taking a scene from a film and analyzing the shots used, I chose 'Fight Club'.
After the first activity, Justin gave everyone a location and wanted us to storyboard a chase scene, I got Sewers. My set up for this story was an establishing shot of some shady criminals lair. Someone is snooping around and gets noticed. The criminals leap into action and the chase begins.
Part of my afternoon session was spent with Alan resolving some issues with my collaboration project. However, once that was sorted I started planning out how I wanted the story to go. I suggested to Justin that throughout the story it cuts between the magician in its prime and in current day when it's old and fragile. He then suggested that the middle section of the story could be the magician performing these tricks, while still cutting between past and present. This would show how in its prime the magician could perform these tricks with ease and now he fails to do so. Justin thought that the ending could possibly involve some real magic. So the story would end with the old magician being able to perform a trick successfully, which would then trigger the magical moment. This would then either be someone sitting in the audience that applauds or something else, the idea still needs some work but that would be the gist of it.
After Last weeks lesson I drew up a dove sidekick for the magician. I spoke to Justin who helped me think of better ways to design the bird as well as the logic behind it. At the moment the way I drew the dove its movements would be limited especially around the neck. Justin drew an example for me which has really helped me understand what sort of shapes I need to be using to make this bird more animated.
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