Description
A course in the basics of the visual story that begins with ideas held by angle and plane, screen direction, axes of action, balance, focus, orientation, and, among other visual ideas, figures and shapes within the frame (including characters). The work in this studio also explores ideas of time, overlapping action, theories of assembly, (including Pudovkin’s), sound’s role in forming space, and light’s role in telling. Above all, this class breaks down ideas of the frame, what it tells directly, what it implies, what it withholds, and what it reveals. Story is change over time, and students in this course will learn to show change by completing many exercises in class and several finished films.
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