David gave us a very interesting talk about his career and experience. There were a lot of examples and previous work of him shown to the class which were all explained in great details about the technique or filming methods he used/thought is a good template for us to study from.
-He said that every single image gave an information to the audience, including the building and the sets. I have been trying to incorporate this in all my animation after his talk and I think my current Extended Practice animation has achieved that, no exceeding sets and environment and every frame is part of the story.
-He showed us the opening scene of Rope by Alfred Hitchcock. Stressing the importance of cutting and montage. Encouraging us to experiment with various filming methods and angles like Hitchcock did to the scene.
-He also raised a question of how much information audience received and needed to understand the story? It reminds me of the line animation we saw in MAF, everything is developed by a line, very simple and no much background but very effective and powerful
-We see films through characters
-The meanings of shoots:look down=empowering; look up = losing power.
-Always cut when you need to:
1)have a new story point
2)Showing power
3)showing an effect of the cut on the character or showing emotions and which is usually close up.
Always cut into important line!
-The closer you are with the characters, the more connected to them so close up pulls the audiences and story together!
-What is more important is to know your characters. Do the research on their living habitat and do not cheat the audience.
There were some more stuffs he talked about researching on characters but all those points are the essences of the talk personally. I think the animators creates a close relationship to the characters also the story. For example, I slowly bonded with the dad character in my Extended animation, I worried about what and how he feels and how would him show it. I also think about floor plan in detail this time which is something I have never done before which makes my head clearer to figure out the layout of the scene also putting characters to where it makes most sense. Really appreciate this talk and very inspiring. Definitely revisiting this blog and Fraser's blog in the future!
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