Wednesday's class brought more learning from the Animation Chefs. Here is a link to their lessons on movie making. The Chefs use index cards for storyboarding purposes and we thought that made sense since it allowed students to rearrange the story in an easy to manage way. Once you have all of the pieces of the storyboard the next step is to decide where your camera will be for each shot. Here is the Chefs's suggestion for locations:
Long shots are for settings.
Medium shots are for characters.
Close ups are of emotions.
Long shots are for settings.
Medium shots are for characters.
Close ups are of emotions.
So on each index card, the students were to draw a picture of the scene, put a number in the top right corner of the card to indicate the card's position in the movie, and in the top left corner they were to put an L, M, or C representing the camera position. Completed storyboards are due at the end of the next class meeting.
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