Animation and Story Boards - Digital Craft - 26 March 2007

First activity - watch first seven sections of Visions of Light - a DVD on Cinematography from the Film Institute in the USA.

Second - review the voice over commentary of the start of Citizen Kane - the importance of light and shade, plus the use of the lighted window to link cuts / fades in the intro.

Third - the start sequence of Blade Runner

Fourth - reviewed the videos produced by the students in 2004 and 2005

Fifth - worked through several storyboard examples to understand how to document the planned video

Sixth - explored the nature of the type of presentation to be produced at the interim hand in stage after Easter when we will be presenting our ideas to the Music School's composition students.

Seventh - examined the role sound / soundscapes / music plays in movies - diagetic / non-diagetic - cut on action - sound as the means of transition between scenes...