Animation class Lecture 2

The lecture on Monday covered some of the basics of film making. Ignoring these principles make animations about buildings very much exercise in non-communication. I presented a pre-cursor of the whole course by introducing the classic film maker's handbook: The Five C's of Cinematography'.

My suggestion is that understanding these principles will significantly alter what people want to render/represent and hence will alter how / what they animate. In the 403 course we are examining the notion that the Scene (the building(s) can be the Actors, rather than the backdrop...the scenery.

We watched

• an extract from Lawrence of Arabia - focusing on Omar Sharif and the interminable ride out of the desert to meet Lawrence that is, as I understand it his first Western feature
  
• a 'teaser' from a Walt Disney - Disneyland - presentation of the 'Plausible Impossible" - preparing people to answer the question that will be posed next Monday: find your own example(s) of plausibly impossible acts in movies
• a 30 minute doco on the Satolas station near Lyon by Calatrava - what works and does not work; what genres are being accepted by us when we understand the content of the doco
  
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