Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Today's Class








1) Movie production documents - what they are and how they are used.

2) The Making of the Shining - 20 minute doco on making of the Stanley Kubrik movie "The Shining"

3) Within a Minute - short documentary on the making of a single scene from a Star Wars movie

4) Student's final storyboard/animatic presentations continued

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Information on the Videogames Certificate at CCSF

http://www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Multimedia_Studies/conc_08.htm

Stan Lee 'How to Video' on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f33y6k_vk_Vg

Lecture - Stan Lee (creator of Spiderman) on "Drawing Comics the Marvel Way"

50 minute documentary show&tell with host Stan Lee on "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way"

Get your sketchbooks out for this one.

Followed by Begleiter summing up and student final presentations (continued)



DC

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Today's class

Lecture on implications of portable touch-screens for delivery of storyboard content

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1) Blake Babcock, Rebop Rundgren, Phillip O'Conner will talk about their final project

2) Josquin Theirault will present his final project

3) Katie Lee will present her final project

4) Jace Mills will screen "The X-Men III" to talk about storyboarding in that film

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Walter Murch links


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4994411

Excellent Walter Murch lecture part one.

and part two.

Murch on Sound Editing and Sound Design

Item 4 assignments due today

Please post a link to your final assignment on your blog. I will use this link to grade your final assignments - storyboard or animatic.

If your assignment is printed or drawn, please hand these in to me in person.

I will go through the blogs at 2.15 to check to confirm delivery of finished item 4 assignments.

Over the coming weeks we will take an in-depth look at these assignments in class and use them to discuss what we have covered during the course in terms of skills and ideas.

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SUMMARY OF ITEM 4 - MAIN ASSIGNMENT - FROM MMSP145 SYLLABUS:

Item 4

a) Finished Drawn Storyboard and/or Software based Animatic based on assignment 2 - 20%

DUE 4/28 – week 15

To show via numbered drawn storyboard OR animatic sequence of duration between 1 minute & 3 minutes – either whole story or sample sequence) worked on by individual student or in small groups (e.g. two or three students – no more than four – grade for item is shared among group)

b) 10% item 4 participation grade - assigned to individual by vote by group members if a group project, or by instructor if individual project.