Posemaniacs - online life drawing model poses

Click here to go to Posemaniacs - a useful site to draw from figures when you don't have access to a drawing manniquin.

Exam today - review of exam, then exam.

PART 1

a) MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW - brief overview of exam topics - all based on readings and exercises based on readings (Begleiter) since week 1.

b) Discuss reading Figure Notation and do exercise from this chapter using data projection of camera-pointing-at-mannequin.

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PART 2 MIDTERM EXAM - 1 hour -no cellphones, books, computers, talking!

Starting at 1pm

Continue figure drawing from data projection of camera-pointing-at-mannequin.

SHOW & TELL of some of the finished Assignments due today - (written & drawn)

Homework Spring Break:

Read Chapter 9 of Begleiter, Figure Notation

Discussion on Chapter 10 "Getting a Gig"

Strategies for finding employment in the storyboarding & storytelling area

write a 1 paragraph summary, post this on your blog

Read Chapter 10 Getting a Gig

Scott McCloud on Comics

figure drawing demo

To use scanner in room 474

1) Go to Scanning machine - next to scanner
2) Log in
3) Go to applications menu and choose the program "Image Capture"
4) Place you artwork on the flatbed
5) Click on the "overview" button
6) When you see your artwork in the window, drag a bounding box around the area you want to scan
7) Press 'Scan'
8) The image is now in photoshop. Do a 'save as' to where you want to save your new image
(e.g. desktop)
9) Remove from machine with a memory stick or email to yourself as an attachment

Wiki entries on Perspective drawing

Wikipedia entry on Perspective Drawing

How to draw perspective on WikiHow

What we will do in this week's class

1) Perspective Exercise from the reading - using rulers & paper to draw perspective drawings of buildings etc.


2)Read Chapter 8 of Begleiter – Perspective and write a 1 paragraph summary, post this on your blog

3) Use FrameForge 3D to develop pair-based activity - "The Argument"

DC

Excellent Sketchbook drawings by Mark McDonnel

Script-to-Image translation exercises

PART 1.

Due in 1 week (3/10)

Homework - take one of your favorite movies in your DVD collection, identify your most favorite scene and then see if the screenplay is on Drew's Script-o-Rama. If not, find one that is.

If it is, watch the movie with the screenplay on your computer screen and compare the written word to the onscreen image.

Prepare one page of screenplay with one scene on the DVD/Video to show & compare in class. Use the scene to consider aspects of composition as per the exercise in today's class (3/3).

PART 2

Due in 2 weeks (3/14)

Next, find a screenplay for a film you have NOT seen. Find one scene from the film, draw an overhead view of the scene as you imagine it, then quickly make a few thumbnails of how the boards for the scene might look. Then, rent the movie or watch on pay-per-view look at the scene and compare your interpretation to the one that was actually shot. How different were they? How similar?

Pre Production Forms Free Download

Use these forms to prepare for a film schoot.

Download free forms for pre-production here. Most are self-explanatory in use.

March 3rd - today's class

Composition within the Frame - Beglieter's idea in relation to scenes from
movies.

Documentation that goes into film production.

Shot conventions - the 'line'

Anatomy of a scene.

How do you create dramatic tension-from the macro to the micro?
The monologue and 1st person narrative. Writing from personal experience
Exercise from last week's reading THE EXTENDED FRAME

Previsualization (or “previz”) and how it is affecting the role of the audiovisual storyteller. How storytelling is affected by the process of ‘seeing a film before it is made’. Case study of mainstream movie use of animatics

Introduction “Toonboom Storyboard” software to create storyboards and animatics – EXERCISE – THE ARGUMENT