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Next Sunday (Mar 6) at 8:45pm, we will have a short get together in Ford 122 (Theater) with both music classes (121 and 425) to look at the Foley animations (Lab 6) and the rest of the animation loops (Labs 4 and 5).
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Labs:
- On Tues: Review review your storyboards, shot list and task list for Lab 6
- On Thurs:
- Looking ahead at Lab 8: gantt chart
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When writing your story, remember you should always "show rather than tell". See lab for more details.
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Beware of cliches when developing your stories:
- What is a cliche?: A story plot that has been done so many times that it is predictable.
- Websters: a cliche is something that is so commonly used in books, stories, etc., that it is no longer effective
- Yahoo:
- Basically any story could be called cliche because every plot has been done by someone at
some point in time. Truly original stories are not seen very often, but cliche is not always bad. Just because the story is cliche which means
overly done or used does not mean that it cannot be well written and interesting.
- As for having an overall cliche story this can be avoided
by putting in unexpected twists in your plot. Sometime people make fun of cliches and stereotypes in stories, and they write in spoof and satire.
This can be done by exaggerating cliches so much that it becomes absurd and ridiculous.
Don't forget staging, composition, focus, lighting, continuity...!
Animated shorts:
