Term 5 Week 2: Advanced Acting - Storytelling Through Cuts

Week 2 of the new term and I got my critique back from Michelle. She has chosen the scene where a married couple are decorating and the woman says she want's a divorce. This is because although all three ideas/dialogues were strong, this one had the strongest emotional beat to it.

I've had a lecture from Patrick Kriwanek about storytelling through cuts. It basically outlines how to tell a story using camera angles and cuts between shots to build a scene. As an animator you not only have to position characters and create motion but you have to tell a story. You must communicate to an audience, and the position of a camera and how you cut between scenes is just as important as the motion, to convey that story.

In Q&A we went through how to layout a scene and get the camera's set up effectively.

Here's the handin: - Layout and Video Reference.