For this exercise you are asked to visualize a set of situations and then draw up the storyboard of what you would see and answer a series of questions. This is a subjective view exercise. Talking to someone in a shop What was left out at the edges? The refrigerated stand with cakes in it… Continue reading Exercise: Visualisation
The OCA study guide states that ‘The choice of frame defines the viewpoint of the audience. Where we appear to be looking from alters our interpretation of what we see.’ This section is dealing with choices that the director makes in terms an objective or subjective shot (3rd or 1st person storytelling).[pg 19] I think… Continue reading Subjective and objective shots
For this exercise you need to choose a picture identify a series of smaller frames within the picture that you can use to create a new story place the new images in order and accompany them with notes outlining your new story upload image sequence to the blog I chose the ‘School of Athens’ painting… Continue reading Exercise: Building a story
For this part of the exercise, you are required to make up your own story and present it in five frames. This is my story, which I hope is slightly funny: Frame 1: A group of two adults and two children set off to camp in the forests. They not your typical rugged, outdoor types and… Continue reading Exercise: Telling a Story Part 3
For this part of the exercise, you are to look at other students stories and answer a series of questions. The first blog I looked at was Choe’s (https://chloeclikproductions.wordpress.com/page/2/), who’s blog is amazing. Her energy seems to bubble off the pages. And I wish I could draw like that! What is the story? The story is… Continue reading Exercise: Telling a Story Part 2
In the first part of this exercise, you are required to tell a simple or well known story in just five frames. I decided to tell the story of Cinderella. To see if I could tell the story in five frames I wrote out the story in five paragraphs and/or sentences – one for each frame. This… Continue reading Exercise: Telling a Story Part 1
