Animatic TEST. - The not so Great Fruit Heist.
Using my rough hand drawn storyboards; I looked at creating a basic animatic that I will then develop and refine further to get more of a coherant flow in story and use of camera shots/ angles.
Film Lecture Series #3 - Structural Theories & Storytelling + Film Review.
For todays lecture we looked at structural theories within films. This came looking at the 3 act structure - linear narrative structure - proposed by Syd Field who modernized and wrote about Aristotle's initial theory of narrative structure who stated that “A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end” Poetics 335BC. Field also stated that the 3 act structure doesn't necessarily need to follow Aristotle's proposed time schedule and that the middle act (act 2) is usually twice as long as act 1 and 3. In Field's Paradigm, he lays out the Acts and their structure of what happens and when. Exposition - introduced to the film’s main character(s) and situation. Inciting Incident - Complication/ incident that sets events into motion. End of Act 1 : Plot Point 1 -The event in which the character takes on the central problem. Mid-Point (Act 2) - The main character faces increasingly intense and complex problems / obstacles. End of Act 2 : Plot Point 2 - Is li
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