Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Visual Storytelling: The Hollywood Formula

In todays seminar, we would be looking at visual storytelling, we got told that we should link this back to our sense of place project in the sense of the structure of the work.

We was given 4 stages of how to story tell visually.
1. character to animate - must doing something
2. stories explore and discover us humans - what makes us work?
3. realise the impossible
4.suspend disbelief

This was then reference to the 'hollywood formula', that is used to create films or animations. This is split into stages again.
1. First quarter , used for the story, the character, setting the story and the scene
2. Half your story time - for the action, confrontation, central theme
3. Final quarter, the conclusion.

An example of this was shown in a short film ' the lighthouse' - 'marten Jonmark'.
Here is a visual example of the steps about used for the film.
 Sourced From https://unilearn.hud.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-1669768-dt-content-rid-2519457_1/courses/TFD1413-1516/3%20Act%20Template.pdf

Link to the Short-Film: http://www.martenjonmark.com/short/short.html