The task for this term is to create three ideas and choose one from which to produce a previs.
Before starting previs, I learned some of the noun about concepts of animation.
- Mise En Scene/ Camera animation Rule of third, camera lenses, sets/props, character designs, lighting, camera types; handheld/crane/static. Types of shots; Establishing, mid, close up etc.
- Mise En Scene: Mise En Scene is a general word in film. It’s a collection of on-camera illustration. The content of the presenting includes the scenes, characters, props, costumes, lighting, and the effects of camera shots.
- Camera animation: The motion of the camera. There are up and down, around, push, pull, shake, shift and other different operation of camera. These modes of camera operation present different visual effects, and different implications.
- Rule of third/ Golden Ratio: Divide the picture into the following form, place the characters and objects are intended to highlight on the dividing line, and people’s eyes will naturally focus on this focal point. It also makes the picture look more comfortable because the characters and background are evenly distributed and balanced.
- Camera Lenses: Different lengths lens take on different effects. The length of a long lens can be used to shoot faces or other close-ups shot. Short shots can be used to take full shots or establish shots, often accompanied by lens distortion, such as making the scene appear larger and boarder.
- Props &Sets: The design of props & sets is an important part of setting and includes a lot of items, such as props, costumes, hair, makeup, etc. These are designed to serve the story and important information of the plot. But it’s important to note that items are meant to convey key information, not the more items the better.
- Character designs: As key to the content of the story, the character needs to be considered in terms of dress, appearance, facial expression, personality, mood, etc. The character’s characteristic can be conveyed to the audience laterally by designing the character’s actions.
- Camera types: handheld/crane/static
- • Previs& Postvis: pre-visialization and post-visialization including rough shots, character actions, timing, and scene design to show the content of the story. Such visualization is more conducive to communicating ideas with collaborators. After shooting the action, the special effects or three-dimensional models to be used are roughly cut together with the film, which can also save costs and convey effective information.
Knowing these nouns helps me with previs. Over the next ten weeks, I will come up with three ideas and choose one of them as previs, a story I am most interested in.
About First Idea
About the first idea. I am very interested in the topic of pets. I have a pet, a stray dog my family picked up in the park. Because too many young people buy a puppy as a pet but often abandon it because they don’t have a stable home or job. Therefore, you can see puppies that are abandoned for some reason in the city. Because of these poor stray dogs, I wanted to create a story for them.
Because I consider that my original story text has too much content, I may not be able to finish it in the limited time, so I’m just using it as an entry point for my new story. Then I made a simpler story script:
The dog was lost on his way when he was attracted by a customer coming out of a bakery. As the man was returning to the car, the dog jumped in. The man smiled happily and looked back at the dog. However, the dog was not accepted by the man’s family for some reason, and finally the family opened their hands and accepted the dog as their family.
And I did three scene as start:
The significance of making these three scenes is that after I understand the function of the above concepts.
I used knowledges to make an attempt on the my scenes,such as rule of thirds or other layout.
For example, I divided the dog and the human into the left and right parts of the picture, and adjust the picture to a lower angle to better simulate the dog’s perspective.
In addition, I simply tried to arrange some long objects, doors or buildings, and flowers and plants in front of the door. This provides a split layout for images. This makes the picture look less monotonous.