ANIM 300 F002: Story + Structure for Anim
This course explores the principles that give short animated film stories cohesion, structure, meaning and the power to communicate, with the goal to enhance the telling of the students' own stories through animated film. Students undertake creative and critical methods to engage various approaches to story development. The course explores traditional and non-traditional story forms, while exploring the relationships of message and audience, genre and structure, character and performance. Story-making approaches include storyboarding, beat boards, research, observational journaling, proposal writing, pitches, and assorted experimental approaches such as flow charts and mapping. Students gain the ability to employ various structures, genres and methods for the purpose of crafting effective stories for short animated films.
This course is subject to priority rules; see here.
Completion of 51 credits
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Lorelei Pepi is an internationally award-winning independent animation filmmaker living in Vancouver, BC, and just recently landed to join the Animation Dept here at Emily Carr. Her work engages with issues of political and historical representation, the sexual body and the LGBT identity. Using animation‘s various forms, her materials and treatments range from the highly experimental to the character-driven narrative. She’s currently applying to festivals with her recently finished film “Happy & Gay.” Her film “Grace” received “Grand Prize” at the Ottawa Student Animation Festival, and the “High Risk Award” at Fantoche Animation Festival, among others. Her creative practice has received funding, fellowships and residencies from such organizations as LEF Moving Image, Harvard University Film Study, the MacDowell Colony, and others.
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Sep 3-Dec 14 12:20:00-15:10:00 |
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