Assignment 5: Thumbnail Storyboard Exercise
Early in the week, the facilitator will assign a synopsis to you for creating rough thumbnail boards to establish visual direction (that was assignment 4). Create the thumbnail boards, scan them, and post them to the appropriate Discussion Thread, by Day 5.
Review and critique the thumbnail boards of the student to whom your synopsis was assigned and provide feedback on how well your idea was captured by the end of the week. Also suggest improvements.
Assignment 4: Synopsis Exercise
Think of a small story that can be told by a 30 sec - 1 min animated sequence. Write a synopsis of this story including the basic elements of storytelling as described in the lectures. By Day 4, post the synopsis to the appropriate Discussion Thread.
NOTE: you will storyboard this for assignment 5.
Author: Cathy L. Lielausis
Date: Jan 12 2006 2:34PM
Subject: Cathy's Assn 4: Synopsis
Message:
This is a true story, and can be very quick. I hope I can make it work. A man is standing at a kitchen counter making hot dogs while his dogs watch, longing for a treat. All of a sudden one of them starts barking and runs outside to the fence, barking furiously. The other two dogs run after her, clueless. They all bark at the fence (at nothing). The man goes out, leaving his hot dogs on the counter, to see what they are barking at. The first dog runs back in and steals the hot dogs, while the other two dogs are still barking and the man is trying to find out why. Man comes back in to find hot dogs have disappeared and the first dog looking pleased.
Moral: dog can be smarter than man.
I've doodled this already and I'm having issues. Suggestions are welcome.
Cathy