REGISTRATION DEADLINE :
March 25th, 2024
SESSION STARTS:
April 8th, 2024
STORY: ADVANCED VISUAL STORYTELLING
Hyein Park
Visual Story Artist
Pixar Studios
Length of Workshop: 10 weeks. Once a week.
Days: Thursdays starting April 11th, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Pacific time *Special Time
Tuition: $1,600 (Includes a $200 non-refundable registration fee)
Prerequisite: A link to your portfolio is required with your registration.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Advanced Visual Storytelling will simulate life as a professional story artist. We will review and expand upon the lessons learned in Visual Storytelling 1 to craft more nuanced scenes with emphasis on visual storytelling. We will also discuss character / world-building, incorporating your artistic style and how to best bring your own voice into the larger film-making industry.
Assignments will include: From the beginning of the course, students will create a core portfolio piece and continue to work and improve upon it with lessons and review sessions each remaining week till the workshop is completed.
CURRICULUM:
- Streamlining the work process to work faster and better.( work space set up, drawing tricks, health protective practices)
- Brainstorming
- Beat boarding vs Storyboarding
- Composition/ staging
- Camera language
- Pacing / Creating drama
- Perspective for storyboarding
- Character: Capturing likeness / Staying on model / Acting choices
- Structure
- Storyboarding from a given script: ( <50 boards, two week assignment)
- A short story portfolio piece (Hand off in the week 1 for 9 weeks working period with progress reviews)
- Pitching lesson and feedback during review sessions.
- Career know-how discussions.
PREREQUISITE:
Prerequisite: A portfolio review is required. Visual Storytelling 1 is highly recommended.
*Visual Story 2 is limited to 10 students to allow for maximum individualized focus. We encourage a comfortable, collaborative environment so that students can learn from their own assignments, the critiques of others’, instructor demos, lectures, and guest speakers.