Post on 05-Dec-2014
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A Thousand Words:Creating Compelling Stories with Still Images and Good Editing.
Frank Guttlerfrank@lightscameralearn.comwww.lightscameralearn.com
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Frank GuttlerProducer by Trade, Educator by Accident
Began - TV News, Independent Film and Visual FX Production
Former Associate Director, AFI Screen Education Center
Now - Technical Specialist,L.A. County Office of Education
Adjunct Professor, Instructional Technology Wilkes University, Pennsylvania
....but I really want to direct.
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Warm-up Hollywood Lost & Found: The Wilhelm Scream
Screen Grammar Visual Language Made Simple
Scene Study Storytelling: Tale of Two Lamps
Model Lesson A Thousand Words: Storytelling and Editing
Ken Burns The Man Behind the Effect
Screening A Thousand Words Project Examples
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What’s the difference between a SHOT and a SCENE?
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SHOTThe part of a film between two cuts
SCENEA series of shots combined to form a continuous block of storytelling. The end of a scene is typically marked by a change in location, style, or time.
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Sentence
Shot
Paragraph
Scene
Chapter
Sequence
Novel
Movie
Comparing Visual Language to the Printed Word
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A Tale of Two Lamps
Digital Magic vs. Analog Mastery
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Luxo, Jr.• 1986
• Directed by John Lasseter
• Pixar Animation Studios
• 2 minutes
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCWPZfK8pI
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IKEA Lamp • 2002
• Directed by Spike Jonze
• Advertisement
• 60 sec.
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=I07xDdFMdgw
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A Thousand WordsStorytelling in Editing
• Intermediate skills using, not abusing transitions and effects.• ‘Narrating’ an image with pan & scan a la Ken Burns.
• Appreciating editing as a storytelling tool.
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Storytelling with Editing
‘Narrate’ the image using Ken Burns Effect Pan & Scan.
Learn ‘responsible’ use of effects and transitions
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A Thousand WordsThe Assignment: Create a photostory based on a set of provided images using movement, music and transitions to enhance the story.
Core Concepts: Transitions are like Punctuation.
• Understand the narrative meaning of common transitions like Fade, Cross-Dissolve, Wipe and Iris.
• Avoid flash transitions that do not enhance the story.
• Use motion control effect to direct the viewer’s attention for maximum narrative value.
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Ken Burns on the Ken Burns Effecthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeqlHmhio4s
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Ken Burns Tribute 29th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBonhSydxKQ15
A Thousand WordsThe Resource: Royalty-free, downloadable images that suggest a compelling story.
The American Memory Photo Archive at the U.S. Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
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Frank Guttlerfrank@lightscameralearn.com
818.439.6539
www.lightscameralearn.comlinkedin.com/in/frankguttler
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