F Staging and Scene Development

Catalog description

36 hours lecture and 72 hours lab per term. This course will introduce students to the techniques of story illustrators and animators of how to create scenes that hook, compel, and satisfy an audience, using the tools that writers and actors use on stage within a pictorial frame that has unique limitations, opportunities, and dynamics. The emphasis is on individual scenes, how character objectives and emotions lead to visible action, and how to frame a scene for the camera to augment the emotional effect. Lessons will apply to a variety of styles and moods of visual stories. Assignments include analysis of master scenes, creation of original scenes, and reducing multi-panel scenes to single images. (Degree Credit) (CSU)