week 7 - TIME exercise
Brief:A
A character strives desperately to escape an unpleasant situation. As they become exhausted by their efforts, they experience unexpected recollections or project their thoughts forward, thinking about what might lie ahead. Please keep in mind that a character can be anything at all, a brick, a chicken, a speck of dust. Please also consider the unique capabilities of the animated medium, abstraction, morphing and metaphor for example. Utilise time imaginatively when considering the possibilities of this situation described in the brief; think about time as a mutable element, it can speed up, slow down, expand and contract for example. Think about how how your concept might move through chronological time, from the present to the past or future or to a paralell time. Think about time also in terms of pacing; in story, in action, in shot and and acros shot sequences.
The purpose of this assignment is to encourage you to examine the means whereby time can be modified or heightened in order to serve a dramatic requirement.
Please present your work in Screen Australi script format with a storyboard for assignment.
OR
Brief:B
Create an interactive space (game/story/experiential) where time is used to create a rich, engaging user experiene. Think about time as a an element to work against as well as one that is mutable; it can speed up, slow down, expand and contract for example.Think also about the fact that your user can be transported through time, to the past, to the present and to the future, into paralell dimensions or loops. Remember also to conisder how time might effect user action and response, does the pace of the action and response vary? Does it increase? Does it slow down? Please work from one of the following three themes;
-Afterwards
-The New World
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Life
For this assignment, please present your concept in Interactive Treatment form as laid out on my notes on form page with a detailed flowchart and screen layouts and if appropriate, storyboards.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA-Your assessment will be split 60/40 between your script and storyboard or treatment and flowchart/screen layouts.
in assessing your Scripts or Interactive Treatments , we will be looking for the following;
-The strength of your concept; is it a strong idea, does is it feel orginial, innovative?
-The structure of your concept, have you found the best possible dramatic framing for your ideas?
-Your use of the week's element, dialogue,within your assignment and your response to brief
-The suitability of your concept to the medium; does this idea exploit the capabilities of animation and/or interactivity?
-Clarity of communication and use of the form (prose treatment, script or storyboard for example)
In assessing your Liear Storyboards or Interactive Flowcharts and Screen Layouts and (where appropriate) Storyboards, we will be looking at the following;
-The structure of your shots and shot sequences, have you found the best possible shot structures, staging and pacing for the script's ideas?
-Story flow, does your story flow smoothly across shots and shot sequences, have you communicated all of the information required to effectively communicate your concept?
-Timing and pace, does your storyboard communicate a clear sense of the shot timing and the pace of shot sequences, this can be done through notes and through visual representation, a shot flowing over a number of frames for example?
-Sound, have you considered and described the relationship between sound and image in your storyboard?
- Mood, look and feel; does your storyboard communicate the visual style? Atmosphere?
Conventions for identifying your submission:
Please use the following format when naming your file: Name-topic.doc
e.g. PLowey-character.doc OR Preet-time.doc OR MingShyan-sound.doc
The first lines of your submission should have:
Also, please number your pages
In: Either AFC Script format OR if an interactive - a Treatment and a Flowchart and Layouts/Storyboards
To: kate.cawley@rmit.edu.au
By: 5pm, Tuesday the 28th of April