From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Staging: Advanced

Staging: Advanced

From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Staging: Advanced

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- [Instructor] All of the images in this movie are from my previous course on storyboarding. But I do want you to at least have a basic idea about camera angles and what they tell us about the character, even if you're not into storyboarding per se, it's good to be aware of this stuff. And storyboarding and camera angles and staging are really about not just showing what's happening, but communicating more about the emotional content, the inner lives of the characters, how they relate to one another, and maybe where the story is going. And shot selection and positioning of the camera is really important in this. It's not enough just to slap down a camera and show what's happening. We can go a bit beyond that. So, in this case, the fact that our little employee here, Bumstead, is physically smaller than his boss, Happy Harry, this employer that he's gone to work for, tells us something even without Happy Harry's…

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