DIY storyboard-POCKETMOD!!!!!

http://www.pocketmod.com

i've also included an image of a completed storyboard one, but the sky is the limit as far as variations go...
drag n drop, print, fold
super awesome fantastic time

My sequence. An ode to the Rockford Files.

Story Treatment

The protaganists friend has scored a new brand of smack. He shoots up and slips into a coma. Fearful of polic intervention and encouraged by his friends persistent heart beat, the protagonist lets him be on the bathroom floor. He remains ever vigilant of his friends state.

After a passage of time the protagonist can keep his eyes open no more. As he sleeps his friend reawakens, in a changed state. He can only moan and shiver on the floor. Awakened with a start the hero jumps from the room as his once friend reaches an ashy hand towards his ankle.

While locked in the bathroom the newborn zombie lashes at the door and raises his moans. It is here we find out how to deal with a zombie in your bathroom.

storytreatment

Setting: Kitchen/Patio/Living Room
Characters: Me
Narative Arc:

I cook the hotdogs and the chili, pop open a beer, and I watch some football.

Story Treatment - Ted Garland - Assignment 04

Sometimes the simplest things can be so complicated.  Especially when the simple thing is waking my kids for school.  The characters are Roger, my son, age 18, a high school senior and Madison, age 12, a seventh grader, and then me, of course.  I play the villain.

The story begins with the bright, cheery morning greeting when dad (me) pokes his head into each room telling each that it's time to get up.  After going away for a few minutes, the dad returns to find them both back asleep.  Thus begins the routine of gentle encouragement, ignoring, cajoling, deception, threatening and eventually torture.

The story ends with the two school children standing clean, dressed and ready for school, in the doorway to their father's room.  They gaze at him as he lays out cold, exhausted from the ordeal of waking his children.

Story Treatment

Evening, city: A man gets a phone call on his cell. We only hear one side of the conversation, but the news he is receiving is obviously bad. The conversation goes one for several minutes.

Story treatment - Organized chaos

Treatment:
Organized chaos

A girl gets a call. A friend is coming over. She then realizes just how messy her room is. She starts cleaning.
She gets distracted by a book she was putting away. Continues tidying.
Takes a snack break. Continues cleaning.
Makes her bed. She's done.
Goes to open the door for her friend.

The end.

Story Treatment-Annie

getting ready-clothes style
in the morning, waking up, digging through clothes to find something to wear. after various outfits, our hero walks through the door victorious in outfit selection.
fin

Story Treatment

How to Draw A Penguin

Taking place in front of a desk, a man on a fake How-to-draw TV program teaches the audience how to draw a penguin. Using simple geometric shapes he creates a silly looking penguin. Much to his surprise the penguin moves around on the paper and gestures and winks at the audience.

Assignment 3 Ted Garland

Okay, this is very late.  Last week I was on the set of this TV show.  It gave me a chance to shoot additional shots but we didn't wrap until after the class was over.  Sorry to miss out on everyone's work.

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Out for a Beer

A young man and a young woman are in a living-room, each reading a book. The man is obviously less interested in reading than the woman.

The man tells the woman he is going out for a beer and asks if she would like to come. She says that she will meet him later but for now she is going to continue reading.

The man puts on his coat and hat, says goodbye and steps out the door.

The man walks up the street and enters a bar nearby.

He orders a beer. The bartender places the beer in front of him. The man takes a sip.

Story Treatment

Coconut Shrimp

A middle aged woman is home in bed on a sick day. While on a conference call on her cellphone, following a presentation on her laptop, she is watching a muted cooking show where they are preparing beer battered coconut shrimp (This part is a true story).

Several weeks later, she and George will make the shrimp. We will see her shopping, and then see the couple preparing and cooking the shrimp as Nemo and Bo (cats) look on with rapt attention. All will then share in the feast. Settings include the bedroom, hall, and kitchen in a small ranch house, with additional scenes in Market Basket and Whole Foods.

Story Treatment

Task: Taking the dog out

The setting of my video will begin upstairs in the house, then down the stairs, in the kitchen, out in the backyard and then in the car. The main character will be my husband with appearances by my son and dog.

My husband will be rushing to leave for work but needs to take the dog out. Trying to get organized to leave he is unable to find his wallet. While searching for it, he is bothered by the dog wanting to go out. He takes the dog out and waits for the dog to finish his business, only to find that his wallet is among the gift left in the lawn. He grabs the wallet, checks it out, puts it in his pocket, sends the dog back in the house and gets in the car to leave.

Story Treatment

For my simple treatment I am going to make breakfast. There is only going to be one character in the film. Since I will need someone to film and someone to be the character, it will be either my boyfriend or myself as the character. The story will take place in my kitchen. I will put toast in the toaster. Then I will start to make scrambled eggs. I will put the eggs into the frying pan. While these are starting to cook, I will take out a plate and silverware and set it on the kitchen table. Then I will pour a glass of juice. Next I will scramble my eggs. Then sit down and Breakfast is served!

storytreatment

My idea for the video involving a simple task will be set in my kitchen, starring just one character (me), and the task I'll perform will be to make a cup of tea. I will fill the teapot with water, set it on the stove, and turn on the burner. Next I will get a mug from the cupboard, take my powdered chai tea from the pantry, and add a scoop of chai to the mug. I will then get some milk from the fridge, and add a little to the chai. When the water is hot enough, I'll remove the pot from the burner and add water to the mug. I'll get a spoon, stir the chai, milk and water together, and then take a satisfied sip of tea.

assignment 3

I think I figured out how to post my video assignment.  

Here it is:  

Assignment for 10/23

1. Develop a "story treatment" for a short video that demonstrates a simple task (for example, parallel parking a car).

Be descriptive:
where is the setting?
who are the characters?
what is narrative arc? -- the flow from beginning to end

Post your treatment on the class blog, please label your post "storytreatment".

2. View this post about camera shots to gain an awareness of shot styles in advance of storyboarding your simple task project (which we will do in class next week).

Assignment 3 - Table scene

The kitchen. A place where meals are made and roommates chat after a long day. A place of peace and tranquility...Or is it?

Assignment 3

Continuing with the same narrative as my image sequence I decided to make a digital book.

Click the image to go to the site. It may take a moment to load. Best viewed with the sound on!

Assignment 3

My ideas went everywhere from novels/poetry/government documents/field guides.
I ended up with maybe a little of each?
Approx. 4x6 in size. Folded paper & ephemera (photos, labels, clips, stickers).

Assignment 3— Atumn Leaves

Notes on video and tonight

Kudos to all posting their videos.

We WILL talk about compression and posting, so hopefully some of the quirks and headaches encountered will be resolved. I'm fine with all of you showing work "locally" off of a drive tonight.

I'd like to look at the work you've done tonight, but I'll save deep commentary for the class blog in the interest of continuing to move forward with our class objectives.

Also -- there's a slight chance I might be a bit late for tonight's class as I have a conference call here at work until 5 -- but I WILL be there. I can stay later if other people can as well (not sure if there's a class in that room after ours).

Assignment 3: The music is the 'Main Titles' track from the soundtrack of 'Delores Claiborne'. Since I was not able to get out to buy final cut express, this was made in imovie. I can verify that it is one of the least user friendly software packages I have ever used. For some reason this file is 62MB. I nearly killed the internet uploading it. I made another version in iphoto, which is much smaller (~3MB), but I was not able to synchronize the music. I would like to try another verision with final cut express.

The book will be attending class tonight.

-Melissa

Assignment3-ArtBook

I'll be bringing in my artifact today to class, will try to get up a pic of it soonish :)

Assignment 3

Music: Shine, by Alcorus

Assignment 3

Links for Sequence Assignment

Here are some bookbinding/bookmaking links:

http://www.csparks.com/Bookbinding/index.xhtml
http://www.zumgaligali.com/projects/bookbinding/book_5st_1.html
http://strangelittlegirl.com/books/stabbindings/instructions.html

And a link on working with Key Frames in Final Cut:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_fcx_keyframing.html

Ted Garland Assignment 02

This is a good article that was in Sunday's Globe.

The site it references is www.artofthetitle.com.

Assignment for 10/9

1. Read this article about artist's books by Angela Lorenza.

2. Read this essay on La Jetee (which you can watch here.)

3. Think of how you could take the concept of your image sequence to translate into either an artist's book or an image sequence. Come into class with some ideas!

Sia Video-All Polaroid Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPcYqn0p4Y

Assignment 2 - Viewpoint

Assignment 2 - Sequence

This is my sequence.

Love, Liam

assignment2-transformation of transformation?

i hope this turns out decently! i'm including the pictures that this came from, i had to redo last weeks assignment so the fence w/tree trunk is my pick for that.
(redo of last week's)

(2nd component of picture)

Assignment 2

Night

Assignment 2

Assignment02

Assignment02

Click the picture to be taken to my Picsa album. I could not get the collage feature to work. Any advice?

Red Balloon x5

Assignment 2