Story 02 – Advanced Visual Storytelling Spring 2025
Description
Advanced Visual Storytelling will simulate life as a professional story artist. We will review and expand upon the lessons learned in Visual Storytelling 1 to craft more nuanced scenes with emphasis on visual storytelling. We will also discuss character / world-building, incorporating your artistic style and how to best bring your own voice into the larger film-making industry.
Assignments will include: 2 longer assignments with an option to pitch an outside project during the last two weeks. Students will continue to work and improve upon their projects with lessons and review sessions each remaining week until the workshop is completed.
Curriculum: Advanced Visual Storytelling
- Streamlining the work process to work faster and better (work space set up, drawing tricks, health protective practices)
- Brainstorming
- Beat boarding vs Story-boarding
- Composition/ staging
- Camera language
- Pacing / Creating drama
- Perspective for story-boarding
- Character: Capturing likeness / Staying on model / Acting choices
- Structure
- Comedy Basics
- Story-boarding from a given script
- A short story portfolio piece (Hand off in the week 1 for 9 weeks working period with progress reviews)
- (Optional) 2nd portfolio piece or other personal work can be reviewed during the workshop
- Pitching lesson and feedback during review sessions
- Career know-how discussions
Event FAQs
One session every Thursday for 10 weeks.
-Starting April 7, 2025
-Ending June 14, 2025
7:00pm – 10:00pm Pacific Time
Prerequisite: A portfolio review is required. Visual Storytelling 1 is highly recommended.
*Visual Story 2 is limited to 10 students to allow for maximum individualized focus. We encourage a comfortable, collaborative environment so that students can learn from their own assignments, the critiques of others’, instructor demos, lectures, and guest speakers.
Tuition: $1600
Includes a $200.00 non-refundable registration fee
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Pay your deposit here. You can also break your tuition into four easy payments with a Payment Plan. Here are the details of the payment plan. Payment 1: $200, deposit due with registration. Payment 2: $466.67 due on the Monday of the 1st week of the Session. Payment 3: $466.67 due on the Monday of the 4th week of the Session. Payment 4: $466.66 due on the Monday of the 7th week of the Session. *Note: payments are not automatically scheduled. You must schedule them individually.
Note: Animation Collaborative accepts Paypal and Checks. To pay by check, just fill out the form below, hit Register, and select the Pay by Check option underneath Paypal.
