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Story 02 – Advanced Visual Storytelling Winter 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

Workshop Schedule

One session every Thursday for 10 weeks.


-Starting January 13, 2025


-Ending March 22, 2025


7:00pm – 10:00pm Pacific Time


 

Prerequisites

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.

How much does it cost?

Tuition: $1600


Includes a $200.00 non-refundable registration fee


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.

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Break your tuition into three easy payments with a Payment Plan. Here are the details of the payment plan. 1. Payment 1: $200, due with Registration. 2. Payment 2: $466.67, due the Monday of the first week of the term. 3. Payment 3: $466.67, due the Monday of the 4th week of the term. 4. Payment 4: $466.66, due the Monday of the 7th week of the term.


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.


 


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Advanced Visual Storytelling Q1 2025

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