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Composition and Film Class Notes

  • Writer: Yanjie Zhao
    Yanjie Zhao
  • Feb 3
  • 2 min read

Updated: Feb 3

Week 1

what do you do when you have a budget

  • you need to have conversations with ppl can inspire each others work. something bad yesterday that can turns into good!

Inspire your peers, director, studio to spend 200 million ( think about: is the work I made worth people and company put investment in it) do it so well that they ask need your help for it


art will drive technology



This class will be cover

Observational skills, Mechanical skills, Visual Assessment skills

Visual language

7 visual component - element

line

tone

shape

space

color

rhythm

movement


2 methods of mesure

major key-- proportion

minor key-- range of contrast


3 primaries of design

how are you contributing the 7 visual components?


define what's the primary and secondary in a work


101 Dalmatian

Line - Primary

Mass- Secondary


they use line and mass to create the illustion of form

it's not what you do, it what you can make people believe,

make the audience feel something, those are the ones people remember

do the thinking of what specifically you want them to feel at front before you making works



LINE / TEXTURE

texture tent to sit on the surface



FORM / CHIAROSCURO


MASS / NOTAN


Pinocchio line dominent + mass dominent



hw:

define 20 art images wether its line mass and form dominent



any composition is going to be action, reaction, or both



Indiana Jones Movie Rewatch

The discussion is taking place in a church,

think about where is the best set you can tell a story

the environment is giving sub text of the story

when you put the character in a place alone, the place represent their inner self

they use shadow to convey a message

you want to start with a really good description of what is my goal


You gotta be good at research and love research


write down what are the 5 most important things to-do, what's the next important thing? think about it as a chess game


 
 
 

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