From this basic research, the student will begin to create and develop all the visual elements that lead to final production storyboard. The approved storyboard, at the end of the semester, should be ready to go into production, and must reflect character, attitude, design, entertainment, mood, expressions, feeling, type of action, use of dialogue, music, and sound effects, and tell the st ory in the best possible way. Intermediate Classes are based on the intensive studies done in the 1930's at the Walt Disney Studio for the purpose of improving their animated films. Students test their work on video pencil test machines. You also get to go to the zoo and eat hot dogs.
Students test on video deal with the expression of emotions in animation, rather than mechanics.
Intermediate Instructs the student in the variety of camera and optical effects available with advanced animation equipment. Students are instructed in techniques of lighting, exposure manipulation, and camera movement. The goal is to present a wider range of visual possibilities. Students begin to balance and enhance their artistic and cinematic choices with complex photographic techniques. Structurally the course consists of five weeks of technical instruction on all of the film and video equipment available.