After reading this interview structure from the Today show, I learned that there are many different techniques to know when needing to bring out every emotion out of the viewer. There are many people that excel greatly in this but one of the experts in this field, Jeffrey Zacks, shared with the newscast on how easy it is to make a film so dramatic.
A rule of thumb that a lot of movie makers use is called the mirror rule. It is as simple as having a tight shot on someone who is smiling. Since it is a shot up close, the audience has nowhere else to look, but at the person smiling. When we see a person smiling we smile back. This is how dramatic movies makes us sad. We see someone frown, so we frown, which makes us sad. Other reasons why movies can be so sad is music and location choice. Having shots with music and locations that can be sad and depressing can really touch the audience, because they can relate to it. Emotions aren't the only thing filmmakers can get out of us. Reactions from an explosion, guns, or any loud bang can cause us to flinch. This process is called the success rule. The science behind it is when you come "face to face" with a stimuli, or something that cause you to react in a certain way, you will act in a way that will help you have a good outcome. The response or flinch happens because that was your reaction to past stimuli. This interview from the Today show was very helpful. I learned a lot with how to structure my shots and how to use the necessary tools to convey the right feel in my videos. Also I now know how the stimuli reacts to a certain shot and how it can make the whole theme show very well. Finally I learned that you need to put a great deal of effort in every shot because it will make the audience feel a certain type of way and draw the emotion that you need to work with. http://www.today.com/health/your-brain-movies-why-films-make-us-cry-flinch-cheer-1D80258284
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The animators at Pixar are stepping up their game when it comes to new movies and tv shows. They have new technology and software that makes their job a lot easier. From built in lighting sources to quick stencils, the new animators have it all.
The first new tool that they have is the ability to add light in even after the scene is already drawn. They used this software in the new movie Inside Out where one of the main characters, Joy, has to have a consistent glow to her that effectively lights up the room. The animators describe her as a lamp that will actually light up other things near her. Lighting is a big part in animation because it can define a good story from a bad one because it makes it look pretty real. Also, they had to use a lot of lighting in the movie Up because the look of the balloons had to reflect off the sun and look realistic. This portrayal can be made very easily with their new tool that lets you add light after because it saved a lot of time for the animators. Up is also a great example for their other new tool that allows you to stencil in other details and copy them in other frames. Although this was already a prevalent resource, it was recently made better as some people wanted to perfect the process. Now they can copy images from past frames and make them show up in other places a lot easier by using this tool. For example, as I said, the movie Up uses the tool by copying the balloons from frame to frame so that the producers are not consistently drawing them over again. I think that these new tools are very important because the animators already have a very tough job to create all these drawings. Also it takes a while for an entire movie to be animated and the producers could use any new gadgets that they could find to speed up the process. It is a good idea to provide the new things because it will maybe motivate some people to take on this job and will also help the producers pump out more animated movies in the meantime. http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/pixar-brings-movies-life/ |
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