Friday 26 November 2010

Staging.

Staging is very important for when making animations, presenting an idea to an audience making it perfectly clear what is happening on the screen. Motion and the position of the screen are essential, if there is no thought of staging the picture can look uncomfortable, as well as being unable to understand.

  

A scene with a lot of movement will often guide the audiences’ eye to an object that isn’t moving. This can be the same for one object to be moving with everything else being stationary, the motion will attract the eye.



This means that motion is very important on screen and needs to be placed appropriately for showing what needs to be shown.

EXTRACTS - from 'The Illusion of Life'


Staging, Page 53


"Staging" is the most general of the principles because it covers so many areas and goes back so far in the theatre. It's meanings how ever are very precise: it it the presentation of any idea so that it it completely and unmistakably clear.

This clip of the Flintstones is an example of staging, but any animation clip has had staging in mine. The posture of the characters as well as the angle on which the audience see's the scene going on.


-Curly

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