CAKE Conference CameraMovement and Narration
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This document summarizes a study on how camera movements can help with narration in animation. It discusses different types of camera movements and how they can be used to emphasize important parts of the plot, direct audience attention, define locations, convey emotional feelings, and assist in storytelling. While there are no strict rules, camera movements can gradually form conventions based on genre, preceding/succeeding shots, and animation techniques like suspension and exaggeration. The relationship between camera work and narration is important for animation directors to consider.
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- 1. Camera Movement in Relation to Animation Narration: A study for Deriving Patterns By : Fatemeh Maleki (Hadis) Creative Animation Knowledge Conference Edge Hill University 14th – 18th July 2014
- 5. Find the those applications of camera movement that can help in Narration Categorizing them to be useful for directors Note: Many factors such as Preceding or succeeding shots => not looking for strict rules and formulas.
- 6. What is Narration? What do we mean by Camera Movement? Why studying the relation? “Camera Movement in Reaction to Animation Narration “
- 7. The fabula (sometimes translated as "story") embodies the action as a chronological cause-and-effect chain of events occurring within a given duration and spatial field. The syuzhet (usually translated as "plot") is the actual arrangement and presentation of the fabula in the film. Style, names the film's systematic use of cinematic devices. style is thus wholly ingredient to the medium. Style interact with syuzhet in various ways; hence the two-ways arrow in the diagram •Different theories: Mieke Bal,Bordwell (1985), etc.
- 8. Camera Definition Camera Movement Definition : moving frames Multi-plane effects Zoom, pan, tilt, … Moving of camera and its vibration Even a cut that give a feeling of jumping So Camera Movement in this theory is a syuzhet.
- 9. -Different Applications of Camera Movement "Camera movement can be merely functional when it adjusts the camera frame to the moving subject, but camera movement can also be a subjective, interpretive device by the filmmaker to carry and assist the narrative story" (Beidermühle, 2012: 2) -Gradually Formed Grammar and Unwritten rules
- 10. The previous examples: Kung Fu Panda(2008) : Introducing the characteristics Toy Story(1995): Emotional feelings in the scene Horton Hears aWho(2008): location definition Other applications . . .
- 11. Psychology and different personal spaces: It is related to the precedeeing and succeeding shots, no strict rule.
- 12. Directing the audience look, framing, preparing for the next part
- 13. Defining and emphasizing on important parts of Suyzhet Difference of long shot -> camera show in detail ,speeding up and slowing down to emphasize Emphasizing on emotional feelings: like shocking face of in lion king Defining on the power of hits Defining the texture of road or floating in wind ...
- 14. Help to animate or exaggerate
- 15. Conscious Absent Mindedness Camera When it is hard to technically visualize some events or actions When the animation is in a mystery type and something should not be revealed When it is needed to delay showing something to make suspension When it is needed attract the audiences to listen more carefully to a sound
- 16. Genre Comedy : Bernstein definition, Emperors New Groove(2000) Surreal Jumps in space and time: “ Cubism in Animation” Musical : Beauty and the Beast(1991), Lion King(1994) Documentary: Toy story III (2010), His Mother’s Voice(1990), number of POV shots Style of direction and country of production
- 17. Animation: suspension and exageration It can provide information that confirms what the audiences have guessed. It can reject what the audiences have guessed and make a surprise. It can provide information to connect preceding and succeeding scenes.
- 18. Exaggeration: - Acts -Size or scale of characters but cut is more in large differences :The Great Grape Ape( 1975), Ratatouille(2007) -Size or scale of location
- 19. Making Structure - musical forms - sewing the parts TheTriplets of Belleville( 2003)
- 20. Master Shots / First Scene -> theme of story Spirit (2002) WALL-E (2008) Rio (2011) Kung fu Panda (2008)
- 21. Still camera Silence in music ( 4’: 33’’) Excessive use of movement - relevant - irrelevant 3D, laziness in animating irrelevant to story e.g. Not action The relation is important: old animation ; Jumping (1984), The Fly (1974)
- 22. Challenges ofTechnology and Art - 3D technology - stereoscopic 3D: Alice inWonderland(2010) - Dolby system - Important camera movement a thing director should consider
- 23. You can find the slide at Email me please for any comments and questions: f.maleki@gmx.com
- 24. Bordwell, David, 1985. Narration in the fiction film.Wisconsin:The University of Winsconsin Press. Beidermühle,Tobias, 2012. Camera Movement: Historical Overview and Application in Madly Unto Eternity, MFA. SavannahCollege of Art and Design.