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pencil in the top right corner. Each scene will be numbered in the upper left-hand corner with (CONT) next to the scene number i ...

Storyboard for Writers 171 Visual directing.Projects that have been visualized well, with each sequence attract- ing and holdin ...

Do your compositions vary? Do you use up shots and down shots? Make good use of perspective? Add depth to each scene? Do you av ...

Storyboard for Writers 173 Do the hookups match? No problems with continuity? Are the mechanics of the camera moves correct? Di ...

Exercises Research a location for your outline. If this is a fantasy, research styles and influences that might help stimulate ...

CHAPTER 11 The Scene 175 What Is a Scene? A scene is a single event or conversation between characters that takes place during o ...

Can you create curiosity? Ask a question and keep the answer for later. How does the scene move the story forward and add to th ...

Each Scene Each scene should be visually interesting and never talky (unless this is specifically a talky animation series). Kee ...

Each scene should flow! Does it transition easily from the last scene and into the next? Will it fit neatly into the whole? Con ...

Exercises Think about the funniest, most frightening, or worst moment of your life. Write a scene about it. Now change it to ma ...

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CHAPTER 12 Animation Comedy and Gag Writing 181 What Makes Yo uLaugh? What makes you laugh? Or, more importantly, what makes you ...

consider good taste and good role models as well and use common sense in what we want children to see. Humor for kids is politic ...

script is sprinkled with spot gags throughout. Come up with a script that’s funny and fresh, or at least put a new twist onto a ...

some comedy scenes. These scenes are used to break up the tension from the intense action. After all, this method was good enoug ...

Reactions and Takes These are usually used in an ending to a gag, rather than as gags themselves. They rely on funny expressio ...

Pop-Culture References Shared cultural experiences.Shrek Topical Humor Jokes based on the news of the day or time period. You c ...

Malapropism The wrong word. Dr. Seuss’s holiday dinner of “roast beast” Literal Use of Words Take a slang word and use it li ...

Metamorphosis In animation someone or something can totally change physically into someone or something entirely different. She ...

Playing with the Medium These gags surprise the audience by going against expectations in timing, cine- matography, design, ani ...