- Do your compositions vary? Do you use up shots and down shots? Make good use
of perspective? Add depth to each scene? - Do you avoid placing your characters parallel to each other and parallel to the sides
of the picture frame? - Can we see what your silhouetted characters are doing quickly and easily? Is the
action framed by the background and foreground? Is the background around the
characters as clear or as simple as possible? Are you avoiding tangents that close in
on your characters (horns or halos on heads)? Is there contrast? Is the shot design
simple enough to keep the emphasis on the characters and the action? - Do your characters have enough room to move around and do whatever they need
to do in this environment? - What about composition? Does the posing of your characters and the overall com-
position charge the scene with emotion? - Do your characters reveal character personality? Are your characters really showing
off their acting ability and revealing emotion? - Do the characters relate to each other?
- Are your poses as strong and exaggerated as possible with characters drawn in sil-
houette and with a dynamic line of action? - Do you have enough extreme poses for the animators?
- Have you made the most of anticipation to draw attention to the action?
- Are the gags staged in the funniest way? Are the characters posed and acting in funny
ways? Are you making the best use of your props for visual humor? - Do you use reaction shots?
- Are your characters drawn on model and in the right perspective to each other and
to the rest of the scene? - Will the action work?
- Have you made good use of camera movement?
- Do your shots have a good rhythm to their sequence?
- Did you avoid crossing the ninety-degree axis with the camera?
- Have you restaged sequences to avoid too many talking heads?
- Did you suggest timing in the way you boarded your scenes?
- Is there a variety of shots and scene lengths?
- Did you think creatively?
- Does the action flow easily from one scene to another? Do you have good transitions
between scenes?
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