Writing Animation 1

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

120 hours

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An introduction to storytelling, narrative and non-narrative structures, characters and worlds. There is an emphasis on understanding the writing in an historical context in writing for an animation production. Students attend 12 lectures that include screenings and discussions. Additional unsupervised studio time is made available for students complete exercises.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of story structure and context in various genres from various traditions and cultures.
• Demonstrate methods of generating and researching ideas suitable for an animation screenplay.
• Generate a professionally presented screenplay suitable for an animation production.
• Apply modalities different to text in storytelling and and non-narrative works such as using drawing and audio.
• Confidently present their ideas for feedback and reflection.
• Increase their capacity to research and instigate an idea into a proposal.
• Increase their capacity to take risks when developing projects.

Treatment Exercise words (15%) Due Week 3

Draft Screenplay Exercise (20%) Due Week 5

Final Draft Screenplay Exercise (30%) Due Week 10

Students also create a writing folio that is created over the 12 week tuition.

Writing Folio 1000 words (25%) Due Week 12

Workshop Participation* (10%) Due: assessed ongoing.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.