STUDY PROGRAMME
Film & Animation

AFAM CODE
ABPC67

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Methodology and techniques of communication

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Creative writing

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course has a workshop-based approach, aimed at the students to develop writing, drawing and pre-visualisation skills for animation. The course starts from the research and conception of ideas for animated stories, until the development of a script, developing graphic design skills aimed at the main elements of animation concepts, and improving the ability to create storyboards with the use of specific pre-visualisation software. At the end of the course, the students will create an "animatic" and a storyboard for their animation project.

The total credits for this course are 6, divided as follows:

• SCREENWRITING FOR ANIMATION: 3 CFA = 3 ECTS

• STORYBOARD FOR ANIMATION: 3 CFA = 3 ECTS

Successful students will be able to:

Develop personal storytelling based on technological and multimedia contexts

• Analyse the link between textual and audiovisual language

• Develop brief scripts for animation short films that meet the needs of the audience and the market

• Develop their ability to draw the basic elements of an animation concept

• Design the staging starting from a script

• Use the main pre-visualisation techniques in animation projects

• Devise and pre-visualise authorial animation projects

• Create animatics for personal projects

SCREENWRITING FOR ANIMATION:

• Character and background design

• Point of view in the storytelling

• Dialogues

• Text and subtext

STORYBOARD FOR ANIMATION:

• Drawing for storyboards

• Storyboarding techniques

• Storyboard styles

• Use of software to create storyboards

• Ore-visualisation techniques: animatic

This is a theoretical/project based course.

During the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects that will be developed:

• Front lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual study or research

Assessment criteria may include:

Writing a paper

Graded exercises with a final oral exam

Further details on the specific tests will be given by each professor.

The final grade for this course will result from the weighted average of its modules.

• Eisner/Miller (2005) Conversazione sul fumetto, Kappa Edizioni.

• Eisner. W. - Comics & sequential art (expanded edition), Pavesio Editore.

• Edward, B. (2002) Disegnare con la parte destra del cervello, Longanesi.

• Falcinelli, R. (2014) Critica portatile al visul design, Einaudi.

• Kleon, A. (2013) Ruba come un artista, A. Vallardi.

• Mckee, R. (2010) Story, Contenuti, struttura, stile, principi per la sceneggiatura e per l’arte di scrivere storie, Omero.

• Mc Luhan, S. - Capire il fumetto, Pavesio Editore.

• Snyder, B. (2005) Save the cat, Michael Wiese Film Productions.

• Vogler C. (2010) Il viaggio dell’eroe. La struttura del mito ad uso di scrittori di narrativa e di cinema, Audino Edizioni.

A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.

More books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.