STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABPC67

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Methodologies and techniques of communication

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Creative writing

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course, created as a workshop, promotes the development of students’ skills in the field of writing, drawing and pre-visualization. The Preproduction module goes from the research and ideation of stories for animation, to the definition of a script, developing the capacities of drafting and drawing the main elements of an animation concept. In the Storyboard module, students acquire the competences for drawing a storyboard through the use of specific pre-visualization softwares. At the end of the course, students will produce an animatic and a storyboard for an animation project.

The programme grants 8 credits, divided as follows:

• PREPRODUCTION: 4 CFA

• STORYBOARD: 4 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

• Develop a personal narration based on technological and multimedia contexts

• Analyze the link between textual and audiovisual language

• Develop a short screenplay of an animated short film that meet the needs of the audience and the market

• Develop drawing skills for the definition of the core elements of an animation concept.

• Create a staging concept starting from the script

• Apply the most relevant pre-visualization techniques

• Create and pre-visualize an animation project

• Realize an animatic of an animation project

PREPRODUCTION:

• Creation of a character in serial narration

• The point of view in the narration

• Dialogues

• Text and subtext

• Drawing

STORYBOARD:

• Drawing for storyboards

• Techniques for the realization of storyboards

• Styles of storyboards

• Softwares for storyboards

• Techniques of pre-visualization: animatic

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Completion of a project

• Graded exercises with a final oral exam

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

• Eisner/Miller: A One-to-One Inteview (2005), Dark Horse Comics.

• Eisner. W. (2008) Comics and Sequential Art (expanded edition), Norton.

• Edward, B. (2002) Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

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

• Kleon, A. (2012) Steal Like an Artist, Workman.

• McKee, R. (1997) Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, Regan Books.

• 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.

Many of the recommended sources, together with additional material, are also available online on MyNaba, in the Library section.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.