Embedded Files
Who:
Who:
Narrative Role
Sound Design Role
Steps
Steps
Start with an outline.
We will advance the script so sight impaired persons can understand what is happening on-screen.
Add these notes
Add notes for visual narrative text where needed
Add notes for place-orienting environment sounds
Add notes for action-orienting foley
Add notes for music for emotion
Change titles to be gender neutral as needed (see list below)
The script needs to be approved by faculty
File Management
File Management
Paste the script into a Google Doc: share with anyone with the link so that we can comment.
Name your script file like this:
ARProjectTitle-Script-a
Example Script Framework
Example Script Framework
Note the use of time indicators, and the intent of each section. This is for a longer animation than I expect us to do for the animations for the AR Projects.
The following script framework was used in the Jim Crow Museum Extended Reality Exhibition.
(5 - 20 s.) Set Expectations and provide an intense emotional experience.
(60 - 80 s.) Tell The Story
(10 - 20 s.) Offer a Value Proposition
(10 - 20 s.) Connect it With the Viewer
(3-10 s.) Call to Action
Example of Audio Descriptions: Anxiety For Mental Health America by the EPIC Project (With A.D.). If we write using the visual narrative format, we will not need these.
An example of writing a visual narrative
An example of writing a visual narrative
Writing in the visual narrative format can mean that audio descriptions for the sight-impaired will not need to be added later.
Visual narratives can include: What, Where, Who and How.
Writing and illustration by Luke Cleveland
“I’m in my cubicle, my bachelor’s degree on the wall, writing editorial opinions for my on-line newspaper, while others work around me.”
The Visual Narrative Bits
The Visual Narrative Bits
my cubicle, my bachelor’s degree on the wall
while others work around me
Gender Neutral Titles
Gender Neutral Titles
Use this as needed to ensure we are being inlusive
any person: they, them
businessman: business person, business people
chairman: chair, chairperson
mailman: mail carrier, letter carrier, postal worker
policeman: police officer
salesman: salesperson, sales associate, salesclerk
stewardess: flight attendant
waitress/waiter: server, table attendant
man: person, individual
mankind: people, human beings, humanity
freshman: first-year student
man-made: machine-made, synthetic, artificial
actor/actress: actor
congressman: legislator, congressional representative
fireman: firefighter
Harlem Hellfighters Script Outline Example (For The Intro Segment)
Harlem Hellfighters Script Outline Example (For The Intro Segment)
Note: This script requires too many illustrations and should be scrapped or shortened
Bold = added text
... Are there to slow the voice artist down
Intro:
Intro:
“The 369th Infantry was recruited as ... an African American unit ... known as the Harlem Hellfighters...”
Length (10s)
Visual: Far establishing shot - Soldiers waiting in line to sign enlistment papers
Audio
Added VO: "Get in line soldier"
Environment: Men muttering
Foley: none
Music: None
“Trained in the south...”
Length (2s)
Visual: Medium far shot - the recruiting line turns into soldiers marching
Audio
Added VO: none
Environment: None
Foley: Marching
Music: upbeat, classic military march
“They were segregated from white soldiers ... who went to the front lines ... “
Length (6s)
Visual: Close shot - the line of black soldiers marching turns into a line of black soldiers carry sacks, Camera focuses on white soldiers (that are framed by the black soldiers) who are marching in the background (away to war)
Audio
Added VO: none
Environment: None
Foley: Lively troop marching
Music: Upbeat Classic military march
“and spent months as dock loaders ... constantly confronting bigotry from the United States Army…”
Length (7s)
Visual: a medium shot of black soldiers in a line carrying sacks. White soldiers are still behind them marching away
Audio
Added VO: “Get those sacks loaded”
Foley: several sets of slow, heavy footsteps
Environment: None
Music: melancholy Jazz (check file folder for jazz created music by the Hellfighters)
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Visual notes:
illustrate characters in multiple values of silhouette
use cross-dissolves between character poses to simulate marching and walking
Use Ken Burns camera effect for each shot
Here is the final animation for The Jim Crow Museum Harlem Hellfighters displayed in the Virtual Tour of the Jim Crow Museum.
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