Creative Filmmaking

Exercises 11 to 20

     

11. Introducing Flash to your Film-Making - Making a Tween
Everything in Flash is built around tweening. Tweening is simply when you move or change an object on the ‘stage’.
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Tutorial 4: Motion Tween
Tutorial 5: Shape Tween

12. Practical Flash - Terry Gilliam Style Animation
Terry Gilliam’s animation will be best known to your students from his influence on the ‘Desperate Housewives’ titles.
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Tutorial 6: Prepping

13. Practical Flash 2 - Morphing Typography
A practical example of using typography creatively.
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14. Turning Diagetic sound into non-diagetic or vice-versa
Diagetic sound is the sound of the world (a door slamming, someone speaking) is diagetic and sound which is not (soundtrack, voiceover) is non-diagetic.
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15. Using Contrapuntal sound
Music can be used for a plethora of reasons, for comic or tragic effect, to drive action or mislead the audience.
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16. Creating a Sound Bridge
A scene from The Graduate is used to demonstrate a sound bridge.
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17. Creating an Image Bridge
An image bridge occurs when one shot follows another similarly arranged one.
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18. Using Selective to Heighten Emotion
Isolating sound in a busy or noisy scene. This technique lends itself to horror/supernatural very well. 
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19. Combining speed and freeze frame to pace the action
One of the hallmarks of contemporary gangster films has been a dynamic approach to camera speed and movement.
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20. Using Extremes of Framing to add tension to a stand-off
Using extreme close ups and extreme long shots is often used in Spaghetti westerns.
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