The third unit of study focused on learning to design how the language of the camera interacts with the audience in a film, as well as creating storyboards, preview videos and modelling. I had tried hand-drawn comic strips before this (of course these two are different), but there was no specific instruction so it was actually a weak project in my own abilities. Luckily, I’m interested in drawing sketches and have always maintained a higher level of enthusiasm.

With the help of Paul and Molly’s guidance in class, I learned to interpret the visual language of certain images in the film, and that as a creator I should learn to look at how the director made the film, not the content. So I studied with several films in constant pause, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Pacific Rim. The benefit of re-watching a film when I know the plot ahead of time (having seen it) is that it doesn’t make me curious about what the content of the plot is going to be, but instead it makes me pay attention to how the camera is used to express what I know later.

Here are their corresponding storyboards that I found online：

Among other things, I noticed that in addition to their use of thirds, they break out the lens to produce depth of field, for example by using different 1, 2, and 3 point perspectives. And they have close-ups, medium and long shots that are rhythmic, but mostly medium shots predominate. And the language of light has a lot of influence in them, (when I was a kid I thought they were direct video recordings from real scenes hhh). The composition of the shots mostly becomes unstable and uneven during danger or chase battles ………

My constant mulling over the above clip slowly generated a sketch of my understanding of the script.（On the PDF file I submitted）

In fact, without the reference of the figure, out of thin air to imagine a perspective of the human body is very difficult to draw accurate human structure, so I can only go online to find a reference picture combined with the scene to change the painting, I can not find it can only be their own pose hhhh.

Final works:

Thanks for watching!

Back to the modelling part, here is my process:

I love blender hhhh

Animatic & Pre-vis’s Google-drive link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1751NVKck1LvIzk8lVTKCXxl8EYk3Y9Fj?usp=sharing