Week 1

Question 1

Visual Story Telling

Answer 1

1. Visual Components
2. Contrast and Affinity
3. Space

Question 2

Pictures are made up of 3 Fundamental building blocks:

Answer 2

Story: Plot, character, and dialogue

Sound: Dialogue, sound effects, and Music

Visuals: All visuals are the visual components
Example: Scenery, props, costumes

Question 3

Basic Visual Components

Answer 3

Space
Line
Shape
Tone
Color
Movement
Rhythm

Question 4

Terminology: The Screen: The 2D screen where we see pictures.

Answer 4

Movie screens            
TV & computer screens
Screens on cell phones and other handheld devices
Hanging canvases in museums
Pages in books and magazines
Display photos
Drawings

Question 5

Terminology: Real World & Screen World

Answer 5

Real World:
The environment in which we live
3D reality

Screen World:
Images on the screen
The picture world we create w/ cameras, brushes, pencils, computers

Question 6

Terminology: FG, MG, BG

Answer 6

Foreground (FG)
Objects closer to the viewer or camera

Midground (MG)
Objects that are farther away from the viewer or camera

Background (BG)
Objects that are farthest away

Question 7

Terminology: The Picture Plane

Answer 7

The Picture Plane
Frame lines will surround anything visual in the screen world.
The frame lines create a picture plane.

The picture plane is the “window” within which the picture
exists.

Question 8

Visual Progression

Answer 8

Point:

Line:

Plane:

A point becomes a line becomes a plane

Question 9

Visual Progression

Answer 9

This a progression.

From a point, to a line, to a plane, to a volume.

Question 10

Keys to Visual Structure

Answer 10

Based on the Principle of Contrast & Affinity

Contrast means difference
Affinity means similarity

Question 11

Terminology: Contrast, Tone

Answer 11

Contrast:
Difference

Tone:
Brightness of Objects
(ex: organized by a gray scale)

Question 12

Terminology: Maximum Contrast of…

Answer 12

Maximum Contrast of Tone

Question 13

Terminology
: Affinity: Similarity…

Answer 13

Tonal Affinity:

Question 14

***Greater/Less Visual Intensity

Answer 14

The greater the contrast in a visual component, the more the visual intensity or dynamic increases.

The greater the affinity in a visual component, the more the visual intensity or dynamic decreases.

OR

Contrast = Greater Visual Intensity 
Affinity = Less Visual Intensity

Question 15

What does Visual Intensity mean?

Answer 15

Which half is more intense?

Question 16

Space: How can a 2D screen surface display

pictures that appear to have 3D or depth?

Answer 16

1. Deep space
2. Flat space
3. Limited space
4. Ambiguous space

Depth queues … Wes Anderson visual style is using flat space

Question 17

Deep Space

Answer 17

The illusion of a 3D world on a 2D screen surface audience believes they see depth on a 2D screen b/c of Depth Clues.

Question 18

Deep Space

Answer 18

This is a frontal plane
Notice: There is no depth

flat space Wes Anderson

Question 19

Deep Space: NOTE:
Perspective – most important depth clue.
Perspective has 3 basic types…..

Answer 19

One-Point Perspective
Two-Point Perspective
Three-Point Perspective

Question 20

Deep Space:

Answer 20

One-Point Perspective

Question 21

One-Point Perspective: Vanishing Point

Answer 21

One side of the plane looks farther away even though it exists on this flat surface

Question 22

Two-Point Perspective: 2 Vanishing Points

Answer 22

More complex than one-point perspective. The longitudinal plane can be given a 2nd vanishing point.

Question 23

Three-Point Perspective: 3 Vanishing Points

Answer 23

More complex than two-point perspective. 1st point is above the building. 2nd and 3rd points are along the horizon line

Spider-Man…great depth or great height, adds distortion

Question 24

Perspective, Vanishing points, and Longitudinal planes

Answer 24

When the camera is at eye level, an actor is like a flat, frontal plane. (Camera is representable of audiences eyes)

The camera is lowered and tilted up (Perspective is an illusion of something perspective)

The camera is raised and tilted down (Bird’s eye view)

Question 25

Perspective, Vanishing points, and Longitudinal planes

Answer 25

Notice how your eye is drawn to the vanishing point between the 2 walls Your eye is drawn to both the actor AND the v.p. between the two walls The actor is positioned at the v.p. between the two walls, keeping the attention on the actor

Question 26

Deep Space: Size change creates the...

Answer 26

illusion of depth

Question 27

Deep Space: Object Movement: There are 2 basic directions that an object in the real world can move in front of the camera. They are...

Answer 27

1. Parallel to the Picture Plane | 2. Perpendicular to the Picture Plane

Question 28

Deep Space: Object Movement (Parallel)

Answer 28

left to right up-down diagonal circular direction

Question 29

``` Deep Space: Object Movement (Parallel) 2 runners (one in FG, one in BG) ```

Answer 29

The FG runner will appear to move across the plane faster than the BG runner, even though both of the runners actually travel the same distance. used in video games, came up in cartoons

Question 30

Deep Space: Object Movement (Parallel) | Clues that they are traveling the same distance:

Answer 30

The BG runner is smaller, which adds depth BG runner is running slower and has shorter movements than the FG runner