Syllabus
Syllabus
MART 405: Storyboard Development for Animation and Interactive Media
Instructor: Roger Royce 13-211, 3 Semester Units, CRN: 90342
Email: roycer@smccd.edu Fall 2008 Wednesdays 6:30 to 9:35pm
Phone: (650) 378-7301 x19162 Office Hours: By Appointment Only (Weds. @ 6:00pm)
Total Semester Hours: 48 Lecture, 32 By Arrangement and 32 Homework
Grading Method: Grade Option
Prerequisite(s): none Corequisite(s): none
Catalog Description: Introduction to storyboarding and the planning processes of visual storytelling. Translation of concepts such as shot types, continuity, pacing, transitions and sequencing into a visual narrative. Exploration of cinematic vocabulary and storyboard technique in the creation of both personal and professional expression.
Purpose: An introduction to the principles and practices of storyboarding for animation
Method of Instruction: Each student will learn the course content through lecture, multimedia demonstrations and student interactive projects. This is a production class and each student is expected to create a timed storyboard animatic by the end of the course as their final project.
Course Objectives:
1. Demonstrate the ability to represent visually different shot types, angles, cuts,
transitions, posing, staging and camera moves on standard storyboard templates.
2. Develop different formats of storyboards that will best serve the intended media.
3. Analyze and deconstruct existing storyboard samples
4. Plan and develop a rough thumbnail storyboard in several different versions that will
serve as a base to create a finalized project.
5. Create a final storyboard and animatic with all the necessary labeling and sequencing
information that will make a logical visual representation of the project
6. Create sketching and shading techniques to represent mood and tone in each scene.
7. Critically evaluate peer work and provide effective and positive feedback.
Course Requirements:
1. Regular participation in exercises/labs/quizzes
2. Weekly assignments and Reading
3. Midterm: Thumbnails
4. Final: Storyboard Animatic
5. A desire to learn and have fun
Grading:
Weekly Homework 20%
Quizzes (3) 25%
Midterm 15%
Final 40%
Late Policy/Make-up: No late work will be accepted after 11:00pm on the night that it is due. Missing this deadline will result in an F for that assignment. If a quiz is missed the student will not be allowed to re-take it and this will result in an F as well. However, if you will be missing a class for a valid reason (ie: emergency, death in family, broken arm, etc.) where an assignment is due or a quiz will be given, you must contact me PRIOR to class to arrange a make-up time to satisfy the assignment (No extra credit will be given in this class).
Text: Simon, Mark, Storyboards: Motion in Art, Focal Press, Burlington, MA, 2007.
ISBN 10: 0-240-80805-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-240-80805-5
Other Materials: Pencils, erasers, pens (black sharpie thin/thick), notepad or sketchbook for lecture and some type of portable computer storage device (ie: jump/flash drive, iPod, etc.)