FA7036 - Reading and Film Plan

READING and FILM PLAN

FA7036 – Surbiton Project (leading on to Pre-Production)

READING:

How to Read a Church – summarise

How to Read a Painting - summarise

Re-Imagining Animation – different and unusual techniques

Ideas For the Animated Short – how to make a winning pilot (based on the (a) caravan)

FA7031 – Essay/Essay Film

Folk Tale/Myth

READING:

Myth and Meaning – leitmotifs (sounds – feelings)

Morphology of the Folktale – understanding the origins/structure of folklore. A connection with folk music? Can the story of the caravan be treated as a nostalgic folktale? Folktale versus Fairy tale?

The Writer’s Journey – making the caravan into a character? Connect this with mythology, and learning from it in relation to screenwriting for a pilot?

Animation, Genre and Authorship (for Genre too) – exploring who and why we make animation. What kind of animation do I hope to achieve featuring the (a) caravan?

FILM:

Peter and the Wolf – music as narrative/character archetypes/31 narrative stages (apply to the story of the caravan?) – Find a suitable piece of music and bring the story down to the familiar 12 stages of narrative

Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs – relate to discussion on folklore and the significance of the apple

Aladdin

Batman Begins – each of these for the 12 stages of narrative

Genre

FILM:

WALL-E – for nostalgic representation and genre

Commercials (links on in propaganda document) – for finding nostalgic leitmotifs and incorporating them into the essay film

Essay Film (General)

Frank Film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZm67rgUAfQ)

Snack and Drink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXj4CMC2yk)

Man With a Movie Camera (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8)

Yearning for Yesterday – for nostalgia discussion