Prof. Michael O'Rourke

DDA 514, Storyboarding & Storytelling

Assignment #3/Final Project

(Final part of Project #2)

Due May 8 (Last/15th session)

For a description of the whole project, see Project#2.

Your grade will be based on the quality of thought and quality of execution of all the elements. For teams, your grade will be a function of these for the final project, plus your individual contribution to the project.

All files must be posted to your blog and also handed in on a flash drive. If you worked as a team, all team members must either post or link to all their teams materials from their blog. That is, from the blog of any one student, I must be able to see all your team's materials.

BLOG

On the final due date for this assignment, post the following items to your blog. Make sure you organize them so they can be easily found and easily seen. (Test them after you've posted to make sure.)

  1. A complete and final storyboard. At least 20% of panels must be in full color and of final quality; other panels may be line drawings. All panels must be well enough drawn to clearly convey the action, camera, etc. Include verbal descriptions, dialogue, icons, and soundtrack notes as appropriate to help convey things. Your storyboard should be clear enough that someone who has never seen it can follow and understand. Your final storyboard file must be PDF format. (If your blog site does not permit PDF, use another format such as .jpg but put your PDF file onto your flash drive.)

  2. Final-quality concept/design sketches and/or models for all the principle assets of your story. These should include the principle characters, scenes, environments, and props of your story. For all principle assets, produce at least one high-quality full-color rendering. For each principle character do turnaround-drawings or models as well as expression drawings or models. (These do not have to be full-color.) Images you post should be of sufficient resolution that details can be clearly seen. Any reasonable file format can be used for these design images.

  3. A movie-file animatic of your entire storyboard. Pay special attention to the timing and to the pacing. You must also include text action notes about the soundtrack. If you have been approved you to do so by me, you may optionally produce an actual audio soundtrack. If I have not approved you to do so, your soundtrack design should consist of verbal notations only – not actual sound. Technical details for export: Use .mov format, 16:9 aspect ratio, resolution of at least 960x540 (that is, half of the standard HDTV 1920x1080p). Use the H264 compression codec. This will reduce file size but keep good quality. If you cannot post your movie file directly to your blog, post it to some other site such as Vimeo and then link to that site from your blog. If you post to Vimeo, follow the Vimeo instructions for how to post and compress.

  4. If you worked as a team, a PDF or text file explaining which team members did which portions of the work.

     

    5. If you worked as a team, you must also fill out and email to me the Team Evaluation Form on my Pratt website.

FLASH DRIVE

All of the items that you post to your blog - that is, items 1 through 4 above - must also be handed in on a physical flash drive.You may use one flash drive to contain the work of several (or even all) of the students in the class. However, you must label files and folders clearly. If more than one student is sharing a flash drive, make a separate folder for each student using their name as the name of the folder.