I know I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but this week’s lecture was awesome. We learned about storytelling though cuts from Patrick Kriwanek. Patrick is an editor for film and he told us all about when and while to make cuts in a scene. A cut is basically when you switch from one camera to another during a shot. When and how you do it is very important. In fact, there are set rules that everyone in the industry follows. If you break them, you’re audience will feel uncomfortable. Sometimes filmmakers will break the rules, however, when the desired effect is to make the audience uncomfortable…..like in a horror/suspense film. Anyway, really cool stuff. I can’t wait to use it in my next shot (a dialogue shot with two characters interacting with each other….yikes!)

This week we took our facial animation out of blocking and into the refined stage. I must say that the first time that I saw this version, I couldn’t stop smiling. This was a culmination of 7 weeks of work and for the first time, I got to see the fruits of my labor. I can’t believe I’m almost done with my first ever dialogue shot! Just one more polish pass, and I get to put this shot to rest.

The other part of this weeks assignment was to find two facial expressions in magazines or the web and try to duplicate them with Bishop. We will do a number of these throughout this term to give us some practice recreating facial expressions. They’re really fun to do too!