Garfield

sometimes, more precisely said, bloody often my luck is much bigger then reason or planning or resreach...

When I stood in the queue in ASDA waiting to pay my bagles the Garfield movie labled 5£ looked at me and told the BUZZCAT in my head that I should buy it - so I bought!

Ok, I have to admitt that the movie isnt that good concerning the story because the lethargic sarcastic life observing attitude of Garfield was rejected to make a "better" more Hollywoodlike, 0815 , familyfitting, happy standard story... with a BIG GREAT HAPPY END...

But the good part of the DVD is the bonus material. There is a featurette, where the filmmakers show how they designed the 3D Model of Garfield. Quite good inspiration for me and my little buzzy cat in my head ;-)

Trailer Storyboard

TATE modern - M.Duchamp, M.Ray, F.Picabia

In one of my favored Art Museums - the Tate Modern in London - is a quite good representative exhibition featuring Marcel Duchamps (1887 - 1968), Man Ray (1890 - 1976) and Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) that will last till the 26th May 2008.

May be the most known of the trio is Duchamps because of his readymades.

I personaly often prefere Picabia to Duchamp. Man Ray I only knew by name before this exhibition but now I have to admit that I like his work because its often sarcastic and critics the philistine way of live. All the tree of them often reference to erotic topics but not in a pornographic way more in a sarcastic.

As more than agree with the DADA movement there for Picabias and Duchamps early work period is very interesting to me. I am not very shure if the two where already in the DADA movement in Zurich but at least when DADA expanded to Paris they must have joined the movement.

and

DADA is here
So da there is dha daaa
Da DA lives on noON and
Dha DAeth is NOT...

hahaha... I like to play! But in german I am a lot better with dadaesque wordplays...

TREATMENT

A treatment is after the proposal the 2nd instrument to aquire financial support.

It is a narrative description of the production and written like the narrator watches the medium and comments it.
Normally it contains no dialogs or special technical terms.
The first paragraph summarises key elements from the proposal like the title, length, format and objective of the production.

PROPOSAL

A proposal is the 1st document to present to possible financial backers in the preproduction process.

Normally it's made by producer, writer, director and opens the door to financial or logistical funding. A proposal should be brief and writen in a for non media people understandable language without to much technical terms. It needs research in books, the web and the real world to write a proposal.

A good proposal includes following features:

• objectives of the production
• target audience
• distribution methods
• key production factors
• basic style
• genre
• unusual production techniques
• special casting / location considerations
• length
• recording format
• release format
• timeline
• budget

inspired by "single camera video production 4th edit." by Musburger,Robert

The S - Words

Script, Screenplay, Scene Script, Shootingscript, Shootlist and Storyboard

...häääälllllpp!!!

Ok, a Script a Scene Script and a Screenplay seem to be basically the same thing with different names. They describe all the scenes in the movie (NOT the shots!), place (INT/EXT) and time (DAY/NIGHT) them.
The Scene Screen Script Play features the characters, the characters movements, dialog, narration, the key props and the location so that later on shots can be extracted.

Sounds cool... now further into this story...

A shootingscript seems to be derivated out of a script (aka...) and contains each specifical Shot. It adds more information for the crew on the set. Things like the transitions, camera positions and framing (WS/ MS/ CU) are written in the shootingscript but they leave space for spontan creativity.

Ähm... OK...

A Shotlist is very precise about cameraposition and angle in the scene. Often they are made dayly for the planned shooting.

And last but not least the Storyboard...
Not every director seems to use it in the same phase of production and in the same amount or artistic perfection. For Animation it is quite usefull to have a more or less accurate storyboard based on a rough shootingscript.

THE BREAK DOWN:

1. Outline an Idea
2. Write Script -> improve it
3. Write Shootingscript
4. Draw Storyboard
5. Write Shotlist
...

• a shot: beginns and ends when camera is switched ON/OFF
• a scene: contains several shots (same location and time)
• a sequence: is a narrative unit out of several scenes or shots
  

CATS SKELETON

Look at the cats legs. they are quite different from humen arms legs. Thez walk on their heels of the hand, basically on the beginn of their fingers. So the knee/elbow and the pivotjoint/shoulder are in different positions