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Lesson 6: Pitching and feedback | 6Advice on editing
Advice on editing.
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- Why is she surprised more women/girls are getting involved? I am an eighteen year old dude and I am not surprised at all, girls have creative ideas and are talented and strong willed too.(38 votes)
- What if you want to make a movie but don't wan it to be animated? Would these work the same way?(13 votes)
- Is it just me or does one of the dudes voices sound familiar like if he is an actor or something(9 votes)
- Bigkye,
Yes, the man with the glasses and graying beard voices Doug in Up. That's why it's so neat that he references him :D(17 votes)
- Why did he say you should cut and cut? Does that mean shorten the movie? Because personally I like longer, more developed movies much better(7 votes)
- He means, I believe, to try more than one option for a scene, and make them knowing you will have to cut all but one of them. Explore all you can!(5 votes)
- What if nobody gives you advice?(6 votes)
- If nobody gives you advice, you have to find somebody who will DEFINITELY give you advice! Pretty much, don't stop asking different people for it and eventually you'll get it. There are also a lot of websites that post advice, so you can always go that route, too.(5 votes)
- I love how the kid just ran up to him and said "I love u" :D(7 votes)
- First, I want to thank all people who make this lessons great, inspiring ,easy to understand and apply..thank you very much all of you guys..Pixar staff and khan academy staff..
Secondly, can anyone help me how to write and animate “short “ stories...I think this lessons were very very useful, but I think it will be different if I want to apply it on short ones, so what kind of courses and videos I must learn from.
Finally, please pardon me if my English language is not clear it isn’t my native language 😅(5 votes)- Short stories and long stories do not have much different to them. In fact, the only difference between the two is the length!
Just because a story is short does not mean that it should be any less engaging. While you may want to scale down on conflicts and large goals, they are still prevalent, and the character still goes through them. Your main characters and your world should still be fleshed out, your dialogue should still be well-made, tension can still be added, and your story should still show--not tell! Practice making stories first, then add your length limit as you feel more confident in your abilities.
Also, keep in mind that writing a story for a book and writing a story for a movie (or animated short) are two different things. While both have the same principles, they are formatted for different things. It is almost like drawing a landscape and drawing a face. You use the same techniques for both, but you are making something different with them.
Please let me know if you need more help or some examples. Also, your English is quite good!(2 votes)
- Is there an online community / forum or mentorship program for artists? I am the only member of my family who does art, and I have no idea how to get in contact with aspiring artists. I'm especially interested in mentorship programs, but I'll take what I can get!!(4 votes)
- You can also make short animations on Flipaclip and flipanim!
There are really good art/animation forums(2 votes)
- what kind of software could i use for free for this old ACER pc?(3 votes)
- For art, I would suggest AutoDesk Sketchbook or FireAlpaca. For editing videos, I use OpenShot. =3(2 votes)
- Is it just me or is there like 20 seconds of silence at the end(3 votes)
- I have an HTML fanfic I've been working on and so far I've gotten a lot of positive reviews from the two people who've seen it 😅😊
btw, to anyone else wondering what the 'special treat' is, it's this video(3 votes)
Video transcript
- Editing is a craft that takes
years to learn and perfect and any editor will tell you
that they're still doing it. So the best thing you can
do is just keep at it, keep practicing. - Cut as much as you possibly
can as frequently as possible. Go out and shoot stuff
just so you can cut it. Give yourself a task and give
yourself some constraints and get a smartphone, get some, download some free software or some inexpensive software and just cut. Cut and cut and cut. Try things. Try juxtaposing images. Try putting music over things. Just feel it out and experiment and don't, say I wanna tell a story
with these three things and then try it or say I don't
care if it makes any sense, I just wanna feel this. Just cut. The more you work on your
craft, the better you get at it. - And be tenacious. Tenacious beats talent. In other words, the more you want it, the stronger you go after it. It's more important
than if you're talented. - The more you work on something, the better you feel about it. The more you apply yourself to it, the prouder you are of it and this is the part that
can be hard to remember. The harder the problem is
that you have to solve, the more proud you are of the solution that you come up with. - If you're drawing to get
a job, that's not good. You gotta draw for yourself. You gotta draw sort of based
on your inner feelings. If you're thinking, if I draw this amount, I'm gonna get in Pixar, that doesn't help. You wanna look around and
find the truth around you, find what's funny. If you're in your
basement all day drawing, that's not good either. You need to get out. - Listen and watch and
read other stories too just to immerse yourself in
different kinds of stories. - It's great to watch a lot of movies, think critically about the scenes, see what's working, what's not. When you are watching a movie,
think about how does this, listen to the sounds. Think about how the sound
is helping the storytelling. - Putting yourself outside
of your comfort zone has always benefited me
creatively and personally and it kinda just opens up your mind to different ideas and points of view. - One thing that helped me was
that I was a camp counselor at a summer camp one summer and it got me out of
drawing in my basement and those experiences have
helped my films amazingly. The opening line for Dug in Up is I have just met you and I love you and that's taken from
a kid who ran up to me at summer camp and said, didn't know me, little kid,
you're my counselor, I love you like that and all these things that
you can sorta store up and they come back into
your work all the time. So get out and experience the world but bring your sketchbook. - And the world is changing too. I think a lot of girls are
applying for animation schools. Right now, the enrollment
is about 70% girls in a lot of animation schools. So the landscape's
changing which is awesome and for me, I found a lot of inspiration from a lot of online artists,
lot of online female artists. I think it's not just
the people around you. Now, with the internet, it's like we're connected
with the whole world so you're bound to find a lot
of like-minded people like you anywhere in the world too and it's a great feeling to
feel like you're not alone. Yeah.