Week 7 Workshop: Anchor to motion

Turning one storyboard frame from Assignment 1 into an anchor image, then into a directed piece of motion

12 April 2027

Production walkthrough: See how The Last One carried out this stage in a real production.

Before the workshop#

Bring your approved shot list and bible from Assignment 1, and pick one shot to work on today.

In the workshop#

Activity 1 — Recap and shot selection (10 min)#

Instructions: State the lecture’s distinction between a moment-before — a concrete antecedent — and a mood word with nothing to play. Pick one shot from your Assignment 1 shot list to animate today, and confirm every bible reference it needs is locked, not pending.

Expected output: One chosen shot, with its references confirmed ready.

Activity 2 — Write the moment before (20 min)#

Instructions: For your shot’s central beat, write one concrete moment-before and keep it fixed for both takes. Check whether it names a fact rather than a mood; rewrite any mood-only note. Then write directions A and B that vary exactly one performance choice — for example, when the reach begins — while preserving the same scripted action and endpoint.

Expected output: One shared moment-before and two performance directions, with the single intended difference named.

Activity 3 — Generate the anchor and two takes (60 min)#

Instructions: Generate an anchor image for your shot straight from your locked bible entries. Animate it once under each performance direction, keeping the shared moment-before and every other variable — framing, the scripted outcome, the reference images — identical between the two takes.

Expected output: One anchor image and two motion takes that differ only in the directed beat.

Activity 4 — Dailies-review screening (20 min)#

Instructions: In pairs, screen both takes for your partner before saying which performance direction drove which take. Your partner names, in the language of performance — timing, a look, a gesture — what they think changed between the takes. Compare that against the single performance difference you directed, the way AFI’s dailies review has fellows read a take before being told what it was meant to do. Swap roles and repeat for your partner’s takes.

Expected output: A performance-language description of the difference between the two takes, given independently by your partner, checked against your own note.

Activity 5 — Completion check (10 min)#

Instructions: Walk the two spec bullets together. Does your anchor image match your bible? Do the two takes differ in exactly one directed performance beat? Can you name that difference in the language of performance rather than in prompt or tool terms?

Expected output: Both spec bullets verified, or a named gap and what would close it.

Afterwards#

You leave with an anchor image and two takes that differ by exactly one directed choice — the same discipline from week 1, now with motion attached.