Name: 【TED-Ed】Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Two ways to animate slam poetry
Uploaded: 2014-11-30T12:48:25.000Z
Duration: 5 min 25 s
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in which poets are judged on their poems,

to express themselves through spoken words,

a Lesson, which offers a guide to creating poetry

also serves as a great example of exactly that.

who's sitting in an 11th grade writing class,

struggling with the assignment of having to write a poem

The real world was animated by rotoscoping,

with a frame-by-frame tracing of live-action footage

of consciousness world of Tyler's memories

the project went right into pre-production.

In animation, pre-production is the planning stage.

It's all the decisions that need to be made

before going and actually making the thing

experimenting with colors and camera angles,

because they determine how much work and time

Extra time spent here figuring things out

can often save a lot of time down the road.

For our project, a storyboard was first created,

in which the framing, composition, and imagery

which is basically a movie of the storyboard.

This helped us figure out the timing of each shot.

of how well everything would flow together visually

For the rotoscoped shots, we first had to create

Working with what we had in our humble office,

from each angle the storyboard called for,

for a shot that combines two or more elements in it

a digital compositing and motion graphics program.

by masking off the unnecessary negative space,

The individual shots were then each layered

all being there in perspective at the same time.

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【TED-Ed】Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Two ways to animate slam poetry

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